Why not? If you do not have the time, knowledge, and patience to continue SEO work, you can always outsource this. Although I still believe that anyone can practice SEO techniques, I also understand that some people would be more comfortable with the idea of having someone else work on SEO. If you really have to outsource your SEO, do make sure that you get someone who will give you your money’s worth.
I found an article full of useful questions that you can pose to your potential SEO consultant, courtesy of Terence Chang. Let’s take a look at some of them.
Are you using social bookmarking, social network and web site rating system as your SEO tools? There are many social bookmarking and social network such as digg.com, stumbleupon.com, facebook.com and myspace.com are used for link building. It might not be the ideal ways to build the backlinks, but does work well for a lot of small business.
Personally, I would not mind these social networks being used for SEO purposes. I have seen them used and the results were favorable enough. However, I would emphasize the fact that I do not want the SEO efforts to be focused too much on social networks such as those mentioned above. To do so would be too limiting, when there are so many other things that can be worked on.
The bottom line, I think, is that your potential SEO consultant should be aware of these alternative venues but he should not be closed to other venues. Let us look at the other questions in the next post.
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Just wondering: what is reasonable price ranges for SEO consultants?
Nothing Different from reasonable Freelance Programming Costs ($40-$80 / £25-£50 ) in your area.
It will at the end of the day, depend how much money you want to or can afford to throw at improving your sites visibility, since Some SEO costs is just his/her time and experience/knowledge, and others can be getting you advertising, Listings and paid links etc, which can be expensive.
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What other ways should one use then aside from social networking or social bookmarking? You see, I’m pretty new in SEO and I am not even sure what are other ways aside from article writing, social bookmarking, directory submission, link building which would not require much programming.
Social networks are good for seo when used correctly. Certain niches they work best in, due to the viral effect is has. Other niches it does not work well for and it’s good for getting your website indexed quickly. But to crawl to the top you need a continuous stream of relevant links.
Good article.