I need an SEO reality check?
HOWEVER, not only have I not had any sales on my website, the 2 ranking reports they sent me over the last 6 months state that I have zero rankings on all 13 SE’s they’ve submitted my website/keywords to.
The company claims it takes 1 year+ for a brand new website to show any kind of rankings. IS THIS TRUE? They’ve added some text and submitted my website to SE’s several times but not much else. Should I be patient with the company or am I being misled?
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I would do a search for the company name/address on the better business bureau website.
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Ok -- one of the first things you need to avoid are SEOs who will "GUARANTEE" you top 10 rankings in your keyword phrases. That's a sure sign that this SEO company does not know anything and as you've seen -- your money will just go down the drain.
It takes time for new sites to rank well -- unless you are competing for obscure terms. For example, most of the 1-2 phrase keywords are locked in by sites that have been in operation prior to 2000. To beat them, it will take a lot of work on the SEO as well as in your part developing content.
Some SEOs get around this by saying that they've been able to get top 10 rankings to keywords -- however, those are typically long winded 6-10 phrase keywords that hardly anyone is competing on.
Search engines have gotten smart about the SEO tactics. In linking for example, SEs don't care if you have 1000 links -- what they want are links from authority sites and links from sites within your sector. You can get 1000 links from every nook and cranny on the web that's not related to your site -- and instead of ranking, you can even be penalized.
More than trickeries, develop QUALITY content on your website which your visitors will love and search engines will love, and other sites will freely link to.
You've basically wasted your time and money.
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You need to do some research,
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An ethical SEO company should not gaurentee rankings. You should ask them some questions.
1) Are they tweaking the keyword density, keyword frequency, keyword proximity and keyword prominence, throughout the HTML elements of your webpage?
2) Are they building high quality incoming links from relevant sources?
3) Are they using best coding practices or fixing the source code on your webpage? Does your source code validate with the W3C - http://validator.w3.org
4) Is you website listed on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. If not, have they submitted your URL to them.
I would be happy to take a look at your website to see if they are using good SEO practices. Please contact me if you are interested.
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Tell them to refund you money. Send them a link to this page. Tell them you will blog about the extremely negative experiences and start ranking for their own keywords on google and if they refuse a refund, then follow thorough. Go to blogger, word press and setup blogs targeting their brand name. Then maybe hire some black hats to get you to rank even faster.
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