A common mistake made by business owners is to go out and get as many backlinks as possible, possibly by using a bad seo company. Based on the assumption that more links equals better rankings. Of course life in the seo world is never that easy or straight forward.

Many of the links are from suspect websites and pages. Ordering 5000 directory submissions may sound good, but when you find that the sites linking to you also link to pharmaceutical and porn neighbourhoods, then you may well wish you had never gone down that route.

The problem with removing a link is the same as getting a good one. It is hard work and many times downright impossible.

So whats a business owner to do? Simply forget about the bad links and start getting some good ones instead. The search engines rank a site based on many factors, and some crappy links will do no harm if you have more good quality links. So get building bigger and better.

Making use of our seo services is a good start, as every link we produce will help your website to rank higher and make the ratio of good to bad links higher.

I had a customer of mine email this week, and the email went along the lines of this:-

” I keep getting emails from companies saying that my websites are not SEO’d copied some text from one below any comments?”

I was surfing through your website and realized that despite having a good design; it was not ranking on any of the search engines for most of the keywords pertaining to your domain.

I was wondering if you would be interested in getting the SEO done for your website.

My answer was quite simple and went along the lines of – “As for seo companies getting in touch.If the site is not seo’d, how did they find it in the first place??” He wrote back agreeing with me that if his website was not correctly seo’d then how the hell did they find it to email him?

Now i would never in a million years, send out an email trying to get seo business, but obviously many do.

If an SEO company contacts you with an email without you enquiring first, be careful of what they are offering. Any SEO company worth its salt will not resort to spamming in order to get customers. Companies which are good at SEO will have customers coming to them.

So in a nutshell, you find the seo company thats right for you and not the other way round. K4XHTKN7S283

Free seo when you order printing

When you think about it, flyers and leaflets are used to promote and make your business more popular. Almost like seo, but offline. And with this in mind, we have teamed up with our friends at the Printing Press to offer you a fabulous limited time deal.

Just place any order for flyers, business cards, ncr forms or any of the other great products available and we will run our startup seo service on any website of your choice.

Startup SEO

With our seo service, you will get literally hundreds of backlinks to your website – proven to raise your search engine rankings and increase business for you. Below is what we will do for free.

Create over 100 backlinks. We will submit your site to many sites that allow you to leave a link back to your website, increasing backlinks helps with rankings

Submission to over 40 search engines. Did you know that Gogle and Yahoo are not the only search engines around. There are many smaller search engines that may not have your website indexed. By submitting to these sites, your website will get extra recognition and visitors.

Seo Report. Just tell us the keyword your looking to rank for and we will tell you what changes you need to make to get propelled onto page one of the search engines.

All in all, a fabulous (and well worth £49, let alone free) service. But we may stop this promotion any time, so jump in quick and order some cheap flyers.

To receive your Free seo service, just contact us quoting your order number from the Printing Press, your website url, email address and keyword your targetting and we will do the rest.

You might be asking yourself, why should you pay someone else for optimising your website when you can do it yourself. And you can do it, but you will need to know what your doing and of course, know what to do. Getting top search engine rankings is not that easy. There is so much competition on the worldwide web, and it takes a lot of time and effort to get there. And hitting the top today does not mean you will still be there tomorrow.

And of course, if your running a business, you may not have time for SEO work. It can take someone who knows what they are doing several hours to write articles, submit your website to directories and all the other standard link building techniques. But what if they do it wrong, use the wrong keywords, submit to directories that Google ignores? You could be wasting your time. This is why the best solution is to outsource the SEO services to an  expert SEO services company.

We dont pretend to be any cleverer than you, but we do know seo. So put your optimising work in the hands of experts.

Hi and welcome to a new feature we have. I get so many questions asked that im starting a new category called :- Search Engine and SEO Question

So lets start off with this question i received:- How do i get my website higher up the search engines?

Now every website has to be judged on its own merits before i devise a linking plan, however lets assume your website has the correct onsite seo work done and your languishing on page four or five. Some general advice would be to get some backlinks to your website.

Well for general advice then..

* Try not to get too many spammy links. By this i mean links that can be posted easily and without moderation. Your links will sit on the same page as Viagra pills and gambling/porn sites. Spend a little more effort working on link building

* Contact trusted, authority sites. You may not be able to get a link from thebbc.co.uk, cnn.com etc. But how about finding the website that do have a link from these trusted sites and ask them to link to you. One link away is great, two is good and so on.

* If your website has mainly 1 type of links (directories for example) then vary it a little A diverse link profile is a much more effective one. Use video and articles and press releases etc.

To find out who is linking to your website and your competition as well, see our Easy Way to check your links

We keep hearing from various sources that the art of Seo is dying, no longer relevant or even stone dead! The causes for this are several and varied. There have been many articles written about this and there are arguments from both sides of the seo fence. So what makes people think that seo is dying?

Well firstly, some people just dont fully grasp what SEO is all about. This is true even among prominent marketers. A common belief among this segment is that SEO is the process of tricking search engines to rank a site for search queries for which it isn’t one of the better matches. With this viewpoint, it’s easy to see why people would want to conclude that SEO is a dying medium. Google and Microsoft make billions of dollars in revenue from their search engines, and protecting that revenue stream is a critical activity for them.

Poor quality search results lower customer satisfaction, and become an enticement for the user to try a different search engine that gives them better results. Definitely not desirable. That’s why Google has

Is SEO Dead?

invested so much time and money in Matt Cutts’ WebSpam team.

The Social Media Effect

Some doubters point to the enormous impact of social networking websites, believing that social media will replace SEO. These people argue that inbound links are an outdated system of voting for Web sites, and that social media sites give a much broader array of signals, because anyone with an Internet connection can sign up for a social media service and start making opinions but you need a website to link to others.

The point made is fair enough, but there are some problems with it. For a start social media sites are not adopted across the entire population, thereby making these signals inconsistent and unreliable. Also social media sites are eay to spam. It costs nothing to create social media accounts and start posting lots of links to your favuorite site.

Then we come to the authority of a website. A twitterer of Facebook user may have many friends or followers, however all they can offer really, is their own opinion. Someone with a Web site has made a significant investment in building that site, and here the stamp of authority is likewise relatively easy to measure. But a link from an authorative website will be worth much more than a tweet.

So is SEO Dying?

No way, and it never will. Search engines will always want top quality and relevant results in their rankings and will always measure the top sites by a variety of factors. If search engines were losing their power then you can bet that Microsoft would not have poured so much money into Bing. However, SEO will evolve as the searcher evolves. The introduction of universal search resulted in some changes, and created new opportunities for SEO companies.

What we have to do is adapt to the changes that are happening, and use the latest techniques to keep abreast of the changing seo environment.  For instance video seo has just emerged in the last few months. This is why a lot of seo companies are ineffective, because they still use techniques that worked five years ago. And this is why SKS Services will always give the best seo bang for your buck.

The praise and thanks from our customers keeps pouring in for our seo service. We are of course very grateful as it shows that the work we do has a very quick impact for our customers business. I think according to statistics several new seo companies spring up every day. Of course the opposite also happens with several shutting down. Many new seo companies think that the work will be simple, just create a few links and make lots of cash. Of course that is far from the truth and will in fact have very little or no effect on rankings. The secret is to have a strategy that incorporates much more than simple link building. We not only build links from article, blogsites, social networking and video seo amongst others but we tie them all together and have a linking strategy that blows the competition out of the water. In fact you can watch the video we created for this customer. It may encourage you to get fitter.

The latest seo testimonial as seen in the video is from a company in Birmingham that provide personal fitness training, just a couple of weeks after starting work his results are flying high, almost as if they have had their own workout. Over to you Simon:-

Many thanks for the work you have done on my site I’m very pleased
with the initial results and look forward to see them improve over
time and thanks to your help I’m now in a position to begin blogging
and writing articles to generate more links!

Simon Shakespeare – http://www.birminghampersonaltraining.com

Read more testimonials  about our search engine optimisation techniques

For many people and as part of your seo strategy, sending your blogposts straight to Twitter and Facebook makes sense. For more information see our post on social networking as part of an seo campaign. Most of the time your Twitter and Facebook accounts will have friends and followers, so wouldnt it be great if everytime you posted to your blog it was also sent to these social networking sites? The result is more visitors and more exposer in the search engines. Just follow the steps below and tap into this great seo strategy.

Send Your Blogposts straight to Twitter

Sending Automatic Updates To Twitter and/or Facebook

• Visit the website Twitterfeed.com and sign up
• Once logged in click on “Create New Feed”
• Choose either Twitter (and the account) or Facebook
• Give name of the RSS Feed (e.g. Your Company name or keywords)
  • This name will only show for you in Twitterfeed, so make it descriptive
• Add the RSS feed URL to the settings (you can find this on your blog page – usually called post rss feed. right click and copy link location)
  
• Press “Test RSS Feed”
• You should see green text below the RSS Feed URL field: “Feed parsed OK”
• Go to Advanced Settings
• Adjust the update frequency
  • My recommendation: Every Hour and 1 new update(s) at a time
  • You can update less frequently, or even every 30 minutes, but think very hard if you want to increase the number of updates at a time
• Post content: For your blog feed, you probably want to choose “title only” if you’re posting to Twitter, “title & description” is good for Facebook
• Make sure “Post Link” check-box is checked
• Click on “Create feed”

There you have it, every post you make will go automatically to Twitter and Facebook. There are advanced uses for this and ways to expand but they are for another post.

After receiving many emails and phone calls about ripoff seo companies, we have put together a checklist in how to avoid being ripped off. The problem seems pretty big simply because anyone can cobble together a website and call themselves an seo company the next day. The biggest complaints i hear are both the price and the ongoing monthly charges. It is not a great feeling being charged a fortune, up to £1000 per month! But to then see little or no improvment adds insult to injury.

Some SEO Companies are Bad

I was amazed when i first came across a company complaining about rip off seo, that they not only paid £150 every month, but received no report – just an email once a month asking for more cash!

Before commiting to any Seo Services try to vet the company and make sure they are not out to rip you off:

Does your seo company have a strong client base and a number of testimonials?

What seo results have they produced, and can they prove it?

It is quite easy to check out, just email some of their customers and check they were really satisfied.

Check out what they do (the process) to optimize your website

Some seo companies dont go down the route of natural organic methods, some companies use blackhat methods or just put some of your fee into pay per click. This of course is no use to you and you might as well cut out the middle man and do it yourself if ppc is what you want.

Shop around for different SEO prices.

Look at the details from each quote. Are they offering the same services? Quotes help to weed out the good from the chaff, and can alert you if your buying something you dont really want.

Look at the price. Cheap is not always the way to go, but sometimes cheap is good.

Do they tie you into a contract?

Make sure you get an email or in writing, the full details. Many customers tell me that they did not realise until it was too late that they had just agreed a 6 month contract.

The best advice is too gain a bit of seo knowledge so you cannot be baffled with seo science. Any company that is offering a good seo service would never shy away from explaining how they get results. If your not happy with the answers or methodology then keep looking.

Check out our list of seo services we offer and see our seo case studies

Its a given that Google loves Twitter and Fecebook, and now Bing have revealed where they love to see your website being discussed. Social network sites Digg and Yahoo Buzz.  The Bing Webmaster Center Program manager, Brett Yount said on the Bing Forum that if you want to boost your websites position and improve rankings on Bing, the get Buzzing and Digging.

Get Buzzing To Improve SEO

He said on the Bing Forum Community:- “If your site pages have good content, submit them to buzz and digg. Both have a high chance of getting your page indexed.”

This post was then mysteriously removed and replaced with a more general answer that asked users to read up on some Bing postings. However, we got the juicy info before it was erased. So now you know what to do.  The idea makes sense as search engines look to see whats popular by checking out the social networking sites like Yahoo Buzz and Digg. But one things for sure, those sites are going to get a lot busier pretty soon!