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#1 Business Circuit

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Posted 16 November 2011 - 12:43 PM

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a critical component of building your website. Unless you take it into account, you are probably going to find that you don't have much luck when it comes to achieving a decent search engine ranking.

We would love to hear your experiences. Do you do your own SEO? If you have - what have you tried, and has it made a difference to your rankings?
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Posted 17 November 2011 - 09:16 AM

I have dabbled in doing my own SEO in the past. I used a free piece of software called Traffic Travis, which was recommended to me. Seemed to make a difference...

Any one else?

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Posted 17 November 2011 - 10:18 AM

I have been doing my own SEO since starting to write websites. It does take a long time to learn and is always changing. Over the years I have been on a couple of one day course to update the information I have gained, both of these courses have been useful and more than paid for themselves.
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Posted 17 November 2011 - 12:38 PM

I have dabbled in doing my own SEO in the past. I used a free piece of software called Traffic Travis, which was recommended to me. Seemed to make a difference...


Thank you for this, I have downloaded the software and been having a play, it looks like there are some very good features.

One of the problems I find is that you can spend ages on SEO and checking rankings, tweaking pages but not write new content.
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Posted 17 November 2011 - 03:56 PM

Thank you for this, I have downloaded the software and been having a play, it looks like there are some very good features.

One of the problems I find is that you can spend ages on SEO and checking rankings, tweaking pages but not write new content.


No problem at all, anything to help :thumbup:

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Posted 17 November 2011 - 04:03 PM

Traffic Travis is a good bit of software. You can get pretty much everything you need from the free version too.

One of the problems I find is that you can spend ages on SEO and checking rankings, tweaking pages but not write new content.


I agree with you there. It's easy to get caught up trying to make all your existing pages perfect, but i think one of the most important factors that brings people back to a site is good fresh content that is updated regularly. I think the search engines like this too.
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 02:45 PM

Traffic Travis is a good bit of software. You can get pretty much everything you need from the free version too.


I have had a look at this software over the last few days and have found it very useful and fixed a couple of problems. :thumbup:

If anyone else does their own SEO I would recommend you take a look at Traffic Travis.
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Posted 08 December 2011 - 05:24 PM

I always think its best for companies/individuals to do their own SEO. This was the business has control and can grow with the developing technologies.

Although it may seem a better option to go with a dedicated company, in my opinion I wouldn't as they can be quite costly and if you decided to end your agreement with the SEO company you could immediatly find yourself back at square one.

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Posted 09 December 2011 - 09:05 AM

The problem I find with some SEO companies are they can use "Black Hat Tactics", in order to get the results required - But the danger with this is your site could be banned from the SE's - At the end of the day, apart from cpc advertising, the SE's are providing a free service to get your business listed and also providing a servce to the customer who used the SE.

I see a vast majority of SEO companies, promising to get you in the 'top spot' on Google - this cannot be guaranteed, apart from if you want to spend 1000's on cpc - but then are you going to see a ROI ?

I have studied SEO for a number or years and with the new algorithms which seem to be changing on a weekly basis, I think it is definately worthwhile any small business learning the basic principles of SEO :thumbup:

One bit of advice from me, is do not resort to Black Hat Tactics - It really is not worth it

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Posted 20 March 2012 - 03:41 PM

My experience of SEO is that unless you have serious experience or your market is very niche it's worth paying for direction. Particularly in the site architecture when producing wire frames etc (keyword research, the code, user experience etc is all crucial too).

Once you have this it's probably worth keeping your contact to hand for producing well written PR articles for submission to PR Web or PR Leap as part of your link building strategy.

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 09:06 AM

I have someone working for me that's relatively new to it all.

But in 2 months has managed to spot some major errors one being that we had 19k+ duplication errors on the website. This was hurting out trust ranking and page ranking. He uses SEOmoz as the primary source for SEO tactics and its been amazing so far.

Because of that bit of kit he found the errors got onto it straight away and had them fixed by the webmaster. We instantly saw our MOZtrust go up alongside page rankings.

These companies that are SEO gurus and claim to fame is that they can get you to no1 by tomorrow AM is something I'd be very cautious of. Simply because it's not that easy, unless your market really is that much of a niche.

6-12 months for any real set results is estimated by many in this industry so its a long winded process but well worthwhile in the end.

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Posted 01 September 2012 - 07:50 AM

Yes, I do seo work on my own. Putting backlinks on different directories, social bookmark sites, blogs and definitely forums. It is so hard to do seo work and difficult to get a better result but trying my best.
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