Looking For an SEO Expert

[jeremyeast]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

I hope no one disagrees with ABC on his last post as I believe that is one of the few SEO facts that can be relied on consistently.

 

[STIBROKER]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

Yea....righttttt......

I hope no one disagrees with ABC on his last post as I believe that is one of the few SEO facts that can be relied on consistently.

 

[jeremyeast]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

Yea....righttttt......

Is that web sarcasm or is that you having something insightful to say on the matter?

 

[STIBROKER]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

I have a friend with a site Texas Health Insurance - Agent Robert McLaughlin which is texas health insurance as the domain name....the site has been up for 8 years .....still has never been on page one for the search texas health insurance........

 

[RenegadeAgent]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

90% of SEO is backlinks. Go to yahoo and type in link:www.yourwebsite.com to see your current backlinks. You can also do that for your competition. As far as getting those backlinks you can get them from forum post signatures, article marketing, blog comments, etc.

 

[jeremyeast]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

You can't just put up a site that says Texashealthinsurance.com and do no work and expect traffic so your friends story is not relevant. You need relevant keyword backlinks from high pr sites to get rankings for competitive keywords. Assuming you do some SEO, the brand new domain that says texashealthinsurance.com will do better than an equivalent domain at least in the short term with the same amount of SEO work. Matt Cutts has even said this and I have seen it first hand with my sites. If you buy a brand new domain it will never rank very well for the short term but a keyword rich domain will assuming everything else is equal. Anyone that wants to argue these points can go ahead as misinformation in the world of seo is the reason why people that know what they are doing can do so well for any keyword they want.
(By the way even though that guy Robert's site gets no traffic, it is very well done visually and it is a very old domain that could easily be number one with a minimal amount of work, I will happily buy it!)

 

[Crabcake Johnny]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

90% of SEO is backlinks.

That would be false. Want to try again?

 

[GreenSky]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

That would be false. Want to try again?

75% is backlinks?

I know. Let's ask Jim.

Rick

 

[Aaron_4SIGHT]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

75% is backlinks?

I know. Let's ask Jim.

Rick

The correct answer is "D - 73% of SEO is Backlinks"

Search Engine Ranking Factors | SEOmoz

I should stay out of this.

 

[trm21]

Re: Looking For A SEO Expert

From my experience, about 75% of SEO is off-page backlinks, 25% of SEO is on-page SEO/content... so I guess that leaves about 0% for domain name. Who were those experts you hired that said domain name was important? I would stop listening to them immediately!