Tuesday, January 31, 2012

How to Find the Best SEO Company

SEO is both a science and an art. Most companies blindly struggle with their marketing, not knowing that all they have to do to simplify things is to hire an SEO company to take care of everything related to Search Engine Optimization.

Here are 3 simple ways to help you find the best SEO Company:

1. Do your research.
Check out the company's track record. How many clients have they helped? How effective are they at SEO? What type of services do they provide? Do they produce high quality articles? Do they execute a planning strategy that works? Do they follow through on their services? Knowledge helps. Choose wisely.
2. Know your company's needs.
Finding the right SEO company should be easy as long as you know what to look for. Make a list of your company's status and what needs to be done, SEO-wise. Then all it takes is to match your needs with the services provided by your chosen SEO team or company.
3. Word of Mouth.
Ask other people in your area or industry and they will gladly recommend their SEO company. Trust your instincts but remember to consult with people in your industry. This is the best way to find the right SEO company. Learn from other people's experience and you will go a long way.

As your SEO Consultant, I suggest giving these 3 tips a whirl. After all, you've got nothing to lose and so much to gain. Good luck on your SEO company search. God bless!

Monday, January 30, 2012

How to Find (and Keep!) the Right SEO Clients

1. Do Your Research.
Due diligence helps no matter what field you are in. Learn as much as you can about your chosen industry, your new clients and how you can help each other. This will help you come up with an excellent marketing strategy that will bring in more clients. Prepare to be amazed!
2. Be Open and Transparent.
People respond well to honesty. When you are open and honest about stuff like terms, quotes, pricing and anything else related to your products and service, people will respond and relate with you in a positive manner. The golden rule applies in any business, including SEO.
3. Word of Mouth.
Providing high quality services like well-written content and implementing well-planned SEO strategies is the best way to win more clients. Imagine one client telling his or her Facebook friends about you. What if that client has thousands of Facebook friends? Your phone will be ringing off the hook for days on end!

As your SEO Consultant, I strongly advice that you follow these 3 tips in finding the right SEO Clients. I am very confident that your business will grow by leaps and bounds as long as you stand by these 3 rules. So what are you waiting for? Get started and go for the gold! God bless!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Why Do You Need SEO Services?

Search Engine Optimization or SEO has turned into a very lucrative industry because almost everyone needs it. Any individual or company who have an online presence or are in need of one should have an SEO expert in their midst. SEO basics are fairly easy to master. All you really need is to do 3 important things -- keyword research, content creation and link building.

Keyword research is quite simple. There are a lot of tools out there that you can use for free. Try Google's Keyword Research tool. It's very good. Just enter in the words that you believe your clients would search for on the Internet and viola! You have your keywords.

Content Creation involves writing fresh, new content for your website, blogs and article directories. You can do this yourself or hire some of the Philippines finest writers and off you go. It helps to know your products or services as well as your company goals and mission/vison. This makes it easier to get your message out there and let the branding begin!

Link Building requires consistency and follow through. You can do this on your own or hire Virtual Assistants to do this for you. This is where social media comes alive for you and your company. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and YouTube are the social media giants that you should have working for you. Regular posts on Facebook and Tweets about your latest activities help improve your online presence, thus bringing in more customers for your business.

As your SEO Consultant, I would suggest that you focus your efforts on these 3 important SEO Strategies. Try not to overcomplicate things because SEO should be quite simple. If you would like to hire an SEO team for your business, please email: seoconsultantcebuphilippines@gmail.com and send in your details as well as your needs.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Your SEO Consultant in Cebu, Philippines... at Your Service


SEO or Search Engine Optimization is not an easy field to specialize in and my experience shows that this is true because I have been an SEO Consultant in Cebu, Philippines for almost 3 years now. We need to understand the basic theories and real time applications of SEO. Being an SEO Consultant may not be easy but it can be so much fun.


So far, I have led trainings for 2 groups of Virtual Assistants together with my training partner, Mark Acsay. This year, we are getting ready for  another SEO VA Training to teach and share our SEO skills with others. Our goal is to teach at a steady pace how SEO Development works and what steps to take in order to optimize our website or a client's website.


Here is a look into the wonderful world of SEO:


The first step is Keyword Research. If you want to get your SEO efforts right the first time, you need to do keyword research the right way. This involves a bunch of awesome tools that can really come in handy when you're searching for those keywords that you need to get your website on the front page of Google.


SEO Specialist & Trainer Mark Acsay says keyword research is very important "because keyword research will break your campaign or break it." He goes on to describe the process as similar to buttoning up your shirt – if you get it wrong right from the start, then you have to redo the whole thing. The way I see it, keyword research is something every SEO Consultant should master. After all, it is the foundation of every SEO campaign.

The most commonly used keyword research tool is Google Keyword Tool. This provides the most accurate results and offers the most useful keyword suggestions to optimize your website. When doing your keyword research, always follow these 4 golden keyword criteria: high search volume; commercial intent; stable or rising trend; and weak competition. You can’t go wrong if you follow these golden rules.

Another important part of SEO is Content Creation or content writing. SEO Content Writing is vital to all SEO campaigns because this is how you attract visitors to your websites and keep them interested. This is why every SEO Consultant must have a team of skilled SEO Content Writers working with him or her. Attracting visitors to any given website is easy but keeping their attention, getting them to click on your links and explore your websites further gives you more opportunities to turn these visitors or leads into paying customers.

SEO Content Writing is where you need to use keywords to write and contribute valuable content. The more keywords you have, the more topics you can write about. And even if your keywords are very few, doing your keyword research can help you write excellent SEO Content, whether for websites, blogs or article directories. In order to attract more visitors to your website, you should deliver high quality, valuable content every single time.

Due diligence and carefully following the strategies will get you very far if you wish to become an expert SEO Consultant. You need to know how to build links. Link building is an art that helps you gain trust, credibility and authority. These are 3 major factors of SEO that counts as votes of confidence from your followers, visitors, fans and customers.

This is where Social Media figures prominently. When you know how to deliver valuable content and establish genuine and profound connections with other people on Social Media like Facebook, Google + and Twitter, then you’re halfway there. The sharing doesn’t stop there. With so many social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon to name a few, you can use all of these social networking sites to connect with more people using the content that you have written.

So if you’re serious about your quest to become an SEO Consultant, then you’ve come to the right place. We’re in this journey for the long haul and we would love more companions to join us. If you are a Virtual Assistant who would like to become an SEO Consultant, then you’re on the right track. Join our next SEO VA Training and learn the secrets that SEO masters will never share with the world. Would you like to know more? Or do you have an experience that you would like to share? Please feel free to leave your opinions, comments and questions here and I’ll try to get back to you the soonest. Thank you and welcome to the wonderful world of SEO. This is Misty, your SEO Consultant in Cebu, Philippines, at your service.