
12-08-2007, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: The Wirral, England
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Originally Posted by pntglobal
1. Site Indexing
2. Page Ranking
3. Keywords Ranking
4. Traffic
5. Sales
6. Promotion
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I would agree with number 1 entirely, could well be an objective. Numbers 2 and 3 boil down to the same thing really. 4 I would agree with.
5 is beyond the scope of an SEO company really. A good SEO consultant will get your site ranking well, and may well increase the targetted traffic. It's not his role to turn this traffic into conversions though. He could be doing a fantastic job sending you thousands of visitors, all looking to buy, but if you can only convert 0.01% of them, then you'll not have good sales. This doesn't mean he's not doing a great job though.
6 is more SEM (search engine marketing) than SEO, but it may well fall within the scope of many SEO consultants, I agree.
To me, the target of every optimist is the same, to increase the targetted traffic being directed to a given site/page.
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1. On Site
i. Keywords research
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Very very important. Without doing this well ,the rest of his efforts will be wasted.
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ii. Meta Tags
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Honestly, not worth the (virtual) paper they're written on!
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iii. Relevant content with optimal Keyword density
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Producing relevant content is the job of a copywriter. The SEO may make recommendations as to subject matter, but it isn't necessarily a part of his job to write it. Keyword density is a term I personally hate, as it just should never be a factor. Write your content for humans, not robots!! If your content doesn't read naturally, then people will be put off your site. What even is the optimal keyword density? No-one knows, and I doubt there even is one.
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iv. Site Map
v. Links
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Both very important.
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2. Off Site
i. Search Engine Submissions
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Unnecessary in my opinion, any site that has enough links to even stand a chance of ranking well doesn't need manual submission for the SEs to find it.
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ii. Directories Submissions
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Very rarely of any SEO use, although good selection of directories to submit to can boost your traffic.
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iii. Article writing and submissions
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Google's duplicate content filter has rendered article submission absolutely dead as an SEO method. If you have gone to the time and effort of writing an article, use it on your own site and reap the rewards that way.
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iv. Forums management
v. Blog Management
vi. Community Sites
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All of these are beyond the scope of an SEO really. They may make suggestions of strategies, but it's up to you or your developer to implement these.
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3. Analysis
i. Log Reports
ii. Stat links
iii. Google Analytic
iv. Competitors site
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Analysis is an important part of monitoring SEO performance, definitely agree.
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