Get to the top of Google in 30 days?
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I see on sites like scriptlance where webmasters post a project for SEO services and bidders offering their services to get you to the top of Google in 30 days. Is that out of the question or is it reasonable because they use a service like SEOMoz?
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I like your driveway story. I will resist the temptation!
When i think back to when I first started a website for my parent's company, I hired a web designer. I paid him about $1000, I think, about 8 years ago. It looked great and I said thanks and I was very pleased with it.
It had about 60 products at the beginning. Then in due time,I wanted to change the kicker line and sidebar navigation. I had to change 60 pages!
I then learned PHP on my own and fixed the website. I didn't think they could do something similar with SEO, but, I guess from the responses, you can.
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I once had a marketing company say they were on page one of Google, when i looked further into it it was number 3 in Google adwords!!!
Be careful lots of scammers out there!
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I'd read the fine print. I bet what they do is find a keyword that has low-med competition that is related to the desired keywords. Then they work (probably through not so honest techniques) to make you tops in the category.
My advice, or what I'm doing right now for my startup site, is to make social media the center piece of my seo campaign. Basically I use social to create honest converstations about my keywords and topics. This (eventually) leads me to posting and guest blogging on high readership blogs.
Not a 30 day technique. But might be more sustainable.
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Great way of relating this to the drive way story. I agree, dont do it, you will drop as fast as you rank.
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My advice: don't do it.
Sure, the sites might have good feedback now. They probably used dubious tactics that work for a while. Then the tactics stop working. At best, their clients' rankings drop. At worst, penalties are imposed.
It's a bit like asking people about whether they are satisfied with someone who paved their driveway for $99. At first, they will say they are delighted. But try asking 6 months later, after the driveway has cracked.
If you are determined to follow through, at least ask the providers for six references:
- who have been clients for a year
- who you can call yourself
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I get what you're saying, but, some of them have really good feedback, it makes me tempted to pay one of them to see what they do. I might use one of my cheap sites I bought of flippa with medium-high competition that I'm willing lose if they screw up the site.
But, I'm going to wait to see some further responses.
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I've gotten a website to the top in less than 30 days before. I had hundreds of domains already pointing at it, no competition and only had to throw in a keyword for the title tag. Quite impressive, right?
But really, there are ways to achieve immediate top rankings for low-medium competition words, but many will get you knocked down as fast as you came up. The only difference would be getting a high quality relevant link from places like the New York Times.
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Thirty days.
That might be possible for some really easy terms such as "dancing pink hippo sneakers"... but if you wanted to get top rankings for terms such as "texas holdem"..... "payday loans"..... "digital cameras".... "physical chemistry"... it would be virtually impossible with the resources of any scriptlance bidder.
Taking a page to the top of google for any of those terms would be very expensive and I am willing to say beyond the skill level and resources for at least 95% of the SEOs on this planet - even if you gave them an unlimited amount of time and a $100,000 budget.
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