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Alex,

Very interesting question.  As a business owner that has had several SEO companies do our work( in my opinion) won't trust my keys to the kingdom.  I have spent a tremendous about of money  using services and outsourcing. I've learned that we do a better job ourselves and we understand our end user better as well as the product.  I do still use 2 services( by the same company) I like how they operate, they are always straight forward and honest.  One of the services is pure consulting- it's been invaluable.  I have learned that I typically am dead on with my thinking, I just need to approach it from a computer mind a bit.

Good luck - might be easier to delegate some of your other responsibilities.

PS- if they start down the road of " Intellectual Property or I can show you a webinar" run....

Chad

Mike,

Our company uses Vocus( which owns PRweb) about 2-3 times per week.  In the past we have used other PR release services but have found this has been the best.  Vocus is a annual paid service ( a bit pricey 5K) but considering it allows you to send out 1 press release a day which I would not recommend, the largest benefit is that the service allows you to send your press release directly to new editors emails, magazine etc.  This service has gotten out products in Southern Living and a few other magazines- which is priceless.

Make sure you goal is to create awareness rather than quality backlinks- make sure your press release are something people actually want to know about- then the natural process of high quality backlinks will come.

Good luck.

Chad

LBM-

I think Robert is on point.  Our site which is done by the rules- from day to day our rankings and traffic changes. We do a lot of work to make sure this doesn't happen but I think you need to look the www like the ocean.  Some days the tide rolls in as planned, other days not so much.

Not sure what you are doing ( meaning selling) but look at sales- who cares about traffic- it's about checks in the bank.  I do realize these are tied to traffic but not always.

hope that helps-

Chad

I agree and disagree in the SEO relation and value.  I'm not a wizard but we have studied our pages that are popular in the " Like, Share, G+, Tweet etc"  and those all rank better.  In addition, it seems that several of of those shared links are populating well.

I do believe that valid "likes" from real consumers are very important to gaining knowledge about customer demographics.

We have " Like, Share, G+, Tweet etc"  on every product page, we've seen results.

Hope it helps,

Chad

Use jQuery- it will basically solve all your to many links on a page.

Chad

start by using the moz campaign tool.  follow the directions, enter your keywords and keyword phrases that you are trying to rank.  Then let it crawl your site.  Wait for the report, then carefully complete the task one by one.  It's is a very time consuming, daunting task that takes hard work.  In the end, all you are doing is building a better site for the search engines to crawl and rank you.

Just go step by step.  Take the long road, no short cuts.  If someone tells you they can fix it in a day- they are full of crap.

Building a online business is harder than running a brick & mortar any day of the week.

start with the basics- read a lot and listen to people that sound reasonable- don't listen to snake oil salesmen....

Email me anytime charris@thegardengates.com- we are a real business doing this all in-house after going down the consultant road( trying to take short cuts) we spend a lot of time on this- 7 days a week.

Chad

Dana-

I was waiting for someone to step up and say something.  It is happening to us.  I was on a consultant call with Jason Dowdell related to another topic with our site and I brought this up.  We then did several different investigations regarding this and discovered there has to be a gilt.  We ran some quick analysis and discovered what I call- Bullshhhhht.

We think reviewed about 200 pages and discovered that not 1 single page had duplicate anything.

He told me to worry about other things- like real content created by humans.

Chad