Whom to target to offer our SEO services?

Question

please send suggestions to [e-mail]

Thanks and Regards,

Derrick Peters

Answer 1

I have been doing this for for a little over a year, and I can tell you this is one of the most challenging business' to be in.

You are going to be up against seo experts as far as your competition. Getting a high rank in the search engines is extremely important, as your customers want to get a high ranking and if you don't have a high ranking then they don't trust you.

I work most times 14 hours a day building trust in social bookmarking sites such as this one. Social bookmarking, and forums are the best, as these are people whom are looking to get their sites listed higher.

I will send you an email as well: [e-mail]

Answer 2

Hi Derrick

Before offering any service its better if you could tell us more about your business, your target, and keywords that you want to focus on(if you've got any idea)

Also let us know if you already got a web site and the URL.

Please feel free to email me at [e-mail]

Good luck

Answer 3

It would help if you were industry specific as each market has very unique conditions that effect SEO. For example...if your client was selling glasses, the demographic for that client's customers would be very specific for that market, and their search habits would be VERY different that the search habits of a customer that was interested in buying shoes.

I know it sounds kind of obvious, but most SEO companies miss this point entirely. The search behavior for B2B is also VERY different than retail consumer search habits.

When I get a sales call from an SEO company....the first thing I ask them is what they know about MY market. 99.9% of the time...they know nothing about it, and in turn cannot offer me anything that I do not already develop internally.

Today, businesses are very well aware of the importance of optimization. They are much savvier than they used to be, and many of them ( like my own) do it for themselves out of necessity.

With the exception of small mom and pop operations, the generic approach has a limited future in SEO.

My advice is to target a market you think is doing well in this economic environment. “Measure” the players there, and look for the ones who obviously need help. Just keep in mind the person on the other side of the phone may ask you “what do you know about MY market?” You better have good answers.