Tuesday, October 13, 2009

8 Reasons Why Expensive Linkbuilding Services Are "Out of Style"

By Daniel McGonagle

Once upon a time, you could only get worthwhile backlinks by hiring an SEO firm. No More. Today you can generate good backlinks easily if you know how. This probably does have some impact on the big expensive SEO companies and Linkbuilding Services. However, they still charge 4 figures a month for these services and people still pay the fees.

Here are some reasons why you don't need to hire an expensive linkbuilding service or SEO firm. Some of these reasons and methods may still require outsourcing if your budget allows for that, but they can all be done manually too. Once you see what's available to you for cheaper yet still effective services, you'll never think of hiring a firm to handle your search engine optimization for you ever again.

Ok, you know there are 2 essential parts to ranking well in search engines, right? Off-page and On-page. Optimization in both categories. (What else is there, really?). Search engines change their formulas for ranking as the Internet changes. That is their business. You need to be informed about the changing rules to be competitive. You already know the Big SEO companies are tuned in to them. You keep on top of it either by watching and listening and reading yourself or you hire someone in-house on your staff to do it for you.

Two things are making on-page optimization increasingly important: Latent Semantic Indexing and Silo Site Structure Design. These are critically important for your rankings. Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI is a fancy term that means your sites will rank well if your site content is using the terms commonly associated with that topic. Silo site structures design means organizing your sites in a way that rewards the human visitors and readers with an easy to navigate site. Doing these two things is simply solid SEO. It means you'll need fewer backlinks for better rankings.

When it comes to off-page optimization, you can use a low-cost link building service to generate backlinks from relevant sites and the number of backlinks you get can be in the thousands. The problem with most of these low-cost linkbuilding services is that they get "tapped out" after a while so in most cases you are advised to use a new service every 6 months to continue seeing results. There are a lot of these types of services out there now and they build backlinks for you just as effectively but at a far lower cost. Those savings to you can be used to hire writers and site designer, thereby making your SEO efforts and linkbuilding campaigns see a positive Return on Investment (ROI) a lot sooner than usual.

If you're a sole proprietor of an Internet business or looking to expand your company's offline presence onto the web, you need to see a fast return on your investment. The best way to do that is to keep your fingers "in the pie" so to speak. Staying involved and having a lot of control over what your search engine optimization efforts are will have the two-fold benefit of teaching you what really works and this is a skill that all companies should build up in order to stay competitive in their industries, and essential for sole proprietors to see income being produced from their search engine optimization efforts.

Look in marketing forums for advice on linkbuilding services that work well yet cost less than the high end services. They can give you good quality backlinks in their own way for a lot less investment of your time and money. For example, Backlink Solutions has a very large network where you can benefit from fine quality backlinks. In today"s economic climate, every business needs to do more with less time and less expense involved.

Gone are the days when you could just dish out cash to a big SEO firm to enhance your brand visibility online. Today, companies need to be creative with their staff. Nurture different skills and get more people involved with web exposure. Some of them surf regularly anyhow. Find out who the good writers are and get them to submit informative articles or posts about your niche to Unique Article Wizard . Be creative with your staff and improve your online presence.

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