Comments on: SEO Is Just Good House Keeping http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seo-good-house-keeping Building your brand through social media Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick @ Brick Marketing http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/#comment-2119 Nick @ Brick Marketing Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:47:20 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=3994#comment-2119 SEO definitely allows some of the smaller fish in the pond to poke their head through some of the clutter. Your analogy in the post described it perfectly. SEO definitely allows some of the smaller fish in the pond to poke their head through some of the clutter. Your analogy in the post described it perfectly.

]]> By: catherine wilson http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/#comment-2080 catherine wilson Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:16:57 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=3994#comment-2080 All restaurants benefit from word of mouth, but I do not believe that restaurants such as chapter one and L'ecrivain do not engage in other forms of traditional marketing, such as targetting the press, advertising,special offers . So too do all websites including the good ones will benefit from SEO. All restaurants benefit from word of mouth, but I do not believe that restaurants such as chapter one and L’ecrivain do not engage in other forms of traditional marketing, such as targetting the press, advertising,special offers . So too do all websites including the good ones will benefit from SEO.

]]> By: Niall Harbison http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/#comment-2030 Niall Harbison Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:18:49 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=3994#comment-2030 Don't get me wrong David I think that SEO s vitally important and I think that the people who do it well are essential to any business. You may notice that we just did a decent amount of it ourselves here. I think it has just got a bad name because of a handful of people in the industry seeing the opportunity to make money and jumping in which is the same with our industry with all the gurus offering their services. I suppose at the end of the day it is quality that will shine through just like in any business :) Don’t get me wrong David I think that SEO s vitally important and I think that the people who do it well are essential to any business. You may notice that we just did a decent amount of it ourselves here. I think it has just got a bad name because of a handful of people in the industry seeing the opportunity to make money and jumping in which is the same with our industry with all the gurus offering their services. I suppose at the end of the day it is quality that will shine through just like in any business :)

]]> By: David Quaid http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/#comment-2029 David Quaid Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:41 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=3994#comment-2029 Hi Niall, great post. I've been delivering search engine optimisation in Ireland for a number of years. Prior to that I hav 5 businesses that all used the web successfully to sell online (incl non tech products). Before that I was a software engineer in dell. There are certainly some very bad impressions about seo, which is why I sometimes use the phrase Internet business development, as I feel it describes what I do. I think the most cmon understanding of seo is that combines lots of keywords , some "dark tricks", some cheap links and voilà a really bad idea can become a google hit. This certainly isn't the case for the handful of seo's I know from the web but describes a huge amount of people across the web. We obviously work with a lot of businesses -both web designers and business owners. Creating an online presence can be a mammoth task. You are in a unique situation where you've work well and hard at building your own web business. But many business owners have busy non-web based businesses that need to build an online aspect but don't have the time to spend 6 months learning how to be an online expert as well as being an expert in the business they run, eg a hotel, retailer, manufacturer, accountant. The idea of a web that's all based on human semantic behaviour is a long way coming andvsocial media is already well abused by black hat seo's. I sense in you r post that your impression of seo is that it hides over a bad business or cheats somehow. I invite you to engage with us, not commercially, but to talk to us in real life to hear how we go about building an online business. I think people place a lot of confidence in web developers. You've met a lot ofvweb developers- how many of them have sold products online? Most Irish web developers have never sold anything online. They sell through word of mouth or referral( i didn't say all, I say many) and that's based on experience. My site ranks in the top 3 for both "seo" AND "search engine optimisation". I have worked with 200 domains in the past few years and made over a million in online sales in just one business of my own in just 3 years. I've never lost a client, I've walked away from one andvthere is no spam , cheating or short cuts or €10k cheques. All of my current clients are active referrees and I enjoy helping startups and charities for free. Hi Niall, great post. I’ve been delivering search engine optimisation in Ireland for a number of years. Prior to that I hav 5 businesses that all used the web successfully to sell online (incl non tech products). Before that I was a software engineer in dell. There are certainly some very bad impressions about seo, which is why I sometimes use the phrase Internet business development, as I feel it describes what I do. I think the most cmon understanding of seo is that combines lots of keywords , some “dark tricks”, some cheap links and voilà a really bad idea can become a google hit. This certainly isn’t the case for the handful of seo’s I know from the web but describes a huge amount of people across the web. We obviously work with a lot of businesses -both web designers and business owners. Creating an online presence can be a mammoth task. You are in a unique situation where you’ve work well and hard at building your own web business. But many business owners have busy non-web based businesses that need to build an online aspect but don’t have the time to spend 6 months learning how to be an online expert as well as being an expert in the business they run, eg a hotel, retailer, manufacturer, accountant. The idea of a web that’s all based on human semantic behaviour is a long way coming andvsocial media is already well abused by black hat seo’s. I sense in you r post that your impression of seo is that it hides over a bad business or cheats somehow. I invite you to engage with us, not commercially, but to talk to us in real life to hear how we go about building an online business. I think people place a lot of confidence in web developers. You’ve met a lot ofvweb developers- how many of them have sold products online? Most Irish web developers have never sold anything online. They sell through word of mouth or referral( i didn’t say all, I say many) and that’s based on experience. My site ranks in the top 3 for both “seo” AND “search engine optimisation”. I have worked with 200 domains in the past few years and made over a million in online sales in just one business of my own in just 3 years. I’ve never lost a client, I’ve walked away from one andvthere is no spam , cheating or short cuts or €10k cheques. All of my current clients are active referrees and I enjoy helping startups and charities for free.

]]> By: Niall Harbison http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/#comment-2025 Niall Harbison Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29:03 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=3994#comment-2025 Yeah that is a good point Ralph and the other thing that I would be doing is checking who they have done work for in the past and seeing how those sites rank now. The big problem is the same as any industry in that there are some guys doing great work but the whole industry is being tarnished by a few cowboys Yeah that is a good point Ralph and the other thing that I would be doing is checking who they have done work for in the past and seeing how those sites rank now. The big problem is the same as any industry in that there are some guys doing great work but the whole industry is being tarnished by a few cowboys

]]> By: Ralph Smith http://www.simplyzesty.com/advertising-and-marketing/brands/seo-good-house-keeping/#comment-2021 Ralph Smith Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:44:20 +0000 http://www.simplyzesty.com/?p=3994#comment-2021 The big difference in my eye's between SEO and traditional Marketing is SEO providers can be very quickly benchmarked by their position on a search engine query for "SEO" or "Search engine optimisation" If an provider cant optimise their own site correctly you can quickly decide whether their worth paying to optimise yours. The big difference in my eye’s between SEO and traditional Marketing is SEO providers can be very quickly benchmarked by their position on a search engine query for “SEO” or “Search engine optimisation”

If an provider cant optimise their own site correctly you can quickly decide whether their worth paying to optimise yours.

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