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Interested in hearing what others have to say,

but very grateful for your response Miriam. When I say start a company, I find myself sitting down with people who want a more passionate job and doing their keyword research and helping them start their (usually store and content both) and tell them what content to write and how to expand.

I'm done doing it for free unless it's close friend or family member. It's a lot of work. Thus the package. Just for the Boise area.

My experience is taking businesses from zero to $5000/month or zero to $30,000/month in sales so you can see that's small business. I've worked under a 7m/year company, but they kept a lot from me. Consider that I have 10 years of experience but I only specialize in a few things really because they are strong enough for a good ROI for my customer.

Anyways, what is a better rate in your opinion (or anyone else reading this)?

Hi,

I'm targeting Boise, Idaho and building an SEO consulting website.

Right now I only offer 3 things because that's what I have experience in:

1. On-site SEO

2. Content Audit

3. Start a company from scratch.

Ecommerce, Service, or Informational

I know #3 involves all SEO, so it will be challenging, but 1-3 is what I've been doing for 10 years.

What feedback do you have as far as 1-3 being my 3 offers, and is $200/hour fair? I work off quotes by estimating my time at $200/hour.

Thanks.

No, we are a national listing with a non-brick-and-morter address. Do some local directories still apply?

What do you think of these popping up social media sites like that are fairly strong, like:

http://www.apsense.com

Also, if you have an address but no brick and morder location, should you subscribe to local SEO NAP directories that will eventually give you a backlink?

Doing link building for two new sites and one old site.

Thanks.

Mariam,

We're still working on this. He refuses to do video, though he has pictures. How do you recommend we pull this off without video?

By placing a single square ad on each page, either CPM, rented out, or click based, I would like to gain revenue for these terms.

EGOL and others on this Q&A make money like this.

I was trying to get some good advice from people like EGOL (I'm sure there are many of you) with experience with informational keywords as to if these would make money or not.

I was not talking about PPC. Maybe I misunderstand.

I was talking about getting thousands of visitors and placing a single ad on each page with a 3rd party ad company for revenue.

Hello,

Learning about informational keywords.

Is

Nikola Tesla (300K-1M)

a good informational keyword considering I'd only be (at the highest) on the 2nd page? There's no ads and I'm competing against big players, but the 2nd page has opportunities for ranking. I've been studying this guy a long time. Don't know if it's will bring ad revenue.

What about

chemtrails (118k-300k)

Hello,

I am used to estimating how much money is possible to make out of ranking for Ecommerce terms. Higher price products have a lower conversion rate  (cheap items are opposite) so you can look at the keyword size in keyword explorer and estimate pretty well (roughly).

My question is, how many times bigger does an ad based (informational) keyword need to be to get similar profit?

This is just an estimate.

For example, does a term need to be 5? 10? times bigger on average (volume) as an informational keyword to make the same amount of profit (roughly of course)? I realize there are many factors here but you must have some way you think of it?

Can you give me some general guidelines?

Hello,

A client runs an Ecommerce store.

Doing a "best running shoes" type piece of content in our industry.

I (the SEO) want to be 10X better than the first listing and be honest and fit intent by including  all "running shoes" from all internet suppliers (including nofollow links). It's about 8-10 names. We could list us first when we carry a product. like 6 other site's products 4 of ours, listing who carries the product with our site listed first if we do. We have some of the best. The meta description and top of the article would be like. We analyzed 23+ sites and made some hard conclusions.... But wait, one of the owners doesn't want to list competitor site names even if they are nofollow or even just text. She only wants to include items from our store. I would have to rename the content "Our Top 5 products" and it would be a mismatch in intent and keywords for "best running shoes" and just be for our customers.

What is the most proper SEO thing to do to attack "best running shoes" (if appropriate)keeping in mind long terms sales? The owner wants to hear your suggestions as well. And is a "best" keyword sometimes competition?

Thanks.

Yes, watched that three times. One of the best Whiteboard Fridays to date.

It's either that or gathertruth.com

Let me know which of the two you like best from all perspectives and why:

awakeningstudies.com

gathertruth.com

Last call and then I'm just going to make a decision.

Thanks.

Do you think awakeningstudies.com is too long?

I want the word awakening in it instead of awake, and trulyawakening.com is not right.

Want it to be eye catching, let me know if you think of anything that is more going to "grab you"

Thanks Jordan

Hello,

I'm starting an informational website. The topics that will be covered will be

conspiracy theory

orgone

spiritual awakening

kundalini

Ancient Knowledge.

and related topics

The problem is that a lot of people coming in on conspiracy theory topics might not like a domain like trulyawake.com, yet that's what I lean to.

I want it to be clever.

Eventually there will be products and ads. Looking for a way to tie everything together.

Thank you.

Hello,

Here's how I'm gathering keywords for my new website. I'm using a hrefs to gather (through looking at 50 competitors) many top content topics in the industry. I will make a list of hot keywords.

Then I'm going to look at keyword planner and Google and add to the list.

What else can I do? Tips/Articles/Videos welcome.

Hello,

We want to get a top notch company to look at us for 4-5K. We don't need SEO, we've got plenty of motion through the press and word of mouth, but if an all around agency was to give good advice I could get him some time with our CEO.

How do I get the best for only 4-5K, we may continue with services or it may just be a one time thing.

Who should I contact?

Bob

Hello,

A client has three Ecommerce sites in a niche.

Because of competition and a (possibly) non manual penalty due to doorways and paid links (though I think it's mainly competition too) our traffic is going down.

What are the keys to increasing traffic at this point.

Feel free to include tricks that cost money. A Hrefs (I love Moz though!) has some neat content tricks. Please give me the best tricks in the industry to increase traffic.

We're adding content to the main site of the three and maybe that's what to focus on, but we're having trouble driving serious traffic with the content. We need serious traffic.

We are experts in our field and capable of almost anything as far as information goes in our field.

Thanks.

I see.

I guess the question is whether to nofollow them and disavow them both. They had a spammy footer linking everything together, got rid of the footer, and kept a few of the links except transferred them to the body content somewhere.

Make sense?

Troy,

Can you sell $50 products this way? How much does this cost?

Hello,

Three of our client's sites are having difficulty because of past doorway/paid link activity, which we're doing the final cleanup on with a disavow.

There are links between the sites. Should we disavow all the links between the sites?

Thank you.