You’ve heard all the success stories and case studies from search engine optimization (SEO) companies’ websites: get search engine rankings, fame and fortune follow. But does it always work that way? As an insider in the SEO field, I can assure you that it doesn’t. I’ve seen too many companies lose money on a successful SEO campaign—SEO that is Pointless. How can you avoid their fate?

First, understand what SEO is and what it isn’t. Legitimate search engine optimization doesn’t involve shady tactics to “trick" search engines into giving you rankings. Search engines do not take kindly to being tricked. When search engines find out you’ve manipulated them, your site could be demoted or blacklisted.

Second, define expectations. When dealing with an SEO company, be sure to define what success is. Do write out which search engines you expect to see results on—you probably won’t be happy with a #1 ranking on www.theultimatesearchenginethatnooneuses.com if you’re nowhere to be found on Google. Remember that you don’t have to be #1 to get traffic, either (although it certainly helps). There are no guarantees in SEO, even if your SEO’s cousin’s grandma’s neighbor’s dog walker’s wife works at Google.

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Let’s go to the statistics. There are scores of companies who have tried and are still trying to go online based on in-house knowledge. There is nothing wrong with this, especially if you already have the necessary resources. However, there is a darker side of that. Online marketing means that you want to make business through your website, which in turn necessitates that your website be ranked high in major search engines. It is found that 85 out of the 100 visitors a website gets come through search engines. Hence, you need a high ranking if you intend to make business and a high ranking is achieved only by SEO. SEO is a constantly evolving field which requires constant up gradation by the professionals. For a company with core competency other that internet marketing spending resources on updating its professionals on the latest SEO techniques may not be very return centric. Hence, getting help from a consultant is definitely a better idea. I will tell you why.

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Lots of people have their own websites; some build it for personal reasons and some build it for commercial purposes. Well, the later one is most predominant on the internet today. So how does one make money by building a web-site? Either you can have a site that promotes your offline business identity or you may have an online business as well. In either case, you will only make money when you are better found on the net. So how do people find you on the net? Research shows that 80% of people that use the internet find sites by something we know as a Search Engine. Google, Yahoo and MSN are the leading SEs on the net today. Google being the BIG BOSS of all. About 30-40% of all the searches are done through Google and the rest 60-70% are shared by the other SEs.   more »