TheCrucible
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- Mar 25, 2011
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First i'd like to say a HUGE thanks to everyone on the Forum, i'm new here and have spent several hours reading various topics, amazed with the content and experts willing to share ideas on SEO.
On to my question / post. A business partner and i have teamed up to create a new website, in a new niche for us (Live Chat and Dating site), and have invested in the public pages and backend to run it, other than some PSD file changes its ready to go live. We didn't really have a solid plan for driving traffic and it's clear to me we need to address that ASAP. My partner is not technical whatsoever, he comes from a finance background, so our last meeting about driving traffic and conversions was very silent, with him staring at me, and me thinking "oh sh*t, i better get a plan quickly".... He is the "money guy" so i'm feeling a little pressure at this point.
What is the "best" strategy to find/hire some outsourced SEO help, with the following requirements:
1) We need a strategy and proposal to kick start a brand new site, new domain, with long term sustainability in mind. We don't want to get sand boxed being to aggressive (if there is such a thing in traffic building). I really need an SEO 101 proposal written, so i can share with my partner, explain the value and strategy, so he commits as well. it's 50/50 deal.
2) Completely outsourced - meaning we don't want to hire someone when the business isn't cranking yet and let them down, i would not sleep at night. So we would need to agree a way to measure/compensate on real results of the outsourced partner. In other words, you guys are SEO experts, if i said "prove" you know what your doing and the work is being done, you would provide a list of metrics to check, that same list is what we would both agree is the yardstick.
3) We don't want to get shafted. This is probably the most OBVIOUS requirement when outsourcing, but we have learned enough to know "buying" traffic doesn't always work out, and there are "smart" ways to SEO, and lets face it, there are some companies in the yellow pages claiming SEO experts, and we know it's a load of sh*t. Few months later, they are under a new name.
So in short, i need some advice, an SEO strategy from ground up, with real world results (conversions), and not sure the best way to structure something good for both parties, within reasonable costs, and get working asap. Is there a "standard" outsource SEO formula? If so, I need to understand it quickly.
Our future partner may be reading this post, great ! Any help on "how to outsource SEO is much appreciated.
UPDATE: i've received a couple PMs, but the forum won't let me reply until i have 15 posts....
Thanks in advance,
On to my question / post. A business partner and i have teamed up to create a new website, in a new niche for us (Live Chat and Dating site), and have invested in the public pages and backend to run it, other than some PSD file changes its ready to go live. We didn't really have a solid plan for driving traffic and it's clear to me we need to address that ASAP. My partner is not technical whatsoever, he comes from a finance background, so our last meeting about driving traffic and conversions was very silent, with him staring at me, and me thinking "oh sh*t, i better get a plan quickly".... He is the "money guy" so i'm feeling a little pressure at this point.
What is the "best" strategy to find/hire some outsourced SEO help, with the following requirements:
1) We need a strategy and proposal to kick start a brand new site, new domain, with long term sustainability in mind. We don't want to get sand boxed being to aggressive (if there is such a thing in traffic building). I really need an SEO 101 proposal written, so i can share with my partner, explain the value and strategy, so he commits as well. it's 50/50 deal.
2) Completely outsourced - meaning we don't want to hire someone when the business isn't cranking yet and let them down, i would not sleep at night. So we would need to agree a way to measure/compensate on real results of the outsourced partner. In other words, you guys are SEO experts, if i said "prove" you know what your doing and the work is being done, you would provide a list of metrics to check, that same list is what we would both agree is the yardstick.
3) We don't want to get shafted. This is probably the most OBVIOUS requirement when outsourcing, but we have learned enough to know "buying" traffic doesn't always work out, and there are "smart" ways to SEO, and lets face it, there are some companies in the yellow pages claiming SEO experts, and we know it's a load of sh*t. Few months later, they are under a new name.
So in short, i need some advice, an SEO strategy from ground up, with real world results (conversions), and not sure the best way to structure something good for both parties, within reasonable costs, and get working asap. Is there a "standard" outsource SEO formula? If so, I need to understand it quickly.
Our future partner may be reading this post, great ! Any help on "how to outsource SEO is much appreciated.
UPDATE: i've received a couple PMs, but the forum won't let me reply until i have 15 posts....
Thanks in advance,
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