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How did you re-apply? I bought a domain name previously used for Google News, which I didn't know when I bought. When I submitted it for my OWN Google News approval they said I couldn't get approval without the original publisher's permission (account.) They made me prove I owned the domain now...

SEO question - I want to know the rationale behind what ASM teaches to get Amazon listings to rank higher. FWIW - I didn't buy that course. I did pay for a different one early last year and have been selling successfully on Amazon for about 1.5 years now - not private label - in fact I'm a...

They've also never done email or video marketing and are very interested in both. How much info from the current SEO company or the current deal is it "cool" for me to ask for before giving them a proposal?

OMG - just met with company who's been paying their CURRENT SEO firm $12k a month! They say they don't get personal attention from the SEO firm, very interested in hiring me instead. Almost overwhelming! BTW, company is in very small town, less than 5000 people.

Do you have any kind of questionnaire or intake form - especially something on your site to weed out the "tire-kickers"?

Lower ROI... so far I've just told people that it should take X amount of money for Y number of months to get Z rankings (Z is never real exact.) I hadn't couched it in terms of ROI. And yeah - dealing with webmasters is one of the reasons I asked. What if they're a pain to deal with? That's...

Extraordinarily useful, generous post - thank you! Timely too, since I've been trying to figure out how to transition my web design business to an SEO business. Two questions. 1) How much work do you do before money changes hands? You have to do SOME research to even come up with a quote...