SEO Secrets

Hard work! I had a meeting just lately with a potential client; I was expecting to lay out a 3 month plan to be later re-evaluated for a possible long term maintenance plan. What happened instead was unfortunately what happens a lot, they just wanted me to tell them the secrets of the SEO process, they would write down all of these valuable secrets, let their ex-programmer turned something else with a title I don’t remember and then show me the door.

And that is basically what happened, oh I know I am a fool, I told the secrets, how could I, I should be ashamed, woe is me, well I told them what other SEO developers think are the secrets. But I did tell them my secret – intention, honesty, hard work. They looked at me like I was nuts, yea right, tell us the truth they said, well write you a check and you can be on your way.

So I shared some simple and what I think are obvious technique’s and processes that create presence on the internet, some idea’s I am trying and that Google is very important, taking advantage of Google analytics, Google AD words, Google Local, and Google Adsense (all obvious things to me) .

This didn’t seem to satisfy there quest for the holy grail of SEO, there‘s gotta be something else, the magic pill, something else!? Sorry. They were looking for results in a matter of days to weeks; sorry that is not going to happen. I did reveal (I hope no one puts a contract out on me for this)that it has been my personal experience that using a service (distribution of social, article and video material) does not have the same affect as doing the same thing by hand.

I am sorry but I use one of the most popular distribution services call Traffic Geyser, there might be some people right now saying to themselves "oh great now he’s done it, he’s let the cat out of the bag", sorry people, as of late they have been having a lot of problems, that has caused me a lot of unnecessary work. Also their product is less than perfect; they still not have taken all the kinks out yet. But more important is I have found out at least it seems to me I get more noticeable results when I distribute my media by hand to all of the different sites, it’s like the web sites that accept the video’s, articles, blogs etc know when a robot is filling their forms, also web sites change and are well aware of the form filling robots, they feel their site is being used when processed by these robots and make changes as to ensure a person is filling out the form.

Hence of course the development of the Captcha boxes appearing on most web sites to make sure it’s a human filling out their forms, and this is rightly so, they want to maintain the integrity of their site, after all its suppose to be a social experience, and what are distribution services but a means for us to distribute on a mass scale, to more sites for more clients, quickly, more efficiently for more money.

And so here ‘s my big secret, my hard work and my intention, I do this grunt work instead of using a service, I put my personal touch to it with the intention of doing a great job so that my client has presence on the internet, so more customers go to his site and request their service or product and my client makes more money, bam! That’s my secret, I heard recently that if you want to make a lot of money, then make a lot of money for somebody else, what you say?, am I crazy!, it’s so simple, people helping people (make money), it’s a new thought, a new paradigm, I am riding a new wave, join me, it works.

Hmm, I wonder how many SEO’s will take me up on this.