Getting a PR0 is Not Fun and It's Bad Business
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Be suspicious. Be very suspicious. Particularly if it comes with no caveats and is marketed to the general population.
SEO Companies:
Techniques that can negatively affect your client if not done properly should never be on your rate card.
httpwebwitch (Ian Ring) on Validating Your Site for w3c Compliance
No.
Next question?
Webmaster World post thanks to Ian Ring aka httpwebwitch
PubCon Search Marketing Conference
If you can go to just one conference this year, this is the one.
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I get a kickback for this, but that’s not my reason for posting. All proceeds will go towards a round on me.
Web Designers
If you allow your web design company to put a link back to their website on the bottom of yours, you are paying them TWICE. Even worse, it’s recurring billing.
Because Google’s pagerank algorithm uses incoming links to a website to determine it’s importance, there is an entire industry that has developed around buying and selling links. Links can help a design firm rank for search terms that then bring them more business or revenue. When you let your web designer put a link at the bottom of the website YOU paid for, you are paying them in link equity. The value of this link on the open market can vary from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars a month!
