Comments on: Quick & Dirty SEO or Quality Optimization?

By: Justin Howley

Justin Howley — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:04:42 +0000

Yeah, cheap is never the best route for long term quality, but sometimes especially newbies starting out some don’t know any better. I always opt for quality “haircuts” but some cannot afford to do so. I think educating by the way of great articles like this is a start.

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:19:49 +0000

Totally agree. When it comes to SEO, it’s always the ‘Slow and steady’ that wins. Not the fast and the furious. It’s a pity that many businesses are unaware of this and buy services from companies that resort to black hat link building. They could win the short run, but in the long run, the story would be different.

By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:42:03 +0000

Yeah, in the past I’ve tried to satisfy each and every client but soon I realized that some poeple out there just want to rip you off.

You don’t earn any money working for them, you only lose money by not working for other more legit clients or your own projects.

By: Victoria Blount

Victoria Blount — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:11:40 +0000

This is a very helpful post, and the term “quick and dirty” does describe the instant optimsation which clients request, and they want you to produce the results yesterday! Also the advice about clients choosing keywords, and there knowledge about SEO is as in depth as there knowledge of how to design. I think the way you dealt with this client is very inspiring and i will find myself using this terminology.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:00:45 +0000

I could not agree more. We have not been going that long and our rates are very reasonable, we put a lot of work into each project and in most cases more than we get paid for. I hate it when we quote for work giving a fair price then the client tries’ to get us to reduce our rate because the found someone cheaper. We dropped the price the first couple of times, it was a mistake, and it only made the client more difficult and demanding, it was as if they did us a favour by coming to us. Now we stick to our price and if they are not happy they are more than welcome to go elsewhere. If they pay peanuts they will get monkeys.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:39:33 +0000

Very much valid comparison, Starting and running an SEO campaign involves a lot of tasks, Search engine optimization must happen gradually and look natural, and the fact is that new sites don’t show up right away in the SERPs

There are many other factors as well in SEO which shows that quality SEO takes time as well as it costs you more.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:30:55 +0000

i really like when you said “When you pay for quick and dirty you get quick and dirty” obviously when you are not sincere with work and you are not putting enough efforts then you dont deserve good response in return and you fails always.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:40:01 +0000

I agree with you, if you want cheap prices you can only expect a low quality service. There are many indians and other foreigners offering extra cheap seo services online, and you can imagine the results you can get.

By: Keir

Keir — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:44:58 +0000

I think there are a lot of people who can empathise with this story.
Mostly I find this on web builds climbing down on price only devalues your work