The whole thing confuses me to be honest. My basic understanding is that the two key elements are content and (quality) backlinks. Beyond that, there seems to be a lot of myth generated by the “experts” themselves.

I have tried various things to promote a couple of very low key sites I run as a hobby. Some techniques I am less than proud of but those were more in the early days.

But explain this…I have a UK site on a UK domain ranking number one in All of Web searches on Google, but only 8th on the same keywords if you perform a UK only search. What?

LOL

Darin

Thanks for the mention. I wasn’t actually suggesting that any company can perform SEO in house.

The point I was trying to make is that there’s a lot of superfluous stuff you get included in the fees you pay to an SEO firm which you probably just don’t need.

I’m just asking the question: “What is your SEO company charging you for other than getting the best possible (long term) ranking at the best value for you, the consumer?”

If they’re charging you for things like ranking reports you can do yourself (even the non tech-savvy amongst us can perform a google search), you probably need to ask the question whether you’re getting value for your dollar.

If you go back and read the post title; its framed as a question to the reader for a reason, just like your title to this post. I was keen to get opinions from my readers as to whether they thought “Big Bucks” SEO’s are worth the money.

Once again, thanks for the mention,

Cheers!

Stu