Comments on: Higher Than Deserved Rankings – Are you too High?

By: photo retouching

photo retouching — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:05:17 +0000

Search engine optimisation has to take place now as the web is becoming jam packed with companies. It is now becoming so competitive that many companies pay huge amounts of money to be ranked number one. That is really annoying when you do aspecific search using specific keywords and the first six sites have nothing to do with the subject you are after.

By: SEO Company

SEO Company — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:53:28 +0000

I completely agree with you.There are no just one set of techniques that every one must follow to get high rank. If you want to rank higher than you should do something extraordinary so you can make the difference.There are no just one set of techniques that every one must follow to get high rank.
There is a saying: “First Deserve than Desire”

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:16:45 +0000

Business is all about continuously generating revenue. Hence, there is no harm if a little bit SEO can increase SERP and thus bring in more revenue.
As you mentioned there is no set level of what position a site should rank for. The only thing people should consider is if top ranking sites of good quality and are providing highly relevant information. If thats the case, then there is no problem if a SEOed site outranks – Non SEOed sites.

By: Casey Yandle

Casey Yandle — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:25:16 +0000

Interesting post Jim! It’s becoming more and more evident that more people are thinking of link juice when they come up these so-called contests like Green Peace, Square Space, etc.

But to me you should deserve to rank in the top spots if you did what it takes to get there in a legitmate way. That’s like saying an athlete doesn’t deserve to be the #1 athlete if he spends a ton of extra time tweaking his skills in practice? As long as he’s not cheating doesn’t he deserve to be the best he can be? (no pun intended) He shouldn’t be the #1 athlete only if he never thought that the extra practice would make him the best.

By: Matty

Matty — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:41:15 +0000

Hey Jim,

I found this post a really informative read. I have recently created my first blog so I’m getting to grips with the in’s and out’s of what I should be doing. This, coupled with a few other guides, has helped me to understand how backlinking and SEO works and for that I am grateful. Hopefully, I will reach a stage where I can help others in the same way that you have with this guide.

Thanks again,

Matty

By: Anders blogger in marketing

Anders blogger in marketing — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:11 +0000

Thank you for a very informative website. You point out many good issues like being targeted and personal in your approaches. However the platform is build by you and your colleges so a lot of internal understanding and cooperation is needed and all functions concentrated on the same target; making the Online Marketing profitable. For many companies a major issue is to understand and accept that all functions are equally important from ides over production to sales. Once the strategy is established the next but very important question comes up; how do we communicate this in order to reach our target group? The scope of an Online Marketing company is to ensure the link and understanding between the visions and the realities, a very challenging job.

By: Dudibob

Dudibob — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:15:32 +0000

Nice post Jim, and agree with what you say. Some people are very narrow minded when it comes to SEO, they either expect instant results or they think it’s voodoo and pay less attention to it, i.e. smaller budget so that give away something for free thing is tricky for SEO’s anyway.

Plus I thought the whole point of a marketer, offline and online is to create exposure for your company. What’s stopping a little mom & pop shop from gettting an ad on (if price didn’t matter) TV or a billboard seens by 1000s, are people going to moan because ‘they shouldn’t be there’?

Only aiming for ‘what you deserve’ is kinda like marketing to the people across the street, why not the whole town?

By: John A

John A — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:38:58 +0000

Ahh 1′st post!

I think those are great questions. My non-sane view is that entrepreneurs with nonprofit type views tend to have a greater interest at heart, and as a result have a greater cause. Unfortunately many rock stars don’t truly rock until AD. I’d like to think as a whole, history absolve some web sites and site owners. I also think higher rankings are supposed to mean more traffic and supposedly profit, but don’t think that’s always the case and also profit & higher rankings don’t always equal success.

Jim, yours is the first seo blog i ever read, though i just seo my own business it was incredibly helpful and encouraging as a small business owner dumping thousandsX into yellowpages. Ive been a fan ever since. – we also joined your Ninja Site which i here is shifting direction.

You guys are awesome, Cheers