Quote from craigslist

“There’s a reason REAL Seo’s charge $125/hr and up.
We know what we’re doing.

1) Your own site is generated by WordPress. A FREE blogging tool
2) “all in one SEO pack” is a free addon for wordpress. it doesnt count as legitimate SEO. I use it. its nice, but not for business use.
3) you have 19+ xhtml warnings and invalidity. ranging from malformed tags to proprietary tags, on just the homepage..
4) you’re text overlaps in your video section. you might want to consult a designer.
5) your own site doesnt have pagerank
6) you have an alexa rank of 14 MILLION, you wont even show up on the first 5 pages unless you have a rank of under 2m
7) Snakeoil SEO’s like you give REAL Seo’s like me a bad name. people don’t trust us anymore.
your domain is longer than 12 characters. typically that’s too long for the avg user to remember.
9) it is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to get any page rank in days.
10) your site’s linking structure uses ID’s and not keyword based text strings. SE’s have no use for that.

please, don’t lie to people. you’re clearly not better, nor can you rank in DAYS.
checkout seomoz or something like that to learn some better technique.
i may seem to come off harsh, but its quite irritating to earn a living when everyone undercuts your price, screws up a potential client, and then the client doesn’t want to have anything to do with our services anymore.

the reason i charge $125/hr is because i will monitor several ranges of traffic, manage keywords, placement, and site programming. SEO is a service, not a 1 time product.
goodluck to you and your business. ”

Our Response Post

Hello,
We are a small startup SEO business in the orlando area. We are looking to trade office space for SEO services on a regular basis. We can deliver what you are looking for. We have the skills and knowledge to get you ranked or we will let you know in advance. I felt that is was a bit amusing that another SEO company in the area decided to take the time to try a discredit us, so I decided to quote the post here. I figured I would like you to make an informed decision. In the quoted post above there are several statements. Some true, some not. All the ones relating to our website are true. We are not web designers (though we know some great ones that we can use to complete your project under our supervision). We can build a website for you in exchange for office space, but it will be a simple clean site similar to ours. We will use a wordpress or joomla system to do so. These are content management systems which will allow you to update your site without an expensive web master every time you want to post a picture. The gentlemen who posted this negative comment mentions pagerank. What he means by “page rank” is that Google ranks sites on the internet on a credibility scale using a number 0-10 10 being the best. A very credible site would be a three or higher. Our website has a pagerank of zero. It has that because it is about 3 weeks old, and you cannot force pagerank. It take time to get. No getting around it. He refers to “alexa rank” as well. Alexa is a company that ranks all the indexed pages on the web in order of popularity. really anything under a million and the Alexa rank is pretty much meaning less. Again, it is very difficult to develop a high alexa rank in a manner of weeks. Also, we have been developing our small roster of clients sites instead of our own. He mentions our domain being longer than 12 characters. We wanted something called url relevancy. That means Google looks at our site and see’s what our site is about in the domain. If you have been promoting your site for years and it is huge, this is irrelevant, but if you are a small business trying to rank you law firm it is invaluable. Also we are targeting those searching on the web that will not have to type our domain anyways. We use a seperate simple small domain for business cards. It redirects to our main site. I will not explain the last comment on the list because it is simply false. More importantly, we are simply an effective group that has not been around long enough to have a long track record. Call us, ask us to prove what we can do, and we will. No smoke and  mirrors.

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Title tags are one of the most important on page SEO factors that you can pay attention to when it comes to SEO. The title tag is where you put the main description of your sites contents. It has a heavy priority for how the search engines will catagorize your site. You want the most important words that you are targeting to be at the front of the title. The value of each word in your tag goes down at a somewhat linear rate. So get your keywords to the front, and you will benefit. The title tags are signified with the html code <title>.