Basic SEO question

Hello all,

I'm pretty new to all this but learning fast(attempting to learn fast.

I'm really just learning general info about how SEO comes together.

If I understand correctly quality links are about 75% of the game. Then it's site quality, proper tags, keywords, allowing the site to be indexed and spidered correctly. Making sure the site uploads quickly, etc, etc.

First off I'd like to know if this is the proper line of thinking and your opinions.

Secondly, if you were to outsource most the things necessary to make your site SE friendly on the backend of the site(tags, upload time, keywords, sitemaps, making sure it's spidered correctly, etc, etc.)what would be the best way to do this.

I know SEO help isn't cheap, but I plan on doing much of the link building early on and many of these tasks seem like one time deals that could be set up on a site.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!!

No replies?? I'm starving for info and advice here people . Anything would be great. Thanks!

Ummm not really sure what you are asking... yes links are the single biggest ranking factor. The easiest way to support your link builidng is quality, unique conetnt on your site. Thus the most important onpage factor is content creation. As for cost of outsourcing it depends on so many things. Can be as cheap as $5 per link for three way link building serives from low labour cost contries to $50,000+ for qalified SEO firms to develop your site.

I think you need to ask more specific questions if you want anything useful in answers.

Best of luck

Gazzahk,

Thanks for the reply. I'll try and be more specific here. I plan on having quality content on my site to the extent people link to it unsolicited. In the early goings of my site this has already occurred.

I also plan on building links myself the old fashioned way.

My problem is I'm not a web developer or designer. I don't know how to make a site upload quickly by decreasing page size, or making sure spiders can index it properly, or putting keywords on the site, or setting up title tags, meta tags. You name it, if it has to do with code I'm at a loss.

I want my site optimized in all these areas. But I don't need some intensive year long campaign in the beginning.

How would someone like me(who doesn't want link building help) go about outsourcing this part of my site? Is this sort of thing a one time fee? An ongoing monthly fee? Something I don't need an SEO firm for?

Where could you find someone just to do this part?

It seems from what I can tell most good firms are looking for huge ongoing contracts and the rest are selling snake oil.

Thanks again, hope that's not too confusing .

Creating great content is 80% of the job.

Getting people who have websites who might link to you onto that content is 20% of the job.

SEO is five minutes of busy work.

I agree with you but I had a experience with my previous company, our one link builder did spam mail, and that company had complained our hosting company our hosting company was go daddy, for the reason our company was suspended more than one week and cached with "Your website is suspended" message in Google then we sifted our website in other hosting company but I was surprised our website was ranked in Google on competitive keywords when we searched any keywords our website was same ranking but Google index showed “your website is suspended" . So, I understand that content is necessary but back link is more powerful; If I am wrong then please correct me.

Yes, backlinks are more powerful, but content must be in place to get the most valuable backlinks. I think that your site was held in ranking by the backlinks and any favor that google had for a well ranking site that might have had temporary problem.