newmediaMike

How I used Free SEO evaluations to get paying work

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I’m still on my search engine optimizing “kick” right now. I mentioned it to the people at Tapeworks who have an online store called DVSupplyShop and they have asked me to optimize that site for them. I also decided to share my knowledge with others and I’m giving away FREE SEO evaluations of websites.

What I do is look at the sites from my simple SEO formula and grade them accordingly. I also give them a suggested course of action again based on the simple formula I used to keep my VHS to DVD transfer business Videozine in the top 20 of Google for the last two years.

I started running ads on Craigslist on Monday and so far I’ve received 5 requests. One has turned into an SEO project for a real estate agent. Not bad - a 20% rate. I had to chuckle at one request though. The request was for SEO services for a new product that does not actually have a site up and running.

It took me a while to explain to this person that in order to optimize a site for search engine ranking you actually had to have a site. He said he has a site, but that’s not the site he wants me to optimize, but he doesn’t want to fall prey to the “new kid on the block with Google” problem. In the end he never sent me a URL to look over.

My point to the whole exercise has been to demonstrate to people that while I may not be an SEO guru or a pro, what I am is successful and I know how to get successful results. With one gig out of 5 so far, I’d say I’m doing OK with my new SEO consulting venture.