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SEO is important, no doubt about that. Within the world of SEO, back links are vitally important. Why, you may ask. Back links are important because they increase your popularity with the search engines and that is exactly what you want.

However, that does not give you the freedom to create more inbound links that you have brain cells. Overdoing it is worse than not doing it at all in the search engines’ books.

Directories to direct

Directories do exactly what their name implies. They direct people your way. However, it is not that simple. You can opt for article directories or link directories. Article directories require you to submit articles to them that will have back links to your own website. Their readers will come across your article, read it and pass judgement on it. If your article offers good quality information that tickles their interest they will follow the link to your website. And voila, increased traffic.

However, if your article is not liked by the majority, you will get a distasteful reputation for poor content and your fate has been sealed. Link directories work similarly for your SEO. You submit your link to the directory which will then list your website accordingly. In both article and link directories you will find free options as well as paid for premium ones. The premium ones are usually better for increasing your traffic volumes and exposure significantly.

Trading and marketing

Marketing your website through back links from social media websites is a great idea. It increases your web presence in particular online social communities, all good for your SEO. There are many different social media websites to choose from and it is a good idea to use a combination instead of just one. Trading your links with someone else is also good for your SEO.

It is a mutually beneficial practice for both websites.  You will be trading your link with another website and they will give you theirs in return. The idea is that both websites will receive increased exposure from the other and this will increase traffic for both. It also increases both websites’ popularity with the search engines crawlers. Beware when linking  to any other website. Make sure their reputation and practices are clean and in good taste so that it adds to your credibility instead of detracting from it.

Blogging

The blogosphere is a very powerful entity on the internet. It can make or break websites and companies and it can help you create valuable and much needed back links as well. It can be very good for your SEO indeed. You can create your own blog and link to your own website through it. This is a good way of blogging for your own success.

You can also comment on the blogs of others in an effort to create good back links from those comments. You can also generate interest in your website by commenting on like minded blogs and getting the actual blogger interested in your website or your blog and so creating links.

So you think you know quite a bit about Search Engine Optimisation and would love to be an SEO consultant. You wish to start your own SEO consultancy firm and apply all your SEO techniques to clients that will benefit from your services.

Getting started on your SEO company

Before you can start offering your marketing help, you may need to first, do a little bit of research finding out how many SEO companies there are in your particular area. Analyse your competition. Also find out how many businesses and people situated in the immediate area are likely to use your service and who don’t already have their websites optimised. Make sure that there is a need for the service before you invest all your money and time into establishing your business. You then also need to develop a strong search engine optimisation plan.

Determine how you are going to go about implementing SEO step by step. Sometimes you may have a good idea but write it down so that you can see whether your idea will work and you can strategise a plan to make it work. Also create a plan as to how you wish to link people’s websites. Once you have all of this information and planning, you can now start advertising your services either on the web by creating a site an optimising it or through traditional advertising.

The service that you will need to provide

As an SEO consultant there are a number of tasks you will have to carry out. Usually, a business that approaches you without a website means that you will have to start from scratch. This starts by you having to construct a website for that particular client yourself or you can outsource someone else to do it. When creating the sight you have to ensure that you use relevant keywords related to the type of business.

If the client already has a website, then you might need to edit it to become optimised. This could be done by adding stronger keywords to the content or keyword rich articles. You may need to then build some links to make the sites more visible. Remember that your service should also include a bit of training to your client and you will have to maintain the SEO campaign. You will also need to provide the client with reports on the progress of their site.

Learning to build links

As part of your SEO service you will need to be able to do link building. Link building is the most important off-page SEO aspects and helps increase rankings. These links usually use other websites or pages to direct traffic to your client’s site.

The appearance, freshness and age of links are also highly considered by Search engines. To build effective links as an SEO consultant, you will have to be aware of how many links are too much. Normally 5-10 new links per week is sufficient in order for search engines such as Google not to have any suspicions of foul play.