Apr 13 2008
Making Time For SEO
I have run across many webmasters who use the excuse that they do not have the time to do Search Engine Optimization for their websites. They create tons of great content and they set up a beautiful website with all the frills and wonder why they get no traffic. I want to shake them and tell them that SEO is not an option, it is a requirement.
Creating a great site is nothing if you do not do everything you can to help people find your website. This is done through quality SEO. I understand that people are crunched for time and they often do not have the time for everything. My answer is this, if you do not have time to prepare your taxes, do you just not do them? No, you hire a professional accountant or tax preparer. If you do not have time to fix your car, do you quit driving? No, you hire a mechanic to fix it. These are all things that are important and required in life.
Guess what? SEO is just as important if you plan to be successful as a webmaster. If you do not know how to optimize your site or you just do not have the time, it is time to get help. A SEO Company can do all the work for you. From optimizing your keywords to building back links, a quality company can make your site search engine friendly and easy to find.
No more excuses, as a webmaster you have two choices when it comes to SEO. Either make the time or do as many other webmasters do and hire a professional SEO Company to do the work for you. Either way, you can no longer afford to ignore the importance of SEO.
I came across your blog on Technorati. Nice site layout. I will stop by and read more soon.
Mike Harmon
Well, this is what I hate the most since I am a designer and a content writer more than a SEO person. I want to just work on a wonderful layout (that loads nicely etc.) and some lovely content and not have to worry that Google is too stupid to pick my content in front of God knows what spammer who just knows to do some SEO and places a MFA with great success. In a perfect world the SEO people shouldn’t exist since good content would make a site pop or not.
I have nothing against the SEO specialists (since I also do some jobs like this for my clients), but it gets annoying not being able to find a decent resource when doing a google search from all the crap that’s being well optimized and still useless.
We should care about this too indeed, since otherwise we don’t have the chance to get a decent traffic. We shouldn’t have to worry, but until Google finds a way to filter the dirt, there’s nothing better