SEO Blogger

So. You have a sparkly, shiny new web site.

Now you need visitors. You need to increase your Page Rank. You want your site to be at the top of Google, Yahoo and Bing! search results.

One of the basic principles of seo web marketing is to feed your site with fresh content every day.

And your fresh content needs to be chock full of keywords (you’ve already researched your keywords, right?)

Now you’ve got a blog.

And you’ve got big plans to post new content on a regular basis.

You could hire me (http://www.sarigordon.com) and I could write perfectly optimized text for your blog. If you’re concerned that my hourly rate is too expensive, the next best thing is an incredibly cool new seo blogging software tool called SEO Blogger.

I’m using it right now.

My keywords are “seo blogging,” internet marketing seo,” “improve page rank,” “page rank” “increase page rank,” “page rank improvement” and a few more. (I know, that’s a pretty lame way to optimize this post, but let’s see what happens.)

I now open my SEO Blogger extension for Firefox and a panel appears on the right side of my screen.

I add my chosen keywords, the extension suggests additional terms and then I choose the ones I like. The terms are saved to a list and when I write my blog post, the list is updated with the number of times I use my top keywords.

That’s exactly what a good SEO content optimization specialist (or “writer”) does (without needing coffee or bathroom breaks.)

My favorite part of this tool?

It’s free. Trust me, that’s less than I charge for an hour of writing blog posts for you.

Need some help setting it up? Just contact me and I’ll be happy to help out (gratis.) That means free. See? Another way to sneak that keyword, free, into my post about free seo tools and seo tools for bloggers.

Or is that overdoing it?

Well, let’s see what happens.

Right now, PageRank for this page is 3/10.

Let’s check back in a few days and see if it changes. The most likely reason it won’t change by much? This isn’t a popular site.

Yet.

Are you sure you’re comfortable hiring someone at an hourly rate?

I know I would be wary of hiring someone if I didn’t know how they kept track of time and expenses.

That’s why I like to quote fees for projects and deliverables, e.g. a web site, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign set-up, web site audit and optimization, competitor analysis, monthly reports.

I’m also a big fan of spending caps - one client likes my hourly rate and knows that I won’t charge more than 10 hours a month. It’s better for both of us. I know where to focus my energy for that client and they keep control over their budgets.

I’m well aware of the trust that you give me when you hire me for hourly projects.

That’s why I use Fanurio software.

I spent nearly a year researching all the time tracking and invoicing software before I decided on Fanurio.

I work alone and at home. That means I’m sitting in one chair, in front of one computer. When I start a project, I go to Fanurio and start the timer. Fanurio pops up every 15 minutes or so to make sure I’m still working and still on the same project. If not, I make the changes to subtract any time or switch to a different client or a different rate and then, at the end of month, my invoices are completely accurate.

If a client ever wants a record of my time and tasks, I simply print out a time sheet with every detail of my work.

I’m really thankful I can work at home–I’m easily distracted when I’m in a team environment and though I miss the social aspect, I have instant access to my peers and resources through Twitter, email, Skype, and the phone. I get tunnel vision when I’m working, so it’s nice to be able to tune out my surroundings and focus on tasks. I don’t handle interruptions as well as I do when I’m working alone and have some control over my surroundings.

In gratitude for this freedom, I offer all my clients a full accounting of my time and my costs, on screen and in print.

I love communicating on the Web. It’s easy for me and I love helping others do the same.

Fanurio is the perfect fit for me and my customers.

You look at the name, the price and say, “fine, sign me up.”

But how do you know the files that make up your web site are safe, secure and handled by responsible people?

Well, for one thing, don’t choose a host who serves up a lot of porn. Or spammers.

If they are, they’re probably “blacklisted” on other servers.

And who is the owner? Where are they, anyways?

I love this tool and you should, too:

http://www.robtex.com/dns/bluehost.com.html

Play around it with it. I just happen to like Bluehost, but there are plenty of other good ones out there. I tend to like hosts that can install the features I want most, like WordPress, Joomla and who have awesome customer service.