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By admin | September 26, 2008
We are SEO Firm, but I think we were not growing past last 6 months. And in last 6 month we really shown measurable growth. Our standards become more professional, more efficient and most important our client base is increasing, hence company too. I am not going to tell you how to make standards etc, but the very basis thing which gave me energy to build entire system.
It is story in march this year, one buyer knocks me saying he want my manual directory submission service. I’ll like to put out talks here–
12:24 PM Trung: hi
12:31 PM me: hi
12:34 PM Trung: how much do you charge for 500 directory submission??
12:35 PM me: 110
12:36 PM $
Trung: do you accept e-gold??
12:43 PM me: yes
12:44 PM Trung: okie
how many PR 5 directory in 500
me: Not less than 50
12:45 PM it should be near 70-80
I mean 70-80 directories having PR5 and above
Trung: your price is a bit more expensive than other services. Why is that??
12:46 PM me: because out of 500 we do provide 200+ guaranteed approvals
12:47 PM though these 200 directories will be low PR, but link will be on indexed page
rest 300 directories are free dirs
12:48 PM of which 70+ will be PR5 and above
We do regular research of new directories to make better list
We are at the moment updating list again
12:49 PM 70+ PR5 dirs I said is based on new list
Trung: okie
do you think submit to paid dir such as business, yahoo dir is good for SEO??
12:50 PM me: YES… it is good
Google has a stand on this
Google says they hate paid link
and paid dirs links are for sure paid link
12:51 PM but directories says this fee is to review sites
Google understand this
12:52 PM and Google says..if a directory says they take $$ to review links and take money to get link listed then that … there should cases where that dir rejects some links
12:53 PM Hence, links from paid dirs are good only when dir is quality dir
Google says this
Trung: ah
me: and it make very much sense to me
I am sure you too
12:54 PM Trung: do you think small website could get benefit of submissting to paid dir such as yahoo dir??
12:55 PM me: small website means?
Trung: mini site
niche site
12:56 PM me: If site is quality site then for sure you should go for that
Trung: I just worry about wasting money to submit to paid dir
me: Think yourself as that dir owner and you want to make your dir quality and have only quality sites on your sir
you’ll get the right answer
12:57 PM No need to worry
but should be careful
submit to paid dirs which are quality dir
12:58 PM Trung: could you give me the list of quality paid dir
12:59 PM me: At the moment I don’t have it
as we don’t offer submission to paid dirs as a service
1:00 PM but if you need it then I can find some time to find some good paid dirs
what is niche of your site?
Trung: health
I am planning to launch one website each week
me: ok
Trung: so could you offer a discount for dir submission??
1:01 PM me: for sure
we give 10% discount for 5 or more site order in one go
we can provide this discount for you even when you order site one after another
1:02 PM BTW, may I know why you want to launch one site every week
will launch one site everyweek in same niche?
Trung: o
no
1:03 PM diffreent
me: thats cool
may I know how you’ll earn from those sites?
Trung: adsense
1:04 PM me: this is what I was guessing
Do you think.. you can recover the money you invest from adsense
?
Trung: I hope so
me: How much you earn from one site for last 6 months?
1:05 PM tell me every month earning
If you are doing it for last 6 months
Trung: no, I just starting new website
1:06 PM me: okay
Do you have any experience of earning through websites (including adsense and other) ?
1:07 PM Trung: ah, not much
1:08 PM I am in testing step
implement some method to get traffic
such as dir submission
me: perfect
1:09 PM This is my very very sincere advice not to make sites every week
make just one site and first make it hit
put your all energy and money on just one site
1:10 PM if that site is on top ranks for your major keywords and you are earning a decent amount then you can move to second site
1:11 PM I am saying this to save your money and avoid your bad experience on net
otherwise why I’ll stop my orders
from you
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Trung: I see
me: Make one site…do all experiments what you want to do
make it rock
then move to next
1:12 PM One site is enough to make any guy a rich person
With adsense….
there is another big danger
1:13 PM google ban accounts quickly if they see any problem
Trung:
me: so adsense income is just not secure income
DON’T depend on adsense
you should make it secondary source of income
1:14 PM Trung: I think you have your own adsense websites??
beside adsense what are other sources of income??
me: I have adsense account
1:15 PM but I really don’t pay attention to that
I have a big experience with adsense
I make my client earn around $50 daily with one site using adsense
My main source of income is services I offer
1:16 PM I have a registered company
I have a team
we do SEO and link building primarily
and trying to move ahead and start design and prog
besides that I want to make an affiliate site
1:17 PM and one site selling my own product
I have a friend who is very very talented in electronics
so I am planning for him to join my company and make some gadgets
1:18 PM I want to sell them globally
but for now seo and link building is prime source of income
Trung: wow. that’s good idea
gadget is very hot on the web
me: as I am technical guy and have knowledge for the same only
1:19 PM Trung: what kind of link building do you offer??
me: may I know what is your current main source of income?
Trung: I am interested in link building service as well
me: All kind of link building from submission to one-way links
Trung: how you obtain one way link??
1:20 PM me: by submission, bookmarks, blog comments, forum posting etc
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If you read above chat carefully you’ll notice, I myself block regular orders of directory submissions. I felt the same, but I was happy that I guided him right way.
After one week same person again knocked me. He said…
“Please not my website url. Please do every seo activity and make my site hit in Google. Tell me how much amount I need to send you. Also, if you send me details what you are going to do then I’ll appriciate and if not then I’ll not mind it. Cheers!“
Now… this was very much clear that I got rewarded for my sincere advice and genuine service. I got really a potential client who really trust on me blindly. I decided I’ll never keep his faith down.
Within 1 month he referred his two friends to me. And here strong client base starts generating, hence my business start growing. wow.
To conclude, it is faith and trust which is most important to grow your business. For any SEO Firm it is must must thing to keep faith of their clients up.
Hope you all will find it something useful, it really worked great for me.
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