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This was the question asked by a client to me while we were talking about an seo project . Here are some of the factors which decides the pricing

1 . Competition of Keyword : Definitely the keyword is the first and foremost in the case of pricing an seo project .As the competition of keyword increases , the pricing and time for completion increases .

Example : Consider a company in kerala(A place in India) proving services to its clients in kerala only . The keywords will be related to “kerala+service name”  most probably this will be so easy to attain. And may be acieved within 2 weeks or so .

Consider anther general keyword like “buy mobile ” , “hotels india” , these all are highly competitive keywords with thousands of searches a day . Achieving top 10 rankings for these competitive keywords will take much more time,careful study  and hard work  .

2 . Competetors : Find who else are trying to acieve ranking for the same keywords. If they are also working hard , the work wont be easier .

3. Current ranking of the website to be optimised: The current ranking of the website is an importanat factor in the case of SEO . If the site is new and having no ranking at the time of start , the work will be more. And if the site is old and have some nice rankings already , then the work will be relatively easy .

4 . Geography of the userbase : As the geographic location of the client chages, the difficulty and pricing changes .

Here is a way to test your SEO skills and also get listed if you are among the top . Go to

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/test-your-webmaster-know-how.html

The quiz is crated in google docs and there is 40 questions about SEO related questions . Best of luck

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Most of the SMO(social media optimisation ) projects are based on facebook,myspace and twitter .Very less are using Orkut for Social Media Marketing .

Here is a feature in orkut where you can promote your products or service freely . Create a new account for your niche, add all details in the profile page . Then use the promote feature in orkut to promote your products. It will be displayed inside a box in the right top of the orkut profile page . More click on “cool ,promote it” , the more will be the traffic.

A new Promotuion created is shown below. Also you watch the status.

Google street view have launched a week ago . Its really a very big venture. In the case of ordinary GPS systems , we can just see the names of the road and places . But in co-perating google street view will give it a new look .Now only selected cities are available in google street view .

Possible Monetization techniques

Google will be providing the street view at zero cost to end users . But there is endless possibilities for monetization . We can expect ads in streets like ” Cheap hotels near by”  etc..

Let’s wait and see.

Adword’s new beta keyword tool released with many advaced features and new interface .There is category selection option, a trends in an easy graphical way .Also there is a link to google trends, which will give more insight to keyword . Checkout today

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How to analyse your competition? Analysing your competition is the first and foremost thing in a SEO project. There are so many tools available on the Internet, which can be used to 4 analysing competition.

I’m going to introduce you to tools in this post which will help in analyzing  your competition.

Number one : Google keyword suggestion tool:

This is the free and most useful tool .Google is the king of search engines. And obviously Google will get more searches per day than any other search engines on the net. You can use the keyword suggestion tool in Google advertising program. The address these  http://adwords.google.com

Number two:

Word Tracker: as you may have heard were Tracker is the most popular tool for keyword suggestion. It have both free and paid versions the paid version will view more advanced features than the free version. The free version of Word Tracker has a limit of hundred words.  Word Tracker uses dog pile.com and metacrawler.com to find out the amount of traffic. Together these two search engines makes around 4 million searches per day.

url is :http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Number three: Another very useful to for keyword search is keyword discovery (www.keyworddiscovery.com) . The main feature of this tool is that it’ll give you insight into many industry terms from are not aware of. This tool will collect data are from more than 200 search engines.

As you can see here we talked about about four famous and useful keyword suggestion and discover tools. Go through these tools, before selecting any keyword. Good luck in finding keywords. Please add your suggestions in the comments field.