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 .

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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Yahoo’s Meme is coming . Lets wait and see what yahoo will bring . Does meme going to get twitter users !! Anyway if you want to be invited when Meme launches , go to http://meme.yahoo.com/home/ and enter your e-mail ID .

dofollow and nofollow links?

Google follows the pagerank algorithm . So as the number of relevent links increases , the site get more and more top rankings in search results. getting regular links need

• Quality content &

• Daily updates

As black hatters dont have both , they started finding out for new ways to get more links much hassle free .So they started making softwares that can comment on various blogs ,wikipedia etc.. They started getting links more easily .And many SPAMMY sites got high rankings . So google and so many other software developers united to make a chage in the linking text where there will be a provision to specify the google bot to follow the link-dofollow or do not follow-nofollow,so that these spammy sites wont get in rankings due to massive spam links.

A regular Link code will be of the form,Where the google bot will follow the link and crawls.

<a href=”http://www.iamlijo.com”>Lijo George</a>

A no follow link will conatin a rel=”nofollow” ,here PR juice will not be passsed to the link .

<a href=”http://www.iamlijo.com” rel=”nofollow“>Lijo George</a>

Do follow blogs

Do-follow blogs will be having the links in the comment as a follow link . So the commenter will get PR juice from the link. So as in the case of SEO and link popularity , these links will be very helpful

Things to remember before commenting on do-follow blogs

• Don’t SPAM
• Only comment on relevant sites.
• Take a while and read the post fully and understand the topic before commenting.

I am sure many times you have seen while searching like below

You can see site links in the redbox (Nokia mobile softwares,ringtones, etc). These links are called the sitelinks. Site links usually increase the authenticity of your site.

How can i add sitelinks to my site ?

The answer is simple “YOU CAN’T ” .

Then is it possible for me to remove the sitelinks which is irrelevent to my site ?

Yes, you can . Follow the steps

* You just go to Google webmasters tool
* Add your sites to google sitemap
* Verify the site ownership adding a file .
* Then click on your site name
* Select links>sitelinks>

Click on the block tab near the link you want to remove from your site links.And this will be removed within one week

Then last question, how can I get sitelinks for my site?

Google automatically finds the sitelink related to your site . This process can be accelerated by the following steps

* Get Quality content
* Get links from sites to the inner pages of your site.Try to get quality and authetic links.
* Avoid linking from irrelevant sites.
* And wait for Google to update , it can take anywhere from 3 months to a year for your sitelinks to appear.

Good luck .

Importance of links

Link building is one of the most important practise of SEO . Often companies can’t always depend on natural links for SEO .

Danger of Buying links

According to google’s algorithm,buying links are agaist the TOS( terms of service ) of google. But the fact is that

” If you Buy links carefully , you can get good SERPS . If you buy links without caring , you could even get banned from Google”

Tips to Buy Links

• As  far as possible buy links only from related sites.
• Avoid buying irreverent site wide links
• Avoid using the same anchor texts in all links.If you are
• Try to get some links like ‘click here ‘ … etc .. so that your links look natural.
• Never buy links in sections like ‘Our Sponsours‘ , ‘Sponsoured by ‘ , ‘Supported by ‘ etc
• Don’t buy links from sites and pages already having lot of external links.
• Don’t buy links from site which is linking to Irrelevant sites.

Best Buy Links:

• Get links from articles, where link is surrounded by words.
• Get links from similar category sites.