Sunday, May 30, 2010

Giving SubmitEdge a Try

I’ve found I have little time for my amateur SEO attempts lately so I decided to start researching an affordable service provided by an SEO company. I was considering trying to improve specific keywords for my site like rankings for information such as eHarmony cost or why online dating is frusterating. However, reviewing some additional SEO information made me decide to try to improve general keywords I already rank well with. While I had found several potential sites, some small SEO shops run by a single person and others that were very large with over 100 employees.

Eventually I decided to try SubmitEdge. Really the choice came down to really understanding what services they offered and how much each of them cost. I considered using a small SEO company but it felt like more of a risk. Many of these smaller companies will point out that their site ranks well for certain keywords but these keywords are often pretty specific and I’m not convinced achieving the high rankings for these keywords. SubmitEdge made their rankings easier to verify because they had a very large number of testimonials.

So earlier this month I signed up for the SubmitEdge package for a number of guaranteed permanent directory links. I wanted to make sure that my directory links were something I didn’t have to worry about and I do worry that I bought something which was rather expensive but I’ve never really tried to get my site listed in directories so I decided on this option. It is a risk but hopefully it will be worth it.

Selecting this service will give me 400 links for several keywords. It will take until July before I have all the links since I requested having them added slowly, which seems to provide more SEO value than adding them all at once.

I’ll be keeping an eye on how this helps my traffic and rankings and will update this article as I discover more about these results.