Loss of confidence issue - what to do?
I had a nice business turning around $30 000 per month selling web design and seo services to offline clients (local businesses) (I am not located in the US so this is quite a bit of money where I live)
I had basically JUST decided to focus only on SEO and had moved out the web design side to my web designer (in other words, he took that part of the business and is now the sole owner of my previous web design clients and prospective new web design business) when Penguin hit. Yes, my clients were affected - badly. Quite a lot of campaigns tanked completely, few were hit in some or other manner.
I am now sitting with the problem that I just cannot go out there and sell SEO services - what do I sell exactly? I can't guarantee any rankings any more and with the new update coming out I am not even sure what is going to happen.
I would like to hear from other offline SEO providers out there - were you affected at all and how are you dealing with clients and campaigns that have lost rankings?
Are you still trying to recover these? (Keep in mind that I have clients who have stopped paying now - do I try and rescue them using my own time and money, in the hope that they might recover (which has not happened yet) or do I cut my losses and cut them as clients - which I feel really bad about)
Should I still try to sell SEO services despite the fact that you never know when Google will roll out with its next update? Besides, I am not even sure that I WILL be able to get anything to rank these days so I have absolutely zero confidence when talking to prospective clients AND I can't really refer them to case studies etc the way that I could previously do.
Any thoughts?
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kebertt -
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