SEO Consultants and Experts

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I'd like your opinion.
I created a tool in hope of helping SEO consultants. I've created the app to generate business leads whether local or international, let you know if the business leads have a website or not, and let you see the SEO stats of any business's website or any website you desire.

Also, you can compare up to 4 website's SEO Stats at one time.

The SEO stats that will be provided are:

* Google Page Rank
* Google Page Insights
* Social Media insights
* Number of backlinks
* Traffic information (i.e search engine traffic and more)
* Alexa information (i.e global rank, country rank and more)
* and more

What I intend it to do is help SEO consultants find new clients with proof of information for clients to see they need help from consultants like yourselves and at the same time every SEO statistics report comes with guidance and recommendations to help get the results for your clients making it easy for almost anyone to become an SEO consultant that gets results.

what do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Dated data * Google Page Rank
    Doesn't matter * Google Page Insights
    Doesn't matter * Social Media insights
    Doesn't matter * Number of backlinks
    Guessing * Traffic information (i.e search engine traffic and more)
    Doesn't matter * Alexa information (i.e global rank, country rank and more)
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    • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Dated data * Google Page Rank
      Doesn't matter * Google Page Insights
      Doesn't matter * Social Media insights
      Doesn't matter * Number of backlinks
      Guessing * Traffic information (i.e search engine traffic and more)
      Doesn't matter * Alexa information (i.e global rank, country rank and more)
      Also, couldn't we just continue using SEOquake?
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    • Profile picture of the author mattchambers
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Dated data * Google Page Rank
      Doesn't matter * Google Page Insights
      Doesn't matter * Social Media insights
      Doesn't matter * Number of backlinks
      Guessing * Traffic information (i.e search engine traffic and more)
      Doesn't matter * Alexa information (i.e global rank, country rank and more)
      Since all that doesn't matter, what metrics matter to you and other SEO consultants?
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by mattchambers View Post

        Since all that doesn't matter, what metrics matter to you and other SEO consultants?

        I wouldn't take the feedback so far in this thread as the last word. A few people in it have a history of shooting down new or third party services. I for example do not agree that all of that is useless. In fact if you added rankings (enter in a keyword and shows the rank) I would find it very useful. It comes down to the accuracy of the information.

        Traffic might indicate a need the business has to get more traffic or the importance of the web to the company.
        Pagerank (you will have to add metric being updated like Moz and Majestic) with link counts could indicate the kind of links the prospect is getting

        Chin up my man. Don't make the naysayers get you down. Even a tool where I can enter in a company name and it tells me if they have a website is more useful than doing google searches

        Sounds to me like you have the beginnings of a useful tool.
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          It would be useful to have a tool that scrapes the sites at page two, three and four and compares it to page one to make sure there are no duplicates (this often happens when a company has a Google Places listing for example), but it could also just be an inner page ranking further down the pages so the comparison would be kind of essential.

          Preferably the tool would also grab email addresses or other contact information like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ accounts to make the outreach easier.

          I bet a lot of SEO's would love to have such tool in their arsenal and I don't think it's out there in the way I described it.
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            It would be useful to have a tool that scrapes the sites at page two, three and four and compares it to page one to make sure there are no duplicates (this often happens when a company has a Google Places listing for example), but it could also just be an inner page ranking further down the pages so the comparison would be kind of essential.

            Preferably the tool would also grab email addresses or other contact information like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ accounts to make the outreach easier.

            I bet a lot of SEO's would love to have such tool in their arsenal and I don't think it's out there in the way I described it.

            To be honest, the sites on page one are often some of the best prospects. Many times the sites outside of the top 5 are already spending money on marketing and SEO. They understand the value. They are just not getting the top results. I would rather talk to that business owner than the guy ranking at #30.
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            • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
              Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

              To be honest, the sites on page one are often some of the best prospects. Many times the sites outside of the top 5 are already spending money on marketing and SEO. They understand the value. They are just not getting the top results. I would rather talk to that business owner than the guy ranking at #30.
              And to add to the above, since they are so close to high traffic sometimes just better onpage SEO can push them a few places higher making a good ROI on their SEO investment.

              When I worked as an SEO consultant was nothing better than a site that was top 5-10 with onpage SEO mistakes. Low hanging SEO fruit for those who know what they are doing, almost instant results.

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              • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                Originally Posted by SEO-Dave View Post

                And to add to the above, since they are so close to high traffic sometimes just better onpage SEO can push them a few places higher making a good ROI on their SEO investment.

                When I worked as an SEO consultant was nothing better than a site that was top 5-10 with onpage SEO mistakes. Low hanging SEO fruit for those who know what they are doing, almost instant results.

                David
                Absolutely, but it seems site owners have a hard time handing over login details for their site / hosting.

                I see this with one of my reseller clients, I've given him hundreds of suggestions over time (he has 20+ campaigns with me) and nothing ever happens, often he replies back to me saying the clients don't provide their details. Who am I to question that....

                I also have a few of such experiences myself where I wanted to do it for a client but most of the time they seem scared I mess something up or change their whole website. I always email a list of suggestions and tell them I can do it as well for a small more price depending on what needs to be done but nothing ever happens besides a cancellation after x months when they don't rank.

                Sometimes I also have the feeling people don't believe that onpage has anything to do with it, like I would use it as an excuse cause the links don't do their work. Then I can tell a story that a client once had an extreme thin site and not ranking anywhere and once I fixed it he jumped instantly to the top 3 (true story) but somehow they don't seem to buy that as once again nothing happens.
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                • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
                  Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                  Absolutely, but it seems site owners have a hard time handing over login details for their site / hosting.

                  I see this with one of my reseller clients, I've given him hundreds of suggestions over time (he has 20+ campaigns with me) and nothing ever happens, often he replies back to me saying the clients don't provide their details. Who am I to question that....

                  I also have a few of such experiences myself where I wanted to do it for a client but most of the time they seem scared I mess something up or change their whole website. I always email a list of suggestions and tell them I can do it as well for a small more price depending on what needs to be done but nothing ever happens besides a cancellation after x months when they don't rank.

                  Sometimes I also have the feeling people don't believe that onpage has anything to do with it, like I would use it as an excuse cause the links don't do their work. Then I can tell a story that a client once had an extreme thin site and not ranking anywhere and once I fixed it he jumped instantly to the top 3 (true story) but somehow they don't seem to buy that as once again nothing happens.
                  Didn't have an issue with businesses not trusting what SEO changes suggested, when I started offering SEO services I would make the changes myself (most changes I made where template based: theme/template is very important to SEO), but quickly moved to advising what changes to make. If they don't follow your advice it's their choice.

                  It's weird now I no longer offer SEO services and the only regular contact I have with webmasters looking for help is via the SEO theme I develop (looking for support) they freely send their WordPress login details to me (I never ask for them), even have them sent via public comments which if I didn't have moderation enabled would go online immediately!!!

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                • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                  Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                  Absolutely, but it seems site owners have a hard time handing over login details for their site / hosting.

                  I have never had a client hesitate to give me login details for one of their sites. Ever.

                  Usually though, I don't want anything to do with their site. Some of them have sites with all kinds of custom coding that are held together with duct tape. Screw that. Not my job.

                  I give them the changes that need to be made and let their web team handle it.
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                  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                    Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                    I have never had a client hesitate to give me login details for one of their sites. Ever.

                    Usually though, I don't want anything to do with their site. Some of them have sites with all kinds of custom coding that are held together with duct tape. Screw that. Not my job.

                    I give them the changes that need to be made and let their web team handle it.
                    That client of mine has it all the time and when I suggest things to clients nothing ever happens, in some cases I offer to do it myself and also then I get zero response back. Don't know what it is.

                    It sucks in some way as when the rankings don't come the client will cancel so I do feel it in my wallet when they don't follow my advise.
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                    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                      That client of mine has it all the time and when I suggest things to clients nothing ever happens, in some cases I offer to do it myself and also then I get zero response back. Don't know what it is.

                      It sucks in some way as when the rankings don't come the client will cancel so I do feel it in my wallet when they don't follow my advise.
                      I can only think of two reasons that would happen to an SEO.

                      1) They do not value your ability as an SEO, and perhaps only see you as a backlink provider.

                      2) They do not trust you.

                      Either one is a serious problem and would make me rethink my whole sales process and communications with clients.
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                      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                        I can only think of two reasons that would happen to an SEO.

                        1) They do not value your ability as an SEO, and perhaps only see you as a backlink provider.

                        2) They do not trust you.

                        Either one is a serious problem and would make me rethink my whole sales process and communications with clients.

                        Theres a third and its EXTREMELY common. The company has a webmaster or IT guy and everything code related to the site goes through him or his /her department. You are blessed to not have run into it but you will as you do SEO for a larger companies at some point. IN nik0s case it might not be getting to the It guy (or one of your other scenarios is at play as you said)

                        This is especially the case where the company employs code beyond HTML and CSS. Many ASP.net, coldfusion,ruby,Django and even php operations do not want any one but the IT guy handling changes and in some cases the page titles and other elements are generated by scripts so its even more imperative.

                        In fact even some small companies have a "web guy" that put together the dynamic site and only he even really knows how to interface with it (some crappy code too). It can be a pain in the poorly run companies as the connection from you to the It guy might not be direct and the message doesn't get there but it can be pretty sweet and painless in the well run ones where he/she just pretty much implements what you tell him.
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                        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                          Theres a third and its EXTREMELY common. The company has a webmaster or IT guy and everything code related to the site goes through him or his /her department. You are blessed to no have run into it but you will as you do SEO for a larger companies at some point.

                          This is especially the case where the company employs code beyond HTML and CSS. Many ASP.net, coldfusion,ruby,Django and even php operations do not want any one but the IT guy handling changes and in some cases the page titles and other elements are generated by scripts so its even more imperative.

                          In fact even some small companies have a "web guy" that put together the dynamic site and only he even really knows how to interface with it (some crappy code too).
                          Mike,

                          That is all information I would know before I ever started working with a client. It is part of my profiling, and when they do have an IT department, webmaster, or web design guy, I never ask for the login information. I pass along the changes that need to be made for their web guy to take care of.

                          If you do not know that upfront, there is something wrong with your sales process/client relationship.

                          So yeah, I have never been refused access for that reason because I know the situation upfront.
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                          • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                            Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                            If you do not know that upfront, there is something wrong with your sales process/client relationship.
                            Mike far be it from me to defend Nik0 for no reason but one of the things he mentioned was a RESELLER client and so I was explaining how that can happen in his scenario. He's not directly in touch with the end user in those scenarios and neither of us know what their process is or isn't

                            Furthermore I don't care what you say there are scenarios where you cover all of that and for whatever reason there is a future disconnect since if you are in the game long enough you will find companies with issues that don't operate smoothly the way they say they do.

                            Edit: wait a minute I just read the thread again and the issue WAS SEOs not being given logins. My observation was right on the money. The third reason a company might not give you logins is because they have someone else to do it. Refused not given - just semantics.
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                            • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                              Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                              Mike far be it from me to defend Nik0 for no reason but one of the things he mentioned was a RESELLER client and so I was explaining how that can happen in his scenario. He's not directly in touch with the end user in those scenarios and neither of us know what their process is or isn't
                              I know that. My comments were directed at nik0, but not necessarily about nik0. Rather about any SEO that a client has those kind of trust issues with. There is something wrong there if that is going on.

                              That is the equivalent of me not being willing to turn over my checking account number to my financial planner so that they can do an autodraft from my account. If there is that big of a trust issue, there is something very wrong.
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                              • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                                Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                                That is the equivalent of me not being willing to turn over my checking account number to my financial planner so that they can do an autodraft from my account. If there is that big of a trust issue, there is something very wrong.
                                and I am saying thats not always the case so your rule doesn't always apply. Disagree with it if you wish but I KNOW its not always a trust issue. For example a UK client I had. We talked, covered all the points He said I would be able to access the back end and make changes myself and ooops days later after we beginshe forgot to tell me he has a person in the company he has to go though. Slipped his mind. People aren't always perfect. Like I said happens frequently in small companies too.

                                LOl I had another scenario where the IT person took off and no one knew he was even going on vacations. Office politics can be a messed up sometimes and no matter what wizz bang SEO prep you think you do it can happen to anyone.

                                In the Niko's customers case probably a back linker but just saying its not a rule though that it has to be about trust. Plus at the lower end it can just be some guy that says - no one touches my site but me when it comes down to the wire.

                                P.S nothing close to the financial planner doing an audit analogy. A SEO can be a decent SEO without knowing code (particularly non HTML) very well - a financial planner who can't do books/checking is not a financial planner. You are acting like a SEO is a coder by definition.
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                                • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
                                  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                                  P.S nothing close to the financial planner doing an audit analogy. A SEO can be a decent SEO without knowing code (particularly non HTML) very well - a financial planner who can't do books/checking is not a financial planner. You are acting like a SEO is a coder by definition.
                                  I'm not talking about doing an audit. I'm talking about handing over my routing number and account number to a brokerage firm so they can take $XXXX/month out of my account. That is all. It is the equivalent of me not feeling comfortable giving them that information.

                                  And yes, there can be oddball situations here and there. That is not what was described though. What was described was a regular occurrence. When something like that is happening over and over again, it is not a bunch of screwball customers. There is a disconnect somewhere there between the SEO and customers that should be addressed.
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                                • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
                                  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                                  A SEO can be a decent SEO without knowing code (particularly non HTML) very well - a financial planner who can't do books/checking is not a financial planner. You are acting like a SEO is a coder by definition.
                                  An SEO who doesn't understand code can't offer a FULL on-site SEO package if they don't understand some code.

                                  Don't get me wrong, for my last 5 years of offering SEO services I didn't touch a clients code, but would supply code examples to be implemented.

                                  An SEO should at least understand basic HTML code (understand what they are looking at when viewing source) so they can find broken code and advise how to fix it. That is pretty basic HTML stuff, the number of sites with simple HTML errors that could damage SEO isn't that rare.

                                  This forum has some broken code, view source look near the link with anchor text "Post to Your Blog" and a little before it is a double opening tr tag (looks like should only be one). That won't cause SEO problems, but in an SEO audit that is the sort of mistake which should be listed to be fixed. An SEO who doesn't understand basic HTML would miss this easily fixed error. If it were a double opening link or headings could cause SEO damage.

                                  I spend way too much time looking at code, I don't even like code :-)

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                              • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
                                Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

                                That is the equivalent of me not being willing to turn over my checking account number to my financial planner so that they can do an autodraft from my account. If there is that big of a trust issue, there is something very wrong.
                                I would guess it's Nik0's monthly rates that keep him out of the circle of trust.


                                Is the guy with the $129 a month vested interest in our online presence, very vested at all?
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                                • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                                  Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire View Post

                                  I would guess it's Nik0's monthly rates that keep him out of the circle of trust.

                                  Is the guy with the $129 a month vested interest in our online presence, very vested at all?
                                  What the??? this is like the second time I see you throwing your ole pal under the bus. Now you are even ranking on his business model or just ribbing him? I spend some time in the OT section and I'm out of the loop on SEO forum politics. lol
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                    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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                      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                      That client of mine has it all the time and when I suggest things to clients nothing ever happens, in some cases I offer to do it myself and also then I get zero response back. Don't know what it is.

                      It sucks in some way as when the rankings don't come the client will cancel so I do feel it in my wallet when they don't follow my advise.
                      There's a lot of people like that, they act like they want to rank for keywords, you tell them what needs to be done, they don't do anything.

                      I don't think it has anything to do with trust otherwise they wouldn't have trusted enough to make the contact on their own. Same for experience, they wouldn't ask questions If they thought an SEO didn't have the answer.

                      I think it's window shopping syndrome.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                      That client of mine has it all the time and when I suggest things to clients nothing ever happens, in some cases I offer to do it myself and also then I get zero response back. Don't know what it is.

                      It sucks in some way as when the rankings don't come the client will cancel so I do feel it in my wallet when they don't follow my advise.
                      Nik the solution to that is to directly quote a figure for on page SEO. Once you do and the customer realizes he's being charged for it then he will make the changes or get the IT person or web guy to do it rather than see his money go down the drain. As long as its just an add on to a link service they will be less likely to value it.

                      However if its the WF IM kind of client forget it.they think Seo is a link package period.
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                      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                        Nik the solution to that is to directly quote a figure for on page SEO. Once you do and the customer realizes he's being charged for it then he will make the changes or get the IT person or web guy to do it rather than see his money go down the drain. As long as its just an add on to a link service they will be less likely to value it.

                        However if its the WF IM kind of client forget it.they think Seo is a link package period.
                        Majority of my clients are real companies somehow, I think there are some other possiblities as well:

                        1) They don't have access to the web hosting, this happened to me as well long ago when I outsourced a site, or can't find the login details and too lazy to find it.

                        2) They don't feel much for creating a webmasters account

                        I think it's more the work involved then trust issues. some might also get scared of the list I come up with or disagree with some things, afterall most are somewhat hobbyists, that's why they find an SEO on these forums, often after trying it their selves (hobbyists in the sense of ranking their own site, not hobbyists in their profession of course).

                        Quoting money might be the solution. Last time I had a client with a virus issue, I did get login data and access to webmasters account but after a long time, in between she asked twice how much it would cost. Twice I told her it would be free as I already had a good idea where to look and would cost me only 5 minutes, maybe that's what made her sceptical lol.

                        Maybe I should also be more direct in my communication instead of saying, likely it's this or maybe that but well I'm no psyhic to know everything upfront without looking into it.

                        This other client had a tag page, some sort of plugin that created a page for each post that he published and added that page to an index/overview page. So we dealt with 100+ extreme thin pages that only contained a link to his post, like a buffer page in between.

                        Told him to fix that or I could do it for $50,-, he didn't want to fix it as it was so useful that he didn't have to add the link to the overview page. I say dude, you spend more then an hour on that post and add dozens of images to it but you can't spend an additional 30 seconds on adding a link to an overview page. He would think about it, never heard back and never saw anything changed.

                        So I suppose it's the initial plan that they will do it their selves but end up being busy and forgetting it and at the same time see it as an easy job they don't want to pay for and/or not being able to find login details right away and push it away for a later moment and forget about it.

                        Could be one more reason that I once ran into in the past and that are expensive web developers that charge $xxx/hour and/or conflicting advices between SEO and web developer. Very possible they outsourced their website to a company for a couple of thousand dollars and the client ends up asking a second opinion from the web dev guy who tells them all is fine and perfectly optimized for SEO. These things do happen, they dealt with a huge company that charged many thousands and I'm some forum noob that builds some cheap links.

                        Who they trust, the small guy or the huge company that does everything official.
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              • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                Originally Posted by SEO-Dave View Post

                When I worked as an SEO consultant was nothing better than a site that was top 5-10 with onpage SEO mistakes. Low hanging SEO fruit for those who know what they are doing, almost instant results.
                Meh it happens but despite what Mike states I'll take the company on page 2 and 3 any day. On page SEO a ton load of SEOs can get right. It isn't that hard. The SEO that has gotten them to position 6 or 7 has some credibility and in competitive serps its usually not going to be easy to show a discernible difference fast. So thy are less likely to change.

                Plus the assumption that the guys on page two and three don't have an appreciation of the value is often just totally false. In contradiction to serp movemnt in the real world it assumes people haven't moved down. Some of them on page 2 and three were in position 1-5 until recent changes and they are hungry to get back there. They are very well aware of the value of the traffic and acutely aware the SEO that they have (or had) isn't getting the job done.

                So much of gaining a SEO contract is about credibility and trust. All things being equal its going to be much easier for me to prove a discernible difference by making significant gains from the second and third page than position 6

                Again I said ...all things being equal. More cases than not - but not denying that there are those cases. What they are willing to pay, how much they value traffic is not in the least determined by them being on the first page. It has more to do with how forward thinking they are and their general approach to and budget for advertising. Some of my top paying clients of $2,000 plus per month had not tasted even the front page when I got hired but were very much aware of the traffic potential and had an idea of what their conversion rate was likely to be (ball park).

                I can close a good paying company easily by moving them up 10-20 spots with them knowing it was my work where if I move a page from 6 to 4 its not certain it was me and not just a temporary flux that occurs in serps. I even had one customer I took at five even tell me the position one and two he got many weeks after signing up with me might have been the previous SEOs work just kicking in. I never get that for clients I move up pages.

                For all those reasons and more I'll go second and third page fine and dandy
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                • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                  Alright each his own opinion, still for OP good idea to have a tool that scrapes only the first few pages and an option to select only page two and three and obvious grab the emails and other contact information cause otherwise some or most could just use Scrapebox and set the results to max 30.
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

              To be honest, the sites on page one are often some of the best prospects. Many times the sites outside of the top 5 are already spending money on marketing and SEO. They understand the value. They are just not getting the top results. I would rather talk to that business owner than the guy ranking at #30.
              Makes sense how you explain it, they already get traffic so they know it works, and it doesn't take much imagination to get a lot more traffic when they rank closer to the top.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        None of that information is the least bit useful for finding clients.
        Exactly.




        Originally Posted by mattchambers View Post

        Since all that doesn't matter, what metrics matter to you and other SEO consultants?
        Look for people that need help.

        Examples:
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    None of that information is the least bit useful for finding clients.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Honestly, there are no metrics that I look for when prospecting for clients. Those metrics do not tell me anything about their business, their market, their goals, or their current marketing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim3
      Originally Posted by webmasterangel View Post

      hello a question for the experts of the site, backlinks with the attribute "nofollow" are useful for SEO

      It's not quite the done thing on a forum to hijack a thread with an unrelated question, webmasterangel (start your own thread if you have a question)

      Your question has been asked here many times, the answer is still the same... no-follow links are useless for ranking web pages - but that is not to say you should not have any at all in your link profile.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Yep whatever works for you - just giving perspective. There are no hard and set rules for where or how you get clients. Serps are full of fhem from page one even to page ten.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    It wasn't an either or thing. I did not say to ignore sites on page two and three. I just was pointing out that if you followed nik0's suggestion of scraping page 2 and 3 of the results and skip page 1, you are probably missing out on some great prospects.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Kipson
    There are already tools that offer those information, so I don't think it will offer anything new.
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    • Profile picture of the author Roopatg
      I would suggest to also add page load speed checker, page size checker, duplicate content checker etc, because these tools may be used more by many SEOs.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Roopatg View Post

        I would suggest to also add page load speed checker, page size checker, duplicate content checker etc, because these tools may be used more by many SEOs.
        Now you are just going from a prospecting tool to an audit tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    It's interesting to read how others have built/are building a business niche to operate in.

    Shows how enterprising SEOs/Internet marketers are.

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