Need advice about hiring SEO

If a so called SEO expert asked me what keywords I'd like to rank for, Id run the other way.

Well, what's your blog about? Whatever that happens to be, there's your main keyword. Then we look at what people type in to find a blog like yours, and the ones getting the most searches are your 5-20 main keywords. From there, you look at the smaller searches and very specific sub-categories to find even more opportunities for traffic....and you can get as broad or as specific as you want.

With that said, your main keyword is "weight loss" and/or "weight loss mentor". You also want to rank for your name, "real success mentor", and you'd need to cover all variations of those phrases depending on search traffic. Then there's "weight loss physician", "weight loss mindset specialist" and body transformation expert"...and you go right down the list.

I told you all of that to tell you two things- (1) I am an SEO expert and (2) your site would need a ton of work to rank effectively in the weight loss niche. So I'd advise you to avoid someone like me completely, put more information on your website yourself (weight loss tips, exercises, healthy meals, mindsets, etc.) and start hitting social media hard. Answer people's questions about weight loss, share success stories and network like crazy.

Then book a few area conferences on the subject and get your name out there, and start giving your subscribers daily motivation to meet their weight loss goals. You have 239 G+ followers...but what are you doing for them? Keep those people inspired and they will fuel your business with referrals. That's how you build a practice like this online.

Because here's the sad truth- even if you gave me a budget of $10,000 a month for the next six months, we'd barely scratch the surface on getting you visible in the weight loss niche. But once we did finally get there, then you're going to have 5k+ calls per day....and I'm sure you can't handle a fraction of that possible business. With a topic like this though, it's all or nothing unless you go the social route, so that's your best course of action.

Good luck.

Here are a few points:
- Talk to existing clients
- If they promise "Google page 1" they are over-promising. No one can promise "Google page 1"
- If they tell you 100% of the work is link building - don't work with them. a good SEO company will make changes to your web site

I think SEO expert can suggest you some best keywords. Ask that expert to provide you a proper keyword analysis report.

This is how you find more relevant and worthy keywords:

1. Log in to your Adwords account and then go here: https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner

2. Choose to search for new keywords based on a phrase

3. Enter the keywords that come to mind when you think about your website. These can be whole phrases too ie: "how to create a closable div"

4. On the next page sort your results by average monthly searches and voila, these are your keywords!


I too have to warn you about "SEO experts" who claim they can rank your website with one keyword or another fast and efficiently. These kinds of experts can do more harm than good and even if you notice an increase in traffic at first, I can guarantee you that you will lose it in the long run after Google slaps you.

Think about it... if you hire a SEO expert, you are putting someone else in charge of your business and it will be too late once your website gets penalized because the expert is already long gone with your money.

Here's a story about how one of my clients hired a professional SEO company. Not only did they lie to him, they spent most of his money simply on AdWords without actually doing anything related to optimizing his website.

well I would like to learn this myself... I would actually get into it myself and before I hire anyone, I want to understand what I'm dealing with....

I don't care how rich you are.......but if you don't know how to count your own money... I mean you are responsible for every cent you invest/waste......

So, on that note, know your stuff.... get into it and then.........hire somebody.... it's good to know all the moving pieces before you hire.......

Are you trying to market globally, nationally, or locally in Florida?

Is there a reason there is nothing at Your Fitness Physician

I'd highly recommend having the root of your website forward to your blog until you have something else there.

Your keywords should be the phrases you expect prospective customers to use to find you.

Once you have a list of phrases, then you can start researching which ones have the most competition, the price of PPC for the phrases, and deciding which ones you want to pursue.

Your SEO consultant should be able to help you determine which phrases will be your best investment.

Main part of the job of being an SEO person is to make sure you are using the right search terms.

I will can help you for this seo issue.Just send me a private message.

First find out the best SEO agency or SEO expert from a freelancers platform then try learning some tips from the agency or freelancer plus work on the suggestions you get from SEO expert.

It would be better if you go for low competition keywords and work on minimum 10 keywords.

Use keyword planner to search the related key terms. This will give you better idea of choosing the right keyword with the monthly visitor report. Signup on adwords.google.com

He shouldn't have asked you what keywords you would like to rank, he should have done the due diligence himself, that's the first red flag

In all honesty, if you want to do this in a safe way, you better have a significant budget to rank for weight loss related keywords. I'm talking over $3k/month. Even then it is going to take months to see any significant rankings.

In that particular niche, I would not even bother with SEO. I would be focusing on social media marketing and AdWords. That is where you are going to get the best ROI.

Hire somebody that has a good reputation. But expect to pay a good amount of money a month.