Recently a potential client queried 3PRIME and several other SEO companies for proposals. The potential client received several responses back and had this to say:

One SEO response was so bad I copied parts of yours to them and recommended they change their model since I was not interested in working with them.

3PRIME provided the company with a sample plan which closed with:

I hope the summary above demonstrates that we approach SEO in an intelligent, consultative manner, proposing creative and multi-faceted promotions that play into Google’s desires to place certain types of websites at the top, if properly designed, developed and promoted.

It’s encouraging that we’re able to connect with people on such a level that they would refer our methodology to rival SEO companies.

KoonsCarCentral.com is a support site for the Koons Ford Dealers in Maryland. You can view the AboutUs.org entry for KoonsCarCentral.com here.

If you’re interested in having 3PRIME create or optimize an AboutUs.org profile for you then feel free to contact us.

Does anyone know… how to start a search engine optimization firm?
- Tai N. M / Guwahati, India

Pretty broad question. I’d say that you’d be following whatever local registration process applies to any other service oriented company.

Once you are properly registered, you’ll need customers, I recommend developing relationships with web developers and trying to capture their customers’ SEO requests, even if you have to pay the company a fee for the referrals that become your customers.

Once you have success for your SEO customers, advertise it, let people know what you did and encourage them to contact you so you can do the same for them.

Hope this basic outline helps!

-Ryan
3PRIME

Is getsatisfaction.com good for SEO? Versus hosting something like WP-answers.com yourself on your own domain? My strategy for SEO is q&a content and I want to maximize the effectiveness of the content. Thanks!
- James M. 23 / M / Columbus, OH

I don’t know much about their program, but I’d say that if you want to be able to optimize your Q&A content, non of those programs are going to provide a really good way to do it

Instead, participate with these platforms and cherry-pick the pieces that best represent your answers and implement them as content.

What exactly are backlinks and how can I create them on my own for my website?
- Joel G. 21 / M / Smyrna, GA

A backlink, or link back, or inbound link is just a link to your website.

Since these links are, by definition, from other websites, you have to create relationships with other domains, other websites, to build your inbound links.

There are a variety of ways to do this, all of which have a cost in either money or time. For a link building package suited to your needs, please contact us. We’d be glad to help!

Some of our recent success with Google Places placement for our CT roof snow removal client Eagle Rivet Roofing Contractors, and our Michigan DUI Attorney have been made possible by careful research and subtle marketing.

We have also helped our newest business client pick up a solid, keyword-focused domain for their new business and will proceed designing their logo and building their website.

Need an SEO plan for 2011? Contact us today!

What’s an inbound link???

Inbound links (IBLs), are known by various names:

• backlinks
• text links
• linkbacks

or just generally as links. Links themselves are an HTML construct that enables a web user to click an object, either text or graphics, and shift their viewing to a different URL. They look like this:

<a href="http://www.spidergourmet.com">SEO Company</a>

This will produce a text link:
SEO Company

That is an inbound link to the URL http://www.spidergourmet.com

To SpiderGourmet.com, that is a inbound link. To this blog, it is an outbound link, since it enables our readers to leave our website to visit the link target.

What is the best free online resource about SEO that you know?
– Mehdi S. M / Queens, NY

Google!!!!

Just Kidding. I wouldn’t rely on any one source, and no matter what you read, only your own experience, founded on exactly what you’ve done for a given website, serves you in making great choices for SEO activities.

Original announcement from Yahoo regarding the launch.

My comments:
Even assuming that bing uses this valuable data to improve results, making the user experience better both on bing and yahoo, is a sea change in order? Even assuming that they’re results are 110% satisfying and they draw users from Google, I sincerely doubt that their image can rise to the trendiness that is Google. Of course, as Google pursues anti-net-nuetral policies, they may encourage users to disassociate themselves with Google as a measure of “consumer choice”, speaking with the click/search if you will…

Have you got a good SEO doctor? Maybe it’s time to call one?