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Dan Da Man
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Welcome to the forum.
Would you say if you have ZERO knowledge and ZERO desire to learn SEO you are better off paying to advertise on Google, or to hire an SEO person?
I don't know why but I REALLY can not get myself to even start to learn SEO other than spending a few minutes reading about it and then I am ready to nod off. Perhaps it is the fact that it is such a crap shoot in my mind.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
BTW I built a multimillion dollar company selling on line doing zero SEO, and zero paid advertising, only posting on relevant forums. But the new business I am starting there are not too many exact match forums for me to post on, hence my interest in either SEO or paid Google advertising.
Thanks everyone for the nice hello everyone.
Patrick, I know how you feel. Trust me, I started SEO with very bad computer skills and a lot of that made me not want to learn SEO at all. After all, it is very tedious, time consuming and boring. Paid per click advertising is a great way to get traffic but be willing to shed a lot of money in the beginning on creating a good quality score and getting a feel for how the system works.
I love SEO for traffic purposes because you can see the exact ROI and once you learn how to do it, you can literally roll it over to all your sites. As you said, forums are a great way but obviously some products and services there are not many forums where you can target.
SEO is a lot more cost effective then PPC in my opinion. The thing about SEO is there is so much garbage on the net and the Warrior Forum where many people start, is just regurgitated nonsense created to sell people who nothing about SEO.
Learn the basics first. I remember my first time I paid some "guru" lady. She charged me about $5 gs to optimize my title tags and submit my site to google. At the time I thought that was normal. Let's just say she ripped me off by about $4,999!
Anyways Patrick, let me know if you have any more specific questions and I could get you on the right foot. Its so less complicated then many people think. Once you learn the basics you'lle be fine. I would say learn it first before you start shelling out money as many SEOs out there are strait scams.
Since I have been "lurking" not trolling lol, I even noticed some people doing SEO here and its funnny how much misinformation there is even in this forum.
Dan