Should You Waste Your Money On SEO

By: Trevor Kugler
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:23:30
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Do you have a website? And when you got that website looking like you wanted it, and everything seemed to be good to go, what happened? If you're situation is anything like mine, you then discovered, like someone quietly wrapping their hands around your throat and squeezing the life right out of you, that it didn't matter much. You see, once everything was as we wanted it, we then realized that none of it mattered if no one visited our site.

So we asked our webmaster what he thought should be done? His suggestion was a search engine optimization service he was selling for fifty bucks a month. He said that if we did this, our website could be in the top 10 results on various search engines. This sounded wonderful, and we assumed it would bring a ton of visitors. In theory it would, however your website doesn't end up in the top ten results! Actually we were in the top three results for terms that people would never search for, simply because the terms ar5e an unknown entity. Would you search for the term, 'gang hook'? I think not, but we were number 1 on most search engines. I remember our webmaster actually saying to me once, "that's a good term, you're the first result." The thing that I quickly realized about being in the top ten search results is the fact that it doesn't matter if no one searches for that term!

At that point we were eight months intro our little internet venture and becoming more and more frustrated by the minute. I would think to myself, "Screw this, you're not going to be able to make money on the internet. It's a big scam!" And to be honest, I still think that much of the internet is a scam.

Then I discovered things like article writing websites like this one and things began to change. I could actually see results from writing articles on a site such as this and it didn't cost anything but a little time. And there were real results, as apposed to some techie filling my head with utter gibberish!

I suppose the bottom line is that much of the stuff you read and hear on the internet is garbage, especially when you're just starting out. I've found that the internet is exactly like everything else on this marvelous pebble we call earth. About ninety five percent of what you hear is junk and the rest is worthwhile. The internet is just like everything else; you're going to have to invest some time and money to make it work for you. But beware; there are a lot of people trying to take advantage of those of us who don't completely understand all of this 'tech stuff'.

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com and founder of yourmoneyconnection.com Trevor has more than 15 years of business experience and currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country - Montana.

www.yourmoneyconnection.com - start actually making money online today! www.jrwfishing.com - products and information to save you time and help you catch more fish.

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