{"id":33,"date":"2006-05-13T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/05\/13\/how-to-hire-a-good-seo-expert\/"},"modified":"2006-05-13T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:36:23","slug":"how-to-hire-a-good-seo-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/how-to-hire-a-good-seo-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hire a Good SEO Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most online merchants, it&#8217;s a simple equation: the higher they rank in search engines, the more shoppers they attract.<\/p>\n<p>Given that all-important formula, many e-tailers lose sleep pondering two pressing questions: how can I increase my search engine presence? How can I boost my ranking on as many search terms as possible?<\/p>\n<p>They know that simply submitting their site to Google and Yahoo and then expecting a high ranking is like waiting for rain in the desert. Yeah, it might show up. Someday.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many merchants pay for high visibility using certain keywords ? spending a fortune on pay-per-click advertising. But the real goldmine &#8212; the true sweet spot &#8212; is getting a high organic (that is, unpaid) search ranking.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s hard to do. It&#8217;s a crowded online marketplace, and the search engines use a complex ? and secret ? algorithm to determine ranking, constantly tweaking it to avoid being tricked. It&#8217;s not like the old days, when you could hide the word &#8220;sex&#8221; in your meta tags and drive hordes of people to your site about lawn mowers.<\/p>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinesscomputing.com\/emarketing\/article.php\/3570586\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most online merchants, it&#8217;s a simple equation: the higher they rank in search engines, the more shoppers they attract. Given that all-important formula, many e-tailers lose sleep pondering two pressing questions: how can I increase my search engine presence? How can I boost my ranking on as many search terms as possible? They know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,26,20,11,15],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}