Comments on: Are You on an SEO Honeymoon?

By: Christophe BENOIT

Christophe BENOIT — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:59 +0000

Hi,
I made a translation (with somes modifications) of your post for my french readers :
http://www.christophebenoit.com/referencement-resultats-debut-prestation.html

By: Ben McKay

Ben McKay — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:15:40 +0000

Pleased you each found value in it. :)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:00:24 +0000

Great article and very good honeymoon analogy. Sometimes it is hard to work once the honeymoon is over if your client doesn’t have a defined strategy.

By: Steven Clayton Fan

Steven Clayton Fan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:05:34 +0000

Fantastic article! I’ve just discovered this website and after a friend of mine who is also involved in SEO gave me the link. The information in this article is great and I’ve just added you to my favorites list!
Whenever I buy a new website or look back at one I havent touched for 4 – 5 years Im always shocked at the massive improvements I can make in a short period of time. Even by changing the tiltle and H1 tags alone Ive often jumped from around 30 to the top 10 in google.

By: Orangy

Orangy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:31:00 +0000

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By: sm911

sm911 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:54:42 +0000

Thanks for this advanced informative article. We got something from SEO Honeymoon :)

By: Samster

Samster — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:48:55 +0000

great view to share…we really learned few things out of it.

By: Michel Leconte

Michel Leconte — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:36:22 +0000

Hello Ben,

thanks for the article. Funny, because it appeared that not that many agencies actually gave serious thought about this. I’ve actually graphed the agency/client relationship and when the relationship gets into the jeopardy area at:
http://www.seosamba.com/layout/image/SEO%20experts%20relationship.jpg
It can be found in context on this page:
http://www.seosamba.com/seo-firms-tools.html

From our research, clients have a hard time implementing recommendations; that delays are frequent; or that educating clients about the SEO process and consulting with their technical team is time consuming. All of these factors drive customer satisfaction down, resulting in lost potential revenues for both agencies and customers over time. Also, the SEO business environment is becoming increasingly competitive. I think one needs to clearly differentiate their SEM firm by using customer-facing tools that reminds clients of the unique value being brought to the table beyond the initial “honey moon” period.

By: sujit

sujit — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:33:19 +0000

firstly thnx for a nice post, I think “Semantically structuring the text..” you are pointing About LSI ( least semantics indexes), just optimizing with all pages Semantically creating a good impact in front of search engine & visitors too.

By: Ben McKay

Ben McKay — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:02:38 +0000

@Michael Freeman, I totally understand that each client-agency/consultant relationship can be quite different. In this case, I’m naturally talking about ongoing relationships but an adhoc visit to the SEO doctors could be all that a website owner requests, but not necessarily needs…in this case you could apply the analogy to a short-lived honeymoon, where those great, fast results are seen in one fell swoop!

Thanks for commenting. :)

@ASK SEO, I’m unclear on what you’re asking – do you want to know more about semantic html?