SEO

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One of Devenia’s main markets is the norwegian market. It was really a chock to me to discover that the equilents in norwegian to search engine optimisation .org and .info had net been registered by any of our competitors.

So - naturally I registered both of them right away.

They are søkemotoroptimalisering.org and søkemotoroptimalisering.info

The .info domain will be used as a sales site for Devenia, but the .org domain I am still not sure about. It could lay the grounds for a seo-related forum or something similar.

Any ideas?

A littile while back I told Jeremy (Shoemoney) that I had an idea brewing regarding a way to find out which SEO-firms that knows the trade, and which ones that has no or little idea about what they are doing.

When you have been in the SEO-business for a while, you realize there is little or no real proof about who is who.

Of course we have had the occasional seo-contests running, but those of us that has been in the business for a while knows how skewed the results of seo-contests are. They don’t tell anything about who is able to get and keep the long term high rankings. They only says something about who is able to get the timing right for a sertain short-term date.

So, what I came up with is the following idea that I sent to Jeremy for comments. I have edited out the parts that was meant specifically for him.

The idea:
Set up an site that is called something along the lines of “SEO White List” or “SEO A-List”

How to qualify to get listed:
The candidate would have to show through practical work that they actually know what they are doing. The only way you could actually see that they do know what they are doing is by proving it.

Every candidate would have to work on different sites so it is possible to see if it is their work that produces results.

What should be taken into consideration for a listing:
Do the SEO work in a way that do not harm you?
Do they follow up correctly?
Can you see any improvement in the rankings?
Do the improvements last?

Why this could work:
Frankly - the industry needs something like this to divide the ones that claims they know the trade - and those that can actually prove it.

The comment from Jeremy was: “Sounds interesting honestly I just don’t have time for something like that right now =(”. That is fair enough.

So, I need you opinion. Could something like a seo a-list work?