Should I get a header, logo, and t shirts or SEO.

June 30th, 2008, Author: MoneyMakinGuru, Categories: Uncategorized

Hey guys. Today I am stuck in a rock and a hard place. I have a choice. Get a logo and header, and t shirts for the blog, or get 3 months of SEO to get my site ranked in the top 20 for 3 chosen keywords. A logo, header, and t shirts would run me around $50-$75. And the SEO $200. The three keywords that I have chosen would be: Make easy money free, Make easy money blog, Make money as a kid. Do you think other keywords would suit me better? Please give me your opinion. Please guys, I am really stuck, I don’t know which one I should choose!!!

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8 Comments until now.

That Sneaker Wearing Entrepreneurial Cartoonist Internet Guy + June 30th, 2008 (#):

Hey Zach,

I’ve never been one for spending money on SEO when you can do it all yourself for free. Try Wordtracker for some great keywords. Child Entrepreneur, Kid Entrepreneur, Kid Blogging, Kid Blogger, Kidpreneur, How Kids Make Money Online, etc. You might try a few of those type of keywords. The words you have listed are going to be tough to compete with at this early stage.

Save your money and get the logo. Learn SEO on your own and you’ll come out better in the long run. Put your keywords in your title and at the top of your pages and you’ll start moving up the ladder. You have a great opportunity being so young. You should be able to attract a lot of attention with your blog. Learn about publicity and start sending out press releases about how young you are and what you are doing. Pretty soon some write will pick up on your story and you’ll skyrocket. Send your story to The Big Idea on CNBC.

Good luck!

Zach + June 30th, 2008 (#):

I mean this truthfully. That was the most inspiring comments I have ever read. What you wrote was amazing. Thank you, Thank you a ton for the kind words, and also the good ideas, and keywords. I think your comment has just made this post worthless, because reading that told me that buying a logo is the right thing. Again Thanks,
Zach

Jason + June 30th, 2008 (#):

I have to agree. Spending money on SEO is usually not worth it. I did try once, years ago. I then had to fight with them to get my money back because they did not fulfill their promise.

If you want to be ranked highly, do it yourself. You will not only get your high ranking, but you will learn how to do it. That way you will be able to keep your high ranking and know that your they are not doing anything that Google will find out about and get you dinged for. Many of the SEO places I’ve looked at do things that could possibly get you banned.

Do it yourself and do it right. It is better to know what you are doing with it anyway.

Jason

Zach + July 1st, 2008 (#):

Hi Jason. The thing is, I really don’t know how to make my site come up for search keywords. I can get a lot of backlinks, but that doesn’t seem to help. But I am going to go to the library and get a book or to to read, and start doing some SEO. Thanks for visiting the site, and commenting. Zach

Denni Pultz Gottfredsen + July 1st, 2008 (#):

Can’t agree more with Jason and the other guy. Try doing it yourself - You will learn during the process and will befits from it in the end.

Shaun + July 9th, 2008 (#):

Hey,

I read about your blog over at BlogBadly.com. And I totally agree…don’t buy SEO. If you keep up the current link building campaign, by the time you are 18, it’s almost impossible for you not to have enough juice to have some massive SE traffic. So get the logo.

Shaun + July 9th, 2008 (#):

Say, btw…I’d be interested in swapping links with you. I’m building two websites right now, and would be interested in a one-way blogroll link exchange. I’ll link to you site-wide at http://www.Workathomecode.com if you link to http://www.ican-makemoney.com in your blogroll, with the anchor text of “make money”. This way, we both get dozens of relevant, one-way links.

Zach + July 9th, 2008 (#):

Sounds good Shaun, you will get an email, also, thanks for visiting.