Clients and managers will try to squeeze you until you break and give them a number or a promised rank. Don't do that. It's like a new judoka promising a coach that if they sign up for the program they'll make it to the Olympics. The level of success depends on what the judoka puts into it, what their competition looks like, what their courage, endurance, competition, resilience are like... You promise, they sign up, say, "Oh, this works so I'll just come to practice on Saturday," and everyone loses.
Goals are great. Promises are trouble. Good agreements are essential.
We’ll get you to page 1. No matter how successful you’ve been in the past, every site, competitive landscape, and team behind the site is a different challenge. The promise of a #1 ranking can be a selling point for getting clients, but can you deliver on it? What will happen to your reputation if you don’t? This industry is so small that when people uae number data doing the right thing by their clients, it gets talked about.
Re-arranging the confusing statistics. I recently saw a leading agency tell a room full of SEOs: “The search result will provide online answers to 47% of your users’ questions.” Obviously, this won’t be true for every SEO in the room, as different types of queries ہےdifferent SERPS، اور SERP UI مسلسل بدل رہا ہے، لیکن اس کمرے میں کتنے لوگ واپس اپنی کمپنیوں اور اپنے کلائنٹس کے پاس گئے اور انہیں بتایا؟ اگر یہ ان SEOs کے لیے درست نہ نکلے تو کیا ہوگا؟
We will increase traffic by n%. Remember, promising promises can lead to being called a snake oil salesman. If you can avoid performance promises, especially in the proposal process, by all means please do so. Set well-informed goals instead of high-risk promises, and be conservative when possible. It is always better to overachieve than to underachieve.
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