Hi Priya,

I liked your letter and was almost persuaded to buy (because I have some issues with SEO and it's not entirely clear to me yet whether I need an SEO company for one of my clients, or whether we're better off writing a lot of content instead).

However, where it kind of fell down for me was in the "proof" department. You claim that you turned a failing business around and are now making 4 figures a month, which sounds pretty reasonable. Big pictures of bank statements and cheques don't work for me - they never have. What I would have like to have seen was a challenge to find you at the top of search engines using whatever your main keyword is. So if your niche is "ice skates for squirrels", then you might have asked me to go to google and search on those terms and find you there on page 1. If your sites aren't on page 1, then why should I believe that my site will get to the top using your information?

I think we've all been burned with SEO services and information in the past. One man I met (through a very well respected organisation I might add) claimed to be this hotshot SEO specialist. I was thinking of employing him to do some work for me, but when I went to search for his site I couldn't find it!! When challenged, he came up with some weird excuse about how he doesn't want to be in the search engines because his site gets spammed all the time. This didn't do very much to reassure me that anything he had said was true.

That's the take from this little "SEO makes me feel anxious" person

Jane