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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Nope. The costs to make a site like say a tube, a blog, whatever are relatively low. Scripts, designs, hosting aren't really all that much money. If someone was able to effectively rank a site, they'd make their own and rank theirs instead of doing it for pocket-change for someone else, and even if they were to do it as a side project - they wouldn't help competition.
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As you said the price of building a website is low, but you forget that, depending on the niche, you need a shitload of links when doing SEO and it could get quite pricey. Nowadays website owners need to have a budget in order to get their sites ranked. Not everybody are ready to spend tenths of thousands each month (for months) in link building.
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
As for if it's his fault? I doubt it. Googles algo isn't a static thing. It's constantly changing and it's enough that they changed something in their algo causing you to de-rank despite yours or his best efforts.
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I agree. There were two major Google updates in May and August, and a lot of sites lost their ranking for no apparent reason.
So there's a possibility that for whatever technical reason on your site you could have lost traffic. Doesn't necessarily mean it's SEO's fault. A day of downtime costed me more than 6 months of bad ranking. If your SEO was done correctly, you would gain all that traffic back in a few months. But if not, it's time to change companies.
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Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl
Are there no legit SEO people?
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There is. Feel free to hit me up either here in PM, or on Skype, username: nettrust