4 ways to start your SEO business:

1.) Show that you exist
You should have more than just a website and a contact forum page. Clients want more ways to get in contact with you. You know how frustrating it is, when a customer is looking for an address and a phone number and all they can find is a website? I have dealt with this before and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth towards the company. If you have to, set up a toll free number that forwards to your cell phone number. Make sure that you provide your company’s address and physical location so someone could look it up on a map. If you work from home set up a post office box. But do not just get a box number get a real address. UPS is starting to do this now. See if it is available in your area.

2.) Clean website
Make sure that your website is clean and fresh. The content is relevant and current within the news. When you are designing your website, please do not use clip art. Remember when Geocities use to be free? I remember having a website when I was 16 and I did not know anything about building websites. I did have fun with the link building. I used clip art. I broke one of the 10 Commandments of web design and for that I paid. My site was boring and I hardly got any visitors. It eventually became obsolete and is now not a website no longer. The good news is now I know more and do not let any websites go obsolete on my watch.

3.) Ranking
Ranking on Google is your best option. Google is the top visited search engine on the web today. If someone is going to pay you to optimize their website your company better be highly ranked when they search for your company name. Just remember that Google is not just a search engine. It is a dictionary, phone book, map and calculator.

4.) Call me on the phone
Do not use just an email. Preferably use your telephone to contact your clients first. Then while you are talking to them tell them that you are going to send them an email as a follow up to the conversation. A phone call lets people know that you are real and you are interested in providing them services and that you care about their needs.

There are many things that you can do to secure your SEO business a top place position in the business world. Hopefully these steps will help you to get started.