Search Engine Optimization businesses

For those of us who have been making money online for a few years now, it's tempting to capitalize on our hard-won knowledge of how search engines work to set up a business offering seo optimization services.

But it's pretty clear that everyone and their dog has had the same idea judging from the results when you plug that keyword into Google, and it's not clear that all of them know what they are doing. If you are going into this business the best way to do it is through the off-line world of recommendations from people you have helped to get their pages to rank. And if you are looking to hire an SEO consultant, check that their own webpage ranks for their "seo consultant" or "seo services" and related keywords. If they can't get their own page to rank in the SERPS chances are that they won't be able to get yours to rank either.