Pay for performance SEO services, also known as performance-based SEO, is nothing new under the sun. Some call it pay for results or pay for rankings.

Nevertheless, the goal of pay for performance SEO services is lessening the risk of standard SEO services by requiring customers to not pay until they have been ranked.

This sounds good at first glance, as pay for performance SEO services sounds like a no brainer that is sure to keep money in your pocket until SEOs perform their work.

I mean after all, companies have pay for performance pay structures that pay regular or bonus pay based on meeting certain company objectives.

So surely if it works for companies paying employees, then surely pay for performance can work for SEO services.

To some extent, we’ve all had an experience with some sort of pay for performance type of an agreement.

Some of us have had good experiences while others have had either bad or downright nightmares of being had by pay for performance agreements.

In this post, I share my top six (6) reasons why pay for performance SEO services fail for both SEOs and customers, and how both parties should go about structuring sound pay for performance SEO services and agreements to ensure a real “win-win” scenario and working relationship.

What is considered performance-based SEO? There is much talk about pay for performance search engine optimization (SEO), also known as performance-based SEO. What it is and what it is not.

Today I want to outline and discuss what performance-based SEO is not in comparison to true and authentic white-hat, performance-based SEO.

I aim to help you identify the disadvantages of deceptive performance-based SEO.

We’ll identify, comprehend, and understand what to be on the lookout for when SEO companies or consultants try to pass gray-hat or black-hat SEO as performance-based SEO services.

Just when you think you have the perfect name for your business or you think of the most perfect domain name, you find out that the domain is registered.

Start over, surely not? Don’t let a domain name being registered get you down, especially if a website has not been developed on the domain.

You may or may not know it, but there are many ways to go about landing the perfect domain name to build your business on. One of the most common ways to land the domain name of your dreams is by buying it via an expired domain auction.

As luck would have it, sometimes domain owners forget to renew their domain names or purposely don’t renew their domain names for a multitude of reasons.

Nevertheless, one domain owner’s misfortune in losing a domain name can be your luck in finding and buying an expired domain name.

Today, I’ll discuss a few things you’ll want to consider when finding and buying expired domains. The entire process of finding and buying expired domains can be a rollercoaster experience, to say the least.

Nevertheless, with persistence and patience, you can end up with the domain of your dreams finding and buying it as an expired domain. Let’s get started.

How fast can you get my website ranked and how much will it cost me?

I can’t tell you the number of times those two questions start a SEO relationship with a potential customer.

It’s quite a common occurrence in my line business as one would expect.

However, what’s more interesting is path the relationship takes as we converse about their SEO needs, asking and answering questions volleyed back and forth.

In most cases, I tend to find small business owners with previous SEO experience, whether a SEO do-it-yourselfer, in-house or outsourced SEO, are the ones to quickly derail my questioning with their own agenda.

Link wheels can be very deceiving based on who you discuss them with. As with everything in life, link wheels have their pros and cons.

It is a must to understand the advantages and disadvantages when considering link wheels as a part of your search engine optimization (SEO) strategies.

In today’s post, I’ll cover the high-level advantages and disadvantages of link wheels.

Based on the pros and cons of using link wheels, it’ll then be up to you to determine whether or not link wheels are the best SEO strategy for your business.

Let’s get started.

Much like a car with a flat, if your SEO strategy consists of link wheels, you won’t go far or fast.

Using SEO link wheels as your primary SEO strategy was once the thing to do to increase search rankings and website traffic.

Not so much the case today as link wheels have become quite easy to detect with each search engine algorithm update.

In today’s post, I’ll shed some light on the pros and cons of using link wheels as your SEO strategy.

We’ll discuss why link wheels may or may not be the best link-building solution for your website.

Again, link wheels do work to increase total backlink count, but only when used in the proper manner, whereby links are achieved naturally.