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The deal:
I will do SEO for your startup and/or company for free. The number of hours? As many as it takes, whilst it's still fun to do. It usually takes 5-10 hours to do the basic stuff (strategy and on-site optimization), and then another 10-50 to initiate the harder stuff (developing content and building backlinks).
I will examine your site or product, develop a complete SEO strategy, give you tips and clues on what needs to be corrected on your site, do keyword research and develop content for your site - eventually starting the grind job of building backlinks.
Who am I?
I'm a SEO professional making $170K a year doing SEO work. SEO is one of my main passions in life. I love logical link hierarchies, finding new sources of backlinks, explaining the importance of digital distribution of content to newbies, doing technical SEO and seeing Google gradually index a site. I also own 10-20 sites with Pagerank ranging from 4 to 6. My own sites attract 150-200.000 visitors per week, largely because of SEO. I earn $14.000 USD in Adsense per month, again largely because of SEO.
Why the deal?
I like to meet fellow entrepreneurs around the world. Bonus if you live in the US, as I'm moving there - to either SF or NYC.
Who are you?
You're someone in tech, leading a startup or a company. You're great at what you do and you understand the importance of SEO; but you're no master at it. You are willing to put at least (!) 5 hours into doing what I instruct you; like creating some content pages or fixing your link hierarchy.
If you are interested, please email me at eric@listnerd.com introducing yourself and your project. Thanks, and good luck to all fellow entrepreneurs.
For the next month, we're in Silicon Valley trying to promote our product, especially setting up some VC meetings. We've been an active part of the HN community for a while, and figured that some of you guys might have some advice or connections to help us make it happen.
We have a lot to learn about business culture, Silicon Valley and doing stuff the right way; but we try to make up for that in terms of passion, a deep understanding of how the web works (especially search engine optimization) and ambition.
Do you know a VC or angel interested in the online shopping space? If so, we'd love to hear from you. My private email is eric@listnerd.com. (In return, we'd love to help you out with your SEO strategy; including setting up a logical link hierarchy, white hat PageRank sculpting, link building, etc.)
Our early stage and unfinished pitch deck is available for download here: http://blog.listnerd.com/listnerd-short.pptx