The email may start off with a simple “Hi!” or perhaps, “Dear Sir or Madam.” It will then go on to promise that, “You can get ranked #1 on Google; for next to nothing!” Or maybe they’ll just explain just how bad your food truck’s website is in relationship to its search engine optimization.

What To Avoid With Get Ranked #1 On Google Promises

Spotting The Junk

Fielding emails promising professional SEO services that will get ranked #1 on Google has become part of life of most website owners. In most cases it’s pretty easy to spot these sales techniques, but we’ve recently noticed that some are getting pretty sophisticated. In fact, I received one such email recently, so I thought it was a good opportunity to bring up these kinds of SEO “promises” to make sure you understand this recent change in internet marketing.

This article is for those of you that might be a little confused by these sales pitches or unsure if they might actually help your mobile food business. If you are like many of the vendors I speak with and don’t know much about SEO; what these marketers are pitching might sound pretty good, unfortunately you are exactly who they are trying to target.

Some of these messages are really obvious that you’re receiving a bulk email that actually has nothing to do with you. In other instances, the emails are actually quite clever and make it seem like someone actually did their research  and did looked at what you’re site is doing online.

For someone to understand what tactics you need to correct to make inroads in SEO rankings, they would have to do a pretty in-depth amount of research about your food truck business. Not only would they need to know about your business but they would also need to research your competitors as well as the mobile food industry as a whole. And in all honesty, how can they begin to make any claims without ever talking with you?

The Promises

How can anyone possibly “promise” to Get Ranked #1 On Google or anything else anything when it comes to SEO? If someone guarantees you a spot in search rankings, they are lying. Any SEO professional worth their salt is going to promise you one thing…that they can’t promise anything.

What you have to understand is that it is nearly impossible to guarantee anything in search engine rankings. An SEO consultant can certainly do their very best and can certainly give you an indication once they’ve done their research how much work they anticipate it will take for you to move up and then let you know about different opportunities.

But if they “promise” you anything, my suggestion is to run in the opposite direction. Either they don’t have a clue what they are talking about or they employ tactics that “game” search engines. Many of these tactics used are unethical, “black hat”, techniques. If that is the case, then it’s this point where you should probably sprint away.

Let’s Be Realistic

Take Mobile Cuisine for example. Yes, we do use SEO tactics when developing the site and the content we produce. With that said, it’s not one of our main business goals to get on page 1 for certain keywords. Sure, it would be awesome to show up on page 1 for “food truck” or “food trucks.” But trust us, it is virtually impossible.

We could devote every waking moment for the next month to this endeavor and probably not make much progress. Not only are we competing with other online food truck trade journals, but every single one of the thousands of food trucks in the country, the food truck associations as well as every company that supplies the food truck industry who has optimized their website for one of those keyword strings.

So we know when we get an email to Get Ranked #1 On Google, it’s certainly a bald faced lie.

What They Actually Do?

Some emails will offer you all types of SEO services. Some may even offer to link your site to more than 1,000 for just 5 bucks.

When it comes to SEO, your strategy and the process you implement is very important. If you haven’t done proper keyword research for your food truck website, all the link building in the world will get you nowhere. If you haven’t optimized your own site, there is no point in doing things offsite. You need to build your site as the foundation and then build up from there.

Some of the tactics being touted are actually outdated and could lead to negative placement of your site on search engines. Think it sucks when your site shows up on the 3^rd or 4^th page? How does being de-indexed from Google entirely sound? Google is constantly on the lookout for people gaming their algorithm. Unfortunately, a lot of what these SEO services are offering is exactly what could lead to Google banishment.

The Bottom Line

Search engine marketing tactics constantly change. Just because something being offered is cheap doesn’t mean it’s a good idea for your mobile food business. With that said, we always try to keep our readers informed on different scams that take place. We hope this article opens your eyes and keeps you from responding to some of the hucksters on the internet.

How do you handle SEO for your food truck website? Have you ever used any of these (Get Ranked #1 On Google) inexpensive SEO services? Feel free to share your experiences in the comment section, our food truck forum or social media. Facebook | Twitter