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by jklinger410 1065 days ago
> One reason that it's so hard to find an SEO person that's actually worth anything is that if they were really good at what they did, they could just throw up their own websites with ads and make a much better living that way than selling SEO services. They don't of course, which should tell you something about how good they really are.

It's incredibly expensive to rank highly for something. There are tips and tricks to make your site amenable to the search engines, but it takes a lot of time or money to get it to actually notice you.