Glen,I have a side small Amazon business and have found good VA's on this website:onlinejobs.phThey have a specific category of real estate VA's in addition to VA's for SEO, and many other areas.Hope you find this helpful,Lisa SmithNovato

but the backend "Sites" module does not permit much control from a SEO standpoint, so I have spent a lot of time coming up with workarounds.

has anyone heard about the seo contests going on for web folks?

It also rates high in SEO.

Search engine optimization (SEO as it's called) is a specialized field, and few people, even among those who do it for a living, do it well.This is a great point!

I have experience with both...SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC...Driving new and relevant traffic to your landing page or website is what Adwords does best---it works masterfully if your ad draws attention.Converting this PPC lead into a paying client is something altogether different---your website needs to be leakproof (lead leakproof that is) to get the greatest ROI from Adwords...I give you an example of conversion/ROI on an active campaign I am running for bad credit mortgages that I spent $750 on in April: Click Through Ratio: 1-15% depending on keyword (I don't pay top dollar for my keywords and as a result, CTR is lower then it could be).

You should definitely start SEO, a blog and create some articles.

If I had to get a job again, some possibilities would be: teach English in Japan or some other foreign country that allows me to experience travel and different cultures, become a firefighter, go back to school for a master's in another subject in a science discipline so it's free, I'm great in any sort of sales role and I wouldn't even have a problem doing something like selling cars, hell even bartending would be more enjoyable than this.Also regarding the Google algorithms etc, I don't do any SEO for exactly that reason...my traffic is all paid traffic, so I have far more control, and I advertise on affiliate-friendly sources with essentially no compliance guidelines or restrictions of any kind...I focused on these because I thought they would be more long term than continually getting banned from and then defrauding Google, Facebook, etc. like most big affiliates do.

This strategy has paid off in SEO at the expense of having a single place and methodology for managing the sites.

I am thinking that one month of SEO will do hardly anything.