I hired an expert (whom is highly regarded on SEOChat and other webmaster SEO forums). This person certainly did their job, but never gained me much ground in the search engines. Our contract was such that they had to get me within the top 10 on 3 SE’s within a specified period of time for any of a set of keywords (which were not all that competetive).
The results never materialized. I paid 1/2 the total sum, which I was NOT required to do by contract.
The SEO individual took down all of my sites and confiscated all my content including forum posts.
I had to rebuild my sites from scratch with very old backups (my fault). I also hired an expert to check for backdoors so that this person could not get back in and wreck me.
Be wary. SEO experts, even highly accredited ones, can be very smarmy 
Man, that´s pretty bad. :whoa:
I had a look at webuildpages and the good thing is that you get quite a lot of insight into what they do by just carefully reading through their different package offers.
That way everyone can have a go at doing it themselves. They obviously have programmed robots to compile these reports in seconds or minutes that they then want to sell for upwards of $1000. But I believe you can have a decent shot at trying to do some of the work manually. By the way people always bash the virtue of having a keyword domain. I say if you own cheese.com you´re going to have a really crap cheese site if you can´t get into the top three for cheese at least.
:xmas: