I worked hard and I bagged myself an elephant. But I think he's paying me too much. 
Now certainly this seems like a positive thing, but the reason for bagging the said "elephant" is to produce a portfolio and obtain many more little baby elephants. This is my first client and I value the testimonial over the cash. With that said:
(I know the last 2 questions are difficult to answer without information of how much I actually was offered, which I cannot reveal. I ask them more for personal brainstorming than anything else.) If this thread gets no views or posts it will have helped my thought process... but it would be great to have some SEO experts chime in. I've only just begun, and am humbled to your experience.
Additional Note: Trollers and lamers in my thread will be kindly thanked for the free bump and rewarded with ******* spam.
Now certainly this seems like a positive thing, but the reason for bagging the said "elephant" is to produce a portfolio and obtain many more little baby elephants. This is my first client and I value the testimonial over the cash. With that said:- How much should an SEO/SEM be paid for doing the following things? Would this be a one-time consultant fee, a weekly salary, a percentage of revenue produced, a combination of all of these, or possibly some other pay structure?
- Setting up various analytics tools and conducting initial keyword research.
- Initial optimization of the site after using data to determine a keyword list
- Setting up the google webmaster tools, geotargeting, map locations, coupons, phone book listings, sitemaps, and other marketing tools too numerous to name. Also, similar tools within the other major search engines.
- Managing an adwords campaign and continually tweaking the optimization with further collected data
- continuous link building with relevant sites and directories
- general web press release management.
- summary- managing an AdWords campaign. progressively increasing organic listings in the SERPs (WHITE HAT!) and continually researching the traffic on the site and the overall effectiveness of each portion of the site.
- How would one go about countering with a (LOWER!) fair offer without reducing the image of professionalism? (IE - I'm not good enough for this money, please pay me $X,XXX instead.)
- Should I be so self-depravedly honest? Or should I take advantage of a good opportunity?
- Or is the elephant right in saying that the job is worth the money he's paying me.
(I know the last 2 questions are difficult to answer without information of how much I actually was offered, which I cannot reveal. I ask them more for personal brainstorming than anything else.) If this thread gets no views or posts it will have helped my thought process... but it would be great to have some SEO experts chime in. I've only just begun, and am humbled to your experience.
Additional Note: Trollers and lamers in my thread will be kindly thanked for the free bump and rewarded with ******* spam.
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