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Originally Posted by cerulean
Hey, you're not wrong! If you're just starting out, the honest and best solution is to have your website developer put in best practices for on-page SEO (which they should already be doing) and then push traffic from affiliates, review sites, galleries, mailers, and social media. Once you get income flowing, that's when you reinvest and get things perfect. There's a lot you can get away with just having on-page SEO and maybe paying for a few hours of consultation, rather than deploying a proper campaign. Once things are rolling, then you have to work on keyword analysis, A/B testing, backlinks, etc. later.
If one guy is charging $500 and every other agency is charging much higher, what does that say about the $500 guy though? That's where I think outside of the box and do something else in the interim until success gives you the leverage you need to do it the right way.
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Totally agree with you.
What I find is if a SEO person is charging 500 it's because they are relying on SEMRush or another 3rd party software to do all the work - problem is there is so many things wrong with using it that people don't realize starting with it's a different algorithm that Google. Numbers are always different etc.
Now this guy here Kvns - only wanted to offer 100 dollars for SEO work. Obviously doesn't understand it and undervalues the person greatly - he then wanted me to proceed working with no money exchange an when the traffic arrives - he'll decide whether he'll pay more than 100 if it was worth it. Im' sorry - we're not vacuum cleaner door to door sales people - you wouldn't dare do that to anyone else and if you do you're not getting very far especially with the problems the site has.
Paying several thousand dollars is to much - but around 1599 to 2000 per month is fair to start and common in the industry.