SEO is expensive -- let’s just establish that now and get it
out of the way. A quick Google search for “search engine optimization
companies” will turn up results ranging from agencies that have a minimum
monthly engagement fee of $5,000 to fly-by-night operations offering SEO for
the ridiculously low price of a couple hundred dollars a month.
Why the huge discrepancy in pricing? It all comes down to
the quality and effectiveness of what is being offered. SEO is so content
driven these days that pure logic explains why SEO services priced at just a
couple hundred dollars a month (and costing less than what one single piece of
quality content costs) can’t possibly be good for your website.
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There are three different kinds of SEO service:
The experienced SEO agency. These companies have a genuine
interest in the brands they work with. They are looking to build a long-term
business relationship and deliver a return on investment. Lots of analytical
data, conversion tracking and measurable results should be expected when
working with one of this service. It is good sign when your SEO agency wants to
win just as bad as you do.
The SEO Company that doesn’t know any better. There are a
lot of SEO companies that outsource everything they do. Since they aren’t
actually performing the work they have zero control of the campaign and are at
the mercy of the service, who aren’t always delivering the highest quality
work. While they don’t mean to deliver amateur SEO, that is exactly what they
do.
The SEO provider just looking to collect money. These are
the SEO companies that will tell you anything you want to hear. Want to rank
number one on Google for the keyword “Google” within 72 hours? Not a problem!
Heck, if you pay now (by Western Union preferably) you even get a free bonus --
a unicorn and magic leprechaun.
CEOs and executives that aren’t familiar with the current
SEO landscape and focus solely on price will get burnt. This ends up costing the
company much more in the long run than it would have if they just went with an
experienced, initially more expensive SEO agency from the beginning.
Here are four reasons amateur SEO is more expensive than
professional SEO:
1. Link audits aren’t cheap.
Let’s compare a poorly performing website to a car that
isn’t running well. How do you fix it? First, you need to find out what is
going on -- look under the hood, so to speak. A link audit involves inspecting
all of the inbound links coming to a website and identifying the toxic ones.
There are several automated software solutions on the market, but they aren’t
always accurate.
A thorough audit needs to be done manually and by someone
that understands what he or she is looking for. It is a very tedious and labor-intensive
process, which is why some agencies charge several thousands of dollars to
perform a site-wide audit. If you would like to learn more about what a
complete audit involves, I suggest you read this link-audit guide.
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2. Complete link clean-ups are even more expensive.
If the link audit turns up a lot of toxic links, they have
to be removed. Google allows webmasters to disavow backlinks that are believed
to be harmful and out of their control. It isn’t that simple, though. To stand
a chance at regaining rankings a solid effort to manually request the removal
of links is required.
Google makes it perfectly clear that it expects the website
owner to make a valiant effort to clean up unnatural links and not just simply
upload a list via a disavow file. This is a very time-consuming process that
involves reaching out to each website owner and requesting that they remove the
links, hence the reason why some SEO agencies charge between $5,000 and $20,000
for a complete link clean up.
3. Penalties can make website traffic disappear overnight.
Back in February of 2011, Google penalized Overstock for
offering discounts to schools that placed anchor-specific links on their
websites. Overstock was MIA from the first page of Google’s search results for
a period of two months. It estimated that its revenue was impacted by as much
as 5 percent, which is a substantial amount of money -- all because of an
instant drop in website traffic.
The majority of business owners that approach my company for
an audit after their traffic drops used low-quality SEO services
.
4. De-indexation of your website can ruin your brand.
What would you do if your website didn’t show up in Google
search at all? Imagine no traffic coming from Google search. Zero. Nada. Zilch.
If Google determines that a website doesn’t meet its quality guidelines, it
will remove it completely from the search results.
You can read Google's webmaster guidelines for complete
information. If your SEO is in the hands of a company that is using low-quality
spammy techniques, either knowingly or unknowingly, you are putting your brand
at great risk of disappearing from Google search entirely.
Have you been a victim of amateur SEO? If so, how did you
recover? Let us know in the comments section below.
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