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Do a search on Google for your company's products or services. Use keyword phrases that your customers might use.

How many web pages come up in the results?

10,000?
150,000?
25,000,000?

If you specialize in Motivational Speaking, it's 441,000
If you sell custom jewelry, it's 53,000,000
If you showcase travel videos, it's 190,000,000!
The more competitive your keyword phrases are, the more it will take to get your site found high up in the Search Engine Results Pages. The more you want to achieve the more time it will take as well. How much depends on many factors.


SEO services that are affordable AND effective

The good news is, our lead consultant, Alan Bleiweiss, has a proven track record of consistently getting clients onto the first page of Google, regardless of these issues. Using ethical techniques considered to be "best practices" in our industry. And he can do the same for you.

So the question isn't CAN he do this, it's for how many keyword phrases do you want to be found high up in the results, and how deep is the competition?

These factors, along with how well or how poorly your site is currently optimized, determines how many hours it will take, and thus how much the fee will be.

Chart of hours involved in SEO Services

SEO services typically include implementation of upwards of 20 - 30 different factors, but can generally be grouped into seven steps.

The numbers below are based on ending up with anywhere from ten to 25 top keyword phrases, with between six and 20 pages of content, and in a fairly low competitive landscape to a fairly high competitive landscape.

Your site or market or business might require optimization for many more phrases or go up against a much more competitive field, but most do not, at least in the initial phase of optimization.


Keyword Research & Selection process 3 - 10 hours
Competitive Landscape Analysis 2 - 10 hours
Analysis of your existing site's status and needs 3 - 15 hours
Keyword Seeding on your site 3 - 30 hours
Sitemap.xml file creation, Submission to Google & Yahoo 0.5 - 3 hours
Web Directory submission, and initial link building process 2 - 20 hours
End of process review and analysis 3 - 6 hours


For some clients, there's already an established budget, and that budget will cover the cost of all of these tasks, for hundreds of keyword phrases. For others, you may be on a very limited budget. If that's the case, we will work with you on choosing the highest value keyword phrases ouf of all the possibilities, and we'll focus only on those during the first phase of our work. If, after that phase, you feel you have enough new business, we don't need to do any more major work, other than ongoing maintenance to help keep you there.


Ongoing SEO Services

Once we've applied the initial SEO solution, ongoing maintenance can be as few as 2 or 3 hours a month, or for very competitive fields, where your competition is constantly working on improving THEIR positions, or where many new web sites are showing up all the time, it could require 5, 10, 25 or in a worst case scenario, as many as 50 to 100 hours a month.

But for the vast majority of our clients, it's 5 - 10 hours a month.


How you can reduce your costs

There are many things in the search engine optimization arena that you can, and should do on your own. If you have a need or desire to do some of this work yourself or have one of your employees do some of the work, that's great - we're happy to help you understand what you or your staff can do and what they shouldn't do.

Some of the things you can do is surf the web looking for high quality web sites where your site can be listed, providing an important link back to your site. These are known as "back-links". The more high quality back links you obtain, the more points you earn at Google and Yahoo from a search engine ranking value. Our staff will help you learn which link opportunities are good and which to avoid.

You can add more content to your site on a regular basis. As long as you follow some very specific guidelines we provide, the more content you add to the site over time, the more content that will likely show up at Google, and the more value you give to the entire web site from an SEO perspective.

The best way to determine what you can and can not do comes from our initial SEO consultation and our first evaluation of your situation. We can map out a plan where each step and opportunity you can take is well defined and clearly explained.

We've worked with many clients who chose to participate up front, but then found out afteward that they either didn't have the time, or didn't have the patience (because some of this work is very time consuming and tedious).

Others have found it's quite fun to do some of this work - it both gives them a better understanding of their web based customers mind-set and of their competition.


So yes, if your budget is very low compared to other companies, as long as you are willing to do some of the work yourself, using a clearly defined process, and with the support of a world leading expert, or you are okay with having less keyword phrases come up high at Google or Yahoo, you most definitely CAN afford it.

And really - can you afford NOT to do it? If you can't afford not to do it, we can help!


Alan Bleiweiss - Professional Speaker - Conference Speaker Bay Area





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