Most of the time, I answer their question about whether they aim to save money on SEO or drive tangible and profitable results using SEO.
Sometimes potentials then explain that they are on a very tight budget and looking to get the biggest bang for their buck without breaking the bank and their existing search rankings if any exist.
However, most conversations I classify as tire kickers because potential customers are truly not after sound SEO services as much as they are trying to make the price of SEO fit their understanding and budget of what a small business should pay for SEO services.
I love the challenges as well as the handsome rewards in driving sound SEO that generates more customers and revenues for those I serve on a daily basis.
But enough about me, and onto today’s post about the discovering the true cost of SEO services in its entirety.
For as long as I have been involved with the web and search engine optimization (SEO) in a variety of roles and projects, I’m always amazed at what small business owners are told and believe about SEO.
I hear a wide range of stories, myths and lies on a regular basis as it pertains to small business SEO.
But what surprises me most are not only the people and businesses spreading this mess, but it is the small business owners that take and receive it as the gospel.
Not only that, but in most cases, small business owners lose precious resources, if not their entire business, only to be misled.
They were lied too, and scammed out of thousands of dollars for deceptive SEO practices sold under the disguise of affordable small business SEO.
Deceptive scam artists, posing a qualified SEO professionals, guaranteed to rank small business websites in the number one position on page one of Google and generate results.
And this is where I enter into the picture and find most small business owners as potential customers.
Now as much as I would like to strangle the person and company that told a little white lie or a bold faced lie, I must also be willing to be brutally honest with small business owners.
Our fixed price search engine optimization (SEO) services aim to help small business owners and professionals who want to achieve effective SEO efforts, but not with a monthly financial commitment or long-term agreement.
Although we don’t recommend fixed price SEO services, also known as one-time SEO efforts, because we firmly believe to achieve optimal results that website owners must be willing to invest, implement, execute and measure SEO efforts on an ongoing basis.
However, we totally understand and respect the resource challenges small business owners and professionals face in terms of committing time, money and effort to make their SEO efforts a profitable, lasting success.
What are fixed price SEO services?
Our fixed price SEO services are designed to give you a firm SEO foundation to then build upon should you have the necessary in-house resources to implement ongoing do-it-yourself SEO efforts.
Should you not have in-house SEO staff capable of ongoing SEO efforts, then our fixed price SEO services are tailored to be rendered at a project-by-project basis as you have time, money and effort.
So in short, as you have funds to have SEO work completed, the work is completed.
How do fixed price SEO services work?
Our fixed price SEO services are as follows:
We start by performing a very thorough SEO website audit designed to show us the good, bad and ugly of your website as it pertains to SEO.
We deliver and review a comprehensive report, at no charge, of the performed SEO website audit with you, pointing out the various areas for improvement.
We identify low-hanging SEO inefficiencies that can bring about the most change and greatest impact in terms of search rankings.
We prioritize these SEO inefficiencies as well as give insight via an itemized and detailed quotation for what it will take to have the services performed and SEO inefficiencies performed by Kickstart Commerce.
Once you’re ready to move forward, you simply let us know which services and SEO inefficiencies will best meet and align to your current business needs.
We’ll perform the work per the agreement as well as walk you through a before and after to verify and validate the work has been performed per the agreement.
And once the work has been validated by you the customer, then payment is rendered. That’s it, that easy.
The downside to fixed price SEO services
Again, we don’t think it’s in the best interest of customers to perform one-time SEO efforts.
History has shown that one-time SEO efforts tend to stall out long-term and not drive the results small business owners are looking to achieve in terms of increased search rankings and traffic.
Many times, this stop and go approach to SEO can be more expensive in the long run and on drive a fraction of the results of an ongoing SEO effort.
However, we totally understand and respect that resources can be stretched thin, and one must do what they can until a better opportunity presents itself to move to an ongoing SEO effort.
Contact us to inquire about Fixed Price SEO Services and Pricing.
If your website has duplicate content, then you are losing the war to competitors as well as missing out on generating greater customer growth and revenue.
Search engine optimization has evolved over many years and will continue to do so in the years to come.
Before the introduction to a plethora of search engine algorithms and their multi-dimensional complexities, it was quite easy to stake your businesses claim to the front page of all major search engines for your respective industry.
There are many advanced SEO techniques that an average person wouldn’t see or ever comprehend when viewing a webpage that can be considered illegal or deceptive SEO.
From shady link building schemes to paid links to keyword stuffing to link stuffing to plagiarizing a competitor’s original content, there were and still are today many ways, some honest while many are deceitful, to arrive at the front page of all major search engines.
In today’s post, we hope to address the Content is King mentality of those businesses operating in gray-hat SEO, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
Today’s focus is publishing duplicate content in an effort to rank higher on the first page search engine results of all major search engines.
Maybe you see yourself and business as Bob, being crushed by the competition in search engine rankings as they laugh all the way to the bank.
Well, the good news is you no longer have to be lost in complete SEO darkness. Kickstart Commerce helps you rewrite the next chapter in search engine optimization for website, providing the following value-add search engine optimization services:
Keyword research and inventory management
Catchy headline creation
Optimized sitemap management
Off-site optimization (e.g. blog comment via relevant websites)
Competitor SEO benchmarking and analysis
Mobile design and content optimization
SEO trend and search engine research
Track content search ranking across major search engines
Relevant content directory search submission
Repurposing content for a various mediums
Social bookmarking management
Complimentary and Comprehensive SEO Audits
Website speed, analytics, caching, security and backup management
Nothing to lose, but everything and more to gain! Call 512.814.9177 to get started today.
What am I getting in return for what I’m paying?
One of the biggest fears and complaints that most small business owners and professionals have about SEO is that SEO costs too much for little results.
However, most of the too much, too little results can be attributed to search engine optimization firms not tailoring SEO efforts to be in alignment to the needs of the business.
If you find or stumble upon search engine optimization firms or consultants selling one-time, one-size fits all SEO, then that should raise a red flag for you not to do business with them.
At Kickstart Commerce, we offer various types of search engine optimization services because not all search engine optimization services meet the needs of everyone’s business or website in the same manner.
For the small business owners or professionals only needing to jump start their SEO effort on the right foot, we offer what is known as fixed price SEO services.
Fixed priced SEO services allows for the laying of a firm SEO foundation of sound SEO principles by which small business owners or professionals can then build and execute their own ongoing SEO efforts, or go at a slower and cost effective project-by-project basis.
Opposite of those with the in-house resources to perform their ongoing SEO efforts, fixed priced SEO services also tend to be the choice of small business owners or professionals who find themselves strapped for cash and time, and not able to commit to a monthly SEO services agreement.
As for the pricing to implement and execute fixed price SEO, this service is one of our most expensive services only due to the risk we take in providing you with a very thorough and no-strings attached SEO website audit (no charge) and itemized list of corrective SEO actions.
Another SEO service we offer is strictly tailored for customers who have been burned or fallen prey to deceptive SEO practices.
Sad and costly SEO stories happen each and every day, we understand the SEO bind customers can find themselves in when strapped for both cash and time to bring in profitable SEO results.
Because these deceptive SEO incidents happen, knowingly and unknowingly, we feel it’s best to help these customers that are down on their luck.
We prove there are qualified and experience SEO professionals that can bring profitable, lasting results performing SEO search-engine safe methods.
In short, pay-for-performance services are SEO services geared to show results and rankings for a selected website and list of keywords. Customers only pay for results when their website has been ranked according to the list of keywords in the services agreement.
Not a dime is exchanged until your website is on the first and second page of search engines. This definitely decreases the chance and opportunity of getting burned or fallen prey to deceptive SEO practices.
However, the pay-for-performance service can be quite expensive due to Kickstart Commerce assuming all of the risk to get your website ranked.
Our most popular service by far is the SEO retainer services due to our clients not having to lift one finger to drive profitable, long lasting results from their website.
Pricing for SEO retainer services are made to be very affordable for small business owners or professionals, although pricing is determined by keyword preference and the number of competing pages for each keyword.
What is there to lose? We do all the work, and provide you daily open access and transparent reporting on a monthly basis.
It typically takes 90 days for rankings to take effect from the time we complete the first milestone. If the reports and search engines don’t have you ranked on page one or two of search engines for our agreed to keywords, then you get your money back.
And this is yet another reason for this service being quite popular, carrying a money-back guarantee unlike the Pay-for-Performance and Fixed Price SEO services.
Bluehost kept their website running on PHP 5.6 instead of upgrading to 7.x. But that’s a different story for another day.
The party was good until cart-fragments.min.js shut it down.
My WordPress struggles with this given client’s website occurred after updating WooCommerce and updating to WordPress. After the latter update, the pages load, but key elements driven by JavaScript were nowhere to be found. But where, oh where could they be?
Another productive SEO week has shot by much like that of a shooting star, seeming to last only a moment.
I hear a wide range of stories, myths and lies on a regular basis as it pertains to small business SEO.
