We’re back in the saddle for another fun-filled post about SEO and doing it yourself.

Do-it-yourself SEO, or DIY SEO, as it is also known, can be quite an experience for small business owners looking to take matters of SEO into their own hands.

Whether you have had a good or bad experience with SEO, in general, there is always a thought that crosses one’s mind: they too could optimize their website to rank well in search engines just as good as, if not better than, SEO professionals.

In addition to performing small business SEO for multiple customers, I’ve experience coaching and consulting a fair share to do SEO themselves.

Some small business owners take SEO coaching and consulting like a fish to water. They succeed in learning, executing, and sustaining sound SEO strategies and tactics to keep their websites highly visible and ranked in major search engines.

But with the good comes the bad who were too smart for their good and stepped on the dark side of SEO due to impatience, naïve, or shrewdness.

And for their unjust actions, they return to me or another SEO professional, endlessly pleading with us to rescue their website from black-hat SEO snares, penalization, or de-indexation in search engines.

I proclaim that anyone can learn do-it-yourself SEO and find success or failure.

But most small business owners don’t truly consider all facets of do-it-yourself SEO.

Most of the time, the do-it-yourself SEO approach is entered blindly based on small business owners not having adequate resources related to time, money, and labor or effort.

And just like you need the S, E, and O to spell SEO, you also need time, money, and effort to invest in an ongoing SEO.

So before you launch into do-it-yourself SEO, let’s take a moment to discuss some common do-it-yourself SEO pitfalls, so you can thoroughly understand the pros and cons of do-it-yourself SEO before causing great harm to your business and having to call the SEO professionals in to clean up the mess.

Welcome back to second post of Page one search engine ranking and the rest.

In our initial post of this series, we discussed the importance of taking your time to select your niche, keywords, register or acquiring keyword-specific domain names, and creating unique and value-add content.

All are equally important, but I’ve found it most important to have selected the correct niche and keywords long before a domain name and content ever came into consideration.

In today’s post, I’ll continue discussing the wide variety of SEO actions I’ve taken that have led to successfully ranking websites in the top spot across major search engines, and led to increase traffic, conversions, and revenue.

In addition, I’ll share a few tips and tricks for what not to do too.

Let’s continue our search engine ranking discussion.

When launching a new website, driving traffic to your website can be a challenging experience to say the least.

From pay-per-click or PPC advertising to banner ads to expired domains, just to name a few, there are a quite a few methods to consider when buying website traffic.

The biggest question I receive the most from customers is which method is the most cost-effective, yet will return the biggest results in terms of shear traffic volume and conversions?

As I’m sure you have experienced when increasing website traffic, most website owners find that it takes three or four times as long as thought to increase organic website traffic from a variety of resources.

From personal experience, I’ve found success in buying website traffic to supplement my SEO efforts to increase organic website traffic.

There are many online sources for buying website traffic, good and bad.

In today’s post, I want to focus on pay-per-click or PPC advertising, and how you can use PPC advertising as an effective tool to drive instant website traffic and increase your organic website traffic along the way.

Our search engine optimization (SEO) monthly retainer services are designed and developed for businesses expressing interest in Kickstart Commerce implementing our proven SEO strategy and techniques on their very own website.

From search-safe link building strategies to website optimization to traffic-increasing content marketing strategies, we apply proven SEO strategies and tactics.

We use the same SEO tactics as performed to rank our very own premium domain names and premium leased websites.

We treat your website with the very same care as our own, and nothing less.

Learn why most businesses start with performance-based SEO services before SEO retainer services

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Monthly Retainer Services

A business can choose a SEO retainer plan option below, paying either a recurring annual cost or a one-time fee and monthly cost, with no long term agreement.

SEO retainer plans for your business website are based on the number of competing pages as it pertains to the total number of pages indexed in search engines for search keyword or keyword phrases.

Most websites are optimized for 10 up to 200 keywords/keyword phrases, and the typical business has 2M – 4M competing pages indexed in search engines.

The highlighted plan below is our most popular seo retainer plan.

Businesses pay an annual or one-time payment and monthly payments receive the following SEO retainer services:

• Optimization of your website: W3C compliant and code validated website, including keyword and content rich website, including creation of sitemap
• Recommendations to your on-page content to compliment newly written HTML coding
• Multiple listings on the front or second page of the major search engines, one listing minimum
• Monthly submissions and search engine rank reporting
• Monthly monitoring and reporting of site to ensure 90-95% compliance with current search engine criteria
• Money-back guarantee should our services not perform as agreed

Contact us to inquire about business-specific and customized SEO Retainer Serivces and Pricing.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is do or die for most businesses, and a very critical resource and facet of the internet marketing strategy.

Many small businesses use a variety of effective SEO Tools and heavily depend on SEO to increase website rankings across a multitude of search engines.

Without proper SEO, it is extremely difficult to achieve first page rankings across multiple search engines due to the ever-growing competition.

And add in the constant changes in search algorithms imposed by search engines, and your website could find itself on a never-ending SEO roller coaster, drastically moving up and down for a variety of keywords.

To help their website gain SEO relevance and rank well in search engines, companies make use of many search engine optimization tools and methods.

Most SEO tools have been developed by SEO experts as a way to help others lacking SEO expertise to perform SEO without having to learn each and every aspect of SEO as a strategy.

Now widely available to most Internet users, search engine optimization tools are available via desktop applications, software plug-ins, or browser extensions.

And with the treasure trove of search engine optimization tools on the market, there also comes a wide variety of prices.

From free to monthly to annual to one-time fees, it can be quite a daunting task to review and compare SEO tools, and choose the best SEO tool according to your business and SEO needs.

As with most internet marketing tools, most offer SEO tools and software using the “freemium” model, a blend of “free” and “premium” meaning free to download and use but for to be a premium user, you have to pay a fixed or monthly fee.

Today, I’m going to quickly discuss and give you a few “freemium” SEO tools to try out and use for your website as a part of your SEO efforts.

If you’re a business that desires to be found online and build a long-lasting brand, then you MUST learn to effectively master internet marketing strategies.

There are a number of internet marketing opportunities that Kickstart Commerce guides small to medium sized (SMB) businesses in capturing and sustaining greater customer growth and revenue.

Search Engine Optimization

SMB businesses can maximize their return on investment executing search engine optimization (SEO) in alignment with their business internet marketing strategy.

Optimizing a SMB business website for major search engines is quite effective and leads to greater business profitability when soundly executed.

We provide your business the following search-safe SEO service, strategies, and tactics to consistently rank on page one across major search engines:

• Blogging
• Social Media
• Fixed Price SEO
• Pay-for-Performance SEO
• Monthly/Annual SEO Retainer

Hire Kickstart Commerce and you’re sure to increase traffic, sustain rankings, and grow customer conversions while reducing, if not eliminating, marketing and advertising expenses.

Learn how Kickstart Commerce can provide long-lasting SEO results by optimizing your website for increased search rankings.

Internet Marketing Coaching & Consulting

There’s nothing stopping you and your business from learning proven internet marketing strategies, but you!

You can easily learn how to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, yet simultaneously generate targeted web traffic with increased customer conversions, leading to profitability you’ve always dreamed of for your business.

Our internet marketing coaching and consulting services guide and engage SMB businesses (that’s you!) in learning how to perform the following:

• Identify common internet marketing pitfalls, actions and behaviors that derail search rankings
• Identify affordable internet marketing opportunities that best align to meet, if not exceed, your business goals
• Plan and execute sound internet marketing strategies and tools to drive results
• Develop, sustain and measure your business’ web presence across various search engines

Our services are not just another marketing expense of lackluster results. 

We offer you affordable services that are a long-lasting investment to boost your business’s growth and profitability.

Is time of the essence for you and your business to capture greater customer and revenue growth?

Then I invite you to separate from the herd mentality, and stop wasting your time and money on expensive marketing and promotional strategies you can’t measure.