I have recently taken on yet another SEO job, from a business that was using an Indian SEO company.
The owner decided to change SEO, because he found a website that shows where the website visitors are coming to your website from, and 98% of visitors were from Indian IP addresses.... This is a business which operates strictly in California, Texas, and Florida, although they are looking at expanding to other states, but not internationally.
This business has been having the Indian SEO team work on his business website for several months, they charge $250 a month.... The owner sent me the last monthly report of what they had done it was about 12 pages long and looked at a glance, to someone that didn't understand what they were reading rather impressive.
HOWEVER: I looked at it, and in fact what they had supposed to have done would only take about 30 minutes to do. Let me explain.
They had changed 1 links on 7 pages, to show as bold rather than normal text. In Dreamweaver, this would take about 5 minutes, with search and replace, so the 5 minutes includes opening the program and pages to be changed.
They had added the phone number to the same 7 pages meta tags, since dreamweaver is now open, as are the pages they are working on, this would only take about 1 minute.
Added alt tags to 5 images on the same page, this has to be done manually, since the wording was different, but still with copy and paste, it would only take about 10 minutes.
Validated 4 webpages. And fixed errors, that they had made in the first place, I won't even uote a time on that, because you can't chanrge clients to fix mistakes you made.... well I don't
Submitted 2 blogs to 2 blog search engines.... 5 minutes... if you are any kind of SEO you would already have the links to the submit page.
Submitted site to 30 social bookmarking sites, 10 of these sites were not written in English, so of little use. This would cost me $5 to have done.
They had 40 directory submissions done, this job a subcontract and would cost me $10
Link Exchange 39 link exchanges... this is an interesting one, because I checked this site for broken links, and many of these "Link Exchanges" had broken links to them, done purposely, and
- If you actually looked at the domain names, 25 were the same as the directory submissions above
- a few the site didn't even exist, something you wouldn't notice if you didn't check.
- many of these places were just directory type places, and had no real website so they weren't real link exchanges which takes a lot of time to do. so again
- many of the real sites were again non-English sites.
Since these changes had no real value, Adding the broken links to this sites pages 15 minutes at most
So thats 30 minutes, and $15 work, now writing the report, THAT would have taken a good 2 to 3 hours to colate all the information, and get it looking good, and read 12 pages long, in a pdf.... but still the business was paying $250 a month, for 30 minutes, and $15 work
I'm charging an extra $100 a month, so $350 total, and have already spent 8 hours working on the SEO for his site, when I do seo on a regular monthly bases for a business, I find the best way to do the work is as soon that months payment clears, I do the work for the month, that way they SEO services I provide, are working for the website before the next month payment is due.
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