Rochester SEO

By August 3, 2017SEO Expert Advice

When it comes to Rochester SEO there are many agencies and marketers that claim to be the best, but before you choose which Rochester search engine optimization provider that you want to trust with the marketing of your website, it’s important to do a little homework first. You need to find out who you should have work on your marketing future and whether or not they would be an asset to you and your business.

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SEO, or search engine optimization, is defined as “the process of improving traffic to a given website by increasing the site’s visibility in search engine results” (Business Directory Definition). SEO is one of the most important elements of a business marketing plan and is imperative in today’s digital age where everything is expected to be readily available to consumers at all times. With the prevalence of mobile devices nowadays, consumers want information immediately and your business better be in a position to provide them with that information if you want to compete in today’s cutthroat marketplace. If your business does not establish itself as one of the top choices when it comes to your products or services, you will be left in the distant past while the competition gleefully blurs by you into the future with their updated marketing efforts.

SEO is the premium form of advertising for any business looking to establish itself as the best in their field. There is no other form of advertising that will literally place your business in front of a potential customer at the exact time they are actively looking for whatever it is that your business offers. Think about it, how valuable would it be to be able to have your business pop up into a potential customer’s head anytime they thought about your service? That is essentially what ranking at the top of Google does for you! They are looking up information on what you offer and your business appears in front of their eyes. It’s a beautiful thing! This is actually seen as “ranking” in more than one way. You have the literal rankings of the sites on the search engine results page, but it is also seen as ranking in the sense of the higher up a website is on the first page, the more favorably they are looked upon. This is apparent in the CTR, or click through rate, of the first page of Google. This diagram clearly shows that the higher a website is positioned on Google, the more it is clicked. And the numbers are pretty substantial when you actually see them like this.

SEO CTR Graph

This is the reason why there so many marketing firms trying to establish that they can deliver expert results when it comes to ranking a website. But there are very few SEO Rochester agencies that can actually follow through on these bold claims. Ranking a website is not as easy as it used to be, but due to the level of importance that is placed on rankings, there are a lot of marketers that are taking advantage of the demand and accepting clients that they will never be able to get results for.

Another reason why SEO is so beneficial is that it puts your business where consumers are looking for information. Autorevo reported that 9 out of 10 consumers use search engines for purchasing decisions and 7 out of 10 business level purchase decisions begin on a search engine. If you combine this with the image of the number of clicks based on search engine position you will clearly see why your business must be ranked at the top of the search engines when people look for what it is that you offer. But the catch here is getting there, right? It’s not easy to rank your website. Google has to give their users the best results possible. So it relies on several factors to determine how to provide those results to their users. If you don’t have someone who is a bonafide Rochester NY SEO expert, your website will not reach its potential. And that money will be going to someone else. The money is always there. It’s just a matter of who is going to do what it takes to go get it.

SEO StatsThe truth is, if you really want to separate yourself from your competitors there is no better place than on Google. If your website is ahead of your competition when vying for the same potential customer, that potential customer will automatically view you as being the better option and visit your website first. It’s human nature to view rankings as a list. The human eye automatically reads top to bottom, left to right. So, having your business at the top is going to benefit you immensely.

Just like anything, the best Rochester NY SEO services do come at a price. SEO is something that can literally change the face of a business so you can’t expect something like that to be cheap. Sure, there are some Rochester SEO providers that will offer you bottom dollar pricing, but is that what you want for the marketing of your business? Bottom dollar?

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SEO is one of those rare things where you actually do get what you pay for. If you pay for the cheapest, that is what you are logically going to get. There are some marketing firms that claim to offer SEO in Rochester NY that simply cannot rank a website at the fees they offer. It’s not possible. But the thing is the salespeople that are selling you the services don’t know that. They only know that they want to make the sale. So they make you empty promises that will never be fulfilled and pass you off to some account manager who doesn’t know real SEO but is trained to perform the same tactics on every client they get. If you really think that the same tactics will work on every website to rank them higher in the search engines you have another thing coming! But the allure of cheaper prices gets most business owners and tricks them into thinking they will get $5k results for $500 fees. It doesn’t happen. You won’t get there. And you’ll just be that much further behind when you finally realize it.

search engine optimization agencyThink of your website as a luxury sports car that is so expensive that you baby it and are afraid to even drive it in fear of having something happen to it. Now if that car needed some work done, are you taking it to your local corner shop and having just anyone work under the hood? Or are you bringing it to a specialist who is experienced in working on that specific type of vehicle? Even if it’s more expensive, you want the expert, right? You don’t want to take a chance with going the cheap route. It’s the same thing with your website! Your web presence is the single most important thing you can utilize to market your business and you do not want just anyone under the hood of your business. You need an expert.

craig tuttle marketing business cardYou need to be wary of anything that looks like too good of a deal when it comes to search engine optimization in Rochester. Sales is not the same thing as SEO and the last thing you want is to get sold on a company that can’t really provide anything more than things you can learn for free in an afternoon researching SEO on YouTube. That is the level of service you get when you go with the lower priced options. The fact of the matter is that most Rochester SEO companies are very good at selling. Not so good at the fulfillment part and getting real tangible results for a company’s website. Honestly, if the price is the main factor for you to decide which Rochester SEO agency you want to work on your website you would be better off saving your money and doing SEO yourself. You will most likely be in a similar place a year from now in the rankings as you would if you go with a cheaper option, but you would have saved yourself some money in the process.

Listen, I can confidently say that we are the best SEO in Rochester. We are an actual asset to your business, not an expense to it. What I mean by that is that we will actually bring your business money, not lose money on advertising that just doesn’t work. You don’t get dating advice from the terminally single, money advice from the terminally broke, or fitness advice from the morbidly obese. And you don’t get SEO from someone who is not a true expert in the field. Your business simply will not survive the future unless you have someone guide you into it who knows what they are doing and what the future looks like.

When you hire someone to work for your company, do you hire the person who asked for the lowest salary or the person that is best qualified and most likely to have a positive impact on your business? It’s the same thing when looking for a Rochester search engine optimization company. If you think hiring an expert is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur!

We rank #1 for the hardest keywords to rank for on the internet. The most competitive. Above everyone else who says they can rank you for your keywords. I apprenticed under the most successful SEO in the country and that’s where I learned how to separate myself and my clients from any competition. I have the best SEOs in the world on speed dial. I am part of a large group of SEOs that share information and testing results. We know about updates before they’re announced. We know what’s going to work in the future while everyone else is working on tactics that are no longer relevant. We are not competitors we’re more like a team. So I have way more assets to help me rank my clients than any single company could ever have. I have worked FOR my competition in Rochester and now I outrank them. I have surpassed them to the point where they have hired me to rank their clients for them when they can’t do it themselves. So ask yourself…who would you want working on the future of your business?

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Toddler Video Transcript

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What is SEO anyway?
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Thank you for asking that little one.
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Wow, such a cute little girl.
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Anyway, so I think there’s this big disconnect with SEO and people not really seeing the
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value that it brings to their business.
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But you know the stats are out there, they’re not hard to find.
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For example…
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and… and what about…
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and don’t forget… this was kind of hard to ignore!
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Right?
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But just think about yourself.
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How do you find information on businesses?
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On my phone!
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Perfect!
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You know what that’s typical.
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You know I think it’s like 75% of all searches are done on a mobile device now.
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And there’s a little known fact that Google is actually starting to use their mobile
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algorithm exclusively to rank sites.
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Not just on mobile devices but on desktops as well.
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So what that means is that if you don’t have a mobile-friendly site
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it’s really going to start affecting your rankings moving forward.
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It’s just too much money!
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You know what I hear that a lot and I’m glad you brought that up!
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Like I said before, there’s a bit of a disconnect with the value of SEO and
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really what it can do for a business.
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But what we can agree on is that advertising for your business is important, right?
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Well, yeah!
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Great, well why do you think it’s important?
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To reach more people!
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That’s correct, but most advertising really is
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blind.
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Meaning you’re hoping that the right person is exposed to your ad at
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the exact right time.
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Just for example, where do you advertise?
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In the Yellow Pages!
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Seriously most people don’t even know what that is anymore.
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Remember earlier you told me that you look for information on your phone
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right?
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Well where on your phone do you look for that information?
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On Google, duh!
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Cute girl!
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Exactly, 98% of all consumers use some kind of search engine
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to find information on the business.
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So you can be crushing the other 2% that people aren’t going for, using those techniques
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that you’re using, but imagine what your business would look like if you
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were crushing it on the search engines.
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Where 98% of all the consumers are.
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Where people are actually looking for what it is that you offer.
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See with SEO you can put your business, your brand,
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your products in front of the people who are actively searching for it at the
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time they’re actively searching for it.
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And you’re assured of that.
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It’s pretty cool, huh?
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And on top of that it’s ahead of all of your competitors who are
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offering the same type of thing.
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It’s still too much money!
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What is my ROI?
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Wow!
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Okay okay okay let’s try this another way.
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You agree that it’s important to advertise, right?
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Yes.
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And you agree that putting your business or products in
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front of people who are actively searching for them at that time would be
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beneficial, right?
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Well, yeah!
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So obviously we know that SEO is important but let me ask you
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this, how much is just one new customer worth to you?
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What about five?
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Or ten?
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Or twenty?
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You see with good SEO it’s impossible for you NOT to get results.
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It’s really just a matter of how many results you want?
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I mean, how many more customers can you handle, right?
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The other guy will do it cheaper!
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All right!
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Well I’m sure you can find other SEO “experts” who promise to do the
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job cheaper, but really, your website is not something you want just anyone
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working on.
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I mean, if you had something seriously wrong and, heaven forbid, you
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had to have some major surgery, you’re not going to be shopping for price are
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you?
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Well no!
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But this is the same thing!
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Your website and where it ranks in the search engines is the single most important
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thing for your business in today’s marketplace.
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And it’s only getting more and more important with
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time.
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You can’t trust just anyone with the future of your business.
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And you are the expert?
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Well yes, humbly of course!
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Look we’ve ranked sites all over the world and we have plenty of testimonials to back
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it up, if you’re interested.
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But you know what, I’d love to actually show you what
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we can do for your business.
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How are you going to do that?
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Just get in touch with us today and we’ll show you!
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Get in touch with us today!
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Okay, let me get this out of your nose.
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Is that a new chair?
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No it’s an old one.
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I like it.
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Thank you!
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Welcome!
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Yes okay well yeah well I have to say oh that’s
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for the lighting you like the lighting okay good job thank you okay I think
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we’re done yeah is that a wrap yes that’s a wreck
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you

SEO Pricing Video Transript

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Listen…we need to have a talk. We need to have a serious conversation (huh) about
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SEO pricing. Are you ready for this? Okay folks, let’s talk about it, let’s break it down here okay?
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Let’s just be honest with each other, if you’re in the market for SEO services
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one of the first things you’re going to look at is price. I understand I get it.
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But do you really want to be going window shopping when we’re talking about
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your website? I know I don’t. And I get it all things being equal and all SEO
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providers provided the same type of service the only thing left to go is
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pricing, right? Who has the better price? But let me be the first to tell you, if
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you don’t already know, not all SEOs are equal. Not all of them
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can do what they say they can do. And actually, the fact is that most of them
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can’t. So, that’s what you got to keep in mind when you’re looking at pricing. You
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know the fact of the matter is you get exactly what you pay for when it comes
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to SEO. (huh) The way I look at it is like having a freaking Ferrari or a
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Lamborghini or something really cool that you might like that I’m not that
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into but it’s really cool and expensive. Anyway that’s like what your website is
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right, that’s your baby, that’s your that’s the that’s the thing that needs the
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most care and the most tender touch, right? You’re not going to take your Ferrari or
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Lamborghini, or whatever it is that you’re using, over to the corner shop to
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some guy that’s just going to clunk around under the hood, right? You’re going
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to take it to an actual expert. Somebody that knows what they’re doing. Somebody
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that knows the way to navigate around under the hood and do all that needs
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to be done to make your machine optimate(?) at its finest. You don’t want to give it
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to some yutz down the road that’s just gonna clink around hopefully he
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gets it right and then gonna give you your website back and it’s going to be
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all garbage and then you’re going to swear off SEOs and think they all
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suck and
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I’m sorry I’m back now. Just went on a little rant there, had to cut it short. But seriously,
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a website is no different than that. You get a lot of empty promises from some of
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these Yahoo’s. But if you want tangible results that actually alter your
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business you have to leave your website in the hands of the experts. Not the
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clunk down the road. So here’s the thing cookie cutter prices do not work for SEO
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unless…unless you’re looking for cookie cutter services. Now I don’t know about
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you, but I don’t want the same thing done to my website that was done to somebody
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else’s. Now it takes a ton more work to rank a website in a niche like a lawyer
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or doctor or dentist or something like that, where there is a ton of SEO competition, then it
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does to the local flower shop that’s getting SEO services done. That’s going
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to be a lot easier but if they’re both saying, paying the same price, does that
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make sense whatsoever? It’s like you going to the doctor and paying the same
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for brain surgery as it is to get a sliver removed from your finger. Actually
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it’s not really much like that at all, but you get the point.
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I guess what I’m saying is one size does not fit all when it comes to SEO,
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especially. Because no two sites are the same, right? No two websites are in the
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same situation. They’re not in the same location. They don’t have the same
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competition. They’re not in the same niche. How can they have the same prices?
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It doesn’t make sense, right? You with me so far? Let’s keep going. The thing is there has
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to have, be research done, right? You need to know what keywords you’re going to go
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after, what keywords are going to give you the biggest ROI, return on your
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investment, right? What is going to give you the biggest bang for your buck and
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have people coming to your business, or calling your business, or buying your
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products, or talking to… but then the competition for those keywords has to be
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analyzed. The SEO expert should want to know exactly what they’re getting into
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before they give you a price. You know the last thing that I want to do is give
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you a little tiny price, say “yes I’m gonna jump on with him and he’s gonna
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rank me at the top” and then I know that I can’t get it done for that price but
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I’m going to keep you around for three or four months knowing you’re just going
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to kick me to the curb and get pissed at me, but I had you for
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three or four months anyway so it doesn’t really matter. On to the next one,
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right? That’s not how I work but that’s how a lot of these other ones work so be
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careful of those guys! (evil laugh) Plus, what’s the strength of your current site? Is it new?
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Is it current? Does it need to be updated? Is it mobile friendly? Are you
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ranking in Google Maps? Do you want to be ranked in Google Maps? Obviously! Is your
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site have power? Is it trusted? Does it have authority? Is anyone linking to it?
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Anyone talking about? Do you have social signals going to it? All that stuff has
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to be under consideration. And if it doesn’t have any of those things or it
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needs a little bit more or needs some more of this, more attention, more anything, how
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much is that going to cost me in time and money? That’s what I want to know,
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before I give you any kind of dollars and cents.
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5-4-3-2-1 Go. Now, putting a price up there prior to knowing this information
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is not only disrespectful to the client, but it’s downright irresponsible! And it
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should not be tolerated. You see, to be honest, I don’t want to
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give a price quote until I’ve properly researched everything. Analyzed the site.
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Analyzed the competition. Analyzed the client themselves. And then I will know
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whether I want to work with them, whether it’ll be a good fit. Look I’m not gonna
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be doing SEO on some porn site, right? That’s not what I’m about. And the other thing is
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I don’t want to charge a fee where I know I’m not going to be able to get the
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job done…but I know I’m going to be able to get the client. Does that make sense? See
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a lot of these big agencies, let me let you in on a little bit of a secret here,
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a lot of these big agencies they got big buildings and a bunch of cubicles like a
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cube farm going around and they have a bunch of salespeople and then they have
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middle management and upper management that CEO blah blah blah all those people
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that’s great great great companies, right? Now let me let you in on a little secret,
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the person you’re talking to…they don’t know SEO. They don’t know how to rank a
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website. They probably wouldn’t even know what a back-end of a website looks like
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if you smacked them in the face with it. But what they do know is how to sell you
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and then they’re going to pass your website on to somebody else, probably
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just out of school, that doesn’t really know
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that what they’re doing is not real SEO, reading off a list and doing checklists,
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it’s not real SEO, it’s not going to get anything done. It’s not going to move the
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needle for any business. But they’re so naive, they’re so excited to be in a
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marketing agency, they’re like “yeah, this is cool!” They don’t care, they’re just
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doing their work and thinking they’re making a difference for this business.
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Really, when all they’re doing is the bare minimum that doesn’t cost anything
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so they can have more clients and the salespeople can keep bringing them in
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and they can keep bringing them into these account managers or whatever they
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want to call them. And it’s just a vicious cycle like that. Meanwhile the client is
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locked in from a year, at least, on a minimum contract. And there’s nowhere
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they can go, they’re not moving anywhere in the search engines but they’re
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getting what they said they were going to get from the contract because they
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didn’t know what they were signing up for. They didn’t know they weren’t gonna get
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ranked higher, do anything like that. They were just going to get these backlinks
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that were supposed to do some something for them, but the salesman was so slick,
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they told them all they wanted to hear just to get them on. And that’s, it’s just
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a vicious cycle. Then the year comes up, they didn’t go anywhere in their website,
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their business hasn’t improved. Nothing’s happened. Now they’re pissed at SEO. They
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think SEO doesn’t work and all SEOs are scumbags. When the fact is they just
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shouldn’t have gone with that business in the first place. Well had to come up
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for air now. I think that’s one of the biggest problems in the SEO industry.
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There’s too many people out there that just want to get the deal, right? They
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want the client. They’ll do anything. They’ll say anything. They’ll do whatever
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it takes just to get the client on board and worry about it later. Or pass it off
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to the account managers. They’ll just worry about it, “I just need to make the
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sale,” when they know they’re not going to be able to make it happen. Or maybe they
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don’t know because they don’t know SEO to begin with. So what they do is
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they lowball the price get you in and just plan on telling the client that “SEO
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takes time” and keep them around for four or five or six months until they really
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get pissed. And they just basically milk it for as long as they can or they have you
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on contract, then you’re really screwed. The fact is that the goal of most SEO
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providers is to keep you a round.
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Seriously. They want to keep you a client as long as possible. The goal is not to
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rank you number one. Once you’re number one, why do you need them anymore, right?
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So they want to keep you going as long as possible. They want to bring you from
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page 7 to page 6. “Yeah we’re making improvement, awesome! Just stick another
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month and maybe we’ll go up a couple more pages!” Really? Really? I mean, come on! Look
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I’m gonna be honest I don’t keep clients longer than a year. It doesn’t take that
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long for me to rank a client. But there’s really no reason to keep you on longer
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than that. I mean maybe if you move down in the rankings a little bit and you
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need a refresh or something like that. Then that’s something else. Or if you
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want different keywords and we can do that, you know, in the next campaign.
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Or something maybe along those lines. But working on the same keywords for over a
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year, either you suck at SEO or you’re trying to screw somebody and shame on
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you! So thank you very much for allowing me to vent and get this frustration out
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a little bit and, you know, it was very therapeutic for me and I hope it was a
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little bit informative for you. And you got to understand a little bit more
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about SEO pricing and what you’re getting yourselves into. And you know
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maybe I was able to show you that not all SEOs are scumbags! (huh) I hope I’m not!
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But anyway, seriously get in touch with me if you’d
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like me to analyze your site before giving you any kind of pricing. Analyze
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the competition, the keywords…all that good stuff that we talked about in the
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video. And I would be more than happy to do so for you and if it works out, great!
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Either way I hope you enjoyed the video. I’ll talk to you soon bye. Hopefully we
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got one good take in there. The rest of them are on the outtake reel! This is fun!
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5-4-3-2-1 Go! Hi there. I want to talk to you about SEO pricing. Hello
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I’m here to talk to you today about some pricing and your search engine
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optimization strategy. We got to talk about SEO pricing. I feel like I don’t
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even know you anymore. We need to have a little discussion,
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okay, and it’s about SEO pricing. There are a lot of myths out there, okay, and I
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don’t like them. I don’t appreciate them.
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Hi I’m Craig and I want to talk about SEO pricing. Hi I’m Craig and I want to
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talk about SEO pricing. Hi I’m Craig, I enjoy long walks on the beach and
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talking about SEO pricing. Look I think it’s time that we get serious. I think
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we’ve gone through this long enough. We’ve put this on the back burner and
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not addressed it fully. And it is starting to tear us apart. What I’m
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talking about is SEO pricing. Are you ready to talk about it? Let’s go. Hey how
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much do you get charged for your SEO? Probably shit, right? And that’s the
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service you’re gonna get! Oh my god I can’t talk about SEO pricing any more it
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makes me want to pull out my hair that I don’t even have! mmm SEO pricing. Let’s
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talk about it, huh? Oh man! One of my favorite subjects in the world!
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it’s SEO pricing, let’s go! hmm SEO
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pricing. SEO pricing makes me wanna pull my freaking hair out.
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If I had any. That’s kind of funny. Let’s go. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe we’re about
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to make this video on SEO pricing. I can’t wait! Can you?
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Let’s do this! hmmmm I want to talk to you about SEO pricing. Would you please join
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me for this video. Thank you!