Howmuch will a SEO pro cost

Hi everyone,

I was wondering howmuch a SEO expert would charge to provide us the right
tips to optimize our webpage for google.

with kind regards,

Faisj

somewhere 'tween say $10 a keyword or month (by someone who will not be capable of doing anything but taking your $$$) to say $5000 US a month for a full year campaign that will do a professional job. least that's what we've found over the years...

oh. great pros are usually VERY much into qualifying their clients...so you may not get proposals from many of us just because you have the budget....

you'd best start here, reading say the Pro's board for the past year....and that's like all the threads....learning what we feel is needed to BE an SEO client....and what we'd offer for same...



Jim
Jim

According to my research on 40 top seo companies worldwide, a good seo consultant/agency can charge anywhere from $500 to $15000 per month per domain (depending upon the business location, client's market/industry and risk tolerance)

Hi Jim and Himanshu,

The website I need (extra) help with is: SpaOnline.com
We went online on Jul 8th and I do have some experience with SEO but, I think
that the real experts are found on forums like these. Those are the once with
real passion.
Ofcourse, finding the right person is very hard.

Is it possible to ask for advice here on the forum?
Give my domain name and here all your advices?

kind regards,

Faisj

Absolutely it's possible. Asking general, run of the mill questions that get asked 482947223489 times a day will probably not get you any acceptable response, if any responses.

Showing the members here that you want to help yourself is a big step (i.e. reading the stickies, searching to see how many times before you the same question was asked, etc.). You also need to have somewhat of a clue about SEO so you ask the correct questions. Generalized questions will get you generalized answers.

The cost for SEO varies greatly. Many factors go into the costs.

Welcome aboard!

Depends how pretty she is ....

lol 5 posts and mostly all of the same responses to people seeking help.

How about contributing to the community here and building a reputation for yourself before trying to take people's money? Many people who contribute here regularly sell SEO services. They've given back to this community before asking or trying to gain clients.

Hoi,

Start with your image alts, the most important being your logo. Add at least Spa Online in there.

"Zoek Spa's op locatie"
The anchor text isn't correct. You name the number of available spa's, but you should anchor them like: "Drente (19)".

Do a better keyword research and stem (Sauna, openlucht spa, dagje spa, massage in een spa, wellness centre, stoomkamer). Right now the pages aren't as targeted as can be.

Change pagetitle of /Spa-Map, walk through your entire site and stick with a consistent concise page titling scheme, where you check in Google keyword tool, how many visitors are predicted to come for such terms, and what the competition is on those terms.

Add plain text links on the /spa-map page that link to the inner pages. You want to start ranking for "Spa in Gelderland". The regional pages have subpar pagetitles. "Gelderland | Spa | SpaOnline" would be better to target that. "Gelderland | Spa, Sauna, Stoomkamers, Wellness" is another that would add value.

Write content for these pages, don't just list spa's. Write about Spa's in Gelderland, even if just 1 paragraph.

Build links in the many dutch directories. You have some links, and also some nice natural links, but startpagina's and all its clones are easy pickings.

Spa Online magazine works alright for content, I bet. You could add a little more focus on your listings and place a call2actions to "look for more spa's in your regions", "look for spa's that give these massages". Email spa's or use their account to ask for a more descriptions for their entries. user generated Reviews are good, but the content itself is a little lacking.

Use automatic xml sitemap plugin for joomla. Use analytics to find the keywords that bring you visitors and look to cement these keywords.

Try to add video, its a cheap way to rank in both youtube and with a videositemap on your own site. Find second-hand sites where you can place free listings. List your site as a service (Looking for a day at the spa? Visit our site).

Try to organize a competition. Find webmasters in your niche and offer them a day at the spa in return for a link and some promotion. Webmasters and social media loves free stuff and a prize organized with a spa (where u get the tickets for free or reduced prize in return for promotion).

Have a look at the guidelines and technical points of your website. Image alts "Click here for the slide". You think of hreview microformat and beg Google for a rich snippet

Standard more products in the /Gelderland -like pages, 8 is too little. 30 could be more appropriate, you are not gonna rank the secondary pages. Look at competitor sites like:
hxxp://www.yourw[remove]ellness.nl/spa/Gelderland

Look what they do correct to rank such a "poor" page in the top 10 and improve on that. Clue: Articles/content about spa's in gelderland. More and better links than your competitor, also to this very page. Individual product descriptions. Another top 10 competitor: hxxp://www.sauna-th[remove]alasso.com/spa-gelderland.htm Your site already screams quality over these kinds of competitors. You just need to take a little of their SEO medicine.

Try to remove dynamic variables from the url or at least use canonical meta tag.

There is really something to do on the SEO front. Consider training someone on the technical side of things or yourself to do a lot of this yourself. SEO can be expensive, too expensive to be worth it. With a little investment you can learn the basics of SEO and online marketing, two skill-sets that are nearly invaluable for a succesful website and online business anyway.