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How much does SEO cost to get to page 1 on google?

by cctvyork
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I know that SEO can vary greatly in price depending on who is offering the service; and there is a large price disparity for a reason. Companies who offer SEO at very low prices usually tend to cut corners, use 'black-hat' techniques or use improper SEO strategy, resulting in penalties, decreases in traffic and spam for unsuspecting business owners. Agency prices tend to run higher, but you are paying for their experience, ethics and effectiveness.

What Is the cheapest and long lasting way to reach page one?
#cost #google #page #seo
  • Profile picture of the author jamie3000
    Probably your own HQ PBN. Only problem (if they're done right) is they don't scale very well
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by cctvyork View Post

    I know that SEO can vary greatly in price depending on who is offering the service; and there is a large price disparity for a reason. Companies who offer SEO at very low prices usually tend to cut corners, use 'black-hat' techniques or use improper SEO strategy, resulting in penalties, decreases in traffic and spam for unsuspecting business owners. Agency prices tend to run higher, but you are paying for their experience, ethics and effectiveness.

    What Is the cheapest and long lasting way to reach page one?



    You've missed the most important reason prices vary so much for SEO.

    Competion.

    It's cheaper to rank for knitting class fargo north dakota than it is to rank for auto insurance dallas.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chas9000c
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    I'm afraid you may be asking the wrong question. Your question assumes there's a single cost to a single idea of "getting to page 1." In reality, you probably want to be on page 1 for many different search terms. And the difficulty for each search term can be wildly different--so the time and effort...and cost...are wildly different. So the question itself isn't the right question.

    Instead, I'd recommend you take a step back and think about SEO as just one part of a greater marketing strategy. Some terms you may want to target for SEM instead of SEO, because they're too competitive right now to be realistic targets for SEO. Other search terms you'll want to target for SEO, but not immediately...more for the long term, because you know it's unlikely for you to rank for them yet. Then other terms are realistic to rank for now, so you'll want to target those immediately. Etc....

    Long story short: For many companies, real SEO (unlike the black hat types you refer to) is an ongoing effort that you keep working on indefinitely, so the real question is "How much of my overall marketing budget should I put into SEO vs other marketing initiatives?" And the only way to answer that is to look at all of your marketing initiatives relative to your overall strategy and make some tough decisions. Once you've set your budgets, the speed of results you get from SEO will be proportional to the amount of time/money you budget for SEO.

    Hope that helps...at least to reframe how to think about SEO and budgeting.
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  • Profile picture of the author missmystery
    I paid $50 once here on the WF. Though it was about 7 years ago.

    Those methods probably don't work anymore. Have a look around and see what warriors have to say in the warriors for hite section.
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