Cost effective SEO

Just to add, as I've been reading quite a few blogs that post monthly income reports and where they also reveal their traffic sources.

9 out of 10 times, Google is the number one traffic source, followed by direct traffic or vice versa.

On number 3 comes either Facebook, Twitter or whatever Forum, and that's good for about 2-3 percent of the total traffic and when you add all the additional traffic sources up it's maybe good for 10 percent of the total traffic of the site, so:

- 50 percent traffic from Google
- 40 percent direct traffic
- 10 percent from a dozen or more additional traffic sources combined.

OMG 10 percent of traffic ONLY to be active on multiple social platforms, forums and what not, what a huge waste of time, especially if you value your time at $100-$200/hour like I do. That way SEO becomes pretty damn cheap!

I do admit that in some niches, like SEO, other traffic sources might be more interesting as ranking for SEO service is so damn competitive so then you look when your crowd hangs out. However for most Amazon type of niches, eg physical products, it's a huge waste of time to get involved at forums and what not.

So yeah maybe Alexis writes everything from her own niche perspective, same like I do, waving that fact away other traffic sources might be more interesting for him/her. For example I don't need a sales funnel and pre-sell customers for ages when I try to sell a hair dryer, especially when I rank for buying terms where people just want that extra confirmation that the product is solid without needing to stalk them with a whole series of e-mails in the hope to convince them.

To sell SEO services I do need to have some sort of reputation and thus forum marketing is pretty useful and Google leads would thus be a bit harder to convert, however in the majority of niches that's not the case as people already know what they want, whether it's a plumber, a taxi service or as I said a hair dryer.