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I am looking for a local seo expert, this is what I have been offered for $600 per month from a freelancer but I am not 100% convinced.
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I would look on Upwork and sort by rating and budget.
I’ve found excellent help there.
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How fuck that’s a hell of a bargain. I can’t imagine anyone being able to do that. I work in SEO in melb. Also DA greater than 15 doesn’t mean that much. Also local link building will take ages, especially if the utilise all listings sites. 5-10 a day is a shit load. Especially after a month.
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Try r/slavelabour (ignore the name, it’s a good place to check)
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He is playing with you I feel.
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Okay so, I am going to break down your entire offer which should help you find out what these guys are doing.
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The thing about a lot of Agencies is they just outsource the whole work to some freelancer, in your case it sounds like it could be someone from Fiverr or somewhere similar.
I would run away from somebody who just uses PA/DA as a metric personally without looking at anything else, it’s too easy to manipulate + could be using low-quality PBNs.
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In terms of the rest, it sounds like they are just putting the cheapest of everything they find from Fiverr into a package.
8 Blogs per month, people on Fiverr would charge $5-$7 for that, so let’s say around $56 dollars for 8 500 word articles (you usually don’t need anything huge in local markets, but it depends on the SERP).
4 Social posts = Let’s say someone on Fiverr charges $5-$10 per post I imagine, so $20-$40, let’s say $30.
Citations, you can get local ones for 0.30c-$1 per citation, not sure if they mentioned that many.
The keyword research I am not sure of, as I have never had any experience in buying that myself, nor know anyone who has bought that sort of stuff, but I assume if they’re not doing it themselves, so they can probably buy that from $40-$100.
The rest sounds like just basic fluff you can get very cheaply or even free, other than the backlinks unless they are taking into account Citations into that.
Because a high-quality guest post costs $100+, a niche edit $50+ so 5-10 backlinks per day sounds a little fishy. The only links I assume they are getting inside of that budget is:
– Web 2’s (Can help a little to diversify Anchor text if needed)
– Citations (Again, useful especially for GMB’s, but won’t shoot you up the Google ranking)
– PBNs ( A high-quality PBN link will cost $20-$100, so they are getting some quite low-quality stuff)
All in all, it sounds like they are outsourcing it all to the cheapest people possible on freelance marketplaces to make a profit somewhere around $300.
The quality will therefore also be fairly low and it might be dangerous. Then, again, I haven’t had a look at their exact process, so I might be wrong.
But the 5-10 Backlinks Per Day with DA/PA of 15+ is really something you want to look in to, as it could harm your website’s SEO. The rest can’t really harm you unless they truly create content which is that terrible (may or may not be the case) and you can always offer them a trial deal (7 days or 14 days) to take a look at the content, but ask them not to build links until you know what the f they’re doing or whether it’s good practise (maybe find out, book a call with an SEO consultant or so).
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You may consider it would make more sense to agree a price related to increased traffic/conversions/revenue?
After all, that is what you ACTUALLY want?
You don’t need a drill or a hammer or a nail, you need a hole in the wall.
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Hey mate, I’m Perth based SEO. I used to work at Bonfire but been working for myself the last couple of years. There are a few pitfalls to watch out for. Happy to have a chat with you about your site.
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Sounds like a reseller. He might do some of the research or posts. Everything else could be through vendors. It’s easy to patch together a “cheap” marketing service when several vendors are involved. This puts in question the quality of the articles. We charge $0.50 per word and have marvelous results. We control the content, research, and maintain versions based on client feedback.
We’ve sold thousands of digital marketing services sub <$1000 on a one-off retainer. We’ve also spent thousands on low-cost vendors to see what they can offer. The difference is clear when you know about fake backlinks, outsourced copywriting, and other tactics to keep costs low.
Give him a shot. However, this is an investment in your communication, and if it’s not on par, it could double the work.
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$600 for this is insanely cheap.
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Sounds like a shit plan that was tossed together. Not sure of the niche but sounds like a sloppy job for local seo for sure. Couple red flags:
-where are the blog posts going? Do they even realize they are for supporting content for certain kws? Or do they just think content = rank and sloppily create 8 posts?
-what does 5 Google ads and 2 face book ads per week mean, lol. Why would they be creating that many new ads each week? The ads just run and you wouldn’t have enough data to test new ones efficiently that quickly
-do they have a real plan for citations?
-the link building is extremely red flag as the links will either be trash or the entire thing is just not going to be fulfilled on. Especially since I just read it again and it’s daily. Building 15 even half decent non spammy links per day is basically a full time job so even at like $4 usd per hour that would be the entire budget
I don’t see this turning out well. Either the work will be terrible or it will not even be done, and I’m quite sure it won’t rank. And I’m 100% sure they don’t really know what they’re doing.
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Poor quality blogging is cheap, and thus nearly worthless.
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Far too cheap, as others have said. For that cost, you’re likely getting crap articles that have been run through a spinner.
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I always say pay no less than $1,000/month for SEO.
I get that some very small businesses still can’t afford that. But even so, I would absolutely not go below $750/month. At that point you’re paying for hot air.
Based on the pricing and everything outlined from this freelancer, you’re going to get screwed over with terrible content. If your content is terrible, then you might as well flush $600 down the drain every month.
From an agency perspective, we would charge over $5,000/month for all of those blogs, social posts, and reporting.
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All that done well could help a lot, all that done half-assed would do more harm than good. $600/m sounds more like half-assed to me.
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Those are all good tasks and metrics but that’s a ton for $600/month. I would only be cautious about the backlinking. Most other things can be fixed if poor quality but recovering from bad links can be hard.
If they do blogs, social posting and ads – these can all be adjusted if done poorly.
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