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23

Cheap SEO is not always the best SEO – Cheap is what it is !

Just finished “brainstorming” with a potential client who actually got me convinced that I’ll run out of business, because my rates are way too high to afford. Of course I do understand his feelings and quite a bit agree with him, not completely though.

If you’re looking to hire an SEO for “upgrading” your website, there are hundreds of thousands of offers waiting for you. And with those many options, its not easy to make a decision. In fact, its easy to get confused. But what we often miss to understand is that , if you’re really serious about your website, you got to decide whether you want to add value to it or not – with SEO consultation.

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There are too good to be true offers on the internet that’ll help you make a decision in a snap ! But it won’t be soon when you realize that it was a haste decision. I mean, there are offers that promise you number one ranks in seven days on Google! If you ask me, that’s completely ridiculous ! I mean, even if I were Matt Cutts, I couldn’t promise that.

SEO is a like a bypass heart surgery to your website. You find out what’s wrong, map out the blockages, and ultimately clear them up with a surgery. It’ll take some time to recover at least. Once you’re back to normal, you’ll be a better person.

So I just don’t understand how these too good to be true offers work ? PageRank 6 in 2 weeks ? What PageRank are you talking about – the one I know updates just about randomly in 3-4 months. SO, what’s the deal ?

Clearly, there are people who try to “use” other people’s ignorance to their benefit, try and convince them about something that can’t be achieved, and run away with the quick money. But I guess it happens just about everywhere.

But when you’re on the internet, ask others and do your homework please. Your pals, your friends online, and do your own checks to see if the guy whom you’re hiring is worth the money or not. Don’t go for the claims, as they are always meant to deceive you. Not that all claims are false, there are lot of genuine people out there, but they don’t shout too loud like the one’s you hear often. You got to find them, but when you do, you’ll probably stick around.

Thanks to the “lost client” who made me write this post. He asked me if I could match a competitors claim of guaranteed Page Rank 6 in 3 weeks with “blog commenting” methods !!

No, I didn’t fall off the chair, I just took a long breath and said – “I’ve read the bible, and I know miracles happen. But I’d rather not be Jesus !”

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  1. Michael AngraveNo Gravatar

    Yeah you are certainly right. just because someone is not prepared to pay your prices, it doesn’t mean anything in the scheme of things. There are many company’s that do understand the importance and indeed to some extent the process of quality SEO. When people make these claims, people who actually believe them, probably won’t second time round!

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  2. Jacob StoopsNo Gravatar

    SEO is a valuable service, so as a customer you just have to do your research before selecting an SEO. If an SEO is charging a low fee, ask yourself ‘Is there a reason the fee is so low? Don’t they value their services?’

    At the same time, SEO’s that charge a lot may give you quality, but may be used to working with super-large clients or accounts, so you may not be top-priority for them.

    In the end, you just need to try to find a quality SEO at a price that fits your budget.

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  3. Chrissy MorinNo Gravatar

    That’s too HYSTERICAL! I feel like you’ve been sitting in on some of my meetings with clients! I think what happens with these fly by night companies is that they start up a new website, go out and try to scam as many as possible and then when people figure it out.. close up shop and crop up with another url to scam some more people.

    I just “rescued” a client from a service that she was paying $99/month for so that she could have a google local listing for our town.. ummmm… THAT doesn’t cost anything… so I advised her to cancel this “service”… she felt stupid of course, but also grateful that some of us are honest and interested in helping our clients not hurting them.

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  4. metfabNo Gravatar

    Great post… cheap price never good ^^

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  5. SaptarshiNo Gravatar

    LoL Mani ! thanks for the post, I was planning to make one on similar thoughts but you just wrote my mind. While the humor in your post is evident and I do feel the same way when some of my “prospective clients” come up with those type of comparisons, at times it gets rather frustrating.

    People often have a notion “Indian” means cheap and with so many self proclaimed “SEO experts” from India giving such miraculous offers it becomes all the more extablished.

    Lat week I spoke to someone who had a guarantee from someone in India, who can optimize his entire ecommerce site (around 400 products) for one whole year and get him first page ranks for 80% of keywords in 2 months time for Rs.20000 ( approx $400) one time fee to be paid in advance.

    He wanted to check if I could match the offer – I couldn’t , would you like to try ? ;)

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  6. kmanishNo Gravatar

    Nice Post…………..Cheap means quality less SEO

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