Reislet wrote:I'm doing research for my own ideas and have a couple of questions:
- How many kw are you pushing if you are spending 3 hours / month?
- Are these kw local national or international?
- How do you bill businesses /kw /hour?
- Do you have a fixed price point or client dependent? (ex: plastic surgeon, mom & pop owned business)
Hi there Reislet,
- I would usually target around 5-6 keywords, 2 super competitive ones, 2 three word targetted ones and one kinda safety keyword xD. For ecommerce we'd charge a lot more and do it by category and products, usually 10 keywords per page.
-We only did local and national businesses in the UK.
- We charged flat rates per month that included on site optimisation, link building and some basic social content syndication.
- I would take some clients at £300 if I could tell it was going to be easy money, small local hotels or mot centres for example are extremely easy to work with and get results for. I would usually decide during the meeting what I would charge based on their competition, experience, budgets, company etc etc or at least give an indication and see how they reacted before offering a quote after the meeting

larkrise wrote:So I too wonder if you can elaborate on how many kw you target for the 3 hours of work and what type of business pays you the £500 - I am guessing you dont tell them its 3 hours of work but maybe say how many backlinks they get or something
As mentioned above, usually 5-6 or a lot more for ecommerce depending on complexity of site, products etc. Really the best thing to do is google for an industry like "life insurance brokers", go to page 3 and find companies back there that don't appear to be using any SEO techs but run companies with more than say 15 employees, especially when their competitors are using strong seo shiz.
Also click some PPC ads, sometimes you find a site landing on terrible landing pages etc, sometimes this means they are just spending money randomly on PPC because they've been told to so can be an opportunity as well as one for helping them sort their SEO out.
Basically lots of people are up for it if you can show them that the competition are doing it, and that you can guarantee results. Just remember to pick carefully if you play that game......don't guarantee life insurance...maybe life insurance london for example.
o you have any instant messaging programs? I'd be happy to go into more detail
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