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I was looking over a few SEO sites today and came across a major player in this industry with a service of link building. I looked at their pricing and started to think; what is a good price to pay for quality inbound links?  I am not talking about buying links, Google doesn’t like that and I understand why. What I am referring to is paying someone to take on your link building strategy.

This company offers to provide 50 quality inbound links for $1,800.  That’s $36.00 per link. I am sure this company has a large group of websites that it can draw from to give indusry and topic related inbound links from. 50 inbound links from quality sites can do amazing things to your search return position if done correctly. At the upper end of the spectrum this company offers 200 inbound links for $4,500.  Once again I am assuming they have a ready list of websites to draw from.

I wonder if it would be cost effective for me to make the same offer. I don’t have a large number of sites to draw from and what kind of time frame would I be looking at to get 50 inbound links from industry related sites? Maybe I need to experiment and see what kind of time frame it would take for me to get 50 one way inbound links. Once I find out the time then it is just a simple matter of math to find out how much it cost me for my time.

What is your opinion? Does $1,800 for 50 inbound links seem like a good deal to you? What would you pay someone to handle your link campaign?

Are you willing to give someone $6000.00 for SEO whether they succeed or not.

I am sure this will fly in the face of many of the big SEO companies out there.  For the average small to medium sized website a large amount of money is not required for an effective SEO campaign.

How do I know this to be true? Because I have done it after contacting one of the larger and more well known SEO companies to do it for me. When I contacted this SEO firm about taking care of one of my websites in the highly competative industry of commercial over the road trucking employment I was told it would cost me $6000.00 up front and $2000.00 a month for the next 6 months and then a maintenance fee after that.

If they were not successful in achieving good search return rankings in that six month period then I only received 50% of my money back. So that means they get $6000.00 whether they succeed or not. What a deal for them eh??

If you are like me and you have a small business then those numbers are probably out of the question.  I did the next best thing and learned all could about SEO and did it on my own and guess what I found out???? It cost me less than $1000.00 and only 100 days to move my website from the 600’s on Google up to number 14.

I did not pay for AdWords nor did I purchase any links other than a couple of directory submissions such as Yahoo at $299.00 and a few others. If you are willing to invest the time necessary to take on your own SEO project it can be done. You must be willing to commit at least 2 hours a day to the task which I am sure does have a dollar value to it.  So the next time you are thinking about hiring one of those mega SEO companies to work on your website, step back take a deep breath and think whether or not it will be worth it.  I am sure they can do job very well but is it worth it.

For that matter I can do it for you for a lot less than $12,000.00 (and that includes my time). And if I am not successful you get your money back.

It has been a couple months since I last posted on x7SEO.com.  A lot has happened from a major ice storm in late February that shut my part of the country down to complete darkness for several weeks to personal matters and work.  Now that that is out of the way it is time to get back on track.  Expect future postings to reflect techniques and methodologies used in search engine optimization from the beginner level to more advanced. The tips and techniques are tried and tested and I will show examples of how each technique was implemented and the results.

There will not be any extraordinary claims of SEO magic nor will you find any SEO B.S. which is so prevalent. I want to share what has worked and what continues to work for me and hopefully it will work for you.

With that said it is time to get back to the topic of Search Engine Optimization.  You can start by viewing the video I made last year on how I took a website (www.truckerhub.com) from 600 to 14 in 100 days using techniques that you can use.  (by the way TruckerHub.com is now solidly at number 5 on Google for it’s primary search term of trucker jobs).  Too view the video click on the tab at the top of this page titled “From 600 to 14 on Google In 100 Days”

Have a great day…………..   eric