About Scam Flat Rate SEO Companies
Don’t be suckered into believing that flat rate seo firms that offer you website optimization for all your key words at $149 or $250 dollars give you anything of value. I know, I tried 4 different companies and their services were worthless. They were all scams. I did have one company that was able to get a couple of keyword phrases to appear on the front page of Yahoo, but that was it.
The truth is companies who are serious about promoting there website are paying upwards of $80,000 a year for an SEO Specialist and between $75,000 and $200,000 for an SEO Guru (a Guru typically runs a team of seo specialist). These seo specialist typically are on payroll of a company or corporation.
Now the question that demands an answer is: why would companies pay this kind of money for an Search Engine Optimation (SEO) Specialist if they could use a flat rate company to do this for them at just $150 to $300 a month? The point is you can’t? There is a tremendous amount of ongoing research, textual update, and link building that has to be done every week to stay ahead of the competition.
We have all heard how ranking high on natural search is free advertising. Many people who aren’t knowledgeable in internet marketing don’t know any better. Just because you are not paying per click certainly doesn’t make it free. On the contrary, any natural search engine campaign worth it’s salt cost a great deal of money. Someone has to do all the research, write all the content, Optimize all the content, build all the links to gain popularity with the search engines. And all this has to be done and monitored on a weekly basis.
Years ago when I started exploring the flat rate seo companies, I wasn’t aware that it was common knowledge in the industry that the El Cheepo Seo Companies were offering a scam service. I bought into it for a while until I realized that I was being scammed.
Truly professional Seo Companies that can bring the results a company needs to keep their website on the front page of the major search engines are going to charge on average between $150 to $300 per key word a month. The more difficult the key words, the more you are going to pay.
Most SEO buyers captivated by the prospect of free traffic and that free price-point sets their anchoring for the price. Further their first introduction to SEO comes from non-SEO companies that prey on peoples ignorance. I know, I once was ignorant before becoming educated and informed of this industry. Many web hosts, domain registrars, clueless web designers (who talk up web standards but do no actual SEO research), and pestering telemarketers offer rock bottom priced flat rate packages that have no value. Most don’t even build links back to the site. Some of the companies that offer these services would be bankrupt without selling stuff like the scammy bolt on no value SEO packages.