What You Get When You Pay $50 per Month on SEO

While I have never been actively offered $50 per month for my services, I am aware of people who pay a web vendor or a person or someone/something somewhere around $50 per month of search engine optimization services. Many times, if an individual is interested in SEO but is considering this type of financial commitment, they have little intimate knowledge on the subject at hand.

Here is the short answer for what you get when you pay $50/month for SEO Services:

  • You get NOTHING of value you couldn’t do in 15 minutes of your own time

What’s worse is that if you keep paying that money, you get more and more disenchanted with the service and end up researching and DOING half of the things you think your SEO vendor is doing. Then you end up reading the Troubled Times for SEO Firms” article by Dave Pasternack and start thinking that indeed, we’re all out to steal your money and provide nothing of value.

If you have $50/month budgeted for SEO, I recommend you read my blog, as well as many of the other SEO bloggers I have listed in the SEO Blog Links on my home page and spend your $50/month on one or two new, quality inbound links each month instead of paying your “SEO vendor”.

The Longer Answer To What You Get For Your $50 per Month
(As Well As Links To The Resources You Will Need)
For $50 per month, all your SEO Vendor is doing is submitting your web address, and maybe a few secondary pages, to the major search engines, using their standard submission form. In case you are wondering how they figured this out, here is my original post which linked to Google, Yahoo and MSN’s webmaster guidelines for successful search engine indexing, but in addition, here are the resources and links you need for submitting your website to all of the major search engines, FOR FREE.

A word of note: I do not recommend you repeatedly submit your website to each of these search engines, as one submission will be sufficient. The only reason you may want to revisit this list is if you end up completely redesigning your website (which is a blog post for another day) or add something completely new. Even in the latter case, you should not have to resubmit your material, assuming you are doing everything else from an SEO perspective to gain website visibility in search.

Search Engine Submissions:

  • Google Submission Form
  • Yahoo Submission Form
  • MSN Search Submission Form
  • I don’t personally believe you need to read much farther than this, but if you are really interested in search engine submissions, here are some second and third tier market players to consider submissions for:
  • There is no free submission for Ask.com. Here is a link to their guidelines: Ask.com Webmaster FAQ
  • AlltheWeb.com and AltaVista.com are powered by Yahoo, so you can use Yahoo’s submission form for all three search engines.
  • Similar to Ask.com, there is no longer a free submission form for Excite.com, although you can inquire on their Paid Advertising Program, which also powers Web Crawler and DogPile.
  • InfoTiger Free Search Engine Submission
  • Finally, two search engines that were once popular several years ago, are powered by other search technology. Lycos is powered by Ask.com and Hotbot incorporate MSN and Ask.com search engine technology

Finally, if you are a really good SEO vendor, who is charging $50/month for your services, I highly recommend you reconsider your fee structure.


March 14, 2007 | Filed Under SEO, Small Business | Bookmark this post |

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