Can you put a price on Search Engine Optimisation?
April 23rd, 2009 by Nick
It is most probably part of the genetic code of humans to want to get services and products at the least cost possible. Humans love sniffing out bargains and making deals to get the most for the least money. This is all good and well, but where your business is concerned, this way of thinking too often puts you on the highway to disaster. Any carpenter, doctor, mechanic or dentist will tell you that for them to buy inferior tools of their trade would be insanity. As a entrepreneur, this should be true for you as well.
Quality versus cheap
Every tool you utilize in the maintenance and expansion of your business should be of superior quality. You simply cannot afford to make use of the services of the ‘bargain-basement boys’. This brings us back again to the question of whether it is possible to put a price on SEO. Your optimisation tools are what makes or breaks your marketing campaign for your business.
Your SEO consultant, the strategies used plus the time and effort putting into your optimisation and marketing strategy are tools. Your website design and contents, as well as the maintenance and improvement of this, are tools. These specific tools are what you make use of to take your company from obscurity to a household name. These tools you use to enhance your credibility and to bring your prospective clients to your website.
Very expensive cheapies
Now we get to the fact of these tools being advertised as replicas, knock-offs, fakes of the original that is ‘just as good as the real deal’. As the saying goes; if its too good to be true, then it’s a lie. The important thing to consider here is whether your business can afford the cost involved to rectify the damage done with inferior tools. Some companies are lucky and the damage is negligible.
Others are not so lucky and they lose big-time. You stand to lose customers, your credibility and if you annoyed the search engines with unscrupulous practices, your website can be removed entirely. These are disasters your company will have great difficulty recovering from.
Wise investment
Internet Marketing is the most competitive arena in the world that is fact. Couple this to the worldwide tight economic climate we are in right now and it is easy to see a picture here. Money is tight for everyone, this means fewer people are spending freely. You must be able to hold onto existing customers and expand your market where possible.
The only way to achieve this is by investing in the services of an expert and reputable marketing consultant. Your business cannot afford mediocrity and this will be an investment that repays your initial investment over and over. In an ever tightening economic climate, the only way to make money is by investing money first. in reality investing in sound and Expert SEO is even more important in a downward economy than during an upward swing.
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Hi Nick,
Yes, you make a very good point regarding businesses hiring credible SEO consultants. Unfortunately many business decision makers do not know the SEO process well enough to distinguish whether they are getting quality consultation or implemented services. And, many clients are not aware that SEO is an ongoing program of work, not a one-off project.
talk soon
Jacqui
Hi Jacqui
Thanks for your comment – have you considered SEO on your website?
Nick