SEO deal or no deal

Hey guys. So my phone is dryer than a dessert. I’m still needing to contact Tim4, but in the meantime looking into other marketing methods. My plan is to go with yard signs, door-knocking with my wife and handing out cards and/or doorhangers and a card. But i may need more…

I found an SEO guy in my area who comes highly recommended. Unfortunately, also a high price, but he set up a deal if I want it:

Full website design (full meal deal) on wordpress with all the SEO added into the background of the site, and SEO from day one for two months for $3000. The website itself will take 3-4 weeks to complete so if he is offering two months free, I’m essentially getting 5 weeks of marketing with a completed website. After that it’s 1k/month including hosting the site and 1 hr of edits, content adds, etc and all fees. I believe this is taxed though :frowning:

I was told by him in my city there are 300 inquiries made per month for the search terms he’ll be adding. This doesn’t seem like a lot, but the guy who recommended him is driving about 3 calls per day through his site through this guy.

I’m just looking for thoughts and opinions. Off to buy a truck on CL, so I’ll respond in a few hours :slight_smile: Thanks!

The phones for everyone in my area, NJ, have been dead because the weather has been terrible. Once it warms up a little the calls will come in. I don’t know much about SEO but won’t it take months to get Google to recognize any changes?

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That’s really strong, both the initial build and the monthly.

Got 4 inches of snow yesterday. Couldn’t believe it. We were literally melting snow off concrete we were washing today… bonkers.

Still woke up to two internet leads and an apartment complex called just before 5. I hope it doesn’t fall off a cliff after this.

I personally would re think this decision. I’m basically retarded on the computer and it took me 2 weeks to do a word press site via YouTube tutorial and cost 113 dollars for a year. Seo is another monster but again youtube is your friend. My site ain’t the best but it’s definitely better that spending 10 grand for a year of a website with no guarantee of business. Idk how others feel but to me it seems like you wanna draw organic leads from as many sources as you can. A nice mix of web, in person, referal, direct mail, word of mouth, social media etc.After awhile if you do quality work it will take on a life of its own.

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@Racer, what do you mean by “strong?” I assume you mean good prices?

More info: My main thing as I’ve said before is window cleaning but I both enjoy washing more, and recognize there is money in it. That being said I’m not yet prepared for any large scale jobs, and if I hit 1200 in a week I’m happy. I need a perspective shift.

Another thing. They don’t put you in a contract so I could cancel after 4 months and be with a website and 4 months of marketing for 5 grand.

1k a month is a horrible price. Unless you live in a major metro city you can rank pretty easily with basic SEO and time…especially in our industry

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For 15k in your first year you better show up #1 in any city for power washing lol

I mean that’s higher than hell for a small local biz.

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Are you talking just North America or also worldwide?

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Jordon, Where do you live?

@skedaddle DIY SEO is not hard to learn…if your phones not ringing then you have time to learn. Learn from SEO and tech guys…not power washers. I ranked my site from 5th page to page 1 #1 in about 6 months of kindergarten SEO methods. Most guys on here that want to give SEO advice don’t show up on page 1for their cities.

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@Racer, I live south of Seattle. Far away enough to where I don’t drive up there, but near me there are probably like 8 cities that I can easily service, all 50-100k people. I thought it sounded high too but I had no idea what’s a good rate. I tried searching, but couldn’t find specifics and what’s included for those who are using an SEO service.

Yes, this guy was promising front page within 4-5 months and between #1-5 on search results minus ads.

@Patriotspwashing, thanks for the heads up. Looks like it’s time for youtube.

Honestly it does sound like a lot but it depends also on his references. Can he show you a good project he did, where he is ranking on top of google in a popular or semi-popular niche/search term?

A lot of this stuff comes down to trust imo. I’m based in Europe and completely different field of business we’ve had a company charge us a lot of money but they were very professional, fast and we are generally very satisfied with them. But we’ve also had a company for adwords where we did the ads, put in search terms, they just ran the campaigns with little to NO results while also charging us a lot of money.
A lot is based on trust and YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

good luck.

I did my seo myself. I watched a lot of youtube videos and I read a lot of how to articles. It worked well for me but I’m not in a city with dozens of competitors.

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@FourSixTwo.digital , whaddya think?

That’s crazy Brodie.

I know what you mean, just last night I had to get out of the pool early because the outside temperature dropped below 75°…freezing my behind off!

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@zap_cleaning
More food for thought lol

Hmm interesting @FrankPeters

No way! Put $1,000 per month into Google Adwords or Facebook ads. Way better ROI. Get someone to build and maintain for a much smaller amount. Use Nicejob instead $175 per month and they make highly converting sites.

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