Should You Pay SEO Companies for SEO Reports?
Written by John Smith
3,163.Three thousand, one hundred and sixty-three dollars…
This is how much I used to spend each year for an SEO firm to send me 3 monthly SEO reports on my book shopping site. I got 36 reports per year in total and paid $87.86 per report.
Imagine the look on my face when I found out that I could get the same exact SEO reports for free? That is, however many SEO reports, whenever I wanted, for a total price of $0 dollars.
How to get free website SEO reports?rnI was searching the Web for an SEO program to keep track of my SEO firm’s performance. Search revealed a free piece of software making SEO reports. I ran it and discovered that the company had been charging me money for reports with the same exact data that I get with a free SEO reporting tool! rnWith the free SEO program I got, I ended up with around 30 different SEO reports, also free (keep in mind that my SEO company gave me a mere 3, each costing me $87.86).
The free SEO software reports answered a whole bunch of questions:
- how my competitors and I rank in search engines for our target keywords? - how much traffic I get from Google from these keywords? - how many links my site has and which ones are most valuable? - where do my competitors get their links?rnhow well are my landing pages optimized compared to the top-ranked sites in my niche?
Dealing with my SEO firm, I discovered that SEO service providers excel at making SEO harder than it really, trying to convince you that SEO can only be handled by experts (at jaw-dropping prices but they won’t rush to tell you this).
Don’t get fooled! Take SEO reigns in your hands – SEO firms make money making SEO sound harder than it really is. Do SEO yourself - all you need is a reliable tool getting you valuable data and generating quality SEO reports to quickly make sense of it.
So here are your options:rna) Pay a few grand a year for SEO consultants to run SEO software reports for you.rnorrnb) Get the software that SEO consultants use* and create the same SEO reports for Free. rnI made my choice. Have you?
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