I have studied seo, web design, and marketing for several years, but I do not have any seo clients to date. I met a guy who wraps cars in vinyl to make them like a sign board and also makes vinyl sign banners. He told me he wants to make vinyl banner business take off by getting his site on page 1 of Google. Vinyl banners has 1,450,000 listings and "vinyl banners" has 371,000. and 11 pages of ppc ads. I was asked to figure up how much it would cost to get on p1 of Google. I said I don’t know if it is possible, but I would figure it out and call back. 1. Do you think it is possible? 2. How much would you charge? 3. Would you make any guarantees? I watched Justin Brooke’s video about getting several listings on p1 of Google and it was great, but as I believe Justin said it has to be much less than 371,000 listings to work well, plus Justin is talking about long tial keyword listing, not two very popular words, correct? Thanks, Jim
If you use popular keywords you can't index your page in google easily because no of sites available for that keyword and those sites have good PR and well SEOd. So go for a long tail keywords and check it before use.
1. Yes, the question is how big is your budget? 2. Personally I charge my clients $30 an hour plus costs of links, etc. 3. No, that is the number one sign of a person who is full of it. There are no guarantees in this business. Don't get in over your head. The last thing you want is a lawsuit because you promised him X amount of results in a contract. Explain to him that it takes time, money, and patience. It will be the same anywhere he goes. What I do for my clients is give them weekly progress reports, that way they can see exactly how their site is progressing through the ranks. Have him allocate a weekly amount of funds for you to use, like an advertising budget. If worse comes to worse, he just cancels and there are no hard feelings.