I have $10,000 For SEO.... Is that enough?

It is hard to tell what 10K can do for you without knowing how well your site is optimized now, how much traffic it draws, how well it ranks for target keywords and how many backlinks you have, you competitive your keywords are, etc.

$10K for highly competitive keywords isn't much, given your competitors can be spending 10x or 100x of that amount. What you can do is to hire a good SEO company and at the same time, educate yourself on SEO. If you can do some of the SEO work yourself, it can save you money and get better results.

An alternative approach is to do PPC for a while and line up some business first. Once you make some decent money from PPC, you can invest the money back for more SEO work.

Good Luck!

 

SEO is not that easy like you think.. if you want a study on how you are going to spend 10k for SEO.. you can consult an SEO company for analysis..
You're right dan, AdWords for advertisers.. great long post..

 

$ 10,000 would maybe get you to the top 10 pages....... but with a keyword like that, someone is always waiting to bump you off.

 

Why not try affiliate marketing ? works well for your type of niches. The good thing is that, you don't have to take the risk as an advertiser. You pay only when you get the leads.

Also, If you want me to point you in proper direction, just let me know how much you are willing to pay per lead and i will tell you where to get started. Usually life insurance leads generally cost upto 15$ per lead in the affiliate marketing industry but still you will get better results if you pay a bit higher than average. Let me know by PM !

 

Wow this is stupid. SEO only for people who do not want to spend anything. $10K? Better to use it on Adwords or to have someone works for you (he writes your content or managing your script, etc.)

 

wow, and i thought some of my posts were long.. lol

Maybe you could develop your site and get it going live, and then check to see how the search engines look at it and go from there. Sometimes everything you might assume about how your site will be ranked, indexed etc could all turn out to be backwards because many times the search engines do what they do and see mto base it across the whole search listing spectrum and because of that you might find youre having pages you didnt even need indexed to be ranking in top 5 , and pages you put a ton of time into that are at page 5,000 in Google.

I've had a page rank in top 3 in Google before, I think its still there actually. The page had barely any text content it was mainly an application and so I made another page for the text content assuming the search engines would find that page, and then it would be linked to the other. but nope.
The simple page was and probably still is in the top 3 , the other page that was made to help it..is buried in search engines somewhere out there. If you looked at that in an SEO perspective there would be no way to explain it.... so I'm watching it now to see if crop circles ever appear on the images, for some unknown reason. j/k ..but wouldnt that be even weirder

 

DomainLoco, You have 801 posts in this forum so seems like you know a lot than just an average guy in SEO.
though my advice is going for a long trail keywords would be good initially and target geographies.
PPC would be good initially but Basic SEO with excellent content ( lot of content) is always good.

 

Hey that budget is fine, as long as you choose the correct people to pay to do the SEO for you. You need to be asking them what exprience they have and how they will help you.

 

IMO, good budget to start seo. you will surely get response from seo much better as you are paying them a decent amount for seo.

 

thats a lot, really depends how you use it, i think you can use have that money to rank a site well over a years time. Again really depends how you use it

 

Depends what keyphrases you target

And who you will use ?
Hope not that seo "big company"

 

"Real" SEO will offer you the best long-term ROI but make sure you find someone trustworthy or you will do more harm than good. You could always hire me, here is my thread and sorry for the blatant self promotion?

Your niche is very competitive but I would spend some time early on ranking for less competitive longer phrases that will offer good conversion ratios.

A couple of things to watch out for are SEO's that offer guarantees (999 out of 1,000 are scams) and SEO services that really only build spam backlinks.

good luck

 

Depending on how much work you plan on putting in, $10,000 could be much more than you need. I am using an investment of $3,000 to optimize my insurance site (health, auto, life and dental). I hired someone for $100 a month to do any projects I give him, and I have two computers - one running macros (computer automation) and me working on the other one. I plan on having a fully detailed business plan written on paper, and for me to be up and running in six months.

 

You have own business, and the most important thing that you shall do, is to create a affiliate program. If your affiliate program is good, many people will promote your site for a % of sells.

 

Hi Dan

Unfortunately SEO is not going to deliver the qualified leads you are looking for.

While there is a lot of great SEO advice here there is not a one asking where the target market can be found.

Typically insurance companies need qualified leads, which most do not find with high ranking in the organic results. The top rankings will bring lots of traffic most of your leads would be fakes.

If you want to keep your 10K in your pocket, and want to find your target market at the best possible price feel free to drop me a PM

 

One more advise. If you ask any SEO-company about your web-site promoting - ask them first, how they will do it in details. You should know and understand each step they doing. And another good move - have independent auditor, who will watch these SEO actions and estimate them.

 

With 10k you will have plenty of change, some of those sites in the top 10 will be pretty easy to move.

Take termlifeamerica.com for example, 888 backlinks and a lot of them are Nofollow, missing anchor text or don't have targeted anchor text.. Which leaves just 198 links that are considered "good".

Best of luck with it, you could probably do it yourself.

 

You can try hire an SEO freelancer to get good rate because if you hire an SEO firm 10000 would not be enough.