Hi there, I've been paying an SEO about £100 per month for his SEO service, Its been fairly good, in that the person seems to have his head screwed on, he's created links on relevant sites and had press releases created. But I'm not sure what to expect for £100 per month Apparently he spends about 5 hours a month dedicated to my site (so that's £20 an hour) This site is due for a massive re-design in about a year, so I don't want on site SEO advice right now (which seems to be more his domain) I'm wondering what you would expect from an SEO service for £100 per month for off site SEO work (guarantees of nth position drives me up the wall .. especially when they don't clear the google history/cookies, grrr )
I wouldn't expect top 3 rankings for most of your keywords any time soon. However, 100/month is better than 0/month. If they are using white hat methods of gaining links and you have proper on-page optimization, who knows, you might be surprised with what you get for 100/month.