Why do people buy SEO services for their sites?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by wormy, Feb 16, 2008.

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    Why do people buy SEO services for their sites over and over again site after site, month after month paying money for the same information which if they knew to begin with they could do themselves for free. Is SEO really that hard to grasp and use for yourself? Or does it involve specialized grunt labor that webmasters cannot handle?

    I'm concerned myself because firstly I know next to nothing about SEO and want to learn all that I can learn and secondly SEO services are quite pricey so if I did learn this niche it would save me a lot of money that I don't want to throw away in the first place!
     
    wormy, Feb 16, 2008 IP
  2. Perry Rose

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  3. MeetHere

    MeetHere Prominent Member

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    because they are busy with their work. No time to SEO :D
     
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  4. wormy

    wormy Active Member

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    Thanks for clearing up the mystery by getting it off your chest. I am reading that site now, hopefully it will solve the puzzle for me.

    "What The SEO Experts Don't Want You To Know" <--- I like the sound of that.
     
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  5. jigolo

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    It maybe for their site promotion?
     
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  6. seo4china

    seo4china Well-Known Member

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    SEO is not always pricey. You can outsource to companies overseas as our own, for about 100$ a month. For business sites it is always provide the highest ROI for your investment dollars :)
     
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  7. BuyMoney

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    I have a friend who spent a lot on outsourcing SEO, but his website is still not getting the amount of traffic we had expected. I don't know if it's skill, or luck.
     
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    I think the simple reason why people pay for it is that most SEO work is boring, very time consuming gruntwork. Onpage optimization is something that doesn't take long, but the process of link building is slow and takes quite a time...so why not outsource it ?

    It's not always wise to do things yourself, even if you know how to do them. Focus on your strength and let other do the things your aren't an expert at, don't try to be a jack of all trades.
     
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  9. Calvin84

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    SEO can get pretty boring and time consuming.

    if it's not what you do best, might as well outsource it so you can concentrate on other profit producing activities.
     
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  10. mixke

    mixke Prominent Member

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    maybe cos they are tooo busy to make $$$$ and dont have time to look into this matter and have enough $$$ to spend on this.
     
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    stikkan_94 Guest

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    why do some people buy cleaningservice?

    why do some people buy accountingservice?

    why do some people buy fastfood?

    these things you also can do by yourself........ its time,,,, somethings dont people want to waste time on,,,, so easy is it
     
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    tradeya Notable Member

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    not everyone got a knowledge of internet or even computer. also it's time saving or even money saving if you hire the right perosn to do it for you.
     
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  13. Leprekon

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    I do the important SEO stuff myself and the grunk work/repetitive stuff I hire someone to do.
     
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    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    SEo means Orgaic traffic -> Money

    And not evrybody knows SEO or have time to learn or can learn ....
     
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  15. The Stealthy One

    The Stealthy One Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    SEO is time-consuming, so that is why many people outsource it.
     
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    If you want results, you need to either have deep pockets or have lot of time. If you serious about your site, and your aiming for very competitive keywords, a one man team isn't going to work out. A good SEO team already specializes in the do's and dont's and knows how to be time efficent. Not only that, but for competitive keywords, it will literally take 600 or so hours of work. If you are capable of dedicating 600 hours to save a couple hundred bucks then good for you.

    But when you hire a SEO team, they have 3-5 people working on your site, and getting the job done 5x-7x quicker then you are.
     
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  17. Perry Rose

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    SEO is not time consuming. Not even close. It takes minutes per page.
     
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    Wackiest comment I've heard. If your trying to rank the page for a keyword with 60 million competitors, a minute isn't going to cut it. Plus the majority of SEO is off-site.
     
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  19. Perry Rose

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    Uh-huh.

    Guess again.

    Wait a minute...did you say 60 million?

    Well, ok, then.
     
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  20. mkmnynow

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    to work on bigger projects or new projects or maybe ppc or advertising, or retire, many reasons but i think its more from being busy than lazy, or just being smart if you have good roi from your site
     
    mkmnynow, Feb 17, 2008 IP