No. In the SEO market, contracts usually mean the company offering the service doesn’t know what they’re doing. They’re not secure in their services, so they have to lock you in to long contracts. While we offer prepaid discounts for multiple months, we have no contracts. We want to make sure that, month after month, we are providing you a valuable service.

Some of your results will stay. SEO is like fitness. If you work out for a year, have good diet, and sleep well for a year, then don’t work out for a couple months, you’re going to retain a lot of the benefit. The same thing goes for SEO. If you’ve worked hard to get to the first page, then you stop doing any work, you’re likely to remain on the first page for a month or so, but then you’ll drop to the second or third page and stay around there for a longer period of time. If you neglect your website completely, then you are likely to fall even further.

According to online averages, the ROI for SEO is 22:1, or $22 for every $1 spent. Generally high margin service companies are above that average, and low margin e-commerce companies are below that average, with e-commerce averaging an SEO return of 2.75:1, or $2.75 for every $1 spent.

Given that ROI is dependent on industry, it is recommended to talk to an expert and get an idea of what your company could expect.

It largely depends on what your targeted keywords are, how competitive your market is, and how much time you’re investing. Some keywords have hundreds or thousands of sites doing SEO to reach first page, while others have very few competitors. An optimal strategy has a mix of competitive keywords, which can take months to years to see first page results, and noncompetitive keywords, which you can rank on the first page between a few weeks and a few months.

It is likely that you will need a custom strategy based on your market and location. If you’d like to discuss and figure out an optimal strategy, please schedule a free 30 minute introduction meeting here.

SEO can be done for free yourself, by an employee for whatever the cost of the employment is, or by an agency for their prices. If you’ve struggled seeing results from your own SEO in the past, its likely that an agency or an employee is a proper next step.

Generally, the price of your SEO is going to change based on your needs. If you want to onboard a whole team of SEO experts, that’s going to run you 250k/yr or about 21k/mo. If you want to outsource to an agency, prices generally run between $250-15,000USD/mo, depending on how many hours of work you want per month.

Our prices at Avolith Media run between $1,000 and $5,000, depending on what package you select. To find out which package is right for your team, please schedule a consultation here.

Ranking first on Google is a tough battle for many high value keywords. It’s hard to give a complete answer, but at an entry level it requires your page including the keyword you want to rank first for and users finding the website useful. Google measures the usefulness of a website through links to your page from other sources and the completeness of your content. Due to the competitive nature of ranking first on Google, many companies choose to either onboard an SEO expert or hire an SEO Agency to handle this for them.

Search Engine Optimization, referred to as SEO, is the process of making your page work well with search engine’s algorithms. Doing SEO results in more free organic traffic to your site. SEO includes many different techniques, but the main points are useful keyword identification, high-quality content creation, relevant link building, and results measurement. To learn more, feel free to visit our blog or reach out for a free SEO consultation.

Yes, you can do your own SEO. There are a few key parts of doing your own SEO, including on page SEO, off page SEO, and technical SEO. Each of these things are skills that can be learned or even done for a one time boost through a tutorial. Feel free to check out our blog for guides on getting started with doing your own SEO.