Why is search engine optimization so expensive?
- October 6th, 2011
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Question by Jillian: Why is search engine optimization so expensive?
The company I work for paid $ 40,000 in search engine optimization for their site last year and really haven’t seen many sales come in from it all.
Why do they charge so much for what seems to be so little?
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Answer by RJ
Because people create new accounts, post questions then answer them with other names spamming for business.
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Seo helps company to rank higher in the search engine like yahoo, google, bing etc. In order to rank high, we need to improve the website in many ways to become more search engine friendly. Writing more relative Articles, better coding, broken links solving, buy links and more.
There are really a lot to do which can even cost more than 40k a month. Results are normally long term like half a year to a year. However, if your company don’t see result by then, means that they are not doing very good job on it.
It may seem to be so little due to the keyword that your going after. They might be improving the site a lot.