I was reminded of something recently, we all have a belief in doing a lot of things for ourselves. In small and medium size businesses we have to!
At GSD our motto is to "Get Stuff Done" and we do it lot, from growing our own vegetables (some with trial and error!) to learning a new business process methodology we don't know about or playing with a new piece of software that might be helpful for us or someone else. Like many other small businesses we don't just call someone when we don't know how to do something, we have a go!
Many times, with some good old fashioned learning and sticking at it, we do succeed. We're a bit driven and curious like that! There are other times when we do call in the cavalry as well, a recent Mac hard drive failure comes to mind with that, but usually it's after we've put that thought, effort, learning and sometimes "we've got no choice, we're going to have to try this" action into affect.
There are thousands of articles and tutorials about SEO for the different content management systems out there. Be it Wordpress, Joomla, Umbraco or one of the many others, there is information at hand on the web to help anyone implement changes required for improving Search Engine Optimisation. Most of todays good CMS's have built in SEO helpers or plugins that can make editing meta tags, ALT tags on images and other SEO friendly items a breeze. What about other things?
Images to big? Download GIMP for free or spend $100 on Paint Shop Pro and resize and optimise them.
Content missing keywords? Take the time out to rewrite your content, ask a friend to help or pay a one off to have it written professionally.
Need to submit your website to a search engine? Get Googles Webmaster Tools to Submit To Google (It's easy!) and Submit To Bing Just As Easy!
There are better options than paying $300-$1000 PLUS PER MONTH to have an SEO 'expert' who will be doing these things, or at least should be doing it all and not just monitoring your website and telling you what to do! And yes, some do!
If you can afford it, go for it, however we know that is not the case for most small businesses!
The ONE THING YOU DO NEED, which all those SEO experts use, is an all in one reporting and monitoring tool to help you along the way. Something with active SEO auditing and search engine rank checking, with information on how to address issues and something that is continually working for you week in week out. Something that is at your fingertips whenever you need, watching your competitors, keeping an eye on backlinks, website traffic with the help of Google, scanning the search engines for who is using the same keywords as you and able to give suggestions and action plans on marketing and the best keywords for your business website to use.
With all this in mind today we are excited to be launching our $1 per day SEO monitoring and reporting services, with the BE MY SEO REPORTER plan and dashboard for any business implementing SEO themselves in their preferred CMS.
We didn't have a plan in between our one off reporting and our more detailed SEO monitoring and implementation package, and to be honest, this wasn't helping those businesses who are happy to edit metatags and change page titles and content themselves but just needed a one stop shop of SEO reporting, including a websites Google analytics, competitor monitoring and all the other good things needed to improve search engine ranking and optimisation. That's now changed!
We start off doing some work for you with an initial SEO web site and accessibility audit, we're big on accessibility.
Next, we go through some competitor analysis, check your best backlinks and use our keyword suggestion tools that look through similar words and phrases across all the major search engines to help pick the best keywords that you need to be concentrating on using in links, titles, meta tags and content itself.
Finally, we add the keywords and phrases to the monitoring and reporting on your personal dashboard to login and get all your SEO information in one place, anytime.
- Full Website SEO Audit Report Refreshed Every 3 Days.
- Ongoing SEO Auditing to Comparative Audits
- 10 Keywords and Phrases Monitoring
- Watches on Google, Google Mobile, Bing
- Full Keyword Rank Analysis Every 3 Days
- Online Marketing Plan Checklist (An actual action plan to work through)
- 5 Specific Competitor Monitors (Watching the rank of competitors your choose)
- Top 10 Competitor Overview (An automatic check of who holds the best rank for the keywords)
- Google Search Console Integration
- Traffic From Google Analytics (We'll help with that so all your traffic is in the same place as your SEO)
- Backlink Monitoring Of Top 100 Links (Keep an eye on the status of the top links back to you)
- Request Up to 3 FREE Monitoring Modifications Per Month
All this for $1 per day for a year.
The truth about SEO is that it will take 3-6 months to start seeing change in search rankings after any website audit issues are fixed, and in that time you need to be able to see what is working and what is not for keywords, adding to content as you are most likely already are doing yourself, along with connecting to other sites to develop backlinks to your service. It's about being able to monitor and report through this time easily and that is all your SEO experts are generally doing in that time. That's why they all want at least a 3 month commitment from you, and at an average minimum of $300 a month, $3600 a year, that's really easy money, out of your pocket for them.
At GSD, we do want people who are in a position where they have to DIY a lot of things to have be able to learn, have the best affordable tools along the way with that and ultimately grow their business.
If this sounds good, if you are DIY'ing your website and want to boost your SEO, we can help with an all in one reporting and monitoring solution! Order a BE MY SEO REPORTER package today!
