Low Cost SEO Help is here to assist small business owners improve their website search engine rankings at a modest cost. We specialize in what is called Technical SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – This focuses on correcting onsite issues instead of link building. By doing so, your search engine rankings should improve and hopefully your business will become more successful. Most SEO services are too expensive for small businesses that struggle to survive. That’s why we are the home of the $5 SEO Checkup (Your satisfaction is guaranteed, so there is no risk). We’ll run software called Seobility to identify any SEO problems on your website and provide you with a report (PDF format). Most people think that if their website looks good, then everything is fine. Actually, your website can look great and still have many problems. For example, here are some of the issues that we can detect:

• Missing pages
• Internal re-directs
• Missing alt tags on images
• slow loading times
• Duplicate or missing titles
• Duplicate or missing meta tags
• Improper headings
• Pages with too little content
• Titles that are too short or too long
• Meta tags that are too short or too long
• Duplicate content
• Typographical errors
• Keywords used in a title but not in the text
• Broken links

Onsite issues are the low hanging fruit of the SEO world. They are usually (but not always) things that can be fixed without a lot of work. Please don’t start an expensive link building campaign until after fixing your onsite issues.

How the Low Cost SEO Process Works

We know that SEO can be confusing and a little intimidating to newcomers. Because of this, you might be wondering “What the heck are alt tags and meta tags?” Please stay calm and your questions will be answered. SEO is not rocket science. It’s more like dotting all the I’s and crossing all the T’s. That’s where the Seobility software comes in. It’s very difficult and tedious for a human to check for all the little problems that may be present in a website, even a small one. Fortunately, computers are very good at this task.

After we send you the report, we’ll gladly schedule a Zoom meeting to go over the issues. We’re old school here, and be believe in face to face meetings, even if we are in different spots on the planet. We know you will have questions, and we’ll always do our best to answer them.

Most Common Onsite Search Engine Optimization Problems

The biggest website problem we see are pages with too little content. Fortunately, we can write additional material to include in most pages. If we can’t then the pages should be no-indexed. It’s basically telling Google not to index that page, which means it will not show up their search results, which isn’t good. No-indexing a page keeps Google from punishing your entire site for for “Thin content.”

The second biggest problem we see are duplicate titles and meta descriptions. When most people go through a website they don’t pay attention to these things, so they don’t consider them important, but Google does. The titles on your web pages should all be unique. and if possible, they should contain your keywords. Keywords are the terms that people search for on Google. Therefore you want to get high rankings from Google for keywords which are relevant to your website.

Help for Do It Yourself Webmasters

For those of you who design your own websites, we offer information on Google Local SEO, WordPress SEO and links to useful SEO tools. These tools are all free to use at no cost. We hope you find these useful, but if you need help, don’t hesitate to contact us at Low Cost SEO Help.

In Defense of Affordable Search Engine Optimization

There are a lot of posts on the Internet bashing low cost SEO. You should take these with a grain of salt. First of all, they have to justify their outrageous prices. One company behind these posts charges $1,375 per month with a $5,400 upfront charge for their “Bronze” package. Now if you’re a Fortune 500 company, that’s chump change. If you’re a small business, that’s thousands of dollars that you probably don’t have.

These articles also use a broad brush to accuse all affordable SEO services of using “Black Hat” techniques like buying links which can get your site banned by Google. No doubt some cheap SEO providers use these tactics but not all do. We certainly don’t. We keep our costs low by focusing only on onsite issues, which can generally be fixed relatively cheaply. We can usually get your site onto page one for about $100, and if we can’t get you there, you don’t pay. We can generally get websites to page 1 for keywords with less than 1,000 searches per month.

Link building can improve your rankings immensely. If you are trying to rank highly for very competitive keywords that get thousands of searches each month, we will not be able to get you to page 1. If that case we can still help by finding and fixing flaws on your site. You will then need help from someone else to do the link building, but you should always take care of onsite issues first.

Web Designers and Search Engine Optimization

After reviewing a number of website designers while looking for one to partner with, we have concluded that all web designers claim to know SEO, but very few actually do. We found many basic mistakes on their sites such as too little text, duplicate titles, missing meta descriptions and missing alt descriptions. Before you hire a designer, we recommend that you audit their website with Seobility’s Free SEO Checker. If they have errors on their website, how many will they leave on your website?

Always remember that a website may look beautiful and work perfectly yet still have issues which hurt its rankings. Also, if you have a beautiful website but nobody finds it, it’s not going to help your business. Never underestimate the value of a good website – It will be out there marketing your products and services 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Do you have any other asset which does that?

Please Rate Us on Google

Please help our company by rating us on Google. By the way, every business should ask for and try to obtain as many reviews on Google as possible. As long as your rating is decent, it’s more important to increase the number of reviews. If you only have one rating and it’s five stars, people will think your mom did the review. Numerous reviews will assure potential clients that you are a legitimate, reputable company, even if they haven’t heard of your business.