What Sort of Time Commitment is SEO?

What Sort of Time Commitment is SEO?

When it comes to doing SEO for your website, one of the major concerns you may have is how much time and money you’ll need to spend on it. If you’re hiring an SEO firm, then time IS money, and you’ll want to know a rough estimate of how much time the SEO firm will put in and, therefore, charge you for.

You can break down the steps necessary for SEO work, making it easier to judge how much time you or your SEO company will need to spend on each. The estimates given here do not take into account any major issues or technical problems that may arise. You may want to add in a few extra hours to each step to account for any problems that you may have to deal with. If your website is exceptionally large (a thousand pages or more), you may also want to add more time into your estimate.

Step 1: Domain/URL Issues – Two hours to a day

The first thing to do is to go through your website manually and make certain that everything is consistent. You also want to look for things that will cause a search engine robot to have difficulty navigating through your site. If you have a large, dynamic site or a site that brings in a lot of content from other sites that may change often, it may take you more than a couple of hours for this step. Once you’ve completed this step, expect it to take two to four more hours to create and test all of your 301-redirect links. It may also take between two and fifteen hours to rename or re-code any filenames depending on how your site is assessed.

Step 2: – Design issues – two to four hours plus 30 minutes per page

It’s easy to see many design issues, but it can be difficult to make certain that your design is consistent from page to page across your entire website. It may take a few hours to note down every design issue, but it shouldn’t take more than four or five hours. You can often note down these issues while you’re doing your domain/URL assessment, saving a bit of time. How long it takes to implement all of the changes you need to make at this step depends on how many pages you have. At most, you may end up spending half an hour on each page. If you’ve got a huge site, this can add days to your SEO.

Step 3: – Architectural Issues – 125 hours

The most important aspect of your webpage to a search engine is its architecture. While building a list of your architectural concerns can be done while making your other lists, the actual implementation of these changes may take days or weeks. Much of this depends on how dynamic your site is and just how much re-coding is necessary.

Step 4: – Content – half an hour / 250 words

Creating content that is search engine optimized can take a good amount of time, especially if you have a lot of content on your site. One way to save time and money on this step is to do the writing yourself; however, before you jump on that idea, make certain you understand how SEO works. Otherwise, you may do more harm that good. You can also purchase licensed content or rewrite your own content to include keywords.

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18 Responses to “What Sort of Time Commitment is SEO?”

  1. azya87 says:

    subscibers & viewers..read the owner info again :
    No need to be jealous, its jux only a show

  2. strawboy1230 says:

    You do realize that this has been your 10th “last reply”? I think I actually take more enjoyment from pointing our your retarded logic and sorry-excuse-for a demonstration of the English language more so than anything else.

    It must be really really aggravating not being able to think straight.

    Because you type at the level of a 3rd grader, and think at the level of a 2nd.

  3. FChdeM says:

    There is so much free information out there on the net about SEO.

    Remember SEO is not the end all and be all of internet marketing.

    Some free sites to visit:

    http://www.inboundinternetmarketingblog.com

    http://www.sethgodin.com

    http://www.davidmeermanscott.com

    http://www.hubspot.com

    Hubspot is a great company with a ton of free stuff.

    Use their free webgrader.

  4. Mary S says:

    Hard question. But here's what Search professionals do….

    The one, best reference is to see if they are members of the largest most reputable group of Search professionals, SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization. Their directory of member companies is here: http://www.sempo.org/directories/ You can find one in your areas with that link. It's not an endorsement but it's very helpful.

    What else can you do? Here are some RED flags – don't work with any vendor that says they guarantee or promise the top spot or even the first page. Either they can't deliver or they will get you rankings for keywords that don't prove value, such as for your brand name.

    SEO's for small businesses are typically small businesses themselves, so get local references. Ask for five and call at least three. Remember that you don't need just traffic, you need "quality" traffic and that's what makes a good SEO. Ask the references if they get more SALES as a result.

    As a fall-back, call your yellow page provider. All of them have an SEO program (AT&T, Yellow Book, Verizon etc.). They are reputable and have generally good results. You can also use Web.com, Yodle and Reach Local. They are national companies and have average results (see links below). They will also give you a good idea of what the right rates should be…

    Good luck!

  5. BosnianBurek says:

    lol ive had plenty of those myself

  6. tanaciousninjanikki says:

    excuse me for spelling it wrong
    it was a typo

    seems as though your not going to move on no matter how much i ask you
    cause if you wernt hurt you would of moved on already when i told you several times

    so this is my last reply
    it was nice argueing with you, it was fun actually i enjoyed it

    so move on with your useless life call me what you want its all in your head
    peace out and good rithens.

  7. Pushpa says:

    Onsite seo is related to everything that takes place on your actual website.

    The most important factors as to my knowledge are your page

    titles
    meta description
    meta keywords
    internal linking
    keywords density
    usage of latent symentic indexing
    sitemaps
    robots.txt
    alt tags for images

    This along with strong offsite seo should help you rank very well in the search engines.

    hope this helps

  8. alfred says:

    If you have a web design company, try finding a SEO company to work with. My company was strictly graphics and web design, and for over a year I outsources all of my SEO jobs to a company I liked. Over the time, I slowly picked up things (all for free) and now I would consider myself very well versed in the field. I have now merged my company with the other to create http://www.Webmosa.com – I am very happy with the way I learned. Plus, if you plan to sell the service you are at least getting trained by actual professionals in the field. SEO changes over time, and one needs to stay on top of the game in order to be the best. Google "Tacoma SEO", within 1 month of the merger and launch of our new site we are already 5th on page one – crushing other companies that have been around for years.

    To be the best, learn from the best. SEO books and blogs are often out dated.

  9. Nissana says:

    I recommend that you go to http://www.websitegrader.com to check details like title length, meta tags…

    It doesn't really matter what keywords you use for subpages as long as your page is optimized for them and your content is a match.

    As long as you build backlinks to your site and subpages, you'l be going in the right direction!

  10. Bri says:

    Instead of putting up a standard "Under construction" page I would put up a page of text describing what will be on the site. This way if search engines find it they will know how to index it.

  11. cookiesncream994 says:

    where’s taeyeon? :(

  12. ZUZUlols says:

    nickhun: -squint- how do i read this?? they look weird…

    jaebum: -peeping from behind- woah! what are those words??-tug the paper- let me take a better look! mmm…@#$%^& ?? -looks at dongsaengs- [thinking: why r they so happy?]

    junho: -roll eyes- (aishh..those boys..) ya!! you’re holding it upside down!!!

    nick and jay: -turns the paper- AHH! SO NYEO SHI DAE!! -geeky smile-

    hahahs..

  13. Mac says:

    As long as there is enough electricity there will be internet and if there's internet there will be search engines and if there are search engines there will be SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

    However, Google does continue to refine methods to filter out black-hat SEO techniques (SPAM / Abuse).

    So, basically short of an apocalyptic event, SEO will still be around for a foreseeable future.

    Good Luck!

    Thanks, TheWriter

  14. lovejaejoongie says:

    TIFFANY’S SO CUTE XDDD

  15. Antony A says:

    hello friend..
    well If you want to become a SEO expert.First you have to learn what Is Search engine and how it works…?after that only you can understand that what Is Going to be done in SEO work.SEO is The way to increase your websites traffic – Your business goals – leads.to boost up your websites ranking in various search engines like google,yahoo,MSN and other more than 365 search engines.SEO is very deep field my friend If you want to learn SEO you have to be a great reader.i am giving you some best sites references for learning SEO.They will provide you E-book too for learning SEO.this is a growing field in IT.If you become a SEO expert you can develop a great career in this field.
    basically SEO is departed in Two main parts :-
    On page SEO
    Off page SEO

    But If you want to learn SEO from Its basics refer sites given by me below and read all details given by them.It was nice to help you friend.Even If you want more information let me know i will surely help you.Thank you.Have a nice day.

  16. Matty B says:

    Hmmmm,
    I have used interstitial ads on a couple of my sites from a number of providers (adsense et al).

    From my experience

    Full Page Ads
    In my honest opinion, they do not provide a consistent income as they only serve to annoy the web users. I tried and tested and would never use full page ads again (unless your only focus is income but this will come at the cost of users and traffic).

    in text ads
    these are somewhat less annoying for users – when using the in text ads I found that the revenue was pretty pump.

    In my expereince, fixed ads work best, I use Google, Tradedoubler and Commision Junction. Google is always the highest performa but the other 2 can bring bigger commisions (depends on the site and volume of content). I like Google best as you get paid for the click, you never lose.

    I run my free business websites on this principal, bigger sites can demand much higher prices simply for display so its a differant ballpark.

    Anyway, I suggest minimal use of interstitail ads, fixed position (well placed and colour matching) has always been my winner.

    UPDATE – missed the SEO part sorry.

    From my experience interstitail ads are only damaging to SEO if you allow full page ads to open on a visitors first page visit. Example, Adsense Full page ads can be set to be displayed to visitors after a number of page views (1,3,5 if I recall correctly). I experimented with the 1 page ads but found that:
    a, my ad revenue went down (surprisingly)
    b, I had less page views with much higher bounce rates (not surprisingly)
    c, page integration to search engines was slower (I'm guessing that the spiders bounced too)

    Notwithstanding this, there was no change to actual page rank and visitor level were pretty much the same. From this we can conclude that full page ads are not the money spinner they would initially appear to be. To be honest, I dont think I would use this as an advertising means either.

    Full page ads are on a par with pamphlets through your door, at first they were shiny and interesting, after a while they just get damn annoying. Once you annoy a user, you lose their interest! the rest is obvious.

    I hope this helps. Maybe someone else has had some success.

  17. strawboy1230 says:

    Is this really it dude? really? really? and yes, i’m “abviously hurt,” because clearly it’s harder to reach the “o” key on the keyboard than the “a.” so thank you for not only unintentionally spelling it wrong, but spelling it wrong with style.

    You dumb fuck.

    Stop bitching and get over it.

  18. DiesEatYourSmexyDies says:

    no strawboy! you’re my favorite you add pizazz to the comments!!

    you’re so sassy!

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