An Idea to Reduce Your SEO Financing Risk

In: Business

2 Mar 2010

Anyone who’s ever tried building an online business is well aware of the risks associated with the marketing of their site. No matter how much time or money you put into it you can never be certain that your profits will really increase. The only thing you can truly count on is that it’s going to cost money, whether it’s for search engine optimization services or pay per click campaigns or any other type of meaningful advertising. SEO companies typically charge a monthly fee for their services and these fees can range from many hundreds to even thousands of dollars and you’ll be having to shell out this money from day 1, long before you will see any benefit. Here then is a thought you might like to ponder, an idea of sorts that that might help you to obtain the services of an seo expert without having to risk too much (or any) of your money in the beginning stages.

I’m speaking of using a partnership percentage or commission based pay option as compensation for your SEO specialist instead of cash upfront. What this means is that the SEO specialist would agree to take on your project and be paid a commission or revenue percentage of what your website makes in sales revenue. This can be set up in many different ways and might be based upon either total sales or only profits. When you would have to begin paying the commissions is another aspect that can be negotiated, but having some predetermined SEO related goal or event that triggers the payments might be a good idea.

If your website is brand new and has no previous sales records for the SEO company to rely upon this can be a tough sell to most of the people you will be contacting. If this is the case then they will need to be convinced of your product’s potential as well as the overall quality of the website you are selling from. If the website looks as though it was built on someone’s kitchen table and you have a ton of competitors selling the same exact product or service you’re bound to have a very rough go at it. But, if you are truly offering something of good value on a well structured platform and you are willing to make an SEO worker a generous enough offer then there’s a solid chance that a little bit of hard work and determination will pay off. You have nothing to lose for at least trying except some time and effort here.

A good place to begin looking for someone you can team up with is the search engines. Try to find newer websites where the domains seem to be newly registered. Remember, just because the website may be new doesn’t mean that the person working behind it doesn’t have the required expertise in their field. There are many good knowledgeable workers out there in all fields right now who are out of work and trying to find work over the internet by putting up their own websites. Another thing to consider is that depending upon your market you may not actually need the best expert out there. Someone who has less experience than a fully seasoned professional may still be able to do a half way decent job for you, although the fact remains that even if they don’t you still won’t lose any money.

One good place to begin your search would be the search engines themselves. Try to seek out a few sites that are listed very low or far back for the popular search terms in the search pages, then do a “whois” check to see how old their domain names are and try calling some of the newer ones who might not have a large clientele built up yet. Although this technique will surely require some leg work and patience it’s an absolutely workable solution, especially in poor economic times, and is a viable option that any commercial website owner who’s in need of some marketing help in today’s climate should really try to explore.

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