SEO Salaries in the United States
When you hire Hogfish Media, you have to understand that there is a cost to do the work needed for you to get the highest Return-On-Investment.
When you discuss your needs with one of our consultants, we want you to know upfront that our goal is to understand what your business is about and what your needs are.
Ex: Brand awareness, New customers, Increasing Customer Value, Building Marketing Funnels and so on…
Once we know this information we can then discuss the next step and build a Marketing Plan that meets your needs and budget.
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You are paying someone to do SEO for you for $250 or $500.00 per month…..What are you really getting for your money?.
Your website has 10 pages ( This is a small website with little information )
1) Your website needs more information to be beneficial to your potential visitors. This means writing more content, as well as re-writing/optimizing your current 10 pages.
You can use buy content for as little as 1.3 cents per word, you should have at least 750 to 1000 words per page. What you get for that…..
( Rates based off Text Broker Writing Services )
Cheapest: Could contain spelling, grammatical and punctuation mistakes cost between $10.00 to $13.30
Highest Quality: Professional-quality writing ready for use $54.30 to $72.30
In-house writer ???? per hour working or not…cost = “To Expensive”.
10 additional pages, cost is roughly $1000.00 ( This includes fixing current 10 pages hopefully )
This does not include image optimization, google maps w/optimization, directory listings w/optimization , citations, contacting customers for reviews and much more.
Bottom Line: Hire employee to do this work… $25.00 an hour x 40 hours a week x minimum 8 weeks = $8000.00, the average wage for seo expert in the U.S. according to payscale.com is $17.36 per hour. This is for an average person who doesn’t necessarily even specialize in all aspects of SEO/SEM or Paid advertising!
Let’s look at the real world of Digital Services from indeed, one of the top rated employment website
Salary estimated from 62,060 employees, users, and past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months. Last updated: January 15, 2019
Source: https://www.indeed.com/salaries/SEO-Salaries