When Should You Fire Your SEO Agency?
We all want our websites to rank better, and to show up on maps. Once you have the budget, it CAN be a good idea to get a marketing agency to handle SEO for you. I made this move 7 months ago and jus...
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Seven months at $1,500 a month is a significant investment. I would expect an SEO agency to have a clear strategy for improving visibility and attracting paying customers.
Beyond cleaning up the website and creating service pages, did they explore ways to build quality backlinks through local newspapers or community organizations? Getting your business featured on credible local websites could help with visibility and bring potential customers directly to your site.
Another thought is capturing some of that traffic. A simple email subscription pop-up offering seasonal maintenance tips could help build a list of potential customers. You could follow up with quarterly newsletters to stay connected.
Claude can review your website and identify areas that need improvement. It can also help create content and recommend changes. But giving your website an SEO grade doesn't improve its ranking. Someone still needs to implement those changes and track the results.
For $10,500 over seven months, I would want to see more than completed tasks. I would want to know how the agency's work translated into actual customer inquiries and sales.