Many people cannot afford to hire an SEO company to do their SEO for them. If you are in this boat — wanting to rank but short the $500-1000/month that it costs to hire a good SEO company – then here is a tool you should check out.
DIYSEO - beginning SEO
DIY SEO is only $49/month and its a great way to learn SEO and optimize your site. While you could spend a lot of time picking up tips at a variety of sites online, DIY SEO does a good job of giving you a little plan to follow and helping you track what you’ve done and what you still have to do. Then, so that you don’t just ignore your tasks, DIY SEO sends you a status report/reminder each month, telling you where you’re ranking for your keywords, and what you need to do to keep going!
Before I recommend anything to my clients/readers, I always test it out first. I signed up with DIY SEO and entered one of my own websites into the system. Based on my experience, here is my assessment of tool.
Pro’s
The suggestions given by DIY SEO were good, and in fact, the tool brought my attention to an oversight that I fixed. The tool is very effective in helping you to:
- Understand basic SEO lingo
- Keep your focus on the most important (few) keywords for your business
- Understand how to optimize your site pages for your chosen keywords
- Get specific directory submissions done
- Keep informed of your progress as you rise in the rankings
Cons:
The one thing the tool lacks is helping with advanced link acquisition concepts and techniques. Sure, links are obtained through directory submissions, and a little social bookmarking, but those are only going to go so far. Perhaps the best attempt at this is the Competitive Links section, where the tool identifies links your competitors have, and suggests that you attempt to get the same ones. The problem is that the way they suggest doing it is tedious at best, and often not successful. But this won’t hurt if you don’t need the links to start with!
All in all, I think the tool is a great help to the new person who wants to get their site in shape. In a really, really non-competitive market, this tool could help a site rank. However, link building will definitely be required in medium-high competition niches.
DIY SEO fits into the first bracket nicely at $49/month or $499/year and in my opinion, if you want a step by step way to learn SEO and optimise your site then it’s money very well spent. Yes you could try to learn everything from forums but the thing DIY SEO does very well is to list all the tasks so you simply can’t avoid doing them. The biggest thing that prevents people from succeeding at SEO is procrastinating and not putting in the hard work, especially people new to the industry.
