Wanted: SEO for well established site with 100k+ monthly organic visits.
That's right, the site in question is already on the map. Many hundreds of pages of real content (not written for SEO), a large existing audience, a YouTube channel, a FB group with 10k members (all real, no bought nonsense), featured on podcasts, and lots more.
So why SEO, you ask?
Because despite all this, our ranking for key keywords (heh) still sucks after all this time. We have "competitors" (if it's worth even calling them that) who have all sorts of SEO and despite shit content and low quality actual value to readers, they rank high. It's not something we like to see, day in day out.
The subject matter is low competition in general (as one can see by Google Adwords low prices for related keywords). We're easily the #1 in terms of quality content and a real audience. We also want Google to bow to our awesomeness via top rankings for relevant keywords.
What We Don't Want
More fluff SEO template proposals from Bangalore (sorry guys, you know it's true). We're totally open to great SEO no matter where you hail from, we'd just rather not read another hundred proposals throwing around the same vague boilerplate about on-page and building backlinks.
We don't want what's pretty typical condescension from SEO guys. We do know how SEO works. Yes we've got an SEMRush subscription, yes we know about PBNs (and no thanks), we know how social signals work. We even know that we've got bad on-page optimization habits (Yoast SEO keeps reminding us). It's just never been a priority, trying to "work" the system. We figured eventually quality will rise to the top - but then years and years later obviously that's not the case.
Still, treat us like guys who know what's up, and be on point accordingly.
Don't tell us about blogger outreach or spamming our site in comments. Yea yea maybe it works but we'd rather be last in rankings than have our site mentioned with a broken English comment on four thousand random blogs. Outreach? Yea but that's not for the SEO guy - we know what blogger outreach looks like and we're not about to annoy random bloggers with the usual "your site looks like it would really benefit from a post from us" e-mails.
So What Do We Want?
We want somebody smart, hungry, motivated (don't worry, we'll feed you well). Somebody who knows what they're doing but isn't too jaded yet to actually do it - and communicate the process.
Somebody who has actually good ideas, like using review schema to make search results on Google stand out (we had to figure that one out ourselves, none of the previous SEO talkers ever came up with anything remotely interesting). Somebody who can look at our site for 10 minutes and *get* the keywords - you'd be amazed how many SEO proposals we get with "research" that have the most ridiculously unrelated keyword recommendations. If you're going to half a$$ it you're wasting your time and ours. Let's try to not do that! If you got something worthwhile, we'd love to read it.
Show us what you got. Send over a tiny short intro (one paragraph, two minutes of your time), with something that clearly says that you're not just another Indian SEO spammer (again sorry guys, but the India SEO spam ratio on here is pretty notable). Be Indian, all good, but make us go, wow this guy. We gotta have him.
Are you apparently super qualified and it's worth for us to explore working together? Then we'll send you a link to the site, you take a quick look, let us know what you think.
Looking forward to your words! ;)
P.S.: Budget is quite flexible, but VALUE is what matters. $10 is too much for a toothbrush, $10.000 is cheap for a Lamborghini. If you're going to throw out big numbers, be prepared to back it up with results.
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