Guaranteed page 1 of Google - £99 per month??????

So I have been thinking of doing my own SEO for my new website. I know it is time consuming, hard work and is going to be a frustrating task (so I am told) as I have never done it before. I decided I was going to do it myself because every company/individual I have looked has been too expensive for me, no one will guarantee any results and the majority wanted yearly contracts that ended up running into the thousands.

However I have been offered the following, it sounds amazing and I am very tempted but I want to know... Is this really the amazing deal I think it is?

So the company guarantees to get any site to page 1 of Google for 8 relevant keywords of my choosing or 3 key phrases. I pay them £99 per month for 6 months. If at the end of 6 months they have not got my site onto page 1 of Google then I will get all my money back. They do the on page adjustments and all the links and stuff. I have looked at a few sites they have done and this was also a company recommended to me by a friend who has used them for over a year now.

So all I want to know is should I go for it? Is it a good deal?

Hi Emma

Welcome to the forum - depends on the keywords really, for example if your keywords are "car leasing" then yes its a good deal, if they are for example something very specific ie: "pond cleaning company Croydon" then its expensive.

If you can give a little more detail we might be able to help further

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Well it is an online Jewellery shop so I guess search terms will be fairly generic right?

Fairly generic but fairly competitive too!

£99 in that market, steer clear I would say, unless you are chasing longtail keywords, but do not expect a lot in a short time for that much anyway, whatever keywords you are chasing.

I would look closely at the T&C for the eligibility to money back. The slightest thing could render the guarantee pretty much useless.

And make sure they are not crappy keywords - make sure you know what the keywords are, how many searches a day (exact and phrase match) and what the competition is like.

There is no way they can get your website to Google page 1 for very good related keywords, in 6 months, and at £99, so do not think that all that glitters, must be gold. If it sounds too good to be true .... it usually is. So true in business and even more so where SEO is concerned.

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Yep agree with the above.

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There's only 1 company in the world that can guarantee you the top position in the google search results.

Unfortunately Google doesn't offer SEO services

Have a crack at it yourself, the basics are pretty straightforward. Make sure you know exactly what you're top keywords are, optimise for those, then when you are happy and ready, save any precious budget for the keyword/s that you know will convert, and get some link building done. There are people on this and other forums that have good track record in link building, go with someone who's been recommended rather than a sales email.

As indizine says, if it sounds too good...

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Wow, seem to be a great service... But can i know with which keywords by which my website would get ranked in Google, and what is going to be duration in terms of time.

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Sounds on the cheap side, plus I am always skeptical of companies who "guarantee" things, especially with SEO. Nothing can be guaranteed!

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6 months, hmm. It would depend on the amount of searches your keyword gets a month and competition. It can seriously take anything from a year or more to get a page one rank, unless the competition is so low that you could build backlinks naturally and easily and that should rank you quickly because you have more links than your direct competition your niche is extremely competative, so there are a few straigh facts you can glean from that. Everyone in your niche is constantly and actively building backlinks. The big wigs in your competition have been around for ages, so their sites have a really big head start. So you will have a lot of catching up to do. IMHO because of those two factors, the guys that made you the offer are either going to use automated tools, or borderline spam tactics, or worse, which could harm your site and business reputation before its given a head start.

The best advice I can give is to try yourself, like everyone here said. Get your site optimized, make sure your content is written to engage visitors so that they want to like, tweet, or share your site, and half the battle's won. Become active in forum communities, and use signature links, and use video and social media. But use them firstly to market products, and get your target audience's attention. IMHO. Good luck with your site though. I hope it all works out

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I think no one could't guarantee the search result position , SEO is a hard work and need patience to do the same thing every day except the black SEO could give you quickly result .