While SEO is an important element in generating organic traffic to your website, the vast majority of business owners don’t have time or the knowledge to look after SEO for their own business. So which SEO professional do you choose from the sea of available options?
Over the past 7 years our team has used over a hundred freelancers in a wide range of categories including SEO professionals, web developers, graphic designers, marketers, and virtual assistants. We have used these freelancers both for our clients and for ourselves working with various businesses and projects.
This experience has enabled us to develop our own shortlists of our favorite freelancers who we recommend the most.
We’d like to share these shortlists with you so that you too can lower your staffing costs, improve your business, and save time and money.
Listed below are our favorite SEO professionals. They are all of high quality and their prices are a lot lower than what you’ll find elsewhere.
SEO Audit Report
This comprehensive SEO audit report will allow you to see exactly the current state of your website’s SEO and detail what can be done to improve it. It includes a wide variety of metrics including broken links, redirects, reachability, anchor text, title tags, hostname, dead end pages, pages not found, long URLs, duplicate content, meta descriptions, number of links, server errors, robots.txt, keywords, on-site links, low word count, image descriptions, speed analysis, metadata, and links from authority sites.
This service also includes competitor analysis and a detailed action plan to improve your rankings and traffic and is a great option especially if you have never had SEO done on your website before. As an optional extra they can also implement the changes recommended in the SEO audit report and complete your on-site SEO optimization.
SSL Certificate and https
A SSL Certificate helps to protect sensitive information (such as logins, passwords, cardholder information) by encrypting it before it is submitted across the internet so that only the intended recipient can access it. The resulting secure padlock icon to the left of your domain name provides your customers with a symbol of trust and reliability.
Additionally, Chrome marks all http websites as “not secure” and in 2014 Google announced https (hypertext transfer protocol secure) as a search engine ranking factor so getting a https should definitely be on your to-do list.
This service will install a SSL Certificate using industry best practice, redirect your website from http to https, enable a secured green padlock icon in the website address bar, and complete all of this within one business day.
Comprehensive Keyword Research
Keyword research involves identifying the words and phrases that people type into search engines. It is an integral step of SEO and helps you to better understand what your target market wants to find and shows how they are searching for it. You can use the research to create high quality targeted content which can then drive traffic to your website that is more likely to convert.
This service will provide a comprehensive report which outlines in detail which keywords you should target, competition data for the top ten for each keyword, an analysis of exactly what strategies you should employ, and a useful spreadsheet that you can use on an ongoing basis to plan and execute your keyword-related work.
Local SEO and Google Maps Rankings
Did you know that 88% of consumers who search for a local business on a mobile device either phone or go into that business within 24 hours? Such a statistic shows how critical Local SEO is to your business success.
This service takes care of your Local SEO to generate quality traffic and leads from your local area and includes helping getting your Google My Business page ranked well within search results.
They will also audit your website’s structure to analyze the technical elements which influence Local SEO, assess your website indexability to help search engines crawl and index each page of your website, compress images on your website to reduce loading time, and diagnose and resolve any factors that are impacting negatively on your Local SEO ranking,
WordPress Website Speed Improvement
If you are amongst the 39.1% of websites that use WordPress you can use this invaluable service to get your website optimized for maximum speed.
According to 2018 research conducted by Google, 53% of mobile users will leave a website if it takes more than three seconds to load.
This service incorporates the latest techniques including optimized images, leveraged browser caching, deferred parsing of JavaScript, minimized redirects and database optimization. If you have a WordPress website this should be one of your first priorities.
Onsite SEO
Onsite SEO involves optimizing elements on your website (both content and HTML source code) to make your website more search engine friendly, rank higher in the search results and therefore get more traffic.
This comprehensive service includes title tag optimization, H1, H2 and H3 tags, meta descriptions, image alt tags, internal links to other related pages on your website and URL structure. He also provides a detailed report of all of the work completed.
Install Google Analytics and other Webmaster Tools
Google Analytics is the best free tool for comprehensive live tracking and reporting of your website traffic. It allows you to quickly find out which marketing tactics are bringing you the most traffic and conversions, what users are clicking on the most within your website, where your users are located, and what content on your website is performing the best.
This service installs Google Analytics and other webmaster tools by an experienced professional and will give you the quality of information that will be invaluable to your business.
Your Satisfaction Guaranteed
When you use any of the above recommended SEO professionals your satisfaction is guaranteed.
Your interactions with these SEO professionals are all conducted on one of the best freelancer platforms and your payment to the SEO professional isn’t released until you are completely happy with the work.
Each SEO professional also has detailed feedback ratings and reviews over many transactions so they have proven their high quality of work over a considerable period of time.
The freelancer platform also provides 24/7 customer support to quickly answer any queries and maintains the highest security standards ensuring protection of your data.
The platform is listed on the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) and currently has over 3.1 million active buyers.
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Other Types of Freelancers
We have also compiled shortlists of high quality but low priced web developers, graphic designers, marketers and virtual assistants that we recommend the most:
We’d love to hear your success stories using these SEO professionals – email us at support@BusinessIntelHQ.com.