Conversations from an Essex based Website design company to one of their clients regarding their website. This demonstrates a massive lack of knowledge by the website design company as they recommended the most complained about SEO company in the UK and as they have no SEO knowledge themselves they had no idea how their ‘personalised’ results were giving them a different view of the Google rankings to their client. If in doubt get lots of opinions and advice and don’t trust ‘friends’ with all your business website requirements unless you are sure of their abilities.
[essex business owner] I have just had this from an SEO expert – They still maintain we are slipping back in the search engine rankings. I must admit we don’t appear to be getting many web enquiries recently, and almost no enquiry forms recently. Can you advise.
[SEO Experts] Did you ever consider the site changes and / SEO offer we gave? I mention it as I was looking at rankings of [your primary search terms] for companies yesterday and noticed that you are still moving down or sideways along the rankings. In Google your ranking for your most competitive search term [search term] is now 8th (it was 4th about a year ago when we first benchmarked you.
We are confident in getting you increased rankings and perhaps even in the top 3 for 4-5 different search terms and as we have done a fair bit of preparation work on your website we are willing to reduce the cost of our 3 month SEO project for you with no monthly commitment afterwards, plus we will reduce the cost of text / webcopy and the blog by 10% if you decide you want to increase your rankings / visitor numbers and website standing / popularity then this is a good option for you.
[Essex based website design company] You did not pay me for any SEO work however I optimised for more than 5 phrases within the cost. 3 months SEO work at that cost is absolutely shocking and is more than what you paid to have the whole site designed and built. If you want to give something like SEO optimisation a whirl, pay a much bigger reputable company about £25 a month. The company I recommended to you appear top for most search phrases on the search engines regarding SEO. And as said before, this website design company is offering you top 3 (which you already appear in my neck of the woods) so where will that leave his other customers?
Your site is fully content managed so you can get a company on board and manage all of this yourself, I will then help if any technical issues arise. Please don’t use this other website design and SEO company.
