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Should I Pay For SEO Hourly?



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Should I Pay For SEO Hourly?

If you have ever looked on the market place you will know that the amount of SEO related services on offer is a lot, and I mean a lot! I am always on the lookout for ways to save money and today I spotted a person on a site offering SEO work on an hourly rate. This is something completely new to me and it really got me thinking. In the past have any of you every tried hiring a worker related to SEO on an hourly or daily rate? Personally I think this would allow you to get better results as you could set them say a bonus for achieving certain results. If you think this is a good idea what results would you expect to see in an hour and what would be a reasonable rate?

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idealmike
It depends what they are doing doesn't it! If they are doing some particular marketing and are able to make so much headway or send so many leads to your site per hour and those leads turn into subscribers and or clients that makes you money and what you are paying per hour is less than what you're making from all those leads. Then yes, absolutely you should pay by the hour. Should I Pay For SEO Hourly?

But it all depends what they are doing and if they are working hard or not. You don't want to hire someone and pay by the hour if they are not working hard and doing enough to merit paying them however much it is you're paying them per hour for that work.

The good thing about services that you pay a one off price for is that you know what you're getting for it. And if you like it and it works well you can buy it again and again you know what you're getting for it. Where as paying per hour you might not know and it might not be the same.

This is the sort of thing you'd have to hammer out first of all with that freelancer who is working for you so that you know roughly what they are able to do for you each hour so you can say okay, today I want 5 hours of whatever it is they do so you know what you're getting!



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Everett
Hm.. I have seen some people offering hourly rates, however it was not like $10/hour, for an hours time. It came out to be like $2000, because they would be working hourly until the project was done. You can try to get hire someone for an hourly rate but I wouldn't do it because you have no way of knowing if they are wasting your time and/or money. Even if they provide results, how would you determine how much SEO work equals an hourly pay based upon the hourly work proof? I would still stick to SEO services that have a price, other than going for the services that are hourly.



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Lynne
Oh no, I would never hire someone online per hour. I like paying a set amount per job so I know exactly what I am receiving for my money. If I am paying per hour I feel that I am losing control over my money and I have no idea what I will be getting or how long it will take.



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