tl;dr: Get a full SEO site audit, done by dchuk, by hand, along with one on one Skype consulting time, for $499, and help him hone a plan for a new SEO product in the process. When it launches, you'll get reimbursed with a bunch of free usage of the product.
An Experiment Begins...
I have said this for years: SEO is a game of automation. It's what drew me to the world of SEO in the first place.
I've been tossing around the idea of building an automated SEO site audit tool that can be useful for both consultants/agencies as well as internet marketers with their own sites. While I think serpIQ is an essential part of the SEO toolkit in terms of competition analysis, it's more useful for doing deep, specific keyword analysis instead of overall domain analysis.
I want to build a tool that can analyze your domain and point out all of the low hanging fruit that is holding you back from lots of traffic and profit, a tool that should compliment serpIQ quite well.
So me and the serpIQ team want to build a new SEO Site Audit Tool and we need your help. This offering is a bit different than most BST threads as we aren't selling links, we're selling a professional, custom SEO site audit.
So without further adieu, I introduce:
"The Great SEO Site Audit Business Development Experiment"
You will get the following:
- A Thorough Architectural Audit Of Your Site. I will personally run a site crawl and point out problems with your meta tags, page content, interlinking, and overall site structure in plain English for you. This includes suggestions for how best to setup your content silos, where to focus your in-content links throughout the site, and technical suggestions for cleaning up any site problems as easily as possible.
- Site Performance Audit. I will take a sampling of the various main content page types on your site and do a performance audit and provide technical suggestions for improving the speed and performance of your site.
- Organic Traffic Audit. This audit will identify the stronger pages on your site, the keywords those pages rank for, and provide suggestions for improving those rankings to capture the rest of the traffic you're missing out on by not optimizing your pages as best as possible.
- Business Model Audit. This isn't something I will be putting into the tool (because it can't be automated) but I'll do a few page writeup about your site and my overall impression and advice for it.
- 1 Hour Skype call with yours truly. We can use the time to discuss the audit, your site, your business model, or anything else you'd like to discuss. You're free to record the call if you'd like, all I ask is that you don't publish it publicly (you may share it privately if you want).
- Free, Early Access To The Tool When It Launches. We aren't sure if it will be a subscription product or pay as you go, but either way, we'll hook you up with a bunch of free usage as a thank you for helping us hone in on the idea during this phase.
How Much For All Of This?
If I were still doing consulting, I'd charge about $2,500 - $4,000 for this service. But because this is for business model validation, not for core profit, you can get this for just $499.
Now, you might be thinking, "what the fuck is wrong with you dchuk, clearly you have better things to spend your time on."
Well, the reason I'm doing this is because I need your help. I want to bring this product to market but I want to validate the idea first with real customers before I invest a ton of man hours and capital into developing an automated solution for this.
So, I am going to dig in and do these by hand for a few of you, and all I ask is that at the end of our Skype time, I can ask you a few questions about the audits you've received and the idea in general. I will take that feedback from you and use it to shape the offering and identify whether I think the idea is viable or not.
What's In It For Us?
Hopefully in a month or two (my goal is the end of June), I will have a beta up and running. And if you take me up on this manual audit offer, I'll hook you up with an account with a bunch of free credits (or possible free months of service, I'm not sure if we'll be doing a pay as you go or subscription model).
Regardless, I'm going to essentially reimburse you for your $499 investment with free usage of the tool you're going to help me fine tune.
How Many Audits Are You Going To Do?
For now, I am hoping to do 5 of these audits. I'd like to work with 5 individual people, not one person with five sites, because I want to collect as much feedback as possible from different folks to really see what you think of this idea. If the demand is there, I might expand the offering for 5-10 more people to gather some additional feedback and data.
The goal for the report this tool will generate is you will either be able to turn around and hand it directly to a client in a pitch or use it internally to guide your site updates with the goal of improving your organic site performance. It will be fully automated, just put in a domain, select a few options, and go. In a little while, you'll have an audit generated that would cost you $XXX-X,XXX from a professional SEO.
Each of these audits will take me a decent amount of hours to complete, so I should be charging a lot more for these. But because I'm using these to guide the development of a new product, I'm willing to eat some profit in the short term in order to develop something for the long term. My loss, your gain.
So enough with the bullshit, let's get rolling. Click the big bad link below and fill out the Wufoo form and I'll get back to you after reviewing your details. Once I've reviewed your site a bit, I'll send over an invoice and we can schedule our Skype time.
ETA for these reports is approximately 7-10 business days from the time the invoice is paid. I'll be in communication with you throughout the process and will give you my Skype number so you can call me directly at any point.
PS: No review copies, no discounts for senior members, nada. You know who I am and these are already too cheap as it is.
