Timothy Carter

Chief Revenue Officer at SEO Company

Industry veteran Timothy Carter is SEO.co’s Chief Revenue Officer. Tim leads all revenue for the company and oversees all customer-facing teams for SEO (search engine optimization) – including sales, marketing & customer success.

He has spent more than 20 years in the world of SEO & Digital Marketing leading, building and scaling sales operations, helping companies increase revenue efficiency and drive growth from websites and sales teams.

When he’s not working, Tim enjoys playing a few rounds of disc golf, running, and spending time with his wife and family on the beach…preferably in Hawaii.

Over the years he’s written for publications like ForbesEntrepreneur, Marketing Land, Search Engine Journal, ReadWrite and other highly respected online publications. Connect with Tim on Linkedin & Twitter.

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Market a Brand New Website
Timothy Carter

How to Market a Brand New Website

Digital marketing for startups and new websites is more difficult than it has ever been. Competition is more fierce, existing budgets are more robust and customers are more distracted, but that doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be done. It can now take 3+ years for new websites to emerge out of the hypothetical Google Sandbox and start ranking for thousands of keywords: How to Promote a New Website Marketing a brand new website can be a challenge, but with the right strategies, you can drive traffic and increase conversions. Here are six effective tactics you can use: Optimize your website for search engines using relevant keywords and meta tags. Leverage social media to build a following and engage with your target audience. Invest in pay-per-click advertising to target specific keywords and demographics. Collaborate with other websites and influencers in your industry to gain exposure and backlinks. Utilize email marketing to build relationships with your audience and promote your offerings. Offer incentives or promotions to entice visitors to take action on your website. “The Dip” for New Websites Seth Godin has a best-selling book titled The Dip. And while it’s certainly shorter than most of his other books, it’s arguably one of his best. It centers around the concept of knowing when to quit on an idea and when to continue pushing through. The basic premise is that most people have an unrealistic idea of what growth in business looks like. They believe it happens exponentially from the start (something Godin calls the “Naive Curve”). But this is rarely true – even with the best ideas. In reality, most people start with lots of energy and excitement. And as they launch a new business or even prepare for a new website launch, they experience an initial jolt of results, which sends positive feedback and encourages the entrepreneur to put in more effort. But then something inevitable happens: Results flat line while effort simultaneously increases. It’s at this point that people experience “The Dip.” Unfortunately, most people throw in the towel at this point. But as Godin puts it, this is a “bad quitting point.” Because the dip is typically followed by a rebound (which is where the real results occur). One of my favorite quotes from the Godin’s book: A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner When launching a new website, you have to resist the tendency to believe in the “Naive Curve” and instead embrace “The Dip.” This isn’t a pessimistic outlook – it’s just a realistic one. If you launch a website correctly, you’ll experience your fair share of results over the first 24 to 72 hours. But then things will flatline a bit. And if you aren’t careful, you’ll be tempted to throw in the towel. However, as you now know…true growth is just on the other side. By developing a proactive site launch plan to market your new website, you’ll reach this point faster and more efficiently. In this article, I’m going to show you: The What and Why of a website launch plan How to set yourself up for a successful new site launch by doing all of the right things before going “live” What to do on launch day to maximize your traffic and long-term results Post-launch website marketing tips for scalable traffic and conversions How building the right team makes all the difference when marketing a brand new website If you’re ready to learn the correct way to launch and market a website for maximum impact and lift, you’re in the right place. Keep reading and I’ll dish my favorite secrets for success. The What and Why of a Website Launch Plan I’d venture a guess that 95 percent of new websites don’t have any sort of formal launch plan. They simply hit “publish” and then take a wait-and-see approach. But I’d also venture to say 95 percent of most websites flop faster than a middle-school boy jumping off the diving board at the neighborhood swimming pool. All of that to say this: A website launch plan is not a requirement, but having one typically improves results and could even put you 90 to 180 days ahead of where you’d be if you just started publishing content without any real marketing or promotional strategy. When you first launch a website, nobody knows you exist. Google doesn’t know, strangers on the internet don’t know, even most people in your personal and professional networks don’t know. And it’ll stay that way for several months if you don’t develop a plan to intentionally systematize your launch. A launch plan is basically a formalized website promotion strategy for announcing and promoting your website to the right people in an effort to gain initial traction that can be parlayed into exponential growth over the following weeks and months. As the classic saying goes, a failure to plan is a plan to fail Without any formal launch plan, you’re basically publishing content for an empty room. It’s possible that some people will eventually wander into the room by accident, but why not send invitations? There’s no singular formula for developing a website launch plan, but it’s typically going to encompass three major phases: Pre-Launch. These are the steps you take just prior to launch to ensure your website is ready to go live. It’s a very specific set of steps that need to be checked off in order to ensure your launch day and post-launch processes go smoothly. Launch Day. On launch day, all cylinders are on fire. Assuming you were intentional with your pre-launch approach, you’ll see a pretty decent amount of lift in the first 24-72 hours. The more you can take advantage of this traffic and exposure, the better. Post-Launch. While launch day is certainly important and full of excitement, it’s just one day. What you do after launch day is even more important.

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Is Guest Blogging Dead?
Timothy Carter

Is Guest Blogging Dead? Yes & No. Here’s Why.

Everyone wants to be #1 on Google. The objective is always to rank as highly as you can as this will drive exponentially more traffic to your site, which ultimately means more sales and reaching your target audience. One of the top ways to boost your search engine optimization (SEO) and Google rankings is through guest blogging and this has been a strategy used for many years now. Getting guest bloggers and using backlinks from high authority websites is a way in which you could move up through the Google ranks and show your own site to be authoritative and was using legitimate strategies for link building. Google Sends Businesses into Meltdown Over Guest Blogging     Back in 2014, Matt Cutts, the former Head of Web Spam at Google said that “guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy’. This sent many businesses into a panic. Would their website be affected by this type of update if they previously featured guest bloggers? You never know when the next Google algorithm update is going to come along and set back all your SEO hard work!     Although this was said back in 2014, now as we are heading into 2021, is guest blogging dead? The objective of guest blogging has always been about backlinks. This is still fundamental to Google’s algorithm on how it assesses the authoritativeness of a website. If you are faced with a competitor who has lots of high authority backlinks and you have none, chances are they are going to beat you in the rankings for the best targeted keywords! This means that anyone with a website has had to re-evaluate the effectiveness of their own guest blogging and achieving backlinks. So, is guest blogging dead? The answer, overall, is no. However, there are specific rules to adhere to if you want to ensure that your guest blogging backlinks help your ranking and don’t hinder them. The Basics of Guest Blogging   Source: visual.ly Before we go on, it’s important to establish the basics of guest blogging. Essentially, a guest post is, is written content which is published on a third-party website with the author’s name. Alongside the author’s name, there is normally a line of two of information about who the author is and a link to their website, which is the backlink. In a guest blogging piece, the backlinks are also often included throughout the main body of the content. This type of strategy to get authoritative bank links on your website is one of the most popular, although there are still other options available. Now, you may be asking yourself, what is the problem with this method of obtaining backlinks? It appears great! The problem is that when an SEO technique is popular and widely used, it can be abused. Furthermore, Google catches on to this popularity and will look to weed out the spammy content that is bad practice. While bad content is targeted, it could still end up affecting your good content which is, of course, not what any website owner wants. What Guest Blogging Content Does Google Punish? There are a number of ways in which Google will penalize guest blogging content. These are some of the bad practices that you should avoid. Content with No Value If you are publishing guest blogging content that has no value, or very, very little value, then Google will recognize this and punish you for it. If a guest content piece is purely being written just to include a backlink and does not contain any helpful information, you can be sure this won’t help with your rankings. When creating guest blogging content, at the forefront should always be informing your readers with valuable information. This will then, subsequently, help your SEO. Re-publishing Content If you are thinking about creating one piece of content and then just simply editing it a little to create more backlinks – don’t! When you republish content and spin it a little in order to post it on another website for extra backlinks, Google will recognize this and punish you for it. Overloading Content with Backlinks Many sites that accept guest posts make the mistake of cramming in as many backlinks as possible into an article, however, this is a big mistake. Google will be able to pick this up immediately and see that you are trying to cheat the system and you will be penalized for it. Don’t Go Crazy with Anchor Text Keywords Another common error that is made with guest blogging content is using overloading the backlink anchor text with a tonne of keywords. This isn’t natural and makes your backlink and article appear spammier. To be clear, less than 1% of your anchor text should be exact match, according to Ahrefs. Using Low Authority Guest Blog Sites A big no no when it comes to backlinks and guest blogging is publishing content on low authority sites. You’ll know exactly the types of sites that we are talking about such as the news sites that are very low-quality and look like spam articles. These sorts of sites use very poor content and simply a way to make quick money. In the long run, this will only damage your SEO efforts using these types of websites. Repeatedly Using the Same Websites Guest blogging can be extremely time consuming and so it seems easier just to repeatedly use the same handful of sites that you are on good terms with. However, this is wrong as it can, again, appear like spam. Instead, you need to take the time and effort to build relationships with a wide range of different sites and do blogger outreach. Not Knowing the Subject You’re Writing On If you want a piece of content to appear reputable, knowledgeable and authoritative, then it has to be written by someone who knows about the subject you are writing on. This ensures that your content provides value to the audience it is intended for

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Is SEO a Waste of Money?
Timothy Carter

Is SEO a Waste of Money?

You might have heard that SEO is dead….a waste of money. Depending on your views of the matter and what you expect, it MIGHT be a waste of money. However, if you grasp how SEO (search engine optimization) has changed over time, you’ll see that SEO still has plenty of value. But some parts of traditional SEO have gone the way of PDAs and bag cell phones. If you’re still paying for old-school SEO tactics, you’re wasting your money and could decrease your Google ranking. How to know if your SEO strategy is worth it or not? Let’s look at some outdated tactics that some scammy SEO companies still promote. Link Building Having high-quality backlinks is indeed vital to your website and its ranking. So, link building isn’t dead. But the old idea of having hundreds of poor-quality links on your website IS dead. When the idea was new, SEO companies did use link farms, and websites rocketed to the top of Google. But that all changed when the Penguin algorithm dropped in 2012, and it’s changed several times since then. Quantity doesn’t impress Google anymore. Now it’s all about quality. Your site’s backlinks’ quality and relevance are much more critical than the quantity. The bottom line here: Invest in link building, but only if the SEO company’s strategy involves obtaining authoritative links. Getting a #1 Ranking Being #1 isn’t a waste of money, but the idea that you can achieve a top ranking and keep it indefinitely is a pipedream. Many companies obsess over being #1, and tons of them check the results every day to ensure they’re still there. Who is #1 for any search phrase can change daily. Another related scam is guaranteeing a high ranking in two or three days. The ONLY way that can happen is through illegitimate means or PPC advertising. Whatever they’re doing, they’re dishonest with you, so avoid them. Instead of focusing on your rank, look at your user experience. Lean on analytics data and learn what your website visitors want. Focus on giving your users the information they crave. Regularly review your bounce rate, click-through rate, and duration of sessions. When you spend time improving your site’s experience and lowering your bounce rate, you’re telling the search engines your site is better than others in your niche. Invest your energy in improving your content’s quality and structure, and you’ll notice over time that your Google ranking will rise. Free Trial A legitimate SEO service takes a ton of work and time. The process is complex, and the time to obtain terrific results takes months. That’s why no serious SEO company will give you a free week or hook to get you in. It’s also why SEO is expensive. If they want access to your hosting account during the free trial, take a hard pass. You need to work with a company on a paying contract for them to be legit, and never give a company your vital login credentials unless you’ve signed with them. Website Design Services Offered Google ‘SEO services’ and be amazed at the number of companies that offer web design and SEO. You’d think every marketing organization on earth is offering search engine optimization! Beware, especially if you don’t see staff charged with SEO specifically. Many of these firms have little expertise in the field and simply package SEO with other services (e.g. web design) to make no money. You’ll rarely get the same quality of SEO from a do-it-all type of company. Hire a specialized SEO company, and you’re better off. They Want Ownership of Content Anything you’re paying someone for should be yours. Be sure that any contract you sign doesn’t give ownership of anything to that firm. This could hold your content client, and it could even be sold to someone else. Keyword Stuffing Eons ago, you could get a high ranking by repeating a search phrase many times on a page. Thankfully, those days are behind us. Google tries to understand what your intent is behind a keyword. It isn’t giving top ranking to a page with the keyword’s most mentions. What’s that mean for your business? Forget keywords. Instead, focus on topics relevant to your niche and audience. Content optimized by the subject provides the best-quality answers and a superior user experience. Plus, when you focus on a critical topic, you’ll also get the advantages of semantic variations of the keyword phrase; this means your money page might rank for multiple keywords on various search engine results pages (SERPs). We Can Do It All For Less Than ‘Those Guys’ If you’re working with an SEO company and someone tells you they can do it cheaper, it’s probably a scam. First of all, they don’t know what that company is doing for you, so how do they know they can do it cheaper? SEO always takes time. If you have tangible results from your current provider and switch, it can take months to know if the new guys are doing a better job. They could come into your life and do nothing, and you won’t know for at least 60 days. Business owners might not see a reduction in traffic even after a year of paying the new SEO company. It looks like they are doing the same thing for you for less. What Should You Do? To ensure you aren’t wasting your money on useless off page and on page SEO, you need to focus on what works. Many experts today say focusing on page speed is critical. Why? Unbounce tells us that 50% of visitors will bounce if your site takes 3+ seconds to load. Let’s say your site gets 300 unique visitors monthly. If the website is slow, you might miss 300 more visitors because of slow load speeds. About 7% of new site visitors become patients in the healthcare field. Your site could cost you ten or more clients per month, If each new client is worth about $400

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Local SEO vs National SEO: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters
Timothy Carter

Local SEO vs. National SEO: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters

Google doesn’t use the same algorithm for its national search results and its new local 3-pack, which displays three relevant local businesses for your local query. There are some overlapping ranking factors, of course, but the algorithms themselves and the target results are somewhat distinct. However, some experts in the industry have taken this to mean that local and national SEO should be treated entirely separately. For example, a local business might focus exclusively on trying to rank in the local 3-pack while disregarding national search, or a national company might ignore local ranks altogether. Approaching search engine optimization (SEO) from one side or the other, despite the schism in Google’s algorithms, is a flawed strategy. It’s far better to use one group of strategies for the purpose of generating inbound traffic. When starting out online, small businesses attempt different strategies. Some seek to tackle the whole world as their market; others start small by targeting their local region. As the online world has grown to become saturated with businesses all vying for the top spot in global reach, some are turning to smaller, concentrated markets through national and local search. In theory, national and local search are indeed much more promising to target. In the same vein, international SEO can be even more lucrative if your product is ubiquitous around the globe. But you need to be aware of certain key differences between them to determine which you should aim for. The following is a discussion that should help you distinguish between national and local SEO. National SEO National SEO, on the other hand, refers to the process of optimizing a website for broader, national search queries. It is relevant for businesses that operate on a national or international level, such as ecommerce stores, large corporations, or tech companies. National SEO, being broader, allows you to use broader search terms. This can make it harder to rank for because the competition is inevitably fiercer at this level. After all, there are only 10 spots on Google’s first page. If you are competing against 30 or 50 companies nationally, and all the metrics are the same, it’s going to be tough for your business to get ahead just in terms of creating solid backlinks. Local SEO Local SEO refers to the process of optimizing a website for a specific geographic location. It is particularly relevant for businesses that serve customers in a particular city, region, or state. Examples of such businesses include restaurants, real estate agents, real estate lawyers, plumbers, and hair salons. So it’s probably safe to say that cornering local search is a lot easier. There’s much less competition in this area compared to national search. Optimizing for home improvement contractors by city or state is apt to be far less grueling than optimizing for a broader reach. But if you are just starting out, you could be facing a fairly substantial amount of work to land local citations and get listed on small business directories in your city. Major Differences Between Local and National SEO So, what are the main differences between local SEO and national SEO? Let’s take a closer look. Keyword targeting: Local SEO strategies typically focus on optimizing for location-based keywords, such as “plumber in San Francisco” or “Italian restaurant in Seattle.” National SEO strategies, on the other hand, tend to target broader, industry-specific keywords, such as “best laptops” or “luxury fashion brands.” Content creation: Local SEO requires businesses to create content that is relevant to the specific needs and interests of their local customers. This can include local news, events, and promotions, as well as location-specific guides and resources. National SEO, on the other hand, requires businesses to create more generic, industry-focused content that can appeal to a wider audience. Link building: In local SEO, businesses need to build high-quality backlinks from local directories, websites, and blogs. This helps to establish their credibility and authority within the local community. National SEO, on the other hand, requires businesses to build links from a wide range of authoritative websites across the country or even the world. Shameless plug: hire our link building services for the best backlinks in the industry. Google My Business optimization: Google My Business (GMB) is a powerful tool for local SEO, as it allows businesses to appear in Google’s local search results and on Google Maps. To optimize their GMB listing, businesses need to provide accurate and up-to-date information about their business, such as their address, phone number, hours of operation, and customer reviews. National SEO, on the other hand, doesn’t rely as heavily on GMB optimization. Competition: Local SEO tends to be more competitive than national SEO, as businesses are vying for the attention of a smaller, more specific audience. This means that businesses need to work harder to differentiate themselves from their local competitors and offer unique value to their customers. National SEO, on the other hand, is often more about standing out from the crowd within a broader industry. Separating the strategies adds needless complication Occam’s razor suggests that when solving a problem, the simplest solution is likely the best one. Similarly, in SEO, the simplest approach is likely the most meaningful. That’s not to say that SEO can be handled with only the basics (even though I’m a proponent of the minimalistic approach to SEO), but the fewer unnecessary complications you add to your strategy, the better. Adding another “wing” of SEO could potentially confuse your local SEO efforts, especially if you assign different team members to those responsibilities. For example, if you have one set of people working only on national SEO and another set working exclusively on local SEO, you could end up working toward different goals, ultimately weakening the possible success of each one. Every business can find value in both worlds Rather than focusing on both national and local SEO as separate entities, some businesses completely eradicate one side of the spectrum to focus on the other. For example, a restaurant that only

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What's the Worst That Can Happen in an SEO Campaign?
Timothy Carter

What’s the Worst That Can Happen in an SEO Campaign?

People seem to have mixed feelings about SEO. There are hardcore purists who insist that SEO is perfect for everybody and will perpetually remain a viable and cost-effective marketing strategy, but there are also business owners who refuse to partake in what they feel is an unsafe and questionable strategy, and tons of variance in the people in between. The chief concerns usually stem from the risks of the strategy. There are horror stories of business owners losing significant visibility in search engines as the result of algorithm changes or flawed strategies, and scamming SEO businesses who over-promise and under-deliver are a real threat to anyone unacquainted with basic SEO strategy. Plus, there’s the chance that your investment of time and money doesn’t earn you the ROI you were hoping for. Despite all these risks, both real and perceived, I still believe that using a professional SEO service is a viable strategy. But if you aren’t convinced by my word or the host of evidence you can find elsewhere on our SEO blog, let’s take a look at the worst-case scenario. What’s the worst that could happen to you in starting an SEO campaign? There are several ways you can start out, but only a handful of ways that an SEO campaign can burn you in each scenario. Starting an Successful SEO Campaign From Scratch If you’re starting an SEO campaign from scratch, you don’t have much to lose. Your site isn’t ranking in Google at all, and you have little to no domain authority to speak of. It’s the aged, venerable and trafficked sites that have the greatest to lose when it comes to SEO. Pursuing a bad strategy If you use a bad strategy, like posting external links without direction or stuffing your content full of keywords, you aren’t going to a significant drop in search engine rankings because you’re already at the bottom. If you make an egregious mistake, like hiding keywords in the background of your site or deliberately spamming potential customers, you might earn an actual Google penalty—in that case, you’ll have trouble crawling out unscathed. Either way, you’ll still have plenty of time to make up for your mistakes, and if you’re following best practices with links and content, you have nothing to worry about in the first place. Failing to invest enough time or money This is the biggest risk for companies starting from scratch. It takes effort and patience to see the results of an SEO campaign, and if you only dabble in the strategy, it’s never going to pay off. For example, if you only spend an hour a week on things like writing content, posting on social media, and working with external sources for link building, you might never generate enough momentum to actually rank, resulting in a loss of time (or money) that you did put in. Paying too much There’s also the danger of paying too much for SEO services. If you go with an agency that charges exorbitant rates for simple services, you could end up with a negative ROI. It’s not just about budget constraints. It’s more about search engine results and return on your digital marketing investment. Starting With Some Rankings & Traffic Let’s say you’ve been in business for a while, and your brand name shows up in Google for the occasional search. You have some ground to lose, but you’re still not ranking especially well. Pursuing a bad strategy Bad strategies have similar effects for businesses that already have a foothold in search ranks. Egregious errors can set you back months or years of effort, and even small deviations from best practices can cause you to lose valuable ground. Still, if your primary focus is on improving user experience, you don’t have anything to worry about. Failing to invest enough time or money Once you’ve got a foothold in search ranks, you’ll need to spend some significant time and money to move up to the next level. If you fail to scale your investment in line with the growth of your ranks, you could end up stagnating and failing to see a positive return. Paying too much Like with starting from scratch, if you pay more than what your needed services are actually worth, you’ll wind up with a negative (or at least a diminished) ROI. Still, this rarely results in a catastrophic loss, especially if the campaign is quality. Starting With Ample Authority In this scenario, you’re already ranking high for a number of keywords and queries, either through a pre-existing SEO campaign or through natural growth from user reviews, inbound links, and other factors. Worse still are the sites that get thousands of unique, qualified visitors per day. They truly have the most to lose in a search engine optimization campaign. But they are, the harder they fall: Pursuing a bad strategy A bad strategy here can cause some serious damage. At this level, a Google penalty from an egregious error could result in devastating losses of visibility and traffic—so avoid any black hat practices like the plague! Smaller errors can have a significant effect as well, but by this point your domain authority is so well established that it won’t take much time or effort to fully recover. Failing to invest enough time or money At this level, if you want to see more results, you’ll have to invest a large chunk of time and/or money. Otherwise, your efforts will merely keep you afloat. Staying afloat can still yield a positive ROI, but be careful not to let your efforts slip, or your ranks could start steadily dropping. Even companies with ample traffic may not have large enough budgets to chase the rankings of short-tail keywords of competitors. Paying too much It’s still possible to spend too much for cost of SEO services, especially if you’re already enjoying a nice search position. Choose your partners and SEO consultants carefully. Conclusion As you can see, there are real risks associated

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White Label SEO Reporting: Guide + Template
Timothy Carter

White Label SEO Reporting: Guide + Template

What is white label SEO reporting? How can you take advantage of white label SEO reports for your SEO agency? White labeling is a business strategy that allows you to take your own product and “rebrand” it as someone else’s. For example, say you are an SEO company with a suite of white label tools for managing clients’ search engine rankings. You can offer these same services under the name of another company (i.e., their brand) and charge more in the process! This article will discuss how to create white label SEO report for your clients. Let’s dive in! What is White-Label SEO Reporting? White-label SEO reporting is the process of offering SEO reporting services to your clients, done by a third-party platform of an external company. The SEO reporting platform needs to generate a report for the client in their desired format. This is usually done by taking all of your clients’ data and creating thematic visualizations (e.g., infographics) and analytical reports based on that information, like ROI [return on investment] analysis, social media marketing campaigns, or keyword research reports, etc. Companies that offer packages with white label SEO services are able to increase profits by scaling up what they’re already doing without adding overhead costs. This can be accomplished by outsourcing work from one company to another – externalizing part of the process so you don’t have to do it yourself. Outsourcing can also reduce labor expenses. What Do White-Label SEO Reporting Platforms Do? White-label SEO tools perform a variety of tasks, including: Gathering data on the client’s website and keywords; Creating PDF reports for each individual client in their preferred format (like an infographic); Providing recommendations to improve rankings. Platforms will often integrate (usually via API) with one another, allowing you to connect data from Google Analytics, Google Search Console (GSC), Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz and others in order to get the data that can be used for making decisions. What Should You Look for in a Private Label Platform? Some platforms offer to create reports for a variety of clients, some charge per client and can take care of the entire process. You’ll want to research how much your prospective platform will cost you on an individual level as well as what kind of benefits it offers (e.g., discounts for creating infographics). Also, be sure that its format is something that could work with what you’re looking for in terms of ROI analysis or keyword research. When Should You Use a White-Label Platform? White-label SEO reporting platforms are best used by companies that want to offer more services in a scalable way without taking on overhead costs or hiring additional staff. Some companies may find that it’s more cost-effective to hire an agency than use a white label platform. However, hiring a white-label marketing & SEO agency can be expensive when you just require SEO reporting services. If you already have your SEO services under control, choosing a white-label SEO reporting platform is an ideal choice. On the other hand, hiring a white-label SEO is beneficial if you would like to scale your entire SEO department. How to Choose the Best White-Label SEO Reporting Tool As you can see, it’s highly important to select the right white-label SEO reporting tool for your company. If you’re on the hunt for the best products, here are some steps you’ll need to take. Always Check Online Reviews: The most important thing to do when researching white-label SEO reporting platforms is checking for reviews. It’s best to look at a company’s profile on sites like Google My Business, Yelp, and Facebook because they provide the most accurate information about an individual business. You’ll want to take note of how the platform works overall (e.g., if it offers different tiers), whether or not their customer service team responds effectively in cases of emergency, and what kinds of clients are using them. This will give you insight into which features each company has that might suit your needs better than others as well as who would be best suited for that particular product/service combination based on their experience with customers similar to yours. Check to See if The Product is Offering a Free Trial: A lot of white-label SEO reporting platforms offer a free trial, which is an excellent way to see if the product suits your needs as well as how it works with other programs you may have in place. It’s important to do this because not all companies make return policies clear or allow for refunds. If they don’t mention anything about returns, watch out! It could mean that once you sign up and purchase their service, there’s no going back – even if you find out later down the line that it doesn’t work for what you’re looking for. Create a List of Expectations: If you’re not sure what features are necessary for your company, create a list of different expectations that will be important to meet. This way, the right option can come up much more easily when searching through various reporting platforms. For example: If you want to have monthly reports sent out automatically as opposed to weekly ones (and vice versa), make sure it’s on your list! That could mean all the difference in terms of ROI and keyword research if it’s something that affects how often clients need their data updated or changed based on keywords and campaigns. Always Compare Different Pricing Models: At the end of the day, it’s important to remember that there are a lot of different pricing models out there. Some SEO reporting platforms may offer an unlimited plan for their monthly fee (e.g., $100/month), while others might charge you more based on what features they have included in your package. Make sure to consider all options before deciding on one. Partner with a Private Label Marketing Agency: If you’re looking to partner with a white-label digital marketing agency, make sure they have experience not only in the plans and

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