Outsourcing SEO

[amateursurgeon]

Ive been reading this threads about making 100k and 200k a year, and found them very interesting. Im a senior in college and the last thing i want to do next year is to sit in a fuckin cube. Now with that being said, how ethical is outsourcing SEO and making money off of it to less web savvy people? If i went around locally, telling people that i could help them raise their google/yahoo/msn rankings and outsourcing the SEO stuff to the people on here, you think i could get some coin? There is a lot of cheap SEO going around this forum, and from the look of it, pretty effective stuff. If i were to do this how much should i raise the prices (i.e 50 directory submissions are $4, but should i charge 15?) Im getting a better grasp on the SEO every day, i feel like i learn this stuff 100 times better than i learn shit at school. Let me know what you guys think, good idea? bad idea? if you have some input hit me up.

This is just normal commerce. Find something cheap that a lot of people value but don't know how to buy/do/make, and sell it to them at fat markup.

However, you need to add some more value if you're going to make a business out of this. If you just sell "50 directory submissions for 15$", pretty soon, someone in your area is going to google "cheap directory submissions", find out how to get them, then sell them to your customers at half the price you will.

Far smarter to bundle directory submissions with some other link building, maybe 3 or 4 services together. Add some keyword research (most SMB owners won't have a clue about this), a few other things, and sell it for $2000 over the course of a year. Hell, if you're good marketer, (and salesperson) and you are delivering great value, you could put together a package that people will pay $20,000 a year for.

Anyhow, if you phone up 100 business owners and offer them "directory submissions", I don't think you'll get a very good response. They probably won't even know what a directory submission is.

Remember - business owners don't want directory submissions. They want more business through their website.

 

[Makavelimob]

I would lay it all out with different packages including article submission, niche directory submission, social bookmarking features. Also with clear explanations of exactly what each of them do, as well as a lay out of what SEO is in laymans terms. Ofcourse making it seemingly very attractive in order to increase business, but it would be important for me to have quality work. I am aiming for smaller businesses