Today marked the launch of an extraordinary new concept called DIY SEO. It is spearheaded by visionary search marketer and entrepreneur Patrick Gavin in conjunction with a talented team. I have been following the pending news and launch of the site since it was just a glimmer in Patrick’s eye. And I am a big fan of the infographics that they have been posting on the site.
The launch of DIYSEO.com today, after over a year of development and design, came with much fanfare. They are offering a nice 7 day trial to test dive the system. The videos and screen shots of the system look VERY good so far. The site looks clean and really easy to understand and follow. But the true test will come with actually using the system, which is exactly what I plan to do.
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I know that there are many SEOs that were really scared of this service, that it would take business away from SEO agencies and SEO consultants. The other side of the camp says that this service is a rip off and that it will not hold value for most users. But I do not see it that way. I think that this is a great idea and that the purpose is to help service the small businesses out there that do not have thousands of dollars to spend on SEO, and that literally do not really need to.
But I also feel that no matter how well made the site is and no matter how good the service is, that some people will still need help. I hope to help fill that void. I get a really big kick out of helping small businesses. You can really have a positive impact on someone’s life when working with small businesses. Generating 10% more profits for a Fortune 500 firm is really like a drop in the bucket, but for a small business it can be a game changer.
So I look forward to my journey with this new product and I welcome it to the SEO community. I may change that stance after using it but as for now it looks like and seems like it would be a great solution for a large number of people out there. Not everyone, but there is definitely a market there.
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Most of the professionals in the SEO industry I communicate aren’t afraid of this service, they’re saddened that such a hack job would be promoted as being valuable when most small business owners will not ever find the kind of results that they hope for given how utterly simplistic the service is in communicating the otherwise complex issues related to SEO. Aaron Wall wrote a truly insightful blog article on why this is the case and the industry in general is up in alarm over how SMBs will most likely waste even the small amount of money it otherwise seems to cost.
Hi Alan, thank you for stopping by and for your opinion. I love your 8 Emotional Stages of an SEO contract post, hilarious!
I do think that it is unfair to say that small business owners cannot achieve good results through using DIYSEO. Have you used the system yet? is $49.99 per month with a cancel at anytime policy really ever going to waste a business owner’s money?
This is why I am going to actually use the product first and then comment on it’s usefulness. But so far the little that I have seen actually lays out what to do in order to better optimize a site in a really friendly and easy to understand format.
Do I have doubts about the product, absolutely. I do not think that they will have a good way to really help people build enough links. But I think that for the price and the gains that can be had, however small they are, will add up to a good value. And I feel that many people, local businesses, will actually rank and get a tremendous ROI.
But only time will tell.
Miguel, thanks for the mention here! Looking forward to your review after you test out the software. Please email me with any ways we can improve the product, thanks again!
Hi Patrick,
I am excited to try out the product. I am also looking for a friend or relative with no online marketing experience to test it out. I will definitely ping you with any suggestions.
I think it will definitely be useful for someone learning SEO and Cool features of the SEO. Keep up the work.
How well does DIY Seo compare to other companies out there? are we soon going to have a place where we can check out reviews and comparisons? I have heard of this other company called boostability.com and just wanted to know if this was better software or not.
Hi Jordan, your attempt to plug your own company, boostability, was poor. You acted like Joe consumer in your comment but your email address and link URL make it clear that you are working to compete with DIYSEO. I will allow your comment only so that I can point out your weak attempt at comment spam. Maybe some of my readers can use this as a lesson on how not to promote your own company within comments by trying to appear as though you have no affiliation.
DIYSEO in my opinion, is not only a way to help small businesses do SEO on their own but i believe its a software platform that can definitely help SEO agents/consultants. Mind you there are many web based softwares like it. DIY like many other softwares has its limitations. But as I have read all the post and the comments posted here, we’ll need more proof to say it stands out best. I’m glad that Miguel Salcido pointed out the issue about link building as it is a vital part of SEO. Now the other thing i think we should look at is cost. Now instead of using DIYSEO, and paying per month or a whole year, why not just get a software that costs less and doesn’t require continuous payments. I will not mention the kind of softwares there are to keep DIYSEO as the focus software in discussion. The only thing that will differ is perhaps the features and I am planning on testing DIY, but I’m not so sure of its effectiveness.We’re going to need a whole lot of reviews and comparisons to reach a solid conclusion. I can’t wait to see the results. Thanks for the post and the inputs here.
Hi Dennis, thanks for the comment. First off, even Google tells you to never trust a consultant that “promises” first page rankings. Nobody can say for certain that they will get you “X” ranking for “XYZ” keyword.
Another distinction is that local SEO is split between Google Places (Maps) listings, and a normal “Web” page ranking for any given keyword. So for “roof repair Torrance” there could be Maps (Places) listings and their could be a few organic web results ranking on the same page. Ranking Google Places (Maps) pages is tough because their algo for it is poor and there are really no huge factors for increasing its ranking. There are a number of best practices to employ that should increase your ranking for your Places page, but no really big factors. In regular organic SEO for your website link building is an overwhelming factor that influences rankings. So it is a bit less of a guess as to what will get you ranked.
And $2500 is really really cheap for an entire website. I suggest getting off of your current Yahoo platform and going to a self hosted Wordpress site though. But your site serves its purpose right now it looks. Let me know if you’d like any more advice by filling out my contact form at the top right of the page.
Yes the map listings have been very unstable. I’ve seen when building links into the places page the ranking drops off completely. To further back up Miguel…Dennis its wordpress all the way.
Where do you sit with this DIYSEO now, 12 months on?
As much as any tool they can only show you the way to increase ranking, not carry them out. This is where people seem to make a large mistake. While consultants are efficient and show more depth in their advisory, they tend to take all their SEO knowledge away from your company once the project is completed, I, as a colleague of DIYSEO honestly don’t find them worth their price. Especially because SEO is a continuous process, that needs attention at least every month. To be more efficient you need to embed SEO into your business, workflow tools can be very helpful at that if only to remind you that something needs to be done every once in a while.
Also keep in mind that SEO tools are still immature, as search engines are becoming ever more complex with more factors, we will eventually need to automate more (luckily new technologies are paving the road for this), because things are getting too complex for humans alone.
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