Need cheapest SEO solution

SEO would be a good thing to do to your website. Yes, you can certainly reap more from SEO provided you do it right. Months down the line it will get your a steady stream of visitors (some of whom might become your new clients) so you don’t have to constantly depend on the same clients for your business.

You could do it yourself if you can understand basic things about websites – like web page title (the title up there on your browser’s window bar) for starters. That is not all there is to understand but if you know how you can change that and text and tags in your webpage, then you can do all the basic (and the most important) things yourself. Search for “introduction to SEO” on Yahoo or Google and you’ll find tons of material to read. Spend a weekend to get an idea about what it is.

Now, Hostgator will probably provide you the tools to assess your website’s SEO. Those tools will probably give you statistics of various things about your website, but they won’t implement it. In other words, for example (just an example, this isn’t necessarily true), they could tell you that your “web page title” is search-engine friendly.. but those tools won’t change your web page title for you. Another example, they might tell you how many other websites contain links to your website, but they won’t make other websites carry links to your website. These latter things are the ones which SEO companies do for you. Some even charge in thousands.. plus they also have a monthly maintenance fees.

If you got weekends to spare and you are a person who can learn things fast (none of it is rocket science, so don’t worry) and implement them for your website and you are not in a hurry to implement SEO on your website, then you can probably take the dive and see if you can do it yourself. It is time consuming but the most important things should be easy to do. Plus, if you have the knowledge of what exactly is it all about, even if you resort to hiring someone for SEO later, you’d understand what they’ve done so they don’t get to dupe you saying they’ve done ‘stuff’ for your website and you don’t understand what they’ve done.

So my recommendation is: search for some “basic SEO” or “SEO tutorial” on search engines and start reading at your leisure. Get a good understanding of the basics. Then try and do some of it yourself. After that you can re-assess if you want to continue doing it yourself (give yourself 6 months) or hire someone to do it for you.

Hope that helps.