Honestly, from what I’ve seen, an SEO consultant mostly just pokes around your site figuring out why it’s not showing up on Google, then tells you what to fix. Mine spent the first two weeks just auditing stuff, page speed, broken links, weird duplicate content, before touching anything else. It felt slow at the time but I get why now. Anyone else’s consultant start that way or did yours jump straight into content changes?

Honestly a lot of the value was just having someone who stays on top of algorithm updates so I didn’t have to. My consultant would flag changes and adjust strategy before I even knew something had shifted. Felt less like hiring a magician and more like paying for someone’s attention and experience. Curious what others pay for this kind of ongoing work, flat fee or hourly?

Paid for a consultant once when my traffic just flatlined and nothing I tried seemed to help. Turned out half the advice was generic checklist stuff, but the other half actually explained why my site was underperforming in ways I hadn’t considered. Worth it just for that clarity, even if the price tag stung a bit.

I think the real value isn’t the advice itself but having someone to bounce ideas off when you’re stuck in your own head about your site. Sometimes you just need a second opinion to confirm you’re not wasting your time. Does anyone else feel like that’s the main benefit too?
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