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At 2-3K a month I won't be getting a SEO for a while.

We have reduced stuff on the front page already...ha,ha....Just throwing up our CDN now.

We did a redesign in the fall and went for the clean look with no excerpts/text from articles but have often debated if that may effect things.Sometimes pretty does not always work.I will look to fix this up as i have actually been debating on doing this already.

Ads are a unnecessary evil as they pay the bills and staff.We are doing some testing so their is some more ads than normal once we are done we will reduce them for sure.

Building links would be for serp's.

We use a lot of video and infographics when possible but when you are breaking news and leaks and want to be first to press with that type of info a video and info-graphic are not always applicable.We plan to do more infographics though.

Looks like some interesting software for managing our social media more efficiently and save us some time.We do everything it offers manually right now.

certainly agree nothing in GWT stands out in regards to bad links , or other red flags so we would need some help on where that issue may be.

We are always looking to improve our traffic and rankings, so is not a lack of, it is about getting more.Our traffic comes from direct and social media/never fake and search.We ranked well for our main keyword page one and had great traffic with no SEO.We dropped to page 3 though and it affected our traffic obviously and trying to get back to page one is our goal.I am focused on our main keyword as it does drive a lot of traffic for us.

In regards to our auditors recommendations we have followed all of it exactly and are just finishing up now.A lot of it was on site fixes.However the next stage is link building which we will need help for and hope for someone else to come in and give us some other suggestions and help with off site stuff as well.

I certainly understand and see your point of view and totally agree with what you said. Unfortunately that is all the budget I have right now and trying to make it work, but basically from what i am hearing that is that kinda money wont hire a decent seo.

On site wise i think we are pretty close with a little more work.Here is our site

Search engine rankings and link building is where i feel we fall short.

We have done a forensic audit with a great SEO already and implemented a lot of those changes.But he specialized in audits only so now we are looking for someone to take over the day to day and long term seo strategies.

We have a great name already and near 200k social media following and great traffic during our busy season.Content wise we have a tons of great content.

Where we are lacking is rankings as we are in a competitive market.

As I had said I have given them a try but they were out of my budget.

I am looking for a Good SEO for my tech news site and would like your help in recommending a good SEO that will fit in my budget of 300-500 per month.I have contacted many firms in the Moz directory of recommended firms but found they are out of my monthly price range.Google search for a decent SEO can be scary with so many so called SEO companies.I would like to work with a experienced SEO individual who can come up with a great plan for our site and also implement them.We just had a SEO forensic audit done with Alan Blieweiss and implemented his suggestions and are now looking for someone to work with long term for the rest of our SEO needs.I understand that I cannot afford the top SEO firms or industry leaders but with your help and suggestions I am sure we can afford and find a great SEO.

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I certainly understand and see your point of view and totally agree with what you said. Unfortunately that is all the budget I have right now and trying to make it work, but basically from what i am hearing that is that kinda money wont hire a decent seo.

On site wise i think we are pretty close with a little more work.Here is our site

Search engine rankings and link building is where i feel we fall short.

I have some ideas on what I think we need in terms of SEO but of course I would be open to the SEO's suggestions.What is the best approach when contacting these companies?

Tell them everything I think is relevant , needs, goals and so on in email phone / call? ask for a proposal?