Outside $5K-$10K SEO audits save startups wasted internal hours
Yuriy Timen · How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable) · Sep 1, 2022 · at 21:39
Growth advisor Yuriy Timen shares advice on how early-stage companies should approach vetting SEO opportunities.
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“Getting an outside resource, at least for like an audit, Is really helpful. Now, whether it's a boutique agency or, you know, a solo consultant, I think that's more circumstantial. But I found like, you know, at least with the companies that I've worked with, if we wanted to quickly vet the SEO opportunity, like I can do it in a very kind of amateur, at an amateur level, right? Just like plug things into like similar web and try to figure out the opportunities there. But you can get these relatively inexpensive audits done. From companies that you can then choose, do I hire them to help with my SEO or not? But I think that audit is usually a very good use of time because they have templates. So what they can turn around, you know, for five to 10 K would take you many, many human hours to try to pull together yourself.”
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