What is a fair price for an average SEO campaign? Will SEO vanish in the near future?

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The price range of SEO services varies considerably, if you manage it yourself you can outsource link building, social bookmarking, directory submission services, oversees services range from $7 to $150.

There's not much local SEO, you can make organic more local by including your town in the keyword optimization. Of course if you use paid search you can specify geo-targeting so only visitors in the vicinity see the ad.

Although no longer in it's prime, the yahoo directory is still a powerful source of traffic, there's a $299 application for just having your site considered.

Be sure your store? is registered for free google local listing, making it display in search results beside a map.

SEO will stay around, but the strategies continue to evolve in order to continue to outsmart the search spiders as they grow more intelligent.