About the SEO Surge Summit next week...a must attend if you're into SEO and MRR

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It's going down Feb 24-26

Transcript

Why SEO Knowledge Still Matters

Josh Hall 0:00

Hey my friends, happy Friday. If you are catching this the day that this little solo episode of Joshy Time comes out here, I wanted to just uh expand on the upcoming SEO Surge Summit that I'm gonna be a featured speaker at. And I just really want to encourage you to join this. Even if you don't have interest in making SEO a big part of your business, I think it's really important to number one, have a good foundational knowledge of SEO. Because reality is if you're a web designer, you're gonna get SEO questions. Your clients are gonna ask you about Google business profiles, they're gonna ask you about getting found online. And yes, you can have referral partners. Yes, you can contract out more ongoing SEO, like I did, by the way, in my agency. But by golly, I want you to at least have confidence with the basics of SEO. And you never know, you may get into SEO and realize, hot diggity dog, I like this. And I want to make a lot more money, and I want to make specifically a lot more MRR, monthly recurring revenue in SEO. That's exactly what you're gonna get from the SEO Surge Summit. It's going down next week if you're catching this live, February 24th through 26th, 2026. Use my link to sign up for it for free. Go to joshhall.co slash surge. It will be below as well. But this is founded and run by Sam Sarzden, who was recently on the podcast in episode 417. I shared his live training from our upcoming ProCon 20 or from last year's ProCon 2025 event, which is the private uh in-person community event for my community web presenter pro. And back then, last year, he shared how his agency was transformed by offering SEO growth plans and how he built up his recurring revenue. That is the basis for where he is at today, to where in 2025 he actually totaled over$250,000 in revenue for his agency. A huge part of that were his SEO growth plans. He's gonna be uh sharing more about that at the summit, and it's just gonna be freaking awesome. I really, really recommend you come again, joshhall.co slash surge, 20 plus speakers, experts in the industry. And some of these folks are adjacent to SEO as well. Like I'm a featured speaker, but I'm not an SEO expert, I would say. But I'm personally gonna be sharing how you can create SEO boost plans, which are what I offered in my web design agency, and they sold like hotcakes. These are little$499 to$999 SEO plans, which are one time, super easy to sell, super easy to implement SEO plans for you and your clients. It's a great way to dip your toes into SEO waters without becoming like a full SEO agency. So that's what I'm gonna be speaking on. Um, this, oh my gosh, such good speakers. Alexia, who is actually doing design work for both me and Sam. She's the one who branded the SEO Surge Summit. She's gonna be speaking about positioning. Shannon Mattern of the Web Designer Academy is gonna be there talking about pricing strategy. So it's not just SEO particular stuff, it's actually things around in just web design in general that you can apply to your SEO plans as well. Um, Lori from WebShine is gonna be there. They're actually WebShine and Lori's partner, Lindsay Halsey, who used to run Pathfinder SEO. Um, a lot of my community members, Web Designer Pro, are using WebShine and contracting and white labeling them out to do Google Ads and a lot of advanced SEO work if you know folks don't want to do that. Darren Shaw from White Spark is gonna be there. Uh oh my gosh. Just yeah, go check it out. Tons of great speakers. You're gonna hear from Eric Dingler, the CEO of my agency in Transit Studios, going to talking a little bit about hiring and that one. So it's stuff that is in and around SEO that's really gonna help you in your web design agency. Again, Sam's gonna be there talking about local SEO. My personal SEO guru, Michelle Bourbonier, is gonna be talking about AI search. So yeah, you're not gonna want to miss it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's a really great lineup. And again, even if you don't want to be an SEO agency, you gotta know the foundations. And you are going to get the questions. At the very least, you want to be somewhat informed on the different aspects of SEO. And this summit is gonna be a great way to learn for free. And now, you're if you're a part of my community web designer pro, or if you've been on the fence, one benefit is to go through my SEO course, which is actually what Sam went through. And it's what he has self-admittedly publicly said, what got him in SEO and what got him interested in SEO. I cover the fundamentals of SEO in my SEO course. I share a lot about what I'm going to be sharing about in the summit, about SEO boosts and how to sell that. In fact, Sam has gone on record and said that was the first money he made in SEO was offering his own SEO boost plans. So give it a go, guys. It's completely free to join. It's happening Monday through Wednesday, February 24th through the 26th, this month, February 2026. Completely free, joshhell.co slash surge. Uh, if you use my link, you will get an opportunity to do what do they call it? It's like a surge pass, something like that. It's a power pack or a surge pass. It is an upsell for you to be able to get some additional resources and lifetime access to all the trainings that you'll see here at the summit, if you would like that. So, full disclaimer, I'll get a kickback on that one if you decide to uh to jump in there. But yeah, it's gonna be so much fun. I will see you next week at the SEO Surge Summit, the first ever SEO Surge Summit, one of many, uh, if I'm gathering the excitement for this one. And SEO is just it's huge and it's changing. Well, the foundations are the same, luckily, but there's a lot that is adding to it, adding complexity to SEO with AI. So if you want to be on the forefront of what's going on and you want to look like a rock star to your clients when they're like, How can I get found in Chat GPT? I'll see you at the summit and you'll learn how. All right, my friends, joshell.co slash search. Just a quick one here for you to check in with you. Highly recommend you jump in the summit. So I will see you there. By the way, coming up, uh, speaking of something that hasn't changed, maintenance plans. A lot of people say maintenance plans are dead, but next week you're gonna hear from Jay Kramer, repeat guest on the podcast, friend of mine in the Divi Web Designer community. Him and his partner John run an agency called Artillery Media, and they are managing over 500 hosting and maintenance plan clients with an average price point of$99 per site. You can do the math and find out how freaking awesome maintenance plans still are in 2026. That's coming up on the podcast next week here. So make sure you you uh you stay tuned and get ready for that one. So Monday is gonna be an incredible day. I'll see you at the summit, and you're gonna get to hear from Jake on managing 500 plus maintenance plan clients. So, what a week we have for you next week. All right, friends, links below, and I'll see you next week at the SEO Surge Summit.