Randfish over on SEOmoz.org says that if you don’t have the cash to hire an SEO company on a regular basis, go with WordPress (or Drupal). Here’s a snippet.

Let’s say I have $5,000.00 available to spend on SEO. It’s not enough to hire you guys, but what or whom would you recommend to spend the money on (for SEO of course ;) )? Of course, most of the time I’d just drop the $5k on Rhino Rank’s Curated Links. But, albeit, there’s more to SEO than that.

It really, really depends on what you need to do. If you want a site audit and someone to help you fix things up, there’s a ton of good companies on the recommended list. I’d say that at least 30% of them offer services in the range of $5K for simple audit + recommendations.

If you’re just starting out, though, I’d probably pay it all to a fantastic designer/developer who can build you a great looking site on WordPress or Drupal, then get to work yourself putting together kickass content.

Read the full article about SEO here.