SEO is my business, and I am extremely good at it, so I'll tell you the truth.

Relying on your Website to get on page 1 of Google is not going to turn out well. I don't understand how people can believe that doing something to your Website will impress Google so much that they will grant you a page 1 position. There are probably thousands of things Google looks at to assign rankings.

Every one of our customers get 15, 30 or 50 keywords on page 1 of Google in less than 30 days and before they pay us anything. The shocking news is that we do absolutely nothing to their Website. I couldn't care less if the site is optimized or not. Our only requirement for a customer is that they must have a Website because we need to be able to send traffic somewhere.

Google makes over 200 changes annually to it's ranking method, and it is a closely guarded secret. NOBODY knows what they do, and even if you did, the information would be obsolete within a week.

Here is one of my customers with FOUR keywords that are ALL TEN POSITIONS on page 1 of Google. Some of those also have positions on Page 2:
http://www.tarponinternetmarketing.com/personal-fi...

Here we are in New York City with a keyword having over 1 MILLION competing Web pages. We are the TOP SIX positions on page 1 and #3 has been there since January, 21 2015:
https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+city+seo+...

My best advice is not to try it yourself and deal with a company that has a proven track record of search engine ranking success.