SEO Costs
As a freelance search engine optimiser and seo copywriter, I am able to charge much more affordable prices as I don’t have the overheads of the larger companies.
The aim of my costs are to allow smaller businesses who don’t have a large budget to purchase my service at an affordable price.
Every website is different and targets different markets; some competitive, and some less competitive, therefore it is difficult to say exactly how much an SEO project will cost. However, I will attempt to give you an idea of my costs as I believe it is much more helpful to you to have an idea rather than worrying about contacting a company incase they give you a crazy amount for their service.
An estimate of my initial setup costs are as follows:
Plan 1 - £450
This plan is for a 5 landing pages and 5 related keyphrases.
Plan 2 - £750
This plan is for a 10 landing pages and 10 related keyphrases
Plan 3 - £950
This plan is for a 15 landing pages and 15 related keyphrases
These prices are setup costs only, SEO is an ongoing process, so please also check out my SEO ongoing Costs page.
**The pages included in the pricing are for those pages you require to be optimised which specifically target your products or service. Not all pages on a website need optimisation if they are not specifically targetting your audience for conversions. **
Pages such as ‘Terms & Conditions’ and ‘Privacy Policy’ are examples of pages that may not need optimisation. (This does not include site navigation or link structure - this is always important)
Optimisation is generally for those important pages on your website which you are looking to convert.
The plans include:
- Initial website analysis, consultation and recommendations
- Keyword research and selection
- Competitor research
- Current ranking report for chosen keyphrases
Areas of your site to be optimised include:
- Meta-tags
- HTML (including Alt tags and Title tags)
- Site navigation and link structure
- Body content tags
- SEO copywriting (includes copywriting for new pages where necessary)
- Implimentation of call to actions on popular pages
Submission to seo friendly directories (the more pages a website has, the more Keyphrases can be targetted in the directories)
I will also write one article relating to your product or service which will contain your main target keyphrase in a text link format which I will then hand distribute to over 50 article submission websites. This in effect gives you 50 external links (you will possibly gain more links as other people will add the article to their websites).
I do not include ‘monthly submissions to search engines’ because I do not believe this is necessary. Many SEO companies will charge for this, but you do not need to submit your website into a search engine for it to get indexed. Search engines will pick up your website from other link building strategies. As long as your website is listed on an external website which is in the search engines index, the major search engines will pick it up.
Being charged for someone to submit your website to search engines on a monthy basis is simply a waste of your hard earned money.
Time Scales
Generally the initial setup and implimentation of an SEO project is around 2-3 weeks. However, it could be a little longer depending on what type of work needs to be done.
SEO keyphrases and competitor research is quite indepth, therefore, can take some time.
Factors to consider on your website as well as your competitors targeting the same keyphrases include:
- External links (trusted sites/link text)
- Onpage Optimisation
- Navigation and Link structure
- Use of Keyphrase on ranking page
- Use of Keyphrase on other pages
- Theme of website
- Size of website
As you can see, research forms an integral part of your Keyword and competitor analysis. However, the results from the research will add greatly to the overall performance of your website in the organic listings in the search engines.
What you can expect from SEO
With correctly implimented SEO on your website, you can expect to see positive changes in the performance of your website including:
- Increased search engine presence
- Increased volume of highly qualified website traffic
- Improved Usability
- Improved Accessibility
- High ROI
- Cost effective customer acquisition
- Repeat business
- Increased Brand visibility
- Long term positioning
I am also often asked the question ‘will you get me to number 1?’, Well, I do have an answer for that. Check out my blog post on Guaranteed number one in Google.
Other services
Optional extras include:
- Website design for static pages
- UK website hosting and domain registration
- Article writing and submission
- Weekly blog posts
- Additional seo copywriting and optimisation implimentation for new pages
- Newsletters


