Small company or local site
$500 to $2,000 a month for a site of up to a dozen or so pages targeting city-level phrases with moderate competition. Think a contractor, a clinic or a law practice serving one town.
Google SEO starts with finding the person who will actually move your site up the results
Ranking in Google is slow, technical work, and who does it matters more than what the package is called. Below you'll see what the job involves, what it usually costs, and how we assign a vetted Google SEO specialist within 24 hours. A senior project manager with 15+ years in marketing reviews every stage with you.
Free, no obligation. A senior project manager walks you through the analysis.
Free analysis in 24 hours
Send us your website. Within 24 hours, you'll get a written analysis comparing your marketing with your competitors'.
Free marketing analysis
- PDF analysis
- 5 competitors
- Prioritized action list
Your analysis is prepared by a senior project manager with 15+ years of experience in marketing.
Key takeaways
The short version
Before you read on
- Organic rankings usually start moving 6 to 8 weeks after audit fixes go live, and steady growth tends to take 3 to 6 months.
- US market rates run from about $500 a month for a small local site to $10,000 or more a month plus a link budget for national competition.
- We pick a specialist for your industry, domain history and budget, so you don't have to hunt for one yourself.
- A senior project manager goes over every stage with you, from the first audit to the ranking reports.
- Before a stage reaches you, that same project manager checks the work against the agreed scope and the plan set at kickoff.
What to know
What ranking a website in Google really involves
Getting a site to rank in Google rests on three layers that hold each other up. The technical layer makes sure crawlers can reach, render and index your pages. That means a clean structure, fast load times, sensible redirects and no duplicate versions of the same URL. The content layer matches every page to what people really mean when they search, so someone weighing options finds a comparison and someone ready to order finds an offer. The authority layer is the reputation your domain builds through links and mentions on other sites. How high you climb depends on how crowded your niche is, what shape the domain is in on day one, and how consistently the recommendations get put in place.
Most owners grasp those layers just fine. What trips them up is deciding who should handle them, because the field is scattered. You'll find project freelancers, people with day jobs who take SEO clients at night, and the Google SEO agency with a package menu starting around $1,500 to $2,500 a month. We're not an agency. We assign one vetted specialist to your particular job, and the project manager reviews each stage with you. You never have to decide alone whether an SEO audit or a round of changes makes sense.
Step by step
The order of an SEO engagement, from first call to accepted work
Step 1
Free consultation and a written brief
Tell us about the site, your industry and your goal, say, reaching page one for keywords with buying intent. The call is free, and the project manager helps you pin down the audit scope and the target phrases.
Step 2
One specialist, picked within 24 hours
The project manager selects one specialist or a small team with experience in your field, whether that's e-commerce, a local service or subscription software. You'll see their portfolio, availability and rate before you agree to anything.
Step 3
Scope, schedule and the first sprint
The project manager and the specialist lay out the order: audit, implementation, then ranking reports. The schedule is built around your domain's actual condition, not a template, and you approve one stage at a time.
Step 4
Monthly delivery and stage sign-off
The work runs month to month, with a visibility report and a log of every change. If a stage raises questions, the project manager reviews it and decides whether it lines up with what you agreed.
Good to know
Typical monthly ranges for Google SEO cost in the US
These are typical US monthly rates for a specialist's work, before any content or link spend. Where you land depends on how big your site is and how fiercely your keywords are contested.
Online store or mid-sized service site
$2,000 to $5,000 a month once the site reaches dozens or hundreds of pages. The work then adds product page optimization, untangling pages that compete for the same query, and internal linking at scale.
Nationwide reach or a crowded niche
$5,000 to $10,000 or more a month, plus a separate link budget, for companies chasing national phrases in sectors like finance, insurance or real estate.
Side by side
Classic SEO agency or a hand-picked specialist
Package pricing with agency markup, plus a retainer you pay whether or not anything improves
You pay for a specialist's defined work, scoped stage by stage, with no block of hours that goes unused
You deal with a salesperson while the people on your account keep changing
You talk straight to the specialist doing the work, and the project manager backs them up
Judging the quality of the work falls to you, even if nobody on your team knows SEO
A seasoned project manager reviews every stage alongside you
You can't easily tell who's actually working on your site
You see your specialist's portfolio and past work before the first task begins
Who it's for
Who should start investing in organic search now
Organic search pays off anywhere customers really do look for what you sell on Google, rather than finding you only through social media or referrals.
Online stores
Product and category searches bring in people who already plan to buy. Over time, organic traffic makes each new customer cheaper than paid campaigns running around the clock.
Local service providers
Searches with a town name, like dentist plus the city, turn into real inquiries once the site is optimized for the area and your Google Business Profile is complete and accurate.
B2B firms and software vendors
In-depth articles that answer long, specific questions put your name in front of buyers while they're still researching, long before they ask to talk to sales.
Sites after a technical overhaul
Switching platforms, changing domains or rebuilding your URL structure takes someone who guards your current rankings and maps every redirect.
Checklist
What to prepare for improving SEO on Google before work begins
Pull these together ahead of time and both the audit and the specialist search go faster.
Checklist
- Google Search Console and Google Analytics access for whoever runs the SEO audit
- Your priority phrases, or at least a plain description of what you sell
- Notes on past SEO work on the site and how it turned out
- What you can spend each month on the work and, if needed, on links
- CMS access, or the name of a developer who can make the recommended changes
- Your business goal: more inquiries, more online sales or traffic for a content push
What you can count on
Why the engagement stays safe with fit, vetting and a project manager
We set it up so that finding the right SEO person, checking them out and keeping the work on track falls to us, not you.
24 hours
Someone who knows your sector
We choose the specialist based on your industry, your domain's condition and your budget, not on who has free hours this month. You get a named person who's done work in a similar field.
Monthly
A monthly report on the SEO work
Each month the project manager walks you through the audit items closed, the changes made and the links earned, along with the plan for the next month.
15+ years
A project manager who checks each stage
A manager with years of marketing experience checks every stage of the SEO work against the agreed scope before it reaches you and keeps the deadlines on track.
Vetted
Specialists checked before they join
No marketer gets in until we've tested their skills and called their references.
In short
The engagement at a glance
24 hours
until an SEO specialist is assigned to your project
15+ years
of marketing behind the senior project manager on your account
Portfolio
checked for every specialist before we accept them
Industry
know-how your specialist brings from ranking similar sites
Before you start
In the end, the person matters more than the price
Moving up in Google takes months, so the person doing the work shapes your results more than any rate card will. We get that person to you within a day: a specialist we checked before they joined, backed by a project manager who settles open questions. You're never stuck managing a freelancer on your own. Start with a free analysis.
FAQ
Questions companies ask us
Short answers. The free analysis call covers anything specific to your company.
01How long before I see my site climb in Google?
Visibility typically starts shifting 6 to 8 weeks after the audit fixes go live. Solid gains on moderately competitive phrases usually take 3 to 6 months. National phrases in crowded industries can take 6 to 12 months of steady work before rankings settle.
02Why hire an SEO specialist through you instead of signing up with an agency?
Because we're not an agency. We connect you with one named, vetted SEO specialist picked for your field, and you pay for that person's defined work instead of an ongoing agency retainer. A senior project manager with 15+ years in marketing watches scope and pace from start to finish.
03How is payment for SEO work organized?
The work is broken into stages, like the audit, the technical fixes and the first ranking report. You agree on each stage's budget up front, and the specialist gets paid for a stage once you've accepted the work. The project manager can go over it with you first.
04Who checks the SEO results against what we agreed?
Your senior project manager, who has 15+ years of marketing experience. They hold the delivered work up against the agreed scope, compare rankings and traffic with the plan, and go through the outcome with you each month before the next round of work is set.
05Do I pay for the first consultation about my rankings?
No, it's free. You tell us about the site and what you want to achieve. The project manager helps define the audit scope, picks a specialist with experience in your field and sends you a quote.
06What price ranges apply to SEO for a company site?
Small local sites usually run $500 to $2,000 a month in the US. Online stores and mid-sized service sites run $2,000 to $5,000 a month, and national projects in competitive sectors $5,000 to $10,000 or more a month, with links budgeted separately.
Free analysis
See where your marketing stands, then decide what to do next
Send us your website. Within 24 hours, you'll get a written analysis comparing your channels with your competitors', plus a call with a senior project manager who has run marketing for 15+ years.
- Analysis within 24 hours
- No obligation
- PDF covering 5 competitors
- Team picked by your PM
Free marketing analysis
- PDF analysis
- 5 competitors
- Prioritized action list
Your analysis is prepared by a senior project manager with 15+ years of experience in marketing.
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