SEO: What Should I Charge?
I’ve only competed SEO work for my own websites (sold or currently own). So, anyway, I am not sure how much to charge for a real estate company out of CA. As you know you can’t promise high rankings. That being said, I’d like to offer the following services but again NOT sure what my price should be. Any suggestions?
1.Keyword Research, 2.Search Engine Report, 3.Creation of both title and description tags, 4.Creation of ALT tags, 5.Creation of H1-H2 Tags, 6.Search Engine Submissions to 500 search engines and directories related to real state, 7.Manual link requests to related sites, 8.W3C validations of home page and 9.Submit real estate article(s) to 250 article directories.
If I setup a link page for this real estate agent, I’d set it up so it does not look like an exchange program. What I’d suggest is adding links that would be interest to the visitors but why visit them? More in the format of what makes your site unique/different?
Infocus
Ask your self how much do you worth per hr?
Then base on your answer, charge by the hr.
If I was you I’d not do the job. you obviously do not know what you are doing. You make all legit SEOs look bad.
Charge according to the keyword
Work out what you want and how much time it takes to do the work.
If you can guarantee results, then you can charge more.
Hello,
I have been doing SEO and PPC for almost 5 years now, and from my experience all SEO Projects are unique and customized for each client’s specific business industry. Every competitive landscape/category has it’s own challenges and clients all have varied performance or marketing objectives.
Therefore, I would advise that your pricing is individual to each project, and derived from research in that category and keyword set. Most larger firms iCrossing, etc…charge fees are based on keyword and URL quantity + competitiveness of the category.
Hope that helps…
Best,
TheSearchGuy
it depends on particular site and keywords use by that site so without any previous observation it is not possible
If you are fair to above average, charge by the hour or by the project. If you are really good to great, charge a CPA (Cost Per Action) rate – just like an affiliate program. You will earn more and be more motivated to do well.
Don’t perform SEO prostitution by taking money to do SEO. You will never earn your worth by doing it that way.