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SEO Prices



SEO Prices

Market rate prices for SEO consulting services vary wildly depending on several factors; with hourly rates starting at around $25.00 American and maxing out at around $1,000.00. The American Dollar is used as the default currency given the United States’ forerunner status within the online miluei and the convenience of SEO pricing comparisons in a single currency. Client vendors are advised to establish for themselves (with the aid of the feasible study I provide) whether probable/possible gains justify this outlay and adjust exposure accordingly.

The amount of hours required per month on a given domain will varying according to the following broad instructive criteria:

  1. Number of pages on the domain.
  2. Competitiveness of desired target keyword strings.
  3. Competitiveness of Geo-Local you are targeting.
  4. State of your onsite search engine readability compliance at baseline or pre-launch.
  5. Your goals in terms of time-frame.

Whilst wishing to assist as many organisations & people as he possibly can, Matt Hamilton is only able to take on a finite amount of work and as such is unable to provide full, ongoing search engine and online visibility services to all proprietors but will endeavour to in such cases of overflow advise as best as his extreme levels of professional ability and experience allows for on how best to progress: be it through training of in house staff or other means of his over-site.

Matt Hamilton’s Prices for SEO Consulting

  • At signup, there is a one time $500 startup fee for domains with under 400 indexed pages, plus the first months service charge (see below). Alternatively, there is a one time $700 startup fee for domains with between 400 & 1,500 indexed pages, plus the first months service charge (see below). For domains with between 1,501 & 5,000 indexed pages there is a one time $1000 startup fee for domains with under 400 indexed pages, plus the first months service charge (see below). For domains with 5,001 or more indexed pages there is a one time $1400 startup fee for domains with under 400 indexed pages, plus the first months service charge (see below).
  • Monthly charges scale based on your total number of monthly page views.
  • There’s no long term legal agreement, although I do require a five month minimum mandate.
  • This makes the minimum investment $4,450.00 over 5 months.

Monthly SEO Rates by Volume of Pages Viewed

  • 0-50,000 page views = $650/month or as little as $13 per 1,000 pages viewed.
  • 50,000-500,000 page views = $830/month or as little as $1.66 per 1,000 pages viewed.
  • 500,000-2 million page views = $1,200/month or as little as $0.60 per 1,000 pages viewed.
  • 2 million to 5 million page views = $1,900/month or as little as $0.38 per 1,000 pages viewed.
  • 5 million to 10 million page views = $3,400/month or as little as $0.34 per 1,000 pages viewed.
  • 10 million monthly page views & up – contact Matt Hamilton on a case by case basis.

Personal SEO Consulting Rates

For personal appearances or formal speaking engagements, there’s usually no charge if it’s in the Cape Town area, or at a major industry conference.

I’m happy to speak at lunches and meetings for local industry, business, and trade groups at no charge in the Cape Town locale.

Hourly SEO Consulting Fees

Where a company only requires minimal consulting I offer the following consulting rates:

  • $200 per hour is the current fee for Skype, video conferencing or telephonic consultations (service offered globally – no bother, I don’t sleep much)
  • A one hour minimum must be booked in advance, and this time booking can then be broken into 30 minute blocks over a 90 day period.

On Site SEO training and consulting

  • Air travel & 4 star level accommodation expenses paid in full.
  • $800 fee for one 12 hour day
  • $460 per additional 12 hour day
  • Travel time is not charged
Initial startup SEO Consulting fee includes
  • Comprehensive site review, including server,  code and file structure, & itinery of your site’s onsite SEO inefficiencies.
  • A detailed review of the conversion cycle
  • Verification of your site’s Google Webmaster Tools
  • Claiming of your Google listing for local businesses
  • Retroanalysis of your site’s traffic statistics
  • Keyword research presentation to ascertain what your market base are searching for and where you are placed for these keyword string presently.
  • Ranking Report for up to 200 keyword strings
  • A breakdown of your inbound links (currently held)
  • A comparitive analysis for SEO compliance of your major industry competitors (to ascertain the competitive landscape)
  • Recommendations
  • A two hour Skype video conference consultation to explain all elements above.

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SEO Mentality

on Search Engine Presence versus Aesthetics "Nobody wants to be a supermodel in Taliban-governed Afghanistan."

Google Search Engine Optimization

"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google Inc.

"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."
Larry Page, co-founder of Google.

"We want Google to be the third half of your brain."
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.

"It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way to calculate a Web site's importance."
Larry Page, co-founder of Google.

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.

"There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind."
Thomas Friedman

"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
Albert Einstein

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Steve Jobs

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
Bill Gates

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
Doug Coupland

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