How do you charge a client for SEO works per hour?

Directory Submission -
Article writing & Submitting -
Forum Posting -
Ad Posting -
Blogging -
Social Bookmarking -

If seo was done by an individual for a client, what is the rate per hour or monthly pay?

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There are many different business models of charging clients for SEO - This Article over at SEOmoz was a great introduction to the topic, and does a much better job than I could formulate in a Forum post

SEOmoz | SEO Pricing & Costs - What Should You Charge / How Much Should You Pay?

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That was a great detailed list which has a comparison study for seo rates. Thank you.

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It depends upon the various factors.
You need to consider the present position of the website.
Is the website fully indexed?
If the site is new, then you need to start from the scratch and you may charge more.

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Good summary. I think it is more typical to pay monthly, with a certain number of months commitment.

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I charge $60 an hour for everything. If I outsource something for real cheap I will charge them for an hour but put in 2 hours worth of work.

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David Ogletree
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There are a lot of seo company who charges very fair hourly price for seo service..

Unless the job only requires one or 2 hours, we always set up a custom campaign for each client based on their needs which has the charges detailed in it. This way they always know what the biling will be each and every month. When paying hourly, rates tend to get escalated by say working 40 minutes and charging an hour today, same thing tomorrow, etc. In the end, the client loses and you get a bad name.

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William Cross
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It all depends on what you get for that hourly rate. $12 an hour might not be too bad for somebody to go in and right a bunch of titles for you and submit you to directories. If you want serious link building it is going to cost a lot more. I talked to a guy last night that charges $200 a link.

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Ogletree: yes but that really is not 'seo' just a few minor parts of an seo campaign.

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I agree will I was just trying to point out you get what you pay for.

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David Ogletree
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Difficult to say hrs based charging better charge by posting...
Directory Submission -.05$
Article writing & Submitting --.10$
Forum Posting - .10$
Ad Posting -.20$
Blogging -.50$
Social Bookmarking -.10$

just my thoughts

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^ just like to ask.. are those based per hour? If that so.. it was too low..

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Like Ogletree stated above: "You get what you pay for...."

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I charge per hour but find it works the other way, i.e. ill quote for 10 hours a month but end up doing 12. It just always seems to happen like that and its largely unavoidable as clients contact me on an irregular basis with questions and ideas. I'm also making the transition to self employed so im doing a lot of work for practically nothing in an effort to build up a solid client list. Its damned hard work as im still doing the 9-5 so im putting in 12 hour days at the moment... but all will be worth it i'm sure
(will be when im in south america, sat in a beach bar with my laptop! )

I'm basically estimating my monthly fee on an "required hours per month" but what I'm actually doing is using my target hourly rate as an approx of a monthly retainer...

If I was running an agency id do it differently though. From experience (and you guys who run agencies might be able to chip in here), all clients can be put into 3 groups:

• "The Tick-overs" - who just want a low level service which maintains their basic rankings/traffic and ensures someone is on hand to answer questions and problems that may come up.
• "The Periodical-pests" - you don't hear from them for months but then they appear from nowhere, hassle you like mad before disappearing again (a lot of the time people like this are being hassled periodically from higher up the chain of command, so they pass this hassle on to you until it subsides, then they go back to playing spider solitaire until the cycle starts again).
• "The Pro-active" - the ones who are on your case all the time! If these guys are paying a decent amount (and arent idiots) then theyre the best type of client because things get done. But! If theyre the type who ring you every day with questions such as "why arent we number one on Lycos" or "we cant get online" then theyre a pain in the ****

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i heard to other seo expert they charge $10 per hour and sometimes they charge per link

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Bull. Those are outsourced link monkees, NOT Seo's. There is a whole WORLD of difference.

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all SEO terms on different rates. it all depends on service timing and quality. as Links, contents building...... etc.

I don't like charging per hour, or per month really, I like to analyse each job or 'problem' and come up with a price that is worth it for the customer and worth it for me.

I mean it could take me an hour to sort out all the on page stuff on a site, but it might make say $10,000 difference a month - like title tags on pages, an accidental noindex on a page, h1 tags, internal links, giving the site a real lift.

I wouldn't charge for half hours work. I'd charge the worth of that job to me and to them.

some offer it for $ 3 per hour and some for $ 2. But I guess its not enough, it should at least $ 10 per hours.

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Working in London £125 ($200) per hour. Working from my office £35 ($50) per hour. The key is client payback. Hire an external SEO you can see the exact costs and compare them with a nominal or specific performance measure related to ROI, ROE or cost per sale, Cost per lead, cost per action etc. Hire an employee and you're paying for 6 weeks of holidays, 2 weeks sick leave, training time, maternity/paternity leave, office space, HR etc.

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There are different rate for SEO,
I am charges per submission,...

You have just described a link monkey, not an seo.

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