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What Is SEO Consulting?
SEO consulting is a paid session where an experienced consultant reviews your site with you and answers whatever you ask. It suits people who want direction rather than delivery, and it works as a second opinion before committing budget to an agency or a rebuild.
SEO Consulting Services
An SEO consultation is a working session on your website. We open your site, your analytics and your rankings together, and go through what is holding the pages back.
Sessions run over Zoom, or in person if you are in the Los Angeles area.
You bring the questions. Nothing is off limits: a page that will not rank, a traffic drop, a competitor pulling ahead, or whether an agency proposal is worth signing.
You leave with a short list of what to change, in the order it should be done.
It suits owners and marketers who want a straight answer from someone senior, without committing to a monthly program first.
If you would rather have that senior direction on an ongoing basis, that is a fractional SEO consultant.
Our expert search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) consultant services will help your business achieve top search engine rankings. The sessions suit companies that want to keep the work in house and need someone senior to point it in the right direction.
What this means is that we will guide you with search engine optimization and internet marketing advice and you will perform the actual work. We look over your website and business model and determine a customized package to help increase organic rankings for your specific keywords.
We assist with your short term goals along with your long term goals of achieving top search engine rankings for organic niche keywords and broad keywords. We work through the short term fixes and the longer term plan in the same session.
There will always be a SEO or SEM expert ready and willing to communicate and answer any questions you may have.
“In just a one hour call, Brandon was able to guide me in making some significant changes to my website which will drastically improve my search results. I’m excited to keep working with him as we continue to improve my website!”
★★★★★ Elizabeth Smith, verified Google review
Top Organic Search Engine Rankings
Our team of consultants can help your website move up the natural organic rankings on any search engine. Customized plans includes one on one conference calls with an email disclosing all the information discussed and a custom SEO plan for your business website.
If interested please email us or call us to begin the process.
“I got so much out of my consultation with Brandon and highly recommend hiring him. He is very knowledgeable about SEO and shared a lot of info with me in a short time. I really felt like I walked away with targeted action steps to improve my business’ SEO.”
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Affordable Internet Marketing Pricing
We offer consulting services to offer smaller budget businesses get the consulting services necessary to move up the organic search engine rankings. For a complete list of SEO consulting prices click here.
SEO and SEM Consulting Rates
Since website consulting does not entail any hands on SEO work and coding, we have some prerequisites. You must be somewhat familiar with basic HTML coding and know how to enter the backend of your website.
We write out all consulting instructions in word documents so you can easily follow along. With our consulting there is no guaranteed page rank or search engine rankings, as you will be responsible for implementing our guidelines.
If you would rather build the skill in-house than hand the work over, SEO coaching is the better fit.
Consulting can be done through instant messenger, telephone, voice over internet protocol (voIP), or email.
Most websites only need three hours of consulting to fix most, if not all major problems.
To contact us email us at: info@seooptimizers.com or call us at (310) 940-9463
When Consulting Is the Wrong Spend
Consulting only pays off if someone is going to act on it. If you have nobody to execute, a plan becomes an expensive document.
In that case a managed retainer is the cheaper route, because you are paying for the work rather than for the direction and then paying again to have it done.
It is also the wrong spend if the site has a technical fault blocking indexing. Fix that first with a website audit, then decide what strategy you need.
“This webinar gave me lots of actionable insight into getting discovered in searches.”
★★★★★ Doug Tozier, verified Google review
How the Options Compare
| Engagement type | How it is billed | Best when |
|---|---|---|
| One-off strategy session | Hourly | You need direction, not delivery |
| Audit and roadmap | Flat project fee | You have a team to execute |
| Ongoing retainer | Monthly | You want context carried between calls |
| Training your team | Per session or workshop | You are building in-house capability |
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How Long Before You See Anything
The call itself changes nothing. What matters is how quickly the work coming out of it lands, and that depends on who is doing it. A developer fixing titles and internal links can ship inside a week, and those changes usually register within four to eight weeks because the pages already have history with Google.
Anything needing new pages written runs longer, three to six months before the rankings settle, because a new URL starts from nothing. Link earning and authority work run longer again.
That order matters more than the speed. Consulting is worth buying when it stops you spending three months on the slowest item first, which is the most common way an in-house SEO year gets wasted.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does an SEO consultant do?
An SEO consultant diagnoses why a site is not performing in search and tells you what to do about it, without necessarily doing the implementation. That suits companies with an in-house team or developer who can execute but need direction on priorities. The deliverable is a decision, not a document.
Consulting typically covers strategy, audits, keyword direction, training, and reviewing work already done before it goes live.
Should I hire an SEO consultant or an agency?
Hiring an SEO consultant makes sense when you have people who can execute and need expert direction. An agency makes sense when you need the work done as well as planned. Many companies start with consulting to find out how much work there actually is, then decide whether to hire anyone at all.
Consulting costs less per month but only pays off if the recommendations actually get implemented, which is the most common reason consulting engagements disappoint. Be honest about your team’s capacity before choosing.
How does SEO consulting work?
SEO consulting usually starts with an audit and a strategy session, then settles into regular calls where priorities are set and completed work is reviewed. Between calls you get written direction your team can act on. Some engagements are a single call, others run monthly for as long as they are useful.
The arrangement works best with a named person on your side who owns implementation, because advice with no clear owner tends to sit unactioned.
How much does SEO consulting cost?
SEO consulting is billed by the hour, by the project, or on a monthly retainer. Hourly rates across the market commonly run from about $100 to $300, and monthly retainers from roughly $1,000. Ahrefs’ survey of 439 providers found agencies average $3,209 a month against freelancers at $1,348, so where a quote sits depends mostly on who is doing the work and whether they review between calls.
Is paying someone to do SEO worth it?
Paying for SEO is worth it when the work would otherwise not happen or would be done in the wrong order. Consulting is the cheaper half of that: you buy the decisions rather than the delivery. It is also the fastest way to find out whether SEO is even the right spend for you.
Work out what one new customer is worth over the time they stay, then compare. For most businesses the break-even is one or two customers.
Can I do SEO myself with a consultant’s help?
You can absolutely do SEO yourself with a consultant guiding it, and that is the arrangement consulting is built for. You supply the time and the knowledge of your business, the consultant supplies priorities, research, and a check on whether a change worked. It is slower than handing it over, and considerably cheaper.
It costs less than full delivery and leaves the capability inside your team.
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Related SEO Services
Consulting sits alongside the rest of the program: on page SEO, local SEO, coaching and website audits. Training a whole team at once is an SEO workshop, and event bookings are on the keynote speaker page. Turning the traffic into inquiries is conversion rate optimization, and when the build is the problem, that is SEO web design. It runs inside the wider SEO services program.