How much does SEO cost?
Ask five companies and you will get five prices — $99 a month, $500 a month, $5,000 a month — for something that sounds like the same service. No wonder owners give up and do nothing. The prices are not random, though. They are different amounts of work wearing the same name, and once you see what SEO work actually splits into, the quotes start to make sense.
The two kinds of SEO money
One-time money: the foundation. Your site's structure, page titles and headings in the words customers type, your Google Business Profile set up properly, your pages submitted and readable by Google. This is work that gets done once and stays done. If it was never done, no monthly service built on top of it works properly — that is why honest studios sell it separately instead of hiding it inside a monthly fee.
Monthly money: the momentum. New content that answers what your customers search, local signals kept consistent everywhere your business is listed, reviews answered and growing, and steady improvements as Google and your competitors move. Search rankings are not a switch; they are a position you keep earning. That is why real SEO is monthly — and why anyone promising you page one in a week is selling you something that will be taken back by the next Google update.
What the market actually charges
In Ahrefs' survey of SEO providers, the most common monthly price was $501 to $1,000, most small businesses that hire help pay somewhere between $500 and $2,500 a month, and local SEO averaged about $1,557 a month. Agencies average far above freelancers — the difference is mostly overhead, not results. And the cheapest offers deserve the hardest look: at $99 a month there is no budget for a human being to do real work on your business, so what arrives is automated reports and bought links — the two things most likely to get your site punished.
What it costs here
Our prices are printed, like every price we publish:
- SEO Setup — $350, one time. The foundation: your site structured the way Google reads, your pages titled and described in your customers' words, your Google presence set up right.
- Monthly SEO — $299 a month. The momentum: steady work that keeps you climbing for what you sell, where you sell it.
- SEO + AI Visibility — $499 a month. Everything in Monthly SEO, plus your business set up to be the answer when customers ask AI assistants instead of typing into Google.
No honest studio can promise you a ranking — Google decides rankings, and anyone who guarantees one is guaranteeing something that is not theirs to give. What we promise is the work itself, priced in the open before you spend a dollar: the foundation once, the momentum monthly, and results you can watch in the same reports we watch.
Not sure whether you need the setup, the monthly, or neither yet? Text or email us — we answer fast. Text: (774) 666-1728 · Email: design@goddessisacrownsecrets.com Tell us your business name and your website address, and we will tell you honestly which one you are.