What would you normally charge for..

Full on-page optimization for 400+ pages? I have a prospect who has a ton of product pages (over 400) and wants on-page SEO for all including keyworded content + metas/H1 etc..

My packages normally are based on links, I've never been asked to do a one-off estimate for just optimizing a site and then not doing off-page for it. Just wondering what is the going rate for that kind of labor?

How many pages can you optimize in one hour?

How much would you charge for one hour of work?

Do some math and you get an estimated price.

$50 to $100 will be enough

Shit, doing on page seo for 400 pages is tedious work.

I wouldn't do it for anything below $x,xxx

Implement some formula
for eg : no of pages * 2(no of minutes)
20 pages in an hour will result as :

20 * 2(60) = $240

A good couple of thousand, then outsource the work on Fiverr.

^ lol

It's not a bad idea. Charge your hourly rate to go through each page and identify the changes. Then outsource the changes to someone giving them your specific details. I do all of my work myself, but if you're a busy guy, that's a reasonable way to tackle it.

All you have to do is figure out how many hours it will take and figure out what you want to make per hour and there you go you have your price.

What do you think that it is worth? A wide variety of answers here. I would not sell yourself short but then again if the bid is too high, then some will not be able to afford it either.

I normally work with monthly retainers, but if I decided to go with charging a flat fee, I would charge between $5,000 and $16,000 based on the flat fees I've accepted in the past.

• If the pages are poorly optimised, I would obviously charge more, although how much I charge depends on:
• The client's budget
• The competition level of the keywords I've found (or if they want me to optimize the pages using a list of keywords they've selected, I'll charge less)
• If I've worked with the client in the past (I charge "legacy" clients a bit less)
• How much work the client needs done
• If I designed or developed the website
• ... and more...

Additionally, have the client take a questionnaire and ask them about their budget before giving them an estimate.

Optimizing 400 articles in a row sounds like a new kind of hell, an endurance challenge not many could complete. I'm not sure if I would even do that and I used to do frame by frame animation.

You have some great answer. Even Micky may be right on the money in his own, trolling way.

I have seen on - page sold here for about $20 a page. That is a guy, with a team, adding images, bolding KWs, adding H tags, meta desc, and maybe adding related posts. If you were to outsource the project, it would cost at least $8000 if his service is not more now. Plus, I have to imagine this would take the team FOREVER to do.

A note not many people will think of is what KWs is your client trying to target. I hope I make sense here...

Customer is local selling 'Cars'.

Pages are about Trucks, Cars, Mini - Vans, ect.

Does the customer expect you to do KW research for LSI's for Trucks, Cars, Mini - Vans, ect? As in, do they want you to find and add LSI which they can rank for and get traffic?

This work load becomes a cluster f***, for the lack of better terms. That type of work is not only tedious, but very time consuming if it can even be done.

Make sure your client knows what they want and the KWs they want you to optimize for. If they have no idea and expect you to turn content into a ranking page, you may be in for a lot more work than a simple 'optimization' job.

If it is a blind, 'make it SEO friendly' job, I would not touch it unless I was being paid at least 5,000. This is assuming I need to make it work and do a LOT of KW research. Do not underestimate what a client may and will ask for. 400 page site sounds to me like it will not be as simple as adding "Red Tail Lite" to a product desc. I imagine they want more.

Thanks guys, appreciate the indepth answers. I'll take everything you all said and come up with a proper plan to attack this. Cheers.