The Happy Guy Marketing

If you wish to hire our SEO expertise on an ad hoc basis, we provide hourly and daily fees. Our hourly consultation fee is $150. Our per diem is $1600, plus out-of-pocket expenses.

SEO Review or website audit

We will review a simple website for $900, and report on improvements you can make yourself to boost your search engine rankings. Our report will include detailed recommendations on each of your main pages, as well as suggestions about site-wide issues. We cover issues such as:

• domain issues
• meta tags
• file/directory issues
• navigation
• presence and use of search terms
• presence and use of stemming
• outbound links
• inbound links

Most of all, we will be on the lookout for anything that could put your website at risk of drawing a penalty.

We will NOT do any on-page work for this price. Nor will we do keyword research. We will not build links, either. This service is strictly a review with recommendations you can implement yourself.

Complete SEO campaign

This package has a pretty wide price range, in part depending on the breadth of a website's niche and in part depending on the level of competition in the sector. It includes everything involved in getting your site ready to climb the rankings: all the keyword research and mapping, all the on-page coding and text edits, creation of some pages if necessary, and developing and executing a link-building strategy. We ask for a one-year commitment, as SEO work requires time to bear fruit.

The price range for this is typically $8000 - $50,000. The lower end of the spectrum is reserved for small, focused websites, where the on-page work and keyword research is less than on a typical site, and where competition is light. The upper end is reserved for wide-ranging sites requiring much keyword research in competitive sectors.

SEO writer work

Presuming that you provide the basic content, that is to say the points you want made on the page, we will write each page for $120...with discounts for multiple pages on similar themes. If you want us to write from scratch, the cost will be higher.

Directory and Article Submissions

One of the best ways to build incoming links is to submit to directories. We will hand-submit submit to 30 directories for $400, or 60 directories for $600. If we have FTP access to your server for those that require links back, we will provide an extra 5 directory submissions free.

One of the best ways to quickly spread your reputation and your links across the Internet is by writing articles. Articles that appear on other websites or in offline publications are a tremendous way to build your credibility. Online articles can carry a "resource box" with your contact information and a link back to your website.

To write a top-quality 500-700 word article based primarily on information you give, we charge $350. (If we have to do additional research, we will provide a free quote.) To submit that article to various directories and niche websites on the Internet, we charge $650. If you want a series of articles on similar topics, we can provide a bulk discount. Typically, the article will contain highly focused and relevant links to two or three pages of your website.

Editing and Translation Fees

We have set prices for both our proofreading/editing services and our translation services. Please note that all these services are subject to a minimum $100 charge.

News releases (press releases)

If you provide a good organization of material you want included, you won't need to also pay for the outline and organization of the book, which might typically cost $1000 to $2000. And if you provide a really accurate portrayal of how you want the book to read, you might need very little work on a second draft, which otherwise might typically cost another $2000 to $4000. There is no typical cost for research, as it really depends on the topic and what needs to be researched. Of course, all these prices depend on the complexity of the topic and the clarity of the information you provide our writers.

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