Pricing

Swordfish SEO Search Engine Optimization Pricing (CAD)

We offer à la carte search engine optimization pricing options and all-inclusive SEO packages for your website search engine optimization.

You can either hire one of our Vancouver search engine optimization experts for one time or on an ongoing basis.  We recommend that you maintain an SEO program periodically — although it need not be monthly, that is optimal.

If none of our search engine optimization pricing packages fit your needs, our SEO experts can create a custom SEO solution for you.  Just ask.

An alternative is to purchase a package every few months.  It’s better to continue with SEO efforts than to do it once and then stop.

Putting the numbers into perspective:

When thinking about investing into a search engine optimization, put the numbers in perspective.  If you gain an additional 1,000 visitors to your website each month, and 5 percent of those visitors purchase from you, that’s an additional 50 sales.  If your average profit per sale is $100, then you’ve increased your profits $5,000 per month.

Additionally, you’ll have more customers on your site to whom you can market special offers, discounts, new products, etc.

Please note that the example of 1,000 additional customers to a website per month can be a decent number or a low one — this, of course, all depends on your business and its market.  Some businesses can add 10,000, 20,000, 100,000 customers per month or more.  It all depends on the business.

Our search engine optimization pricing is as follows:

All one-time SEO packages include researching your industry and competition.

A.  One-Time Website SEO packages

1.  One-Time SEO Package A:  $1,500

On-site SEO (aka on-page SEO)

• 10 keyword optimized web pages.
• Internal link optimization on 15 website pages.
• 5 new optimized web pages – articles, blog posts, or product/service pages.¹
• Website page titles and headings optimization on 15 web pages.

Off-site SEO (aka off-page SEO)

• 20 one-way inbound links from page rank 2 and above related websites.²
• 5 unique articles published outside of your website published on numerous article directories – all published articles will link to your website.
• Website submission to 1,000 article directories.
• Submission to 12 RSS aggregators.
• 30 social bookmarks.
• 1 press release.

2.  One-Time SEO Package B:  $2,500

On-site SEO (aka on-page SEO)

• 15 keyword optimized web pages.
• Internal link optimization on 25 website pages.
• 10 new optimized web pages – articles, blog posts, or product/service pages.
• Website page titles and headings optimization on 25 web pages.

Off-site SEO (aka off-page SEO)

• 40 one-way inbound links from page rank 2 and above related websites.
• 10 unique articles published outside of your website published on numerous article directories – all published articles will link to your website.
• Website submission to 1,000 article directories.
• Submission to 12 RSS aggregators.
• 30 social bookmarks.
• 2 press release.

B.  Ongoing monthly / periodic website SEO packages

1.  Ongoing SEO Expert Package A:  $1,000

• 10 one-way inbound links from page rank 2 and above related websites.
• 3 new articles / blog posts published on your website.
• 1 article / blog post on your website will be bookmarked on 30 social bookmarking websites.
• 3 unique articles published outside of your website published on numerous article directories – all published articles will link to your website.
• 1 article bookmarked on 30 social bookmarking websites.

2.  Ongoing SEO Expert Package B:  $1,750

• 20 one-way inbound links from page rank 2 and above related websites.
• 5 new articles and/or blog posts published on your website.
• 1 article/blog post will be bookmarked on 30 social bookmarking websites.
• 5 unique articles published outside of your website published on numerous article directories – all published articles will link to your website.
• 2 articles bookmarked on 30 social bookmarking websites.

C. À la carte website SEO pricing

Don’t want an SEO package?  No problem, just pick and choose the SEO services you would like as set out below:

1.  Keyword research per page (3 keyword phrases for one page):  $40 per page

2.  10 one-way inbound links from related page rank 2 and higher websites:  $100

3.  One original 350-600 word article / blog post published on your website or published to an article directory:  $75.  One rewritten article published to numerous article directories:  $50.  We know our article-writing is not the cheapest, but keep in mind it includes surgical keyword research selection and our articles are well researched and written.  They are not regurgitated content spun by a computer.

4.  Website submission to 1,000 directories:  $300

5.  Blog RSS feed to RSS aggregators:  $200

6.  Social Bookmarking to 30-40 social bookmarking websites:  $300

7.  Sales / conversion copywriting:  $200 per sales page

8.  Local Google Maps set up and one-time optimization:  $275

9.  Check your website for broken links:  $150

10.  Web 2.0 (Squidoo, Triond, and HubPages) set up with one rewritten article published:  $75

11.  Article to video with voice-over:  depends on the amount of material.

Note, we can obtain in-bound links to any of your published articles, video URLs, and Web 2.0 pages as well at the same one-way inbound link rates above.

D.  Microsites: designed, developed, and search engine optimized for your business

Starting at $2,000 for a 5 page website: home, about, contact, services, and a page of your choice (these are suggested pages; if have something different in mind, just let us know).

Each additional web page:  $200.

Microsite package includes:

• Header using your existing logo.  We can create and add in additional graphics and images².
• Copywriting and content generation for your web pages.
• Full website set up including optimal internal linking.
  
• 3 rounds of revisions.
• 30 one-way inbound links from related page rank 2 and above websites.
• 5 unique articles published outside of your website published on 3 article directories – all published articles will link to your website.
• Website submission to 1,000 article directories.
• Submission to 12 RSS aggregators.
• 30 social bookmarks.
• 1 press release.

Ongoing / additional microsite costs

• hosting:  $10 per month (you’re welcome to host it on an account you have, in which case there is no hosting charge).
• SEO services if you choose an ongoing SEO service package, or SEO services from our À la carte menu above.
  
• Photograph / image / video purchases.

E. Blog Set Up

We also can set up a fully search engine optimized blog for you – as a subdomain on your present website or on its own domain for $1,500.

Our blog set up service includes all the services set out under our Microsite package (above) except the blog will only have a home page and an about page.  That said, we will write 5 posts for you to get your blog going as well as either 5 articles for publishing off your blog for promotion, or you can have 5 additional blog posts instead.

F.  Internet Marketing and SEO Consultation Services

If you have customized internet marketing needs and want advice about website and/or blog set up or need a fully customized internet marketing campaign, talk to us about our internet marketing and SEO consultation services.

Flexible Pricing – Depending on your needs

Keep in mind we can always customize a package to suit your needs.  Although we can carry out the above search engine pricing packages as set out for clients, the above bundles are largely illustrative of the minimum effort you need to make to get outstanding search engine optimization results.  Great SEO is an ongoing comittment.  Let’s get you started.

Notes:

¹ All articles and blog posts in our packages are 350 to 600 words long.

² Please be advised we get in-bound links at the rate of about 2-3 per week.  This is preferred over a large number of inbound links at one time.  Our SEO approach is to do it as naturally and organically as possible with a long-term outlook for your website.

³ We are not logo/font designers.  We can provide basic logos.  If you want a custom logo/font, we work with graphic designers, although this will be an extra charge.

We can also set up, design, and optimize a blog for you — both integrated in your existing website or on its own domain.

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