DIY SEO or Hire an Agency: The Real Math

DIY SEO takes roughly 20 hours a month. Published plans start at $799. The honest math on when to do it yourself.

DIY SEO takes roughly 20 hours a month. Published plans start at $799. The honest math on when to do it yourself.

What a real SEO package includes, how to compare two quotes line by line, and who owns your site and analytics if you cancel.

Short answer: Manhattan local SEO is the work of getting a Manhattan business found when someone nearby searches Google or Google Maps. It is one of the most competitive local markets in the US because dozens of competitors sit within…

Short answer: how long does SEO take? For most sites, three to six months before results you can feel, and six to twelve in competitive markets. Independent studies land in the same range — Orbit Media puts low-competition rankings at…

Short answer: meta tags for SEO come down to a short list that matters — the title tag, meta description, robots, viewport, canonical and Open Graph tags — and a graveyard that does not, led by the keywords tag Google…

Short answer: an SEO strategist plans the search work — which pages get built, which searches they target, in what order, and how success is measured. Execution is often not included, and that split is what decides the price. Freelance…

Short answer: in 2026, the typical SEO cost at a US provider runs between $1,000 and $5,000 per month for a retainer, $75 to $200 per hour for consulting, and $500 to $5,000 for a one-off project, with survey averages…

Short answer: llms.txt is a plain Markdown file at the root of a website that says what the site is, what it offers and where its best pages live, so AI assistants can read the essentials in one pass. It…

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Short answer: is SEO worth it in 2026? Run the math before anyone runs a pitch: at our published $799 per month, SEO pays for itself the moment it produces two extra customers worth $500, or a single customer worth…