The level of industrial competition for your keywords also plays a significant role.
Your starting SEO position and the quality of your website matters in determining costs:
Current SEO Standings: Are you already ranking on the first 2 pages of Google, or is your site currently unranked and hard to find? Businesses starting from scratch often require more effort to gain visibility compared to those already positioned closer to the top.
Website SEO-Friendliness: Is your website fundamentally optimised for SEO? Certain platforms or poorly structured sites may demand more resources to rank effectively. For instance, custom-built platforms or outdated designs often need additional time and work to meet SEO standards.
A well-structured, SEO-friendly site requires less groundwork, while one with significant gaps may require additional investment to bring it up to the level needed for successful optimisation.
Consider how restaurants work. A restaurant selling fried rice doesn’t produce its own rice or raise its own chickens. Instead, they purchase the ingredients, prepare the meal, and serve it to you. The price you pay includes the cost of ingredients, the preparation time, and overheads like rent.
Similarly, in SEO:
An SEO farm, for instance, sells backlinks to agencies as part of a campaign.
If you know how to “cook” SEO yourself—buying backlinks and doing the work independently—you can potentially save up to 50% of the costs.
However, managing an SEO campaign requires expertise and time. Here’s what to consider:
Ultimately, it depends on your needs:
Whatever your choice, understanding these cost factors helps you make an informed decision about what works best for your business.
SEO success starts with understanding what your audience is searching for. Using tools like Google Keyword Planner, SEMrush, and Ahrefs, we identify high-value keywords and phrases that align with your business goals. This research helps us target the most relevant and competitive terms to maximise your reach and engagement.
A site audit acts as a diagnostic report for your website’s SEO health. Through a mix of manual and automated techniques, we:
This step highlights areas that need improvement and sets the foundation for your campaign’s success.
On-page SEO involves optimising your website’s content to improve relevance and clarity for both users and search engines. Key tasks include:
Technical SEO focuses on the backend of your website, ensuring its structure and performance meet modern SEO standards. This includes:
Backlinks are the endorsements of the digital world. Our strategy includes:
Understanding your competitors is crucial. We conduct in-depth analysis to:
Great content is the backbone of SEO. Our team creates:
We integrate Google Analytics to monitor:
Connecting your site to Google Search Console ensures it is indexed correctly. This tool provides essential insights into:
For organisations with in-house SEO teams, we act as a trusted partner to source high-quality backlinks. Examples include:
Whether you are looking for strategic insights through an audit or need "ingredients" to complement your team’s efforts, our services are designed to support your SEO goals.
Our recommended starting rate is $1,200 per month, focusing on 1 to 2 services with around 30 closely related keywords targeted for ranking.
If your industry is highly competitive, we identify keywords with lower difficulty within your chosen services. These keywords may have lower search volumes but offer a quicker path to ranking. By focusing on these easier keywords, you can start seeing enquiries within 3 to 6 months, which builds your site’s credibility. That credibility then helps in the second half of the campaign, where the harder-to-rank keywords start climbing more effectively, leveraging the initial results.
This approach balances easy wins, strategic keywords, and your budget, creating a well-rounded plan. Every customer wants fast results and strong ROI, and part of our consultation is to tailor a strategy that achieves this without over-promising. Speak to one of our SEO experts to create a plan that works best for your business.
Understanding whether your industry is simple or complex to rank in involves evaluating two key factors: keyword difficulty and your current rankings.
There are SEO tools like SEMrush and Ahrefs that help assess keyword difficulty. These tools provide a score for each keyword, typically grouped into ranges:
At NightOwl SEO, we focus on balancing campaigns within the easy to moderate range. This allows us to achieve visible results and returns faster. While it is tempting to target challenging keywords, the risk is significant—spending 12 months climbing search rankings without reaching Page 1, where the real results happen.
We also analyse your current rankings during an SEO audit. If your site already ranks close to Page 1 for some keywords, it may be easier to optimise and push those terms to the top. For industries with tougher competition, we identify easier, lower-difficulty keywords to gain traction and build credibility.
By balancing keyword difficulty with your existing position, we create a strategy designed to drive results while minimising risk. Speak with one of our SEO consultants to discover where your industry stands and how we can help you rank effectively.
Our SEO packages typically require a 12-month commitment. This timeline is based on the nature of SEO, which is a long-term strategy designed to deliver sustainable results.
Here’s why:
SEO is a gradual process, and significant improvements—like getting to Page 1 for competitive terms—take time and consistency. For businesses seeking faster outcomes, we may recommend combining SEO with SEM for immediate visibility while SEO efforts gain traction.
Speak with our SEO consultants to determine a timeline that aligns with your goals and industry competitiveness.
At NightOwl SEO, we are not just another SEO agency—we are specialists dedicated solely to SEO. Unlike agencies that dilute their focus with multiple services, we channel all our expertise into crafting SEO strategies that deliver results.
Here’s what makes us different:
At NightOwl SEO, our goal is simple: to deliver SEO that drives meaningful results and sustainable growth for your business.
We would love to guarantee specific results, but the reality is that SEO depends on many factors, some of which are beyond our control—such as changes in search algorithms or competitors’ strategies. Making guarantees in such a dynamic field would be unrealistic and misleading.
That said, at NightOwl SEO, we focus on delivering measurable progress and ROI-driven strategies. Here’s what we promise:
If results and performance are a high priority for you, we can discuss performance-based agreements. These may include a partial refund or performance bonus based on achieving specific milestones.
Speak to our SEO consultants to learn how we balance expectations with achievable, impactful results for your business.
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