01 · Build
The site itself. Moved, redesigned, or built new. $890 – $2,400
Every service · every price · buy one or buy the bundle
Everything I do, with the price next to it.
Five things: build the website, write what goes on it, host it for $0, make it findable in Google and in AI answers, and keep the domain and email out of other people's hands. Each has a published price. Bundled, they cost less.
What a website actually needs
A website needs five things to earn its cost: it has to exist, say something true, load fast and free, be findable by people and by AI, and stay in your name. Most providers sell one.
02 · Content
The words, the pictures, the case studies, the video. $180 – $690 per piece
03 · Hosting & speed
$0 a month on Cloudflare, and a measured speed pass. $0 – $340
04 · Being found
SEO, AI answers, Google Business Profile, Maps. $390 – $690 each
05 · Security
Domain, email and site hardened. Replaces the registrar's monthly upsell. $190
01 · Build
The website
Three ways in: move the site you have for $890, move and redesign it for $1,900, or build a new one from $2,400. Hosting afterwards costs $0 a month on Cloudflare.
| Service | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Move | Your published site rebuilt on Cloudflare, same URLs, pixel-compared at three widths, email records preserved | $890 once |
| The Move + redesign | The move, plus a new front end — structure, layout, type, imagery, mobile designed not reflowed | $1,900 once |
| New site | Five to eight pages built from nothing, structure and copy drafted, domain and email set up, files in your name | from $2,400 once |
| Extra page | One more page, designed, written and marked up like the rest | $240 each |
| Campaign landing page | A single page for one offer or one channel, with its own tracking | $490 once |
What this does
Ends the monthly platform bill permanently, and puts the files in your possession. The published prices elsewhere for a small-business site built by an agency run $4,000 to $8,000 in 2026, and that is before hosting.
What this does not do
It does not give you a drag-and-drop editor, and on its own it does not make anyone find you. A beautiful site nobody searches for is a $0-a-month brochure. That is what section 04 is for.
02 · Content
What goes on it
Pages, articles, case studies, photography direction, 3D visuals and short film. Priced per piece so you can buy one. Nothing is invented — every claim comes from you or from a source.
| Service | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Page written for search and AI | One page written with a 25–30 word answer block, real FAQs, and schema that matches the visible text | $180 per page |
| Article or guide | 1,000–1,400 words on one question people actually type, every number sourced and dated | $220 each |
| Case study | One job documented properly — before, after, what changed, what it cost | $340 each |
| Photography direction | A shot list for your own real images, and the edit afterwards. No stock people | $290 once |
| 3D render or technical visual | A rendered visual of a product, a procedure or a part, built from real geometry | $390 each |
| Short film | One cut delivered both ways — 16:9 for the website, 9:16 for social | $690 each |
What this does
Gives Google and the AI engines something specific to quote. Generic pages get skipped by both. A page that answers one question in the first thirty words is the format that gets lifted into an answer.
What this does not do
It will not invent achievements you do not have. If the business has no numbers, no reviews and no photographs, the honest first step is getting those — not writing around the gap.
03 · Hosting and speed
Making it fast, and free
Hosting is $0 a month on Cloudflare's free tier for a normal business site. The speed pass is $340 and is measured before and after, not asserted.
| Service | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare hosting | Static files served worldwide, free tier, commercial use allowed by Cloudflare's own terms | $0 a month |
| Speed pass | Images re-encoded, fonts and render-blocking fixed, Core Web Vitals measured before and after and shown to you | $340 once |
| Care plan | Edits by message, live the same working day. Monitoring, backups, security headers, small fixes | $99/mo · $594/yr |
What this does
Removes the recurring hosting bill and makes the site load quickly on a phone on mobile data, which is where most of your visitors actually are.
What this does not do
Speed is a small ranking factor, not a large one. Anyone selling you a page-speed service as an SEO strategy is selling you the easy part. It matters because slow sites lose people, not because Google rewards it heavily.
04 · Being found
SEO, AI answers, Google Business Profile and Maps
Four separate jobs, priced separately: the technical and on-page foundation ($690), AI answer setup ($590), Google Business Profile ($390), and Maps positioning ($490).
| Service | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Visibility audit | What you rank for now, what you do not, and what is technically blocking you. Written, yours to keep | Free |
| SEO foundation | Crawl and index fixes, canonicals, sitemap, robots, redirects, titles and descriptions, one H1 per page, internal links, Search Console and analytics verified | $690 once |
| AI answers — AEO and GEO | Answer blocks after the key headings, real FAQ sections, Service/FAQPage/LocalBusiness schema matched to visible text, llms.txt, a markdown mirror per page, and access verified for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended | $590 once |
| Google Business Profile | Categories, services, attributes, hours, description, photo set, Q&A seeded, and the name/address/phone matched exactly to the site | $390 once |
| Google Maps positioning | A geo-grid baseline of where you actually rank across the island, directory and citation consistency, a review request system, and a landing page per location or service area | $490 once |
| Visibility retainer | Ongoing: new pages monthly, schema kept correct, GBP posts, review handling, rank and AI-citation tracking, one report you can read | $390/mo · $2,340/yr |
| Dominance retainer | The above at higher volume, plus competitor displacement work, link earning, and multi-language pages | $790/mo · $4,740/yr |
What this does
It is the only part of this list that produces enquiries rather than saving money. Everything else on this page reduces a bill. This is the part that makes the phone ring.
What this does not do
It does not guarantee a position. Nobody controls Google's index, and anyone who promises a ranking is describing a result they cannot deliver. What is guaranteed is the work, the measurement, and that you see both.
05 · Security
Keeping the domain in your name
$190 once. Registrar lock verified, two-factor on the accounts that can move the domain, auto-renew, DNSSEC, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC so nobody can send email as you.
What this does
Closes the four ways a small business actually loses a domain: an expired card, an account without two-factor, an email account that can reset everything, and DNS records nobody is watching. It also replaces the "domain protection" upsell registrars sell monthly — that product is a registrar lock plus two-factor, and both are free.
What this does not do
It is not antivirus, and it is not a promise nothing will ever go wrong. A static site has no database to leak, no login to brute-force and no plugin to go unpatched, so the remaining risk lives in your accounts, not in the website.
What the same work costs elsewhere
Published 2026 prices from named companies and surveys, next to mine. Verify them before you decide — every source is linked or named below the table.
| The work | Published elsewhere | Here |
|---|---|---|
| SEO retainer, average | $2,917/mo | $390/mo |
| SEO retainer, most common band | $501–$1,000/mo | $390/mo |
| SEO, hourly | $111/hr | — |
| Managed local SEO, BrightLocal | $1,299/mo | $390/mo |
| AI search work (AEO/GEO), mid-market | $2,000–$8,000/mo | $590 once |
| Google Business Profile management | $125–$400/mo + $300–$500 setup | $390 once |
| Small-business website, agency built | $4,000–$8,000 | $890–$2,400 |
| Semrush, software only | $139/mo | included |
| Ahrefs Lite, software only | $129/mo | included |
Read the last two rows again. Semrush and Ahrefs together are $268 a month in software — before a single person does a single hour of work. The visibility retainer here is $390 a month, or $195 a month if you pay for the year, and it includes both the tools and the work.
Sources: retainer average, most common band and hourly rate from Ahrefs' SEO pricing survey of 439 polled SEO professionals. Managed local SEO price published by BrightLocal on its own pricing page. Semrush and Ahrefs plan prices read from semrush.com/pricing and ahrefs.com/pricing on 8 August 2026 — Semrush SEO plan $139/mo billed monthly, $117.33/mo billed annually; Ahrefs Starter $29, Lite $129, Standard $249, Advanced $449, Enterprise $1,499. AEO/GEO retainer ranges and Google Business Profile management ranges from published 2026 agency pricing guides, which vary widely — treat them as a range, not a figure. Website build range from published 2026 web-design cost guides. Prices are theirs, not mine, and they change.
Questions people ask before buying one service
Can I buy just one thing?
Yes, and plenty of people should. If your site is fine and only the Google Business Profile is a mess, buy the $390 profile job and nothing else. Every line above is sold on its own. The bundles exist because most businesses need four of the five, and buying four separately costs more.
Do I have to move my website to buy the SEO work?
No. The SEO foundation, the AI answer setup, the Google Business Profile and the Maps work all run on a site that stays exactly where it is — Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, anything. You keep paying your platform, and the visibility work still happens. Moving is a separate decision about hosting cost, not a condition.
Why is the AI answer work a one-time price when agencies charge monthly for it?
Because most of it is structural and does not need redoing every month: the answer blocks, the schema, the crawler access, the markdown mirror. Once a page is built to be quotable it stays quotable. What genuinely recurs — new pages, new questions, tracking which engines cite you — is in the retainer. Charging monthly for a one-time build is a pricing choice, not a technical necessity.
What is the difference between SEO, AEO and GEO in plain words?
SEO is being found in a list of blue links. AEO is being the answer that gets read out or shown at the top, with no click needed. GEO is being the source an AI quotes when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity a question about your field. They overlap, they use the same underlying structure, and doing the first well does most of the work for the other two — which is why the setup here is $590 and not $5,900.
Can you guarantee I will rank number one?
No, and I will not pretend otherwise. Nobody outside Google controls the index. What I will do is show you where you rank now, do the work, and show you where you rank after — separated into brand searches (people typing your name, which will always look good) and non-brand searches (people who did not know you existed, which is the only number that means anything).
How do you charge if I want something not on this list?
$111 an hour is the published average for SEO work in Ahrefs' survey of 439 professionals. I would rather quote a fixed price for a defined job than bill hours, so tell me what you want and you will get a number before anything starts.
Start with the free audit.
It tells you which of these five you actually need, and which you do not. It costs nothing, it is written down, and you keep it whether or not you buy anything.