Flat Fee SEO: One Fixed Monthly Price, No Hourly Billing
Flat fee SEO starts from $500 a month for ongoing work, or from $1,000 for a one-off project.
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It means one fixed price for an agreed scope of work, paid monthly or as a one-off project. You know exactly what you’ll pay and exactly what you get for it.
No hourly billing. No surprise invoices. No extra line items.
How Flat Fee SEO Works
- Scope first. I review your site, your competitors and the searches your customers actually use.
- One fixed price. That scope becomes a single monthly fee that doesn’t change month to month.
- Clear deliverables. You get a written list of what was done each month: pages built, fixes made, links earned.
- Re-scope when you need to. If your goals change, we agree a new scope and a new flat fee before anything changes.
How Much Does Flat Fee SEO Cost?
There are two ways to pay a flat fee. Both are priced up front, so you know the cost before any work starts.
- Monthly flat fee, from $500 a month. Ongoing SEO for one location: technical fixes, Google Business Profile work and new pages each month. Bigger scopes are quoted as one fixed monthly price.
- One-off flat fee project, from $1,000. A fixed price for a defined job, such as a technical audit with fixes, or a set of new service pages.
Your exact price depends on the size of your site and how competitive your industry is.
Need it cheaper? We can work in SEO sprints: focused blocks of work instead of an ongoing retainer. Just ask me about it.
What’s Included in Flat Fee SEO
Every flat fee covers the work your site needs most. That usually includes:
- Technical SEO: crawl and indexing issues, page speed, titles and meta descriptions
- Landing pages built around the searches that turn into enquiries
- On-page optimisation of your existing service pages
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile work for location-based businesses
- White hat link building, such as directories, expert quotes and podcasts
- AI search visibility, so your business shows up in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI answers
- Monthly ranking tracking and a plain-English report
Flat Fee SEO vs Hourly SEO
Hourly SEO rates in Australia commonly run from around $100 to $250+ an hour. That works for a one-off audit, but it makes ongoing SEO hard to budget for.
- Flat fee: fixed cost, fixed scope, predictable budget.
- Hourly: the cost moves with time spent, which is hard for you to check.
- Incentives: a flat fee rewards getting results efficiently, not logging more hours.
For a full breakdown of retainers, hourly rates and pricing tiers, see SEO pricing in Australia.
Who Flat Fee SEO Suits
- Small businesses and tradies working to a fixed marketing budget
- Professional services firms, such as accountants, law firms and healthcare practices
- Businesses that have been burned by vague agency invoices
- Owners who want to deal directly with the person doing the work
You can see the industries I work with on my SEO services page.
Why a Flat Fee With an Independent Consultant
Agencies carry account managers, sales teams and office overheads, and that cost ends up in your fee. As an independent SEO consultant, I do the work myself.
Your flat fee goes into the work, not the layers around it. You deal with one person from scoping to reporting.
Get a Flat Fee SEO Quote
Tell me about your business and what you want from search. I’ll review your site and come back with a fixed monthly price and a clear scope of work.