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Welcome to WebmasterWorld, you will like it her, I’m sure. You start by asking a hard question that all of us would like to know the correct answer to and none of us really do.
I work with different price models according to the job in question. I use one price for counselling, one for teaching and another for the practical work. I use the price for one hour of work for a High end IT counsellor as a starting point (SEO is specialised work) calculating my price for one day and then adjust the price according to how interesting the job is. Very interesting job equals a price in the low end, boring job equals a price in the high end.
A good exercise for you and the customer is to look at how many extra sales/customers your services must bring in to cover your price. Many times it will only take 2 to 3 extra sales to get you covered and that is quickly achieved.
Why should I? You haven't engaged your brain yet, but, you would like for me to tell you how to make millions?
Think!
How does Google make money? How does Yahoo make money?
It is not a hard problem to solve!
Look at their business models, quit thinking about cost per hour!
If you can't figure it out, you don't deserve it......so think!
You are not about to invent the wheel, I seriously doubt you could copy a wheel invention standing right in front of you.
Making money is about spending 99% of your time thinking......if you refuse to do that you will never succeed!
You haven't engaged your brain yet, but, you would like for me to tell you how to make millions?
How does Google make money? How does Yahoo make money?
It is not a hard problem to solve!
Look at their business models, quit thinking about cost per hour!
Making money is about spending 99% of your time thinking
I'm sorry that it takes you so much of your time to think of how to make money. That's rough. I spend most of my time making money, it's so much more productive than thinking about it.
As for the posters question, it depends primarily on amount of experience. Some people can get away with $200 an hour and some can't get $70. It also depends on your people skills if you are dealing directly with the clients. If you appear trustworthy, professional, and knowledgeable, you can get more for your services.
[edited by: caveman at 3:35 pm (utc) on May 18, 2006]
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To river_seo i work with the saying 'you are worth for your skills and work' charge how much you think you should get paid and the costs of your work for the optimization
I think $2.00 an hour is about the right amount ;) Okay, maybe a little less!
For those in the real world, the price will be a tad under Google's guaranteed pricing!.....Hmmm, about $1000 per hour, give or take a couple of hundred depending on industry :)
Google's slice is several billion per year, Yahoo's is considerable, yet you want to talk about cost per hour?
Advertising has a "going rate", it is currently set by Google, Yahoo and MSN. To be competitive you play your price against those.......not a per hour charge!
Ireland - 45$
UK - 40$
US - 30$
Australia - 25$
South Africa - 15$
Thailand - 12$
India - 8$
Philipines - 7$
Vietnam - 5$
Cheers! ;) This is just rough prices which I came to know as I have worked with SEO's in diffrent countries
