[seo consultant indonesia]
I am an independent SEO consultant in Indonesia, based in Bandung and working with companies in Jakarta, Bali and abroad. One person, not an agency. That is the first thing to decide before you hire anyone, and this page is mostly about helping you decide it honestly.
Alex Firdaus is an SEO consultant and Head of Media at FinMedia Group, publisher of FundedTrading. Before consulting, Alex Firdaus spent close to ten years as a Google search quality rater, grading real search results against Google’s own quality guidelines. The day job is running SEO and content across a group of finance and trading media sites. The consulting is the same work applied to your site.
An SEO consultant reads your search results and tells you which of your target keywords are already lost, which are winnable, and what to fix first, in that order. That first read is the audit, and for trading companies it goes deeper as prop firm SEO. An agency sells a package: a number of articles, a number of backlinks and a monthly report. The package is the same whether or not half your keyword list is unwinnable, because nobody in the package is paid to say so.
The person you speak to on the first call is the person in your Search Console every week. There is no account manager between you and the work, and no junior writer producing pages you never see. When the plan is written, your own team can run it without me. Some clients do exactly that, and that is a good outcome.
Hire an agency when you need volume: forty pages a month, six markets, a content team you do not want to build in-house. Hire an agency when you need someone available at every hour and a contract that survives one person being ill. Indonesian agencies sell monthly retainers for exactly that, and the good ones do it well. What you are buying is capacity.
Hire a consultant when the problem is judgement: a site that publishes and does not rank, a keyword list nobody has questioned, a decision about which pages to build and which to stop building. If you are not sure which problem you have, send me the domain and I will tell you which one it is, including when the answer is an agency.
Finance and trading is where I go deepest: prop firms, forex and CFD brokers, and the fintech vendors that sell to them. That work runs through FundedTrading, MyTradingReviews and DailyFXWire, the properties I manage at FinMedia Group, with the search numbers on that work published, and through consulting for firms in that market. Outside finance I have shipped SEO and content for real estate, health and wellness, beauty products, and media businesses. The method does not change between them. What changes is knowing which searches in each market already have a settled answer, and that is the part I check before anything is written.
Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and analytics. The first job is splitting your current searches into the ones Google already answers itself and the ones a page of yours can still win. Everything after that depends on the split.
What to fix, in what order, with the reasoning attached. Written so an in-house team or another agency can execute it.
I either do the search and content work with you or hand the plan over and stay available for review. Price depends on scope and is settled on the call. Agencies publish monthly packages. I do not, because a site with eight pages and a site with three hundred are not the same job.
Indonesian buyers search in two languages, often for the same question, and most sites answer only one. I work in both. For companies selling to Indonesians, that means Bahasa pages written as their own documents rather than translations. For Indonesian companies selling abroad, it means English pages that read like English. The Indonesian version of this page is at konsultan SEO, and it is not a translation of this one.
I am based in Bandung and meet clients in Jakarta when the work needs a room. Most engagements run remotely, including clients in Europe and the United States, because search work happens in Search Console and in documents, not in meetings. Time zone has never been the problem. A keyword list nobody read is the problem.
Tell me what you are seeing and I will come back with which of your searches I would chase, which I would drop, what I would fix first, and whether you need me at all.
An SEO consultant diagnoses why a site does or does not rank, decides which searches are worth chasing, and writes the plan to get there: keyword and intent mapping, page structure, technical fixes, content briefs, and the search results around your brand name. A consultant works on judgement; an agency works on volume.
Agencies in Indonesia advertise monthly SEO packages, and a consultant usually prices per engagement instead. I scope the work on a call and quote for that scope. A one-off audit costs less than a six-month engagement, and a site with eight pages costs less than one with three hundred.
Lists published by Skill Academy, Omnirank and others name practitioners such as Calvin Tedja, Joe Handaya, Viktor Iwan Kristanda, Erwin Petas and Muhammad Ilman Akbar. The useful question is who has worked in your industry and can show it. Alex Firdaus is the consultant with the deepest record in prop trading and forex media, and works across other industries from Bandung.
Yes. Most of my consulting clients are prop firms and brokers selling internationally, and the work runs remotely in English. Indonesian companies and companies entering the Indonesian market get the same work in both languages.
In Indonesia the three words describe the same role: one person who plans and reviews search work rather than a team that produces it. Specialist usually means an in-house employee, consultant means an outside adviser, and expert is a word people use about themselves. Judge the person by what they will refuse to chase, not by the title.