[pricing]
I charge $500 for a prop firm SEO audit, from $2,000 a month for ongoing SEO, and from $1,500 for a fixed project. Prices are in US dollars, and the audit comes off your first month if you carry on.
SEO audit
$500
one-off, credited to month one
Recommended
Monthly SEO
from $2,000
a month, three months recommended
Fixed project
from $1,500
quoted after the audit
Backlinks are a separate budget: I tell you which placements are worth buying and what they should cost, but they are never bundled into my fee or marked up. Firms based in Indonesia get local pricing on request. International firms targeting Indonesian traders pay the prices above.
| Audit | Monthly | Project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $500 | from $2,000 a month | from $1,500 |
| Site and Search Console review | Yes | Yes, every month | Yes |
| Fixes in priority order | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| New or rewritten pages | No | 12 to 13 a month | As scoped |
| On-page work | No | Yes | As scoped |
| AI-answer check | Once | Monthly | As scoped |
| Monthly report | No | Yes | No |
| Backlinks | Advice only | Advice only | Advice only |
| Commitment | One-off | One month minimum | One-off |
I recommend three months, and one month is fine if you want to see how I work first. The price is the same either way.
Be clear on what one month gives you. You get the audit fixes, twelve to thirteen new or rewritten pages, and the on-page changes, and you should see impressions start to move in Search Console. You will not see much in rankings yet. Rankings take longer than a month to show, and a site recovering from a drop can take much longer: the prop firm SEO case study shows one sitting flat for six and a half months before every suppressed page moved at once.
Four things, and the number of articles is not one of them.
The market: finance and trading are slower and harder than general business, and the copy has to clear compliance before it can rank.
The starting position: a domain with existing authority needs different work from one starting at zero, and usually less of it.
The country: a firm selling into Indonesia and one selling into the United States are competing against different sites.
The language: writing Indonesian and English properly are two separate jobs, not one job done twice.
That is why every price on this page is a floor. A site with eight pages and a site with three hundred are not the same work, and one fixed price would overcharge one of them.
An agency retainer for a finance site usually runs $1,500 to $10,000 a month, and a specialist consultant $2,500 to $6,000. My monthly floor sits under that consultant range because it covers a small site in one language and one market, and most engagements land above it once the four things above apply. The full comparison with in-house hires and agencies, with sources, is on what prop firm SEO costs.
Prop firm operators get pitched the same menu every week, so here is what is not on mine:
None of these move a prop firm site in a way that lasts.
Tell me the site and the markets you sell into. I will tell you which of the three options it needs, and if the answer is none, I will say so.
Alex Firdaus charges $500 for an audit, from $2,000 a month for ongoing prop firm SEO, and from $1,500 for a fixed project. The audit fee is credited against the first month if the work continues within 30 days. Backlinks are a separate budget.
$500. It covers why the site is not ranking or not being cited, the fixes in priority order, and what to watch in Search Console afterwards. It is credited against the first month if you continue within 30 days.
Three SEO articles a week, the on-page work that goes with them, a monthly Search Console review for pages close to page one, a check on whether AI answers cite you or your competitors, and a short monthly report. Backlinks are not included.
Yes, at the same price. One month delivers the audit fixes, twelve to thirteen pages and the on-page changes, and impressions should start moving. Rankings take longer, which is why three months is the recommendation.
No. Link placements are bought from third parties and carry their own budget. I will tell you which ones are worth paying for and what a fair price looks like, but they are not bundled into my fee.
Firms based in Indonesia get local pricing, on request. International prop firms and brokers targeting Indonesian traders pay the standard prices, because the work is the same.
Because the same scope costs different amounts depending on the market, the site’s starting authority, the country and the language. A starting price tells you whether we are in the right range. The audit gives you the real number.