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Freelance SEO in BD: what 50,000 BDT actually buys you per month
Most BD business owners think freelance SEO is either dirt cheap or agency-priced. Cheap means 10 to 15k a month, which is link spam in a spreadsheet. Agency means 1.5 to 3 lakh a month with junior account managers. The honest middle is about 50,000 BDT a month and up. Here is what that pays for when one senior freelancer owns the work.
First, a proper keyword map for your business and city, ranked by buyer intent and difficulty. Second, on-page rewrites for your best-opportunity pages. That covers title tags, H1s, meta descriptions, internal linking and schema. Third, technical fixes from a real crawl, not a generic checklist. Think redirects, broken links, thin pages that get indexed, Core Web Vitals issues and mobile usability errors.
You also get two to four well-briefed long-form pieces a month, written for BD buyers, not for word count. And each month I review Search Console, mine queries and fix cannibalisation. You get a written next-month plan you can read in five minutes. Paid link budget, paid PR fees, big content volumes (ten plus articles) and running your Google Ads are not included. I quote those add-ons separately.
Most of my SEO clients in Bangladesh start at this tier for three to six months. Then they step up to a content-heavy retainer once on-page is dialled in. Or they stay here because page-one rankings keep compounding. You pay 50% advance to start and 50% at the end of each month after the report. No lock-in beyond the current month, and no "setup fee" tricks. If the work is good you stay. If not, you walk. That is how a freelancer earns a long contract in BD.