The price, before the sales talk
Why "SEO koto taka?" gets you ten different answers in Chattogram
Ask three people in this city "SEO koto taka?" and you'll get an 8,000-taka monthly from a boy near GEC who buys Fiverr backlink packs, a vague "depends, call us" from a Dhaka agency that treats Chattogram as a remote line on a spreadsheet, and a quiet six-figure number from someone who won't break it down. None of it tells you what you're actually paying for. So let me kill the guessing the way a port-city trader would want it killed - with figures. Real SEO work I take on in Chattogram starts at a 50,000 BDT floor, and I'll show you exactly what sits inside it before you commit a taka.
Here's the part nobody selling cheap monthly retainers will admit: in most cases the first money is not a retainer at all - it's the site. I audit dozens of Chattogram business sites a year and most of them simply cannot rank, no matter how many backlinks you throw at them, because they're slow template builds that choke on a mid-range Android over Agrabad's patchy 4G, with no proper structure for Google to read. Paying 8,000 taka a month to "do SEO" on a site like that is paying for the look of work. The honest sequence is: get the foundation right first, then the ranking work has something to actually rank.
That's why the price tiers are built around the site work that makes SEO possible: 50,000 BDT for a focused, fast, properly-indexed foundation; 90,000 BDT for more depth - service-area pages, on-page SEO structure, the bilingual layout Chattogram actually searches in; and 1,50,000 BDT for a serious site with richer structure and integrations that can grow with you. Genuinely bespoke work - a heavy custom build, a port-trade portal, complex functionality - is scoped from 3,00,000 BDT, never quoted off a WhatsApp message. Everything runs 50% advance, 50% on launch, so you're never paying for a finished site you haven't seen and never trapped halfway with a developer gone dark.
I'm one person, not an agency, and I price like one on purpose. There's no account manager forwarding your messages to a junior in another city, no "reporting fee" line item padding the invoice. You deal directly with the person doing the audit, the keyword research in Bangla and English, the on-page work and the links - around five years of doing exactly this. The design-approval guarantee means you sign off on the look before I build it. If on the first call I think Google Ads would put leads in your inbox faster than SEO, or that your real problem is the site and not the rankings, I'll tell you - even if it shrinks the invoice.
See pricing in BDT