Pricing, demystified
Why SEO quotes in Gulshan range from 8,000 BDT a month to 4,00,000 BDT for the same website
Ask about SEO service price in Gulshan and the quotes swing wildly. Picture a restaurant on Road 11, a clinic near Gulshan 2 circle and a B2B trading office in a Gulshan Avenue tower. They can hand over the same brief: "rank us for our main services in Dhaka". They get quotes from 8,000 BDT a month to 4,00,000 BDT for a project. The gap is almost never how hard the keywords are.
It is about who actually does the work and what gets quietly left out. It is also about whether anyone even looked at your site before sending a number.
The cheap end of the Gulshan market is a familiar trap. An 8,000 to 15,000 BDT monthly retainer buys a few spammy directory links and two AI-spun blog posts. You also get a monthly PDF full of "impressions" that mean nothing for your bookings or leads. The expensive end is usually an agency padding the bill. It adds an account manager, a project lead and a junior who touches your account between three other clients.
Neither one starts by telling you if your site can even rank, or what holds it back. My price sits in between on purpose. It is senior work with fixed scope. It is written so you know what 50,000 BDT covers and what 1,50,000 BDT adds.
I work alone, on purpose. Say your Gulshan boutique's Google Business Profile gets suspended on a Friday night. Or a competitor near Pink City suddenly outranks you. You message me directly, not a ticket queue or a junior who passes it up on Monday. I also cap how many SEO clients I take. Gulshan is a competitive area. Serious buyers search on mobile, often in a mix of Bangla and English. You cannot do that well across twenty accounts at once.
About five years of SEO and paid search for Dhaka businesses taught me one thing about price. The cheapest retainer is almost always the most expensive choice. You pay 12,000 BDT a month for a year and get nothing. Then you pay me to undo the toxic links and rebuild the on-page structure from scratch. I would rather quote you honestly once. If your site cannot justify SEO yet, I will tell you on the call. It may be too new, too thin or on the wrong platform.
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