SEO Consulting: clear answers, no follow-up contract
You have a specific SEO question and want an honest assessment from an experienced SEO consultant. No get-to-know call, no agency contract and no hidden sales pressure. The SEO consulting session is built for exactly that: 90 minutes of SEO consulting on your topic for 375 € net (446.25 € incl. VAT), with recording, PDF report and money-back guarantee.
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What you take away from the SEO consulting
More clarity
After 90 minutes you know what the cause is, what happens first and what you can safely drop. Data, observation and recommendation stay cleanly separated.
A fresh perspective
An outside view on numbers you see every day. From more than 60 projects I know the patterns that often stay invisible internally because everyone is too close to them.
Faster results
You implement the measure with the biggest effect in your situation and save months of work in the wrong direction. With a checkpoint where you can read off the effect.
SEO consulting in short
SEO consulting here means: 90 minutes with an SEO consultant on your specific question, for 375 euros net (446.25 euros incl. VAT), without a follow-up contract and without sales pressure for a follow-up engagement. You get an assessment of your data from Google Search Console and Analytics, the probable cause of your problem, prioritized measures and an honest statement about what you can leave out. From the call to the summary it stays the same person. Recording of the session and a PDF report with all recommendations are included, a transcript on request. You can implement yourself, with your team or with your web agency.
What my consulting clients say
"Great SEO consulting, he clearly has solid SEO knowledge and is right up to date on current topics. Happy to work with him again!"
"Antonio has helped me time and again with data analysis and AI SEO, and gave me insights into local SEO as well. Very helpful for me, since I mostly work in e-commerce. An absolute recommendation for coaches, consultants or personal trainers who want a reliable channel for new clients."
"The results were impressive: the measures had an immediate positive effect on our rankings. Working with Antonio was professional and very pleasant. His advice and his approach gave us the feeling of being in the best hands."
"Before, we were a client of another, quite large SEO/SEA firm. We were not satisfied there, especially with content marketing. The first results in various rankings are already measurable. What surprised us most: an article that had been online for a long time landed on page 1 of Google just one day after Antonio's optimizations."
When the SEO consulting session makes sense for you
- Your website brings too few qualified leads. You have invested time and energy, but the visibility and demand you hoped for stay out.
- You lack a clear SEO strategy. You know SEO matters, but you are unsure which measures really make sense and where to start.
- SEO gets left behind in daily business. You have no time to keep learning SEO. Next to your core business there is no room to implement SEO consistently, so most of it happens in bits and pieces.
- Your competitors always seem one step ahead. For relevant searches other sites show up before you, although you feel you have more to offer.
- Creating content is hard for you. It costs a lot of time to produce content regularly that works for users and for search engines.
- You are unsure whether SEO is worth it for you at all. You lack clear numbers and an honest assessment of whether your measures so far have had any effect.
If the last point is the one on your mind: the SEO potential analysis (German) calculates from data how much traffic and revenue is realistically possible. And if you do not yet know whether we are a match, start with the free intro call.
What an SEO consultant actually does for you
SEO consulting is diagnosis and prioritization. The work consists of five steps that come up in every session, in the order that fits your topic.
Read the data
Google Search Console, Analytics and a crawl of the website. Clicks, impressions, positions and page types show where demand exists and where it gets lost.
Find the cause
A drop in clicks rarely has a single cause. We separate ranking loss, changed search intent, AI Overviews and technical problems such as indexing or duplicates.
Classify demand
Which queries bring revenue, which only traffic. Brand and generic demand are separated, so growth is not confused with your own brand name.
Prioritize measures
Every recommendation gets effort, expected effect and order. Afterwards you know what happens first and what you can cut.
Make it measurable
We define what you will read success from and within which period. Without a checkpoint every measure stays a matter of taste.
Clarify implementation
Who does it: you, your team, your web agency. Every recommendation comes with how it can be implemented in your system, for example Shopify, WordPress or a custom shop.
What we cover in the SEO consulting session
Here we analyze your specific question together. The focus is on your website and your situation. You get:
- Analysis of your website's current SEO status with the data from Search Console and Analytics
- Assessment of your visibility in AI search systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews (GEO)
- Quick wins, prioritized by effort and impact, that you can implement right away
- Individual recommendations for your situation, plus notes on risks, dependencies and typical mistakes
- Recording of the entire session to watch again later
- PDF report with all recommendations and the next steps
There is no standard agenda and no prepared pitch. The conversation follows your topic only.
How the SEO consulting session works
First you book your slot online and describe your SEO question in the booking form as specifically as possible. After booking you are forwarded to secure payment via PayPal; the booking confirmation and the video call link follow automatically. With the confirmation you receive a questionnaire on your website, goals, previous measures and access.
Your answers are the basis of my preparation: before the call I review your Search Console and Analytics data, crawl the website and classify your topic. This preparation is part of the session, which is why we go straight into the analysis in the call.
After the session you know what makes sense, what you can leave out and which next steps really matter.
SEO consultant, SEO agency or in-house team?
The three routes solve different problems. This classification holds even if you decide against working with me.
Single SEO consultant
Fits when you need strategy, prioritization and an honest assessment, and implementation sits with you or your web agency. You talk to the same person from the first call to the last recommendation, the one who does the analysis: senior attention instead of a handover to a junior after the pitch.
Limit: one person has limited capacity. For hundreds of texts per quarter or ongoing link building in several markets this is the wrong route.
SEO agency
Fits when volume has to be handled continuously: many texts, several languages in parallel, link building, cover during holidays.
Limit: monthly retainers and minimum terms tie up budget before it is clear whether the chosen route works. The free intro call there is usually a sales call with pressure to sign a follow-up contract, and the person in the meeting is often not the person doing the work.
In-house team
Fits when SEO is a permanent part of the business and knowledge should stay in the company. Internal people know product and customers better than any outsider.
Limit: without a regular outside view, blind spots repeat. Here a single consulting session or a workshop (German) as sparring makes sense.
In practice most projects mix: a consultant sets direction and priorities, the internal team implements, an agency takes on volume work. More on models and hourly rates on the SEO freelancer page.
What really gets asked in intro calls
Four points come up in almost every conversation with marketing leads and managing directors. This is how I handle them:
- "Is the target realistic, or an agency promise?" I derive targets from your Search Console data and the available budget, with a period and a checkpoint. What I cannot justify with data is marked as an assumption in the summary.
- "Who implements this on our side? We do not have the capacity." Every recommendation gets an owner and an effort. What cannot be done internally is phrased as a ticket for your web agency or as an additional service with unit and price, not as an open hours clause.
- "Does the knowledge stay with us, or do we depend on you?" Tools such as Search Console, Analytics or SISTRIX run on your account. Recording, transcript and summary belong to you, so a future in-house person can build on them.
- "We already have a content or web agency." Then we clarify the interface: which tickets go to the agency, what stays internal and where I review. A consultant next to an existing agency is the normal case, not a conflict.
What SEO consulting costs
For self-employed people, solopreneurs, business owners
The session is a self-contained consulting format. There is no obligation whatsoever to continue working together. On top there is a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee: if you are not satisfied after the consulting, you get your money back in full, no discussion.
For context: market hourly rates for SEO consulting range from roughly 80 to 250 euros depending on experience. Agencies mostly work with monthly retainers from around 1,000 euros and terms of six to twelve months. My operational hourly rate for implementation is 130 euros net, the consulting itself 250 euros per hour. The higher consulting rate has a reason: the session includes my preparation based on your questionnaire, the recording and the PDF report; you are buying a basis for a decision.
- Free intro call: 30 minutes to get to know each other if you are considering a longer collaboration. To the intro call
- SEO consulting, 90 minutes, 375 euros net: one specific question, one answer, no follow-up contract, money-back guarantee. This page.
- SEO potential analysis: a data-based projection before budget flows. To the potential analysis
- Ongoing support: retainer with a term of six to nine months when implementation and measurement should be accompanied continuously.
Questions that come up in consulting sessions
The following topics come from projects whose results are documented as case studies. They show how specific a question may be.
- "Our clicks are falling, but the rankings hold. Why?" Usually a mix of AI Overviews and changed search intent. The separation runs via position and CTR per query in Search Console.
- "We have 12,000 URLs in the shop and only a tenth is indexed." Almost always a structure and crawl question, rarely a content question. Case study on the B2B shop (German)
- "How do we get mentioned in ChatGPT and Perplexity?" Measurable via prompt tracking and referrers in GA4. At PURELEI it was 24,473 euros of revenue via ChatGPT in one year. Shopify case studies (German)
- "Is SEO still worth it given our competition?" For that we calculate realistic demand against current positions instead of arguing with averages from studies.
- "Which pages do we rebuild in the relaunch and which not?" Decided by clicks, revenue and link structure of the existing URLs.
All documented projects with numbers from Search Console, SISTRIX and shop backend: SEO case studies (German).
Who advises you
I am Antonio Blago and have worked for many years in search engine optimization for classic search engines such as Google or Bing as well as in AI SEO/GEO, also called LLMO. My focus is data-based analysis, content strategy and visibility in search engines and AI systems.
I support companies, publishers and solo projects in making SEO decisions on the basis of experience and data. I built my first website in 2005 and have worked full-time self-employed since 2024.
Your next steps to SEO clarity
You book your SEO consulting session
You pick your slot online and describe your specific SEO question in the booking form. After booking you receive a questionnaire; with your answers I prepare for your topic, and we lose no time in the call.
We analyze your SEO topic together
In 90 minutes we look at your situation in a structured way. We classify rankings, visibility, content and possible causes and talk openly about what makes sense and what does not.
You leave with clarity and next steps
After the session you receive the recording and a PDF report with to-dos, and you know which measures have priority, which you can drop and where your effort really pays off.
Frequently asked questions about SEO consulting
How much does SEO consulting cost?
My SEO consulting costs 250 euros net per hour. The session lasts 90 minutes and costs 375 euros net, that is 446.25 euros incl. VAT, as a single booking without a follow-up contract and with a money-back guarantee. The operational hourly rate for implementation is 130 euros net. Market rates range from roughly 80 to 250 euros per hour depending on experience and provider; agencies mostly work with monthly retainers from about 1,000 euros and minimum terms.
SEO consultant or SEO agency, which is better?
A single SEO consultant makes sense when you need strategy, prioritization and an assessment, and implementation happens in your own team or with your web agency. An agency is the better choice when volume has to be handled continuously, such as hundreds of texts, ongoing link building or support in many languages in parallel. With a consultant you talk to the same person from the pitch to implementation, the one who does the analysis, without being handed over to a junior and without pressure to sign a follow-up contract; with an agency you get capacity and cover during holidays.
What does an SEO consultant actually do?
He reads your website data from Search Console, Analytics and a crawl, finds the cause of missing visibility, prioritizes measures by effort and impact and supports implementation on the technical side. This includes technical checks such as indexing and load time, keyword and intent research, content structure, internal linking and measurement in Search Console and Analytics.
What are the most important factors for good Google rankings?
Four things decide most projects: the page must be technically reachable and indexable. The content must match the search intent of the query. Internal linking must support the important pages. And there must be evidence of experience and trust, meaning author, sources and real results. Backlinks work, but they are rarely the first lever while the basics are missing.
How long does it take for SEO to work?
Technical fixes and snippet optimizations often show an effect in Search Console within two to six weeks. New content and ranking growth in competitive topics usually take three to nine months. At PURELEI, visibility doubled in eight months; a collection page at X-BIONIC reached 695 clicks per month after three months.
Are 90 minutes really enough to resolve my SEO question?
Yes. If you bring a specific question, 90 minutes are enough to assess the situation, identify causes and derive sensible next steps.
Do I have to book a follow-up contract afterwards?
No. The SEO consulting session is a self-contained format. There is no obligation to continue working together.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes, a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied after the consulting, you get your money back in full, no discussion.
How does payment work?
After booking your slot you are forwarded directly to secure payment via PayPal. The amount is 446.25 euros incl. VAT. The booking confirmation and the video call link then follow automatically by email.
Which topics is the SEO consulting suitable for?
For specific SEO questions, for example on rankings, visibility, content strategy, technical problems, shop structures or visibility in AI answers and AI Overviews.
Do I get an honest assessment or just general tips?
An assessment of your situation with data, observation and recommendation kept separate. The recommendations are built so that you can implement them on your own, with prioritization on request.
Is the call recorded?
Yes. The session is recorded and you receive the recording together with the PDF report. A transcript is available on request.
How do I prepare for the SEO consulting session?
In the booking form you describe your question as specifically as possible. After booking you receive a questionnaire on your website, goals, previous measures and access to Google Search Console and Analytics. The more completely you fill it in, the deeper I can prepare.
Is SEO consulting also worthwhile for small websites?
Yes. Especially for smaller projects a clear assessment is valuable, so that no budget goes into measures that bring nothing in your situation.
Why the consulting session builds trust
A specific question
You do not book general advice, you bring exactly the topic that is holding you back right now.
A traceable assessment
We separate data, observation and recommendation. That way you can justify the next steps internally or with your team.
No follow-up obligation
The session is complete once you have your answers and priorities. A follow-up contract is neither necessary nor expected.
Documented
Recording and a PDF report with all recommendations are included, a transcript on request. That way you implement the recommendations later at your own pace.
Ready for clarity instead of sales pressure?
Book your SEO consulting session and describe your specific question in the booking form. There is no follow-up obligation.
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