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How to commission SEO copywriting

1. Read live samples, not portfolio PDFs. Ask for URLs of pages the provider wrote that are live and ranking today, in a subject at least adjacent to yours. A sample you can find in search is evidence; a polished PDF that never shipped is marketing. If they cannot name published work, price them as unproven.
2. Inspect the brief before the prose. Good SEO copy starts from a brief that names the target query, the searcher's intent, the sources to cite and the page it must beat. Ask to see a real brief from a past engagement. A provider that starts from a word count instead of a brief is selling volume, not outcomes.
3. Check how expertise enters the draft. Useful content in a technical or regulated subject needs input from someone who knows it: an interview, a named reviewer, cited primary sources. Ask exactly who provides that on your engagement and where citations come from, because writing that guesses gets fact-checked by the reader and then by the market.
4. Agree revisions, on-page scope and measurement. Pin down what a deliverable includes: title and meta description, headings, internal links, how many revision rounds, and who uploads. Then agree how success is judged over a quarter: indexed, ranking movement, and whether the page earns clicks, not just whether it was delivered on time.

Volume pricing versus outcome pricing

Per-word pricing is the industry's default and its central trap: it rewards padding, and Google's own guidance is blunt that there is no magical word count that makes a page rank. Per-page or per-brief pricing aligns better, because the unit of value is a query answered, not a length reached. When comparing quotes, convert everything to cost per finished, published page including revisions and on-page work; the cheap per-word rate is often the expensive option once thin drafts need rewriting.

Keyword stuffing is the other legacy habit to screen out. Google treats it as spam, not as optimisation, so a provider whose samples repeat the target phrase unnaturally is a liability. The modern mechanics are simpler: one clear query per page, the term in the title and heading where it reads naturally, and prose that answers the question with evidence.

Where copywriting ends and SEO begins

Copy alone cannot rescue a site with crawl problems, broken internal linking or no authority, and an honest copywriting provider says so upfront. Ask who owns the technical side and how the writing plugs into it: which pages link to the new content, how it gets indexed, and who watches whether it ranks. Providers listed here are held to what they publish about their own process; hold your shortlist to the same standard and the seams between writing and SEO become visible before you pay for them.

Questions people actually ask

What do SEO copywriting services cost?

Published rates run from per-word freelancer pricing to per-page and retainer models at agencies. Compare on cost per finished, published page including brief, revisions and on-page work; the printed prices in this index are the reference points.

How many words should an SEO page be?

Google's documentation says there is no magical word count target. The right length is however long it takes to answer the query better than the pages currently ranking; brief and complete beats long and padded.

Will more keywords in the copy help it rank?

No. Google classifies keyword stuffing as spam. The working pattern is one clear target query per page, used naturally in the title and headings, with the body spent on evidence and answers rather than repetition.

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