How much does it cost to hire an SEO? Is it worth it? Instead of burning through the cash every month, why not just go with AB Customer?

According to Ahrefs data, 91% of the world's web pages have no organic traffic , but pages ranked on the first page of Google receive an average of more than 10,000 visits per month.

If you are engaged in foreign trade, local services, or cross-border e-commerce, SEO is definitely the lowest-cost way to acquire customers and get them to come to you on their own initiative. The key is not how large the investment is, but whether the money is spent wisely .

1. How much does it cost to hire someone to do SEO?

From the perspective of labor costs, the monthly salary for hiring an SEO specialist in China is 5,000 to 15,000 yuan. For those with more than three years of experience, the monthly salary can reach 20,000 yuan, and it is even higher for cross-border positions.

The outsourcing price is more reasonable - the cheaper ones can be a few thousand, while the more expensive ones can cost hundreds of thousands a year, and there is no guarantee of results.

✅ Labor cost breakdown:

But SEO costs go far beyond salaries:

• Tool fees : Ahrefs, SEMrush, several hundred to thousands of yuan per month

• Content fee : A 2,000-word industry article costs 300 to 1,000 yuan per article

• External link fee : 500~3000 yuan for one high-quality external link

• Website optimization : CDN, SSL, server, thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per year

👉 In summary, if a company wants to do SEO professionally , it will conservatively invest 8,000 to 20,000 yuan per month .

It will take another 3 to 12 months to see results, and the platform may be reverted to its original state at any time due to algorithm updates or insufficient content quality.

2. Is the investment really worth it? Let’s take a look at the account

Suppose you are engaged in foreign trade custom furniture:

In other words, if you invest 10,000 yuan in SEO every month, you will make money as long as you can add 5 new orders .

The problem is that many companies don’t even understand website speed, content structure, and internal linking strategies , and they blindly hire someone to do SEO. As a result, they get cheated out of money but their traffic doesn’t increase.

3. Self-study SEO vs. hiring someone to do SEO vs. changing the method?

4. Why is AB Customer more like “hiring an entire SEO team”?

AB Ke = enterprise-level intelligent website building + technical SEO + AI content factory + data analysis. One-time payment is equivalent to a SEO's three-year salary, but it does the work of an SEO team .

✅ Who is more efficient when doing the same SEO?

In a nutshell: Would you rather pay 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per month to hire someone to trial and error, or pay a one-time fee to directly equip a complete team?

5. Real Case Study: Some People Double Their SEO Investment, While Others Lose All of It

Many companies spent money but ended up with terrible results:

A foreign trade machinery company spent 15,000 yuan per month on SEO. After 6 months, the keyword ranking only rose from 35th to 28th, and the traffic increased by less than 15%.

After checking the reason, we found that the other party only used Fiverr to buy external links, but did not solve the problem of 5-second website speed and weak content, and was judged as low quality by Google.

On the other hand, AB customer users (foreign trade B2B industry):

6. If your budget is between 5,000 and 20,000 yuan per month, you can actually do this:

"Hybrid Approach": Do the basics yourself + hand over the core functions to AB customers, saving 40% of costs and twice as fast

The following are suggestions:

• Website speed, keyword structure, and page SEO are handled by AB Customer (the system is fully automated)

• Maintain only core content yourself, such as two in-depth articles per month (you can also use ABke AI to generate and polish it)

• No need to buy extra SEO tools, external links, CDN, etc., the system comes with

• It is equivalent to spending only the salary of an SEO to buy a complete solution of website building + SEO + content + data analysis

7. How to judge who is more reliable? — “Don’t listen to the hype, look at the results”

Whether you hire a team or use tools, you need to look at:

✅ Whether to provide real data (traffic increase screenshots)

✅ Is there a clear execution path/function description?

✅ Can it be quickly implemented instead of just slogans?

AB Customer can do:

✔ Launch site within 3 days and automatically submit for inclusion

✔ Built-in SEO analysis module at the same level as Ahrefs, no need to buy tools

✔ Automatic generation of internal link structure, site group layout, and structured code

✔ Start consulting/inquiry in 3 months, the system is comparable to a SEO team + content team

✅ Final conclusion: Instead of continuing to "burn money" on SEO, it is better to choose the right tool at once

• Hiring a senior SEO: The cost is 150,000 to 200,000 yuan a year, and you also need tools and writers.

• Outsourcing SEO: You may spend $100,000 a year, but you don’t touch the technology or the website building

• ABke Intelligent Website Building: 96,888 yuan for 3 years = 1 SEO cost

  • This means you can save 70% of your personnel, tools, and content costs.

  • No need to worry about technical SEO, no need to write code, no need to buy tools

  • 3 days to launch, 3 months to see results (real and verifiable)

✅ AI intelligent website building + technical SEO + content factory + data analysis

✅ Replacement website engineer + designer + SEO staff + content editor + data analyst

✅ Automatic deployment of 47+ languages commonly used by foreign trade companies, 3 times the collection efficiency, 90% cost reduction

👉 If you are still worried about whether to hire someone to do SEO, you might as well try AB Customer first.

3-day launch, zero-cost trial, one-time payment = one team

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