Small business SEO consultant. One senior person, not a package.

Small business SEO services from agencies run from about $1,000 to $5,000 a month, usually on a six to twelve month contract. The fixed prices here are a $99 audit, a $500 one-off fix of the key issues, and $100 for a 45-minute call when you need an answer. Monthly work is scoped after the audit, because a six-page practice site and a three-hundred-product store are not the same job. Book a call or email hello@sofyadurneva.com for a quote. Everything is month to month.

Yes, when it is aimed at searches a small business can win: the specific services, the specialties, the local terms. It does not work when a small site chases the head term its industry’s directories own. A three-clinician virtual therapy practice in New York went from about one organic visit a month to 3.5 times the website inquiries within a year by owning the specific terms.

Because it is the only channel where the cost per customer falls over time. Ads stop the day the budget stops. A service page that ranks keeps bringing the same inquiries next month at no extra cost, and the map pack sends people who are ready to call. For most small businesses, search is also where referrals go to check you out before they book.

Profile and technical fixes can move things in two to six weeks. Service pages typically rank within two to four months for specific terms. Local and content work compounds over six to twelve months. I set a benchmark per engagement and review it monthly, with positions 1 to 20 only, so progress is never a guess.

An audit first, then an ongoing program built from these parts: Google Business Profile and local SEO, one page per service with the copy to match, technical care, content that leads to a service page, reviews and schema, AI search visibility and a monthly review. Which parts come first is decided by your audit, not by a list that is the same for every client.

Local SEO puts your business in Google Maps and in results for searches with a place in them, and it runs on your profile, reviews and citations. SEO in general ranks your pages for what you do. A plumber needs mostly the first; an online store needs mostly the second; a practice or a studio usually needs both. The Denver page on this site shows the local side in detail.

Usually not. Most small business sites are fine and badly set up, and I work inside Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, WordPress, Webflow and Framer. When a rebuild is the right call, I design and build the new site myself, with the SEO structure in from the first page rather than fitted afterwards.

Some of it, yes. Titles, your profile, review replies and image sizes are owner-sized tasks. Keyword strategy, page architecture and schema are where a consultant earns the fee, and the $100 call exists for owners who want to do the work with a second pair of eyes.

An agency gives you a team and a package. A marketplace freelancer is cheap and anonymous. A consultant is one experienced person who reads your site, sets priorities and does the work, and whom you can always reach. That holds for one location or twenty: the scope grows with the audit, the person you talk to does not change.

I offer shapes rather than packages: done for you, done with you, a one-off fix of the key issues, and input on demand. The difference is that the work inside each is decided by your audit, not by a list that is the same for every client.

A monthly review with charted trends: keyword positions 1 to 20, impressions and clicks from Search Console, inquiries where we can attribute them, and AI citations where they exist. Six to ten bullet points and the charts, never a data dump.

Squarespace most often, then Wix, Shopify, WordPress, Webflow and Framer. The platform changes which settings I touch, not the strategy. Squarespace has its own page on this site because so many small businesses are on it.