seo / day rate

first of all, does this site offer any 'live chat'? i haven't been in a chat room for years! anyway, basically i have a business question, i was asked to do a seo for a site designed by a friend. it's a medium bank site as far as i know and he wants me to quote a day rate. i have no idea what to quote. i am in boston and had my own company in london but never did this freelance. can you help?

Depends how good you are. You could charge $100 - $ 1000 per day or even more. As with most things people will pay usually pay for services what they are worth. There are knowledgable people out there who are much better value for money at $ 1000 than those only charging $ 100.

Dont overcharge, and dont undercharge. What would you normally earn in a day? Is the work harder? Will you have to spend a lot of time on the site? Will you have any overheads?(buying advertising, webspace etc...)

You need to consider all of these things and more, and only you can put a dollar amount to what you think your time is worth.

BTW, try not to double or triple post, if you start a new thread, someone will see it and reply to it. you might want to go and edit out your other duplicate posts... there were 3 others..

thanks for the advice! i didn't realize i posted more than one thread, to be honest i haven't been in a chat-room or forum in years (95!) so i'm not sure how to go and delete, but i'm pretty clever, i'm sure i'll figure it out. thanks!

hmm... is it so dificult?


Define how many days you will spend on this task, your efforts and price for the job that you will make (as usual quantity of keywords, reached ranks). Divide this price on the estimated quantity of days and nothing more....