Costs in PKR
SEO retainer and audit rates in Pakistan
SEO retainers in Pakistan run PKR 20,000 to 150,000 a month, with local-only work at the bottom and national e-commerce at the top. A one-off technical audit costs PKR 15,000 to 60,000. Our PKR 5,000 channel audit covers social search, not website SEO — different job, different price.
The numbers
| Engagement | Observed range (PKR) | Realistic time to see movement |
|---|---|---|
| One-off technical audit | 15,000 – 60,000 one-time | Immediate findings, no ranking effect alone |
| Local SEO for one city, monthly | 20,000 – 50,000 / month | 2–4 months for map-pack movement |
| National SEO, competitive category | 60,000 – 150,000 / month | 6–12 months |
| Content-only retainer, 4 articles a month | 25,000 – 70,000 / month | 3–6 months |
| Google Business Profile setup and management | 8,000 – 25,000 / month | Reviews and photos move it fastest |
| Link building, per placement | 3,000 – 40,000 each | Quality varies enormously; most cheap links do nothing |
Figures as of August 2026. Source: Rates observed across Islamabad and Rawalpindi SEO freelancers and agencies, 2026..
| Item | Inside the PKR 5,000 audit? |
|---|---|
| 30-point review of your channel or page | Yes |
| Title and thumbnail rewrites for your last 5 posts | Yes |
| Written growth plan you can act on alone | Yes |
| Website crawl and technical SEO fixes | No — that sits in the Business bundle |
| Google Business Profile setup | No — Business bundle, from PKR 25,000/month |
| Fee credited if you start a monthly package | Yes |
Figures as of August 2026. Source: Islamabad Digital Marketing price list, August 2026..
What these numbers actually mean
Local SEO and national SEO are priced differently because they are different amounts of work, not different amounts of skill. Ranking a dental clinic for 'dentist F-10' means getting the Google Business Profile right, collecting real reviews, and having one good page about the service. Ranking a store for 'buy lawn suits online Pakistan' means fighting Daraz and every established brand. If a seller quotes you the same number for both, they have not looked at either.
Be careful with cheap link packages. This market is full of PKR 5,000 offers for fifty backlinks, and what arrives is fifty pages on sites nobody reads, sometimes with your business name spelled three different ways. They do not move rankings and occasionally cause problems that cost more to reverse than the package cost. If you spend anything on links, buy one real mention from a Pakistani site people actually visit rather than fifty from sites they do not.
Ask for the first thirty days to be diagnosis, not promises. Any honest SEO engagement starts with what is broken: pages Google cannot crawl, a site that takes nine seconds to load on a 4G connection in Saddar, a Business Profile with the wrong hours during Ramadan. Fix those before paying anyone for a content plan. Our PKR 5,000 audit is the social-media version of the same principle — find out what is wrong before you buy months of anything.
About these numbers
SEO retainer and audit rates in Pakistan
SEO retainers in Pakistan run PKR 20,000 to 150,000 a month, with local-only work at the bottom and national e-commerce at the top. A one-off technical audit costs PKR 15,000 to 60,000. Our PKR 5,000 channel audit covers social search, not website SEO — different job, different price.
Where do these figures come from?
Rates observed across Islamabad and Rawalpindi SEO freelancers and agencies, 2026. Islamabad Digital Marketing price list, August 2026. Everything is dated so you can see how current it is, and we update the tables rather than quietly leaving old numbers up.
Is advertising budget included in any of these prices?
No. Wherever a management or service fee is quoted here, ad spend is separate and paid directly to the platform. We never mark up an ad budget and neither should anyone else.
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