SEO Pricing

Ongoing SEO with everything on the table. One price across Malaysia, Singapore and Australia — priced in Malaysian Ringgit (RM) wherever you are. No conversion markup, no per-country negotiation, no “message us to find out”.

Competing nationally or defending category-leader terms? The Authority tier (8+ articles a month, outreach link building, ongoing technical SEO & Core Web Vitals) is scoped case by case — every competitive niche is different. Request a custom quote.

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Every plan includes

• Keyword & competitor research behind every recommendation
• Market exclusivity — we will not run SEO for a direct competitor while we work with you, plus 3 months after. Read the policy
• A content brief scored against the current top-ranking pages before writing starts
• Editorial review and fact-check on every draft
• AI answer readiness — content structured so ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews can cite you (AEO/GEO built in, not an add-on)
• Changes implemented directly on your site — not a report you have to action yourself
• One flat monthly fee — no hourly surprises
• Month-to-month after a 3-month ramp-up — no 12-month lock-in

What we don’t do

• Paid ad spend (Google/Meta media budgets are separate)
• Guaranteed #1 rankings — nobody can promise that honestly
• Bulk or purchased backlinks

How it works

1. Research — keyword gap and competitor analysis pinpoints the terms your traffic is leaking to competitors.
2. Brief — every article is scored against the current top-ranking pages before a word is written.
3. Write & publish — drafted, edited and fact-checked, then published and optimised on your site.

Not sure which tier fits? Read our full breakdown of SEO price in Malaysia — what agencies across the market actually charge, what pushes a quote up or down, and why anything under RM500 a month rarely works. Or start with a free website and SEO scan.

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How much does SEO cost in Malaysia in 2026?

Most Malaysian SEO agencies quote a monthly retainer rather than a fixed project fee, because search engine optimisation compounds over months rather than finishing on a delivery date. Published rates across the Malaysian market currently run from around RM500 to RM15,000 a month, and the spread is wide enough to be genuinely confusing. Here is what the market actually charges, so you can see where any SEO package you are offered sits.

Tier	Typical monthly cost	What the SEO package usually includes
Entry / starter	RM500 – RM1,500	10–20 keywords tracked, basic on-page optimisation, 1–2 articles a month, Google Business Profile setup
SME growth	RM1,500 – RM5,000	Technical SEO fixes, keyword research, 2–4 articles a month, local SEO, link building, monthly reporting
Competitive / enterprise	RM5,000 – RM15,000+	Multi-location or national campaigns, digital PR, large-scale content, dedicated SEO strategy
One-off SEO audit	RM500 – RM5,000	Technical review of your website, no ongoing work
Freelance SEO consultant	RM100 – RM500 / hour	Specific fixes or advice, billed by time

Our own SEO services sit in the SME growth band — RM1,500 a month for Foundation and RM3,000 a month for Growth. We are not the cheapest SEO agency in Malaysia and we do not try to be. Below roughly RM800 a month, the numbers stop working: an agency cannot fund genuine keyword research, technical SEO and original content writing at that price, so what usually gets delivered is thin content and a rankings report.

What is actually included in an SEO package

SEO packages in Malaysia vary enormously in what they contain, which is the main reason two quotes for the same business can differ by RM4,000. These are the seven components worth checking for in any proposal you receive.

• Keyword research and competitor analysis — identifying the search terms your customers actually use, and which competitors currently capture that organic traffic.
• Technical SEO — crawlability, site speed, mobile usability, indexing and structured data, so search engines can read your website properly.
• On-page optimisation — title tags, meta descriptions, headings, internal links and image alt text across your key pages.
• Content writing — original articles and page copy built around search intent, not keyword stuffing.
• Local SEO — Google Business Profile optimisation, map rankings and local citations, which matter most for single-location businesses.
• Link building — earning relevant references from other websites. Quality matters far more than volume here. See where you stand with our free Domain Rating checker.
• Reporting — Google Search Console and Google Analytics tracking, with a monthly report showing search rankings, organic traffic and enquiries.

SEO agency vs freelancer vs in-house

	Typical monthly cost	Best suited to	Main risk
SEO agency	RM1,500 – RM5,000	Businesses wanting strategy, content and technical work handled together	Paying for account management rather than delivery
Freelance SEO consultant	RM800 – RM2,500	Specific problems, or businesses with an in-house marketer already	Capacity limits and single-person dependency
In-house hire	RM4,000 – RM8,000 salary	Companies publishing content continuously	One person rarely covers technical SEO, content and link building well

What changes your SEO quote

Six factors move a quote up or down more than anything else. How competitive your niche is; how many keywords and locations you need to rank for; the current technical condition of your website; how much content already exists; whether you need link building in a competitive category; and whether you want an SEO company to implement the fixes or simply advise. A local clinic in Ipoh and a national e-commerce brand can both be quoted “SEO services in Malaysia” and be looking at a five-fold difference in cost, entirely legitimately.

Frequently asked questions

How much does an SEO package cost in Malaysia per month?

Most Malaysian SMEs pay between RM1,500 and RM3,000 a month for legitimate SEO services. Entry-level SEO packages start near RM500 to RM1,500, and competitive or multi-location campaigns run from RM5,000 upward. Our SEO packages are RM1,500 and RM3,000 a month.

How long does SEO take to show results?

Expect early movement in search rankings around month three, and meaningful organic traffic growth between months six and twelve. Any SEO agency promising page-one results in 30 days is either targeting keywords nobody searches for, or is not being straight with you.

Is cheap SEO worth it?

Below about RM800 a month the economics do not support real work. What typically gets delivered is mass-produced content, purchased backlinks that risk a penalty, and a report showing improvement on keywords with no commercial value. Cheap SEO is usually more expensive than doing nothing, because cleaning up afterwards takes months.

Should I buy a one-off SEO audit or a monthly retainer?

An SEO audit makes sense if you have an in-house team who can action the findings. If nobody will implement them, a report is just a document. Our RM800 SEO Audit & Action Plan is a one-off; the monthly SEO packages above include the implementation.

Do you offer SEO services outside Malaysia?

Yes. We work with businesses across Malaysia, Singapore and Australia, and the price is identical in all three — quoted in Malaysian Ringgit, with no conversion markup.

Can you guarantee first-page rankings on Google?

No, and neither can any honest SEO company in Malaysia. Nobody controls Google’s search results. What we do commit to is a defined scope of work each month, changes implemented on your website rather than recommended, and transparent reporting on organic search performance.

What results should you expect from SEO services in Malaysia?

The honest answer is that SEO results arrive in a sequence, not all at once. Knowing that sequence is the difference between a client who stays the course and one who cancels in month two believing nothing is happening.

Timeline	What you should see	How we measure it
Month 1–2	Technical issues fixed, pages indexed correctly, first articles published	Google Search Console coverage and indexing reports
Month 3–4	Movement in search rankings on lower-competition terms; early impressions growth	Rank tracking, Search Console impressions
Month 5–8	Organic traffic increase, first enquiries attributable to organic search	Google Analytics sessions and conversions
Month 9–12	Competitive keywords reaching page one, compounding leads and sales	Ranking position, organic leads, revenue where tracked

We report on three things every month: where you rank, how much organic traffic that visibility produced, and how many enquiries came from it. Rankings on their own are a vanity metric. A page-one position on a term nobody searches for produces no customers, which is why our keyword research starts from commercial intent rather than search volume alone.

How our SEO process works month to month

Every SEO company in Malaysia describes its process differently, so here is ours in plain terms. In the first month we audit the website, fix what is blocking search engines, and agree the target keyword set against your commercial goals. From month two onward the work settles into a repeating cycle: research the gap, brief the content, publish and optimise, then measure. Technical SEO is revisited quarterly rather than continuously, because on most SME websites it is a fix-once-then-monitor job.

Everything is implemented directly on your website. You are not sent a list of recommendations to pass to a developer — that hand-off is where most SEO campaigns quietly stall.

Which industries we work with

We work across a fairly narrow set of industries, deliberately. Understanding how customers in a sector actually search is worth more than generic SEO expertise, and it is also why we hold to a market exclusivity policy rather than taking every client in a category.

• Healthcare and clinics — where local SEO and Google Business Profile visibility drive most enquiries, and trust signals matter more than volume.
• Professional services — consultants, counsellors and specialists competing on expertise rather than price.
• B2B suppliers and manufacturers — long sales cycles where a handful of high-intent search terms carry the pipeline.
• E-commerce brands — where product and category page optimisation compounds across hundreds of URLs.
• Hospitality and local services — businesses whose customers search on a phone with immediate intent.

SEO or Google Ads — which should you spend on first?

They solve different problems and the honest recommendation depends on your timeline. Paid search buys immediate visibility and stops the moment you stop paying. SEO takes months to build but the traffic continues without ongoing media spend. If you need leads this quarter, run ads. If you are building an asset over a year or more, SEO compounds. Most businesses we work with eventually run both, with paid search covering the gap while organic rankings mature.

What we would caution against is treating SEO as a short experiment. Three months is not long enough to judge it, and an agency that lets you sign up on that basis is setting up a disappointment. That is why our SEO packages run on a three-month ramp-up and then month to month — long enough to be fair to the work, without a twelve-month lock-in.

Why choose Total Web Solutions as your SEO agency

See how our SEO agency service works, from the first audit to the monthly report.

We are a small, founder-led team in Malaysia, and the person planning your SEO strategy is the person doing the work. There is no account manager layer between you and delivery, which is a large part of why our pricing sits below the mid-tier Malaysian SEO companies while the scope stays comparable.

Three things genuinely separate us from most SEO agencies in Malaysia. We publish our prices, so you are not required to book a call to find out what SEO services cost. We implement changes on your website rather than sending reports. And we will not take on a direct competitor in your market while we work with you — a commitment almost no agency makes, because it costs them revenue.

What our on-page SEO service actually changes

On-page work is where most of the early ranking movement comes from, and it is the part clients rarely see described in detail. For each priority page we rewrite the title tag and meta description to match the search query and lift click-through rate, restructure headings so the page answers the question directly, and rebuild internal linking so authority flows to the pages you actually want to rank on Google rather than pooling on your contact page. Thin pages get expanded into high-quality content; duplicate content and competing pages get consolidated so you are not bidding against yourself.

Keyword mapping sits underneath all of it. Every page gets one primary keyword and a small set of supporting terms, so no two pages chase the same query. It is unglamorous work, and on most Malaysian SME websites it is the single biggest unlock — we regularly find four or five pages competing for one keyword, none of them reaching the first page of Google because the signal is split.

SEO and AI search: what changed in 2026

A growing share of searches now end inside an AI answer rather than a click. Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity summarise the answer and cite a handful of sources, and if your brand is not among them you lose the visibility even when your traditional SEO ranking is fine. Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) are the terms for optimising toward that, though in practice most of it is the same discipline: clear structure, extractable answers, factual accuracy and genuine authority.

We build this into both SEO packages rather than selling it separately. Content is structured so search engines and AI systems can quote it — direct answers near the top of a page, questions as headings, real numbers rather than vague claims. Growth clients also get a quarterly AI Visibility Report showing whether ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers mention your brand for your priority keywords, and which competitors they name instead.

Proof before you commit

We would rather show SEO performance than describe it. On 22 September 2026, third-party rank tracking for Google Malaysia showed Klinik SureCare in Ipoh on page one for 17 search terms; the case study shows the dated check, and rankings move, so we date every figure we publish. Home Dietitians in Kuala Lumpur was rebuilt around search intent and a WhatsApp-first enquiry flow. Both are in our portfolio case studies, with the actual work described rather than a logo wall.

If you would like to see where your own site stands before spending anything, run a free website and SEO scan. It checks the technical basics, flags what is blocking your rankings, and costs nothing. There is no obligation to buy an SEO package afterwards, and no call required — we will send the findings and you can decide.

Not sure a monthly retainer is the right shape yet? An audit and action plan from RM800 is a standalone engagement, and the findings are yours to use however you like.

Want to see how these prices sit against the rest of the market? See what Malaysian SEO companies actually publish.

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