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Pricing & transparency

We Checked 50 Top Web Design Agencies. 79% Won't Publish a Price.

78.6% of top agencies publish no prices. So we built the dataset ourselves: 34 published price lists, 6 platforms, 2 marketplaces and 7 cost guides, with a link for every number.

9 min read · Updated August 2026
78.6% of top-listed web design agencies publish no prices
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No listicles, no thought leadership, no posts written to hit a word count. Each one answers a question a real client asked us, and says plainly where the numbers came from.

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Local SEO

Google Business Profile suspended: the reinstatement walkthrough

The notice gives no reason and the guides say review the guidelines. Here is which kind of suspension you have, why it happened, the evidence to gather, how to file one good appeal, and what to do while you wait.

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Pricing

What local SEO costs, and what the money buys

Search this and you get ranges from $100 to $5,000 a month and not one agency's own price. Ours is $750 a month. Here is what is inside it, what moves it, and when you should keep your money.

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SEO

Why your website is not showing up on Google: a 10-minute triage

Most guides for this search assume the problem is SEO and sell you some. Often it is a domain that lapsed, a checkbox left ticked, or a redesign that lost the old addresses. Ten minutes, in order.

04
Pricing

What a marketing agency retainer costs, dissected line by line

The top result for this question contradicts itself twice on one page. Here is the anatomy of a retainer, who carries the risk under each pricing model, and our own $2,400 a month taken apart.

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Local SEO

Google Business Profile not showing up: the fix, in order

Half the results for this search are forum threads. This is the diagnostic they are missing: which of three things has happened, how to tell in two minutes, and what fixes each one.

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Pricing

How much does SEO cost for a small business?

Every guide gives a range and hides its own number. Here is what the money buys, what it costs from us, what moves the price, and when you should not spend it.

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