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Pricing  /  SEO cost

How much does travel SEO cost in Egypt?

What you're actually buying at each level, and why two operators the same size can differ by a factor of three.

The short answer

Travel SEO in Egypt is normally sold as a monthly retainer, in three broad bands: maintenance, growth and multi-market. What separates them is not effort but scope — how many destination clusters get built, whether content production is included, how many languages are involved, and whether the technical work extends into the site's code. Project-based technical overhauls are priced separately.

The bands

Three levels, and what
separates them.

Band 01

Maintenance

Keeping a technically sound site healthy and slowly compounding.

$______per month
  • Technical monitoring and fixes
  • Search Console management
  • A small number of content pieces monthly
  • Schema upkeep on key templates
  • Monthly reporting
Fine for:

operators whose site is already sound and who need steady progress.

Not fine for:

anyone trying to break into a competitive destination term this year.

Band 02

Growth

The full programme: visibility, conversion and authority running together.

$______per month
  • Everything above
  • Destination and tour clusters built quarterly
  • Content production with named authors
  • GEO / AEO work and citation tracking
  • Link acquisition in the travel niche
  • Conversion work on the booking path
Fine for:

established operators competing directly with OTA listings.

Not fine for:

sites with fundamental technical problems — fix those first.

Band 03

Multi-market

Several languages, several brands, or several source markets at once.

$______per month
  • Everything above
  • Native content per source market
  • hreflang architecture and management
  • Multiple sites under one programme
  • Dedicated development capacity
Fine for:

DMCs and groups selling into four or more markets.

Not fine for:

a single-market operator — you'd be paying for coordination you don't need.

PLACEHOLDER — insert your live 2026 figures in the three price fields before publishing. A cost guide without numbers doesn't rank and doesn't convert.

Why the range is a range

What actually moves the number.

Two operators of the same size can differ by a factor of three. These are usually why.

Site conditionA sound site needs growth work. A broken one needs fixing first, and that's a project before it's a retainer.
CompetitionRanking for Cairo day tours is a different job from ranking for a niche dahabiya charter. Effort follows difficulty, and so does price.
Content ownershipWhether we produce the content or brief your team to write it is usually the largest single variable in the monthly number.
Number of languagesEach source market is a separate content and hreflang job, not a translation.
Link acquisitionEarned links in travel take real outreach. Including it raises the retainer; excluding it slows the timeline.
Reporting depthA dashboard you can open any day costs more to set up than a monthly PDF, and is worth more.
Existing authorityA domain with ten years of history moves faster than one registered last year, and needs fewer months of budget.
Speed you needCompressing twelve months of work into six doesn't halve the time. It roughly doubles the monthly cost.

Reading a quote

Five things that should
make you ask more questions.

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Guaranteed rankingsNobody controls Google. An agency promising position one for a competitive term is either guessing or lying, and both should end the conversation.
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A fixed number of “links per month”Links earned by outreach vary. A guaranteed monthly quota usually means a network, and networks eventually get devalued.
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No mention of technical workIf the proposal is all content and no crawl, indexation or performance, you're buying half a service.
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Reporting on rankings onlyRankings are a diagnostic. If nobody is reporting enquiries or bookings, nobody is accountable for the outcome.
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Long lock-insAuthority takes six to twelve months, so a fair runway is reasonable. A three-year contract protects the agency, not you.

Questions

Frequently asked

How long before travel SEO pays for itself?

Technical and conversion fixes can move numbers within weeks. Authority in Egyptian inbound travel is a six-to-twelve-month build, and the payback usually lands somewhere in the second year — after which the cost per booking keeps falling.

Is SEO cheaper than paying OTA commission?

Almost always, eventually. Commission is charged in full on every booking forever. SEO is a cost that compounds into an asset. The crossover point depends on your volume — the OTA calculator on this site models it.

Can we do SEO in-house instead?

Parts of it, yes, especially content if you have writers who know the destinations. Technical work and GEO usually need someone doing it daily. A hybrid where we brief and your team executes is often the best value.

Why do quotes vary so much?

Because “SEO” covers everything from a monthly report to a full content and engineering programme. Compare what's actually being produced each month, not the headline number.

Do you charge per keyword?

No. Keywords aren't units of work — a single destination cluster can target sixty of them. Pricing per keyword is a sales device, not a scope.

Get a real number

We quote after we look, not before.

Send us your site and you'll get a written audit plus a number that reflects your actual situation — including us telling you if this isn't worth it at your volume.

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