Drive results with SEO, AEO and PPC outsourcing from $1,079 a month, all in

Sourcefit’s SEO and PPC rates are $1,079 a month for entry level, $1,414 for mid level and $1,733 for senior SEO and PPC specialists, per full-time employee working from home. Office-based staff add $100 a month. Each rate is all in: salary and benefits at cost plus the $395 management fee. There are no setup, recruitment or exit fees. Where the work suits it, output-based pricing is also available, built on the same transparent framework: we show how the unit price is calculated, so you know exactly what you are paying for.

No. The fee is already inside every rate on this page and on every quote. A $1,079 rate is about $684 of salary and benefits at cost plus the $395 fee. You will never see the fee added to a rate you were quoted.

Legal employment and compliance with an HR team on the ground, recruitment, an i5 computer with dual monitors and headset, a 24/7 IT help desk, a secure managed network, our security certifications and insurance, training and quality, client success management and the Knit workforce platform. For office-based staff it also covers the seat, office network and utilities.

Most SEO and PPC roles are recruited, interviewed and onboarded in two to four weeks. Senior strategists can take longer. You interview and choose the SEO and PPC specialists.

That is your choice. Most clients manage the team directly: the SEO and PPC specialists report to your managers and work inside your processes and tools, with Sourcefit handling employment, HR, equipment, IT and quality support behind them. If you would rather not manage day to day, our Sightline model builds an autonomous team with its own Sourcefit team lead and quality layer that delivers against agreed SLAs, while still reporting directly to you and working to your KPIs, not ours. Sightline is quoted separately.

Yes. SEO and PPC specialists work in your ad and analytics accounts, such as Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, GA4 and Search Console, plus your CMS and SEO tools, under your access rules. You keep ownership of every account, and access is revoked the day someone leaves.

Sourcefit holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27701 certification directly, is PCI DSS validated, has a SOC 2 report, signs HIPAA business associate agreements where needed and operates GDPR-aligned data handling. Home-based staff work on company-managed computers over a VPN with traffic routed through Cloudflare.

The team is yours. If you decide to move them to your own entity or take them with you, they go with you. There is no transfer fee, buyout or conversion charge.

No. PPC specialists earn more in the Philippines, so their rates are $1,193 a month for entry level, $1,627 for mid level and $1,839 for senior, against $1,079, $1,414 and $1,733 for SEO. Both are all in, with salary at cost plus the $395 management fee. A combined SEO and PPC specialist is quoted at the PPC rate.

No. The monthly rate is the specialist’s cost; ad spend is paid by you directly to Google, Microsoft, Meta or LinkedIn from your own accounts. It is never routed through Sourcefit, so your spend data and billing stay yours.

A budget-tier agency account manager typically carries 15 to 25 clients and the work is done by junior staff. A freelancer is cheap but you vet and manage alone and there is no backup. A dedicated specialist works your hours on your accounts only, reports to your marketing lead, and Sourcefit handles HR, payroll and replacement. Agency pricing of 10 to 20 percent of spend or a $2,500-plus retainer is the comparison to make against a flat monthly rate.

Google Skillshop and similar certifications are a floor, not proof of skill, so we also test candidates on a live account: conversion tracking, account structure, Performance Max inputs, technical SEO basics. Experience bands are roughly one to two years for entry, two to four for mid and four or more for senior. You interview the shortlist and see their work before you choose.

You do. The specialist gets user-level access to your Google Ads, Meta, GA4, Search Console and CMS that you can revoke at any time. Any provider that wants to own your accounts or run spend through its own billing is a red flag.

More than before, because the work has changed. Answer engines cite pages with clear, specific, well-structured answers from named authors, which is exactly what a good SEO specialist now builds: answer-first structure, schema, topical authority, and content that passes Google’s scaled-content rules. On the paid side, AI bidding only performs with good human inputs. We recruit specialists who work this way and you can test them on it.

PPC shows trends by month two with a proper review at 90 days. SEO shows early indicators in weeks and real movement at four to six months. Ask for a 30, 60 and 90-day plan from the specialist in the first week; it is the simplest way to tell a good one from a bad one.

Leads, calls, cost per acquisition, return on ad spend and revenue, not rankings and impressions alone. Weekly: what shipped, what was fixed, what moved. Monthly: outcomes against targets. Deliverable milestones such as audits completed, pages fixed, content published and links earned keep the early months honest before outcomes arrive.

Yes. Many clients start with one channel and one specialist and add the other once it is working.

SEO gets your pages ranked in a list of search results. AEO, answer engine optimization, gets your pages cited inside the answer itself, whether that is a Google AI Overview, ChatGPT, Perplexity or Copilot. The techniques overlap heavily: both rely on clear, specific content from named authors, structured data, topical authority and a technically sound site. The difference is in what you measure and what you write for. AEO work puts the direct answer first, structures pages so an assistant can quote them, and tracks citations and referral traffic from AI assistants alongside rankings. We offer both, and an AEO specialist is priced the same as an SEO specialist: $1,079 a month for entry level, $1,414 for mid level and $1,733 for senior, all in.

For most companies, one person. AEO is an extension of SEO rather than a separate discipline, and a specialist who understands search intent, schema and content structure can cover both. Companies with a large content operation sometimes split the work, with one specialist on technical SEO and another on answer-first content and citation tracking, but that is a volume decision, not a skills one. Start with one specialist and brief them on both; if you want to see how they think about AI search, ask them to show you a page they have had cited by an AI assistant.

We ask for it in screening. Candidates are tested on how they would restructure an existing page to be cited by an AI assistant, which schema they would add and how they would measure the result, not only on rankings and backlinks. The field is young enough that few candidates have years of AEO experience, so we weight the test and the thinking over the label on the resume. You interview the shortlist and can set your own task before choosing.