If you cannot justify an SEO retainer yet, you are not stuck
Most people searching for SEO services in Kenya want someone to do the work. That is a reasonable thing to want, and if you can afford it and brief it, hire well. This page is for the other case: the business that needs the traffic and cannot justify a retainer yet.
What an agency actually costs you in Kenya
The monthly fee is the visible part. The part that catches people out is everything around it: approving topics, reviewing drafts in a voice that is not quite yours, chasing a post that was due last week, and a monthly report explaining why it is early days. That overhead does not scale down when the retainer does.
Nairobi agencies price for Nairobi budgets, which is more than a solo founder wants to spend before the channel has proved anything.
The alternative most people try is a tool. Nearly all of them are built for a card-paying customer in another market, which brings the second problem: a checkout that only takes cards is a wall rather than an inconvenience when M-Pesa is how you actually pay for things.
What Visorank does instead
It runs the whole sequence and hands you a draft, not a report. You decide what is worth publishing; everything between the keyword and the live URL happens without you.
- You can actually pay for it
- M-Pesa, card or bank transfer, billed in US dollars.
- Research against live results
- Expands your terms using Google's own autocomplete, related searches and People Also Ask, then reads the results as they stand in Kenya rather than a cached global snapshot.
- Written in your language
- English and Swahili. English carries most commercial search; Swahili pages are close to unclaimed in most categories.
- Published into your own CMS
- WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, Webflow or your own endpoint, filed under the right category, with the post id recorded so a later edit updates that post rather than duplicating it.
- Linked in and announced
- New articles are linked from your older ones using phrases already in them, then Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver are notified within seconds.
Pay with M-Pesa. From $35 a month.
Start freeWhat this does not do, stated plainly
Mobile money is a one-off payment, so a M-Pesa subscription does not auto-renew: you renew it yourself each month. Only card payments renew automatically. We would rather say that here than have you discover it in month two.
Prices are set in US dollars, not shilling. What you pay in local terms moves with the exchange rate.
This is software, not an agency. Nobody will call you, write your strategy, or decide which part of your business is worth ranking. If that is what you need, hire an agency and brief them well.
Google does not accept the instant notification. Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver do. Google still finds your pages by crawling, which is why the internal linking matters more than the notification.
See what people in Kenya are searching for, free.
Start freeQuestions worth asking first
Can I pay with M-Pesa?
Yes. Checkout offers M-Pesa, card and bank transfer. The one thing to know is that mobile money does not auto-renew, so you renew each month yourself; card payments do renew on their own.
Will this work for a business in Kenya specifically?
Kenya has one of the most digitally mature small-business sectors on the continent, which cuts both ways: the buyers are online and so is some of the competition.
Nothing here is tuned for one country. What makes a page work locally is that it is about something local, which is a matter of the topics you choose rather than the software.
How long before it does anything?
A newly published page usually takes one to two weeks to appear in Search Console at all, and months to settle into a position. If you need customers this month, this is the wrong channel to start with. Start it anyway, in parallel, because in six months you will want it to have been running.
What does it cost?
From $35 a month for one article a day, up to $79 for three. Every plan runs the whole product; only the volume differs. Monthly, cancel whenever.