If you cannot justify an SEO retainer yet, you are not stuck
Most people searching for SEO services in Nigeria 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 Nigeria
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.
Agencies here are plentiful and priced accordingly. The question is rarely whether anyone will do it, it is whether the retainer is worth it at your stage.
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 mobile money 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
- mobile money, card, USSD 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 Nigeria rather than a cached global snapshot.
- Written in your language
- English, which means you compete with the global internet for head terms and win on specificity. A page about doing something in Lagos beats a generic page about doing it.
- 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 mobile money. From $35 a month.
Start freeWhat this does not do, stated plainly
Mobile money is a one-off payment, so a mobile money 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 naira. 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 Nigeria are searching for, free.
Start freeQuestions worth asking first
Can I pay with mobile money?
Yes. Checkout offers mobile money, USSD, 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 Nigeria specifically?
Nigeria has the largest English-language search market in Africa and the most competitive one. Lagos service businesses in particular are fighting over the same head terms while the long tail sits open.
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.