Hiring an SEO freelancer? Here’s how BOOSTD compares

It depends what the freelancer is doing. For ongoing, routine monitoring and fixes, BOOSTD’s plans, from Starter at $299 per month, usually cost less than paying a freelancer by the day for the same continuous coverage. For a one-off project, like a migration or a content sprint, a freelancer’s day rate can be the cheaper and simpler option.

They are not always substitutes. A freelancer can run outreach, write bespoke content and negotiate placements, which BOOSTD’s software does not attempt.

Whatever they were checking stops until they are back, unless their process is written down and someone else can pick it up.

BOOSTD’s software does not take holidays or get booked up by other clients; it keeps checking on schedule. If a decision needs a person, our specialists on the Managed plan are a team, not an individual, so one absence does not stop the account.

Yes, and it suits many small businesses. The freelancer handles outreach, content and the relationship, and a BOOSTD plan handles the continuous technical and ranking checks that would otherwise eat their billable hours.

Give the freelancer visibility into what BOOSTD finds so they are not duplicating a check the software already ran.

Build a relationship with a journalist or site owner for a link, write bespoke content in your voice and make judgement calls informed by years in your niche. Those depend on a person, not a schedule.

BOOSTD’s software finds and drafts the routine, repeatable work. Managed by BOOSTD adds specialists for the calls that need judgement, but original outreach and bespoke writing sit outside what either does today.

Ask for everything in writing as you go, in a place you own: what changed, why, and where the logins and accounts live.

It is also a reason to run continuous monitoring through software alongside a freelancer: the record of what changed and when exists independently of them.