SEO agency in Ghent that measures what it brings

Belgians search in their own language. Take an accounting firm in Ghent:

An English-only site competes for the smallest of the three audiences, however good it is. That is the first thing we check for an international company here, before any talk of links or technical fixes. If you also sell in Brussels, where buyers search in three languages, read our page on an SEO agency in Brussels.

• Choose English only ifyour buyers are international companies, researchers or expats, and the Dutch-speaking market is not where your growth comes from.
• Choose English with Dutch pages ifyou sell to people and companies in Ghent and East Flanders. Each Dutch page answers what locals search, in their words, not a translation of the English one.
• Add French ifBrussels or Wallonia matter to you. French-speaking Belgians search with their own terms, so their pages need their own research.
• Choose a separate site per country only ifyour offer, prices or legal entity differ per market. Otherwise one site with language folders keeps everything you build in one place.

Google matches the languages through hreflang links: each page names its versions in the other languages, so a Dutch searcher lands on the Dutch page and an English searcher on the English one. How we set that up is on multilingual website development, and why it pays for Belgium in a website in French and Dutch.

Belgian agencies seldom list prices. These are the common amounts for a small or mid-sized company, before VAT:

What each budget buys is in how much SEO costs, and hourly rates across markets in SEO specialist hourly rate. With us you get a fixed price per month or per project, after a first call and a look at your Search Console.

1. Your address in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises. Anyone can look up your company in the CBE public search. If the address there differs from your site and your Google profile, have it corrected through your business counter, so customers see one address everywhere.
2. Your Google Business Profile. Name, category, hours, photos and, if you work at clients' premises, a service area. Step by step in create a Google Business Profile; missing from the map? Read Google Business Profile not showing.
3. Search Console. It shows which searches you already appear for and at what position; start with how to use Google Search Console.
4. Your reviews. Count how many you have, how recent the last one is and whether you answered them. A link that opens the review form directly, made with the review link generator, makes asking after every job a habit.
5. One page. The SEO checker tells you in a minute whether title, heading and description work, and SERP preview shows how they look in Google.

The rules on profiles and reviews, from Google and from Belgian consumer law, are in the figure below. They matter more here than many international firms expect: Belgium treats fake reviews as a banned misleading practice.

Expect the basics in the first month: speed, redirects, titles and a complete profile. New pages show impressions within one to three months, rising positions on easier terms after three to six, and the hard terms, your trade plus the city, after half a year or more. That is a common line, not a promise; how long until my website shows on Google has the details, and how long SEO takes what speeds it up. Whether SEO still pays with AI answers on top: is SEO dead and SEO vs GEO.