SEO copywriting
SEO copywriting services that get read and found
A team that first looks up what your customers type, then writes, in the languages you sell in.

Good SEO copy is first a good answer
SEO copywriting services exist to get you found, but Google no longer rewards copy stuffed with keywords. It rewards the page that answers the searcher's question fastest and best. So we write the other way round: first the question as people type it, then the answer in the first sentence, and only then the explanation, the tables and the links.
Every text starts from proof: which terms really exist, and a source for every figure. Below: what Google rewards and what it calls spam, how AI, freelancers and agencies compare, what copy costs, and why rewriting often beats writing new.
What Google rewards, and what it calls spam
Google judges copy by what it gives the reader, not by how it was produced. Two parts of Google's own documentation matter most to anyone buying copy. What a copywriter charges is in copywriter rates.
People-first content. Google's guidance on helpful, reliable content asks whether a page adds something of its own: original information, research or analysis, a complete answer, something the reader cannot find on the next ten results. A page that restates what everyone else says does not pass that test, however well it is written.
No mass production. Google's spam policies name scaled content abuse: generating many pages with the main purpose of manipulating rankings, without value for users. Google's own example is using generative AI tools to produce many pages without adding value. The same policies forbid doorway pages, near-identical pages per city or per search term that all funnel visitors to one place.
One paragraph, taken apart
How much does a website cost?1
A custom website2 from VBS starts at 1,500 euros3 for a one-pager. A site with many pages, languages or calculators runs to 5,000 euros or more. What drives the price up is in the website cost calculator4.
- The question as a subheading, word for word as people type it into Google.
- The search term at the start of the first sentence.
- The answer straight away, with a figure. Google takes that into a snippet and ChatGPT into an answer.
- A link to the page that goes deeper, with that page's search term as the link text.
Copy for every kind of page
- Service pagesWhether you do it, for whom, what it brings and what it costs, in your customer's words, with the term up front.
- GuidesA question answered completely, with the answer first, each situation after it, and tables where they help.
- Question pagesThe verdict in the first sentence, then the exceptions. Google and AI assistants take such answers over.
- Shop categoriesWhat is in the category, for whom, and how to choose between the products in it.
- City and sector pagesTheir own figures and examples, never a template with another place name.
AI, a freelancer or an agency
| Approach | Strong at | Where it goes wrong |
|---|---|---|
| Writing it yourself | expertise and your own voice | time, and search terms you do not see yourself |
| With AI | speed and a first draft | invented figures, generic sentences found on every site, no search terms with proof |
| A freelance copywriter | good sentences | often without a search term plan or knowledge of the site behind it |
| An SEO agency | search terms, structure, links and measurement together | you still check the expertise |
- Choose to write it yourself ifyou need a few pages, have the time and know your customers well. Use our SEO checklist as a guide.
- Choose AI as a helperfor a first draft that you or an expert checks, never as the final text.
- Choose a freelancer ifyou already have the plan and the search terms and mainly need writers.
- Choose an agency ifyou need many pages, in several languages, or your field is technical and every page must fit a plan.
We use AI ourselves for a first draft, never to publish unchecked: every figure gets a source and every page goes past someone who knows the trade. How to write so AI assistants quote you as well is in generative engine optimization and SEO vs GEO.
What copywriting costs
Agencies rarely publish copy prices per page. Retainers give a sense of the market: in the UK, content retainers run from 1,200 to 6,000 pounds a month, and SEO retainers for small businesses in Europe from 1,500 to 2,500 euros a month, with copy as a large part. What decides the price is not the number of words but the research: finding the terms, checking the facts and fitting the page into your site. We price per page or per month after a first call. What SEO costs as a whole is in how much SEO costs.
| What Search Console shows | Rewrite or write new | Why |
|---|---|---|
| a page at position 11 to 20 with many impressions | rewrite | Google already finds it relevant; title, first sentence and links decide the jump |
| a page on page one with few clicks | rewrite the title and description | the page ranks, but the snippet does not convince |
| two of your pages taking turns on one term | merge and redirect | they compete with each other and both lose |
| a term with demand and no page at all | write new | there is nothing to improve yet |
That is why we usually start with rewriting, not writing. A new page is only worth it where no page exists for a term, which also keeps two of your own pages from competing for the same search. How to find which terms exist is in keyword research, and a blog post that gets found in how to write a blog post for SEO.
What every SEO text contains
- The search term in the title, the heading and the first sentence, the way people type it.
- The answer straight away. The first sentence answers; the rest explains.
- Subheadings on the questions that come with it, so a reader jumps to their own situation.
- Figures with a source, checked on the day we write.
- Links to your other pages, with anchor text that says what is there.
- A next step: a call, a calculator or a quote.
See your title and description as Google shows them with the SERP preview tool, and read any page the way Google reads it with the SEO checker. What copywriting means beyond SEO is in copywriting.
Copy in several languages
Belgium writes in three languages, and our clients sell in five. A French-speaking customer does not type the translation of what a Dutch speaker types, and an expat searches in English with other words again. We write each language from its own search terms. Business Centrum runs its copy in Dutch, French, English and Turkish; how the structure works is in multilingual website development.
Copy per sector
Each sector searches in its own words, and some have rules on what copy may say. A law firm writes without promises about the outcome of a case, see SEO for law firms. A dental practice informs rather than advertises, see dental SEO. A shop writes its own product copy instead of the supplier's, see ecommerce SEO. A builder sells with honest price ranges and real projects, see marketing for construction companies.
What clients ask about SEO copy
Do you write in English for international markets?
Yes, and in Dutch, French and Turkish. Each language gets its own search terms; we do not translate the Dutch copy.
Who checks that the content is right?
We find the sources, you approve the expertise. A figure without a source does not go online.
Can you rewrite existing copy?
Yes. That is often the fastest win: a page with impressions but a low position, given a better title, an answer in the first sentence and a few extra paragraphs.
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How VBS writes your copy
We first find which terms exist, with Google's own suggestions and your Search Console, and give every page its own term. Per page we send your expert a short list of questions and take a fifteen-minute call; then we write, and you approve the content in one round. For Business Centrum we wrote over 130 guides, articles and comparisons and 41 yes-or-no questions, and the site went from 13 to 1,593 non-brand search terms on page one. For SN Group we wrote 33 guides with price tables. Start with an SEO audit if you want to know which pages pay most first. Book a call.
How we approach it is on our page about SEO.
Copy that ranks and sells?
Send us the page you want rewritten first, or the market you want to reach.
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