采购搜索引擎优化服务时,首先需要明确不同计费模式对应的服务范围,避免把不同口径的报价直接放在一起比较。目前公开资料中提及的SEO收费主要分为按关键词、按整站、按效果付费三种模式,没有统一的行业定价标准[3]。每种模式的服务内容、交付方式和适用需求差异较大,采购前应先根据自身目标选择对应的计费口径。
按关键词付费的服务,通常围绕指定关键词的排名位置或首页覆盖率约定服务内容。这类服务的计费单位多为单个关键词、关键词组或按达标词数量结算,付款节奏可能按月度、季度或按达标周期收取。由于不同关键词的搜索量、竞争程度、行业属性差异很大,同一家服务商对不同词的报价也会不同,因此不能仅用关键词数量判断价格高低。核对这类服务时,需要确认约定的搜索引擎范围、终端类型(PC端或移动端)、排名位置区间、达标后计费周期,以及排名波动时的补位或顺延规则。
按整站优化付费的服务,覆盖范围通常比关键词模式更广,包含技术基础优化、内容结构调整、站内链接梳理、站点地图配置等更系统的工作。公开资料显示,整站优化已有相对清晰的档位划分:小微企业普惠版年费在2000元至5000元区间,中型企业进阶版季度费用为1.5万元至3万元,集团高端定制版年费20万元起[3]。不同档位对应的服务深度、交付频次和人员配置不同,低价档位通常面向页面数量少、需求单一的小型站点,高端定制版则可能包含多站点协同、行业深度分析和定期策略复盘。
核对整站优化费用时,应先明确站点规模和需求层级,再对应到相应档位。普惠版通常适合仅需基础配置的企业官网,服务内容可能包括robots.txt设置、XML网站地图生成、页面标题和元描述规范等基础项[1]。进阶版一般会增加关键词体系梳理、栏目结构调整、内容更新指导和月度数据反馈等内容。高端定制版则可能涉及多语言站点、复杂业务系统适配和跨区域搜索策略等更复杂的工作。
按效果付费的服务,通常以约定的流量增长、线索量或其他可量化结果作为结算依据。这类服务的前期投入可能较低,但分成比例或达标后的结算金额需要提前明确。由于搜索结果受算法调整、行业竞争和用户行为变化等多种因素影响,效果类服务的约定指标需要有清晰的统计口径,包括数据来源、统计周期、排除项和异常波动处理方式。采购这类服务时,应同时确认基础优化工作是否包含在内,避免只关注结果而忽略站点长期健康度的维护。
除了三种主流计费模式,搜索引擎优化服务中还有一些容易被忽略的费用边界。例如,部分服务商的报价仅包含策略输出和人工指导,不包含文案撰写、技术开发和外链资源采购,这些工作可能需要另行计费。还有一些服务按项目阶段收费,如初诊、执行、维护各阶段分别报价,采购前需要把各阶段费用合并后再做整体比较。
从公开的搜索引擎规则来看,优化工作的基础项具有较强的通用性,这些内容也是判断服务是否完整的参照。例如,页面标题长度建议控制在50至60字符,商业页面可将品牌前置,普通内容页可将核心关键词前置[4]。重要页面距离首页的点击次数不宜超过3次,单篇内容文章字数通常建议不少于800字,关键词密度参考范围为1.5%至2.5%[2]。这些基础项通常包含在整站优化或关键词优化的常规服务中,如果报价明显低于同档位平均水平,可核对是否遗漏了上述基础工作。
不同搜索引擎的优化侧重点也会影响服务工作量和费用构成。Google已明确多年不将meta关键词标签用于排名,必应等其他搜索引擎也同样忽略该标签[4],因此正规服务通常不会把meta关键词设置作为核心收费项。必应在2026年的官方指南中更强调清晰结构化内容、语义HTML和结构化数据,以适配其AI搜索能力[4],如果目标市场包含必应及相关AI搜索场景,服务内容中需要增加对应的结构化配置,费用也会相应调整。
结构化数据相关的工作也需要区分服务价值。自2023年起,Google仅对政府和健康领域的权威网站展示FAQPage富摘要,其他行业网站部署该结构数据后不会获得搜索结果页的可见增强[4]。但FAQPage等结构化数据仍可被AI搜索引擎提取和引用,因此是否将其纳入服务范围,取决于业务是否重视AI搜索场景,而不应单纯以是否出现富摘要作为判断依据。
索引提交方式也是服务内容中可核对的一项。IndexNow协议目前支持必应、Yandex、Naver、Seznam、Yep及部分整合的DuckDuckGo,Google并不参与该协议[4]。如果服务商声称通过IndexNow实现全搜索引擎快速收录,需要核对其适用范围。针对Google的收录提交,仍以站点地图和常规爬取流程为主,仅特定内容类型可使用其专用索引接口。
对于金融、健康、法律等YMYL类别的网站,优化服务的内容标准更高,费用通常也会高于普通行业站点。这类网站需要在内容中标注作者资质、引用权威来源、体现专业经验,以满足E-E-A-T相关要求[4]。对应的服务可能包含作者身份页面搭建、来源引用规范梳理和内容专业度审核等额外工作,采购时需要把这些内容纳入费用核对范围,而不能直接用普通行业的报价做比较。
采购搜索引擎优化服务时,可按三个步骤核对费用构成。第一步先明确目标搜索引擎和业务场景,确定是侧重单一搜索引擎还是多引擎协同,是否包含AI搜索适配。第二步选择匹配的计费模式,关键词模式适合目标明确的短期需求,整站模式适合系统提升的中长期需求,效果模式适合有明确转化目标且能接受分成机制的场景。第三步逐项核对服务清单,把基础技术配置、内容优化、结构数据、数据反馈和额外增值项分开统计,避免把不同口径的报价混同比较。
参考来源
- Optimizing site search with SearchGov - Digital.gov
- SEO优化标准_网站seo关键词规范-CSDN博客 - CSDN博客
- 2026年SEO与GEO优化服务商全攻略:服务内容、收费标准、签约避坑及15家正规机构分类 - 新浪财经
- # Official SEO Guidelines Cheatsheet (Google Search Central, Bing, Schema.org, MDN) **Last updated:** 2026-05-03 **Source:** https://www.lawrencehitches.com/seo-official-guidelines-cheatsheet/ --- Distilled from Google Search Essentials and the Quality guidelines.Download PNGtrong>This is a quick-reference cheatsheet to the official SEO guidelines that matter most in 2026: Google Search Central, Bing Webmaster, Schema.org, MDN's robots.txt spec, and IndexNow. Each entry summarises what the official documentation says, what it actually means in practice, and links to the source. I built this because the official docs are scattered across half a dozen sites and dozens of pages. When you're trying to confirm a single rule (e.g. "does Google still support FAQ schema on non-FAQ pages?") it's faster to scan one page than to hunt through five. ## Google Search Central, The Core Pages You Should Bookmark ### Title Link Best Practices Google's official guidance on writing title elements (the source for what becomes the title link in search results). Keep titles unique, descriptive, and concise. Google may rewrite your title link if it finds a better match for the query, typical rewrite rate is 40-60% across the web. **In practice:** write titles 50-60 characters, lead with the primary keyword, include brand at the end on supporting pages but at the start on commercial money pages. [developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link) ### Heading Tags (SEO Starter Guide) Use heading tags to signal structure. The starter guide doesn't say "you must have one H1" but it does say to use headings to convey structure and meaning. Skipping heading levels is allowed but discouraged. Heading text matters more than the level number for ranking signal. **In practice:** one H1 per page (covered in our [header tags guide](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/header-tags/)), H2s for main sections, H3s only when an H2 has multiple subsections. [developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide) ### Qualify Outbound Links: Sponsored, UGC, Nofollow Three link attributes to declare relationships: - `rel="sponsored"` , paid, affiliate, advertising links - `rel="ugc"` , user-generated content (comments, forum posts) - `rel="nofollow"` , generic "don't pass equity"; still the default if you can't be more specific **In practice:** always disclose paid links with `sponsored`. Default to `nofollow` for generic untrusted links. Use `ugc` on comment sections. [developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies#qualify-outbound-links) ### Structured Data: FAQPage Guidelines FAQPage schema is supported but with restrictions since 2023: Google only displays FAQ rich results from "well-known authoritative" government and health sites. Other sites can still mark up FAQs (and AI search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT use the schema as an extraction signal), but the visible SERP enhancement is gone for most domains. **In practice:** still ship FAQPage schema. The SERP rich result is gone for most sites, but AI engines parse it. We auto-generate it on every [article on this site](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/articles/). [developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/faqpage) ### Helpful, Reliable, People-First Content (incl. YMYL) Google's content quality framework. The "Your Money or Your Life" (YMYL) categories, finance, health, safety, legal, are held to higher E-E-A-T standards. The 2022 Helpful Content Update made content quality a sitewide signal: a domain with a lot of unhelpful content gets demoted across the board. **In practice:** for YMYL topics, name the author (with credentials), cite sources, show direct experience. For everything else, write content that genuinely helps a human reader more than the next-best-ranking competitor. [developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content) ### AI Features and Your Website Google's documentation on how AI Overviews and Search Generative Experience use content. Standard SEO best practices apply, there's no separate "AI optimisation" requirement. Google does provide opt-out controls via `Google-Extended` in robots.txt for excluding content from training (covered in our [robots.txt guide](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/robotstxt/)). [developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features) ## Google Business Profile, Local SEO Documentation ### Business Description: 750 Character Limit The "from the business" section in Google Business Profile is capped at 750 characters. Google's official guidelines say: don't use it for promotional content, sales, or links. Use it to describe what the business does and what makes it distinct. **In practice:** first 250 characters carry the most weight (visible without "read more"). Lead with what you do + city + the differentiator that matters most. [support.google.com/business/answer/7091](https://support.google.com/business/answer/7091?hl=en) ## Bing Webmaster Guidelines, Often Forgotten, Worth Reading ### Bing Webmaster Guidelines for AI Search Bing officially documents how its AI search (powering Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT search, and the broader OpenAI ecosystem) uses website content. Bing recommends: clear, well-structured content; semantic HTML; structured data; and accessibility best practices. Bing also officially supports IndexNow for instant indexing. **In practice:** Bing has been undervalued by SEOs for a decade, but in 2026 it powers ChatGPT search, Copilot, and an increasing share of AI-mediated queries. Worth optimising for. See our [Google vs Bing guide](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/google-vs-bing/) for the case. [bing.com/webmasters/help/webmasters-guidelines](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/webmasters-guidelines-30fba23a) ## Schema.org, The Structured Data Reference ### Schema.org Type Library Schema.org is the canonical reference for structured data types. The hierarchy starts at `Thing` and branches into hundreds of specialised types: `Article`, `Product`, `LocalBusiness`, `Person`, `Organization`, `Event`, etc. **Specialised LocalBusiness sub-types worth knowing** (Google supports them all): - `Restaurant` , for restaurants, cafes, bars - `MedicalBusiness` , for clinics, doctors, hospitals - `HealthAndBeautyBusiness` , for spas, salons, beauty clinics - `AutomotiveBusiness` , for dealerships, mechanics - `LegalService` , for law firms - `FinancialService` , for accountants, financial advisors **In practice:** use the most specific type that applies. `HealthAndBeautyBusiness` beats generic `LocalBusiness` for a salon, Google reads it as a stronger entity signal. [schema.org/docs/full.html](https://schema.org/docs/full.html) ### Structured Data Testing The official validators: - [Google Rich Results Test](https://search.google.com/test/rich-results) , checks if your schema qualifies for SERP enhancements - [Schema.org Validator](https://validator.schema.org/) , generic syntax + spec validation ## Robots.txt, MDN and the Robots Exclusion Standard ### MDN Robots.txt Documentation Mozilla Developer Network's robots.txt page covers the core spec: `User-agent`, `Disallow`, `Allow`, `Crawl-delay` (Google ignores this), `Sitemap`. The 2022 RFC 9309 formalised the de-facto standard most major search engines have followed for two decades. **In practice:** our [robots.txt guide](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/robotstxt/) covers the 2026 reality including AI crawler controls (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) which aren't in the original spec but are now de-facto standard. [developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Robots.txt](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Robots.txt) ## IndexNow, Faster Indexing Across Search Engines ### IndexNow Participating Search Engines (2026) IndexNow is an open protocol that lets sites push instant indexing pings to multiple search engines at once. As of 2026, the participating engines are: - **Bing** (Microsoft), original co-founder of the protocol - **Yandex** , co-founder; matters for sites targeting Russian-language audiences - **Naver** , Korea's dominant search engine; added 2023 - **Seznam** , Czech Republic; added 2022 - **Yep** , privacy-focused search; added 2023 - **DuckDuckGo** , partial integration via Bing's index **Notably absent:** Google still doesn't participate. Google's ecosystem uses its own Indexing API (limited to JobPosting and BroadcastEvent schema) and the standard sitemap + crawl flow. **In practice:** IndexNow integration is cheap (one HTTP POST per URL change) and gets your content into Bing, and through Bing, ChatGPT search and Copilot, in minutes instead of days. Worth wiring up if your site has frequently-updated content. [indexnow.org/searchengines](https://www.indexnow.org/searchengines) ## Google's Documentation Quirks That Catch People Out A few things the official docs say that contradict common SEO advice: - **Meta keywords aren't used.** Confirmed by Google in 2009 and reaffirmed every couple of years. Stop adding them. - **Word count isn't a ranking factor.** Long content can rank because it covers more relevant subtopics, not because of length itself. - **The disavow tool is rarely needed.** Google's own docs since 2020 explicitly say most webmasters shouldn't need it. Use only if you have a manual action. - **Multiple H1s are technically allowed in HTML5.** The starter guide doesn't say "only one H1", that's SEO folklore. (Practitioner advice: still use one. [More on this](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/header-tags/) .) - **JavaScript-rendered content gets indexed.** Google renders JS; the older "JS = invisible to Google" advice is wrong as of 2018. There are still performance and discoverability trade-offs, but indexability isn't one of them. ## How to Use This Cheatsheet Three workflows: 1. **Quick fact-check.** Want to confirm what the official docs say about a specific topic? Use this page as a jump-off to the source. 2. **Stakeholder evidence.** When a client (or boss) pushes back on SEO advice, link them to the official source. Authority by reference. 3. **AI search context.** AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) cite official documentation heavily. Building a clean reference page like this gets cited because it consolidates information across multiple authoritative sources. Part of [the complete cheatsheet library](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/cheatsheets/). ## FAQ: Official SEO Guidelines ### Where can I find Google's official SEO guidelines? Google's main hub is [Google Search Central](https://developers.google.com/search) (developers.google.com/search). The most-referenced pages are the SEO Starter Guide, the Search Essentials, the Spam Policies, and the structured data documentation. ### Does Bing have an equivalent to Google Search Central? Yes, [Bing Webmaster Guidelines](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/webmasters-guidelines-30fba23a). Less polished than Google's documentation, but worth reading because Bing now powers ChatGPT search, Copilot, and a growing share of AI-mediated traffic. ### Are Google Search Central guidelines requirements or recommendations? Mostly recommendations. The Spam Policies are enforceable rules (violations can trigger manual actions). The other documentation is best-practice guidance, sites can rank without following every recommendation, but following them increases the probability of strong organic performance. ### Does Google really not use meta keywords? Correct, Google has not used the meta keywords tag for ranking since 2009. [Officially confirmed](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag) and reaffirmed multiple times since. Bing and other engines also ignore it. Stop adding meta keywords to your pages. ### What's the difference between rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored", and rel="ugc"? All three are link attributes that tell search engines not to pass full ranking equity. `rel="sponsored"` declares paid or affiliate relationships. `rel="ugc"` identifies user-generated content. `rel="nofollow"` is the generic catch-all. Google introduced the more specific tags in 2019 to encourage better classification, they all function similarly but provide more accurate signal. ### Is FAQPage schema still worth using? Yes, but for different reasons than in 2021. Google restricted FAQ rich results to government and health authority sites in 2023, most sites no longer get the visible SERP enhancement. However, AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews) parse FAQPage schema as a strong extraction signal. Mark up FAQs to feed AI citations, not for the SERP rich snippet. ### Which search engines participate in IndexNow? As of 2026: Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, Yep, and (partially) DuckDuckGo. Google does not participate, they use their own Indexing API for limited content types and standard crawl for everything else. Implementing IndexNow gets your content into Bing's index (and through Bing, into ChatGPT search and Copilot) in minutes instead of days. ## Sources & Further Reading - [Google Search Central (full hub)](https://developers.google.com/search) - [Bing Webmaster Guidelines](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/webmasters-guidelines-30fba23a) - [Schema.org](https://schema.org/) - [IndexNow Protocol](https://www.indexnow.org/) - [MDN: Robots.txt](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Robots.txt) ## Keep Reading - [Header Tags: SEO Best Practices for H1-H6](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/header-tags/) - [Robots.txt in 2026: AI Crawlers + Configuration](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/robotstxt/) - [Google vs Bing in 2026](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/google-vs-bing/) - [AI Citation Mechanics](https://www.lawrencehitches.com/ai-citation-mechanics/) Bookmark this SEO guidelines go-to reference: keep it handy for your next audit. --- *Lawrence Hitches is an independent AI SEO Consultant and General Manager at StudioHawk, Australia's most awarded SEO agency. Free 30-minute AI search consultation: https://www.lawrencehitches.com/ai-seo-consultant/* - Lawrence Hitches