Outsourcing SEO to India costs 40 to 60% less than an equivalent local agency because Indian salary overheads are lower, not because the work is junior. SerpHike assigns a named senior specialist per account, works a dedicated slot inside your time zone, and reports against revenue. Delivered 3.4X revenue for PrepLadder and 212% organic growth for Unacademy.
What outsourced SEO with SerpHike includes
- Full technical crawl, indexing and Core Web Vitals remediation
- Keyword and intent map tied to buying stage, not vanity volume
- On-page and content build to answer-first structure that also earns AI citations
- Authority building from real, relevant publications only
- Monthly reporting against rankings, traffic and attributed revenue
- A named senior specialist, not a rotating shared pool
What you save versus a local agency
| Factor | Local agency | SerpHike (India) |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly retainer | Baseline local rate | 40 to 60% lower |
| Output per dollar | Standard | Up to 2X |
| Team | Shared junior pool | Named senior specialist |
| Working hours | Local business hours | Your time zone slot |
| Lock-in | 6 to 12 month contracts | Rolling monthly |
The fear with outsourced SEO is fair
Plenty of businesses have been burned by cheap outsourced SEO: spammy links, thin content and reports full of vanity numbers. Good outsourced SEO looks nothing like that. It looks like a senior specialist who explains what they are doing, a clear roadmap, work you can review, and reporting tied to leads and revenue.
What the service covers
- Technical SEO: crawl, indexation, site speed, structured data and migrations
- Content: keyword and page mapping, briefs, writing and optimisation
- Authority: digital PR and outreach to relevant, real publications
- Local SEO: Google Business Profile and location pages where relevant
- Reporting: monthly, on organic revenue or leads, with ranking and traffic context
Why the job has changed
Google's March 2024 update and new spam policies targeted scaled low-quality content, site reputation abuse and expired domain abuse (Search Engine Journal on Google's March 2024 update) (Google Search spam policies). AI summaries now answer many questions directly, and Pew found people clicked a normal result in only 8% of visits that showed one (Pew Research Center, July 2025). The link farms and content mills that some offshore providers relied on are now a liability. We work to Google's own guidance on helpful content (Google Search Central: creating helpful content).
Google's starter guide says most sites should not expect results in less than four months to a year (Google SEO Starter Guide). We will not promise faster.
How we work across time zones
A named SEO lead, a fixed weekly call in your hours and shared tracking of every task. India's time lead over the UK means changes can be live before your team logs on.
How we measure it
Organic leads or revenue, visibility for priority pages, and technical health. See our SEO service and SEO consulting if you only need direction.