Mobile first, genuinely
The overwhelming majority of traffic here is a phone on a patchy connection. That is the primary case, not a section at the end of the report.
Pakistan has more than fifty thousand people selling SEO and almost nobody selling the thing that happens after the visitor arrives. I am an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist in Karachi who also builds the sites, and conversion is the part of this work that is actually psychology.
The overwhelming majority of traffic here is a phone on a patchy connection. That is the primary case, not a section at the end of the report.
COD moves where doubt appears and what reassurance has to do. Advice written for a card-first market quietly assumes it away.
Most local sites are read by people who move between both. Reading level and sentence length matter more here, not less.
Pretending otherwise loses enquiries. It also changes what belongs on the page and what belongs in the first reply.
Not a score out of a hundred. The gap between the tap and the first thing a person can actually see.
A small business here has to establish it is real before anything else can happen, and the ways that work are specific.
There are, by published estimates, over fifty thousand SEO freelancers in Pakistan, more than five hundred registered agencies, and something like seventy-five thousand people working in the sector. If you search for an SEO expert in Karachi or Lahore, the first page you get is Upwork, Fiverr and directory listicles.
That is a genuinely well-supplied market, and if traffic is what you need you should hire from it. You will get a good price.
What almost nobody in that market sells is the other half: why the people who already arrive do not buy. That is not an SEO question, and it is not answered by more traffic. It is a question about what your page does to a person, which is a psychology question with a literature behind it.
Most conversion advice online is written for a US or UK business: card payment, desktop-heavy traffic, an audience that has bought online for twenty years. Applied unchanged to a Pakistani site it produces confident recommendations about the wrong things.
In a card-first market the anxiety peaks at the payment field. With COD it moves earlier and changes shape: the worry is not about the money, it is about whether the thing that arrives will be the thing in the photograph, and whether anybody will answer the phone if it is not. Reassurance has to be in a different place and say a different thing.
A page that offers only a form is asking people to use their second-choice method. The number should be there, it should be tappable, and what happens in the first reply matters as much as the page.
A page that is fine on office wifi and takes eleven seconds on a weak mobile signal is not a fast page. What matters is when the visitor first sees something they can read.
Bank transfer in PKR, or Stripe and PayPal in USD — whichever is simpler for you. Fixed prices, stated before the work starts. Meetings in Urdu or English. Most of the work is remote; in Karachi, in person is possible when it genuinely helps.
The same fixed prices apply as elsewhere on this site, and there is no separate local rate card — the work is the same work.
Thirty minutes, no charge, and no pitch. I look at what you have and tell you where I think the money is going, which is sometimes not the thing you called about. If the answer is that you do not need this, that is what you will hear. It is a better outcome for both of us than three months of work aimed at the wrong problem.
Bring whatever you have: the site, your analytics if you use them, and a rough sense of how many enquiries or orders come in during a normal week. That last number matters more than it sounds, because it decides whether anything can be tested or whether we are reasoning from mechanics alone.
Under a few hundred visitors a month there is not enough signal to test anything, and a consultant who runs tests at that volume and reports results is reading noise. The work is still worth doing. It is simply done by measuring mechanics rather than by experiment, and it should be described and priced honestly as that.
Run the free tool on your own site first. If it finds nothing, you have saved yourself a fee.
Run the free audit toolStated up front, PKR or USD. No hourly billing.
$249 /one page
One page, measured and written up
$749 /up to 8 pages
The site and the journey through it
$1,499 /project
I write the fixes as well
If you need more traffic, hire the agency — that market is huge and competitive and you will get a good price. Hire me when the traffic is already arriving and not converting, because that is a different question and it is the one I am qualified to answer.
Yes, most of the work is international. This page exists because advice written for a card-first, desktop-heavy market gets applied here unchanged and produces confident recommendations about the wrong things.
Yes. Bank transfer in PKR, or Stripe and PayPal in USD, whichever suits you.
In Karachi, yes, when it actually helps. Most of the work is reading and writing, so most of it happens remotely either way.
The audit tool on this site is free and runs the same fourteen checks on any page, as many times as you like. Twenty-six written guides are also available in the shop from $19 if you would rather do the work yourself.
No. Both are well served locally and neither is what I am qualified in. I would rather send you somewhere good than take work I am not the right person for.
If people are arriving and not buying, the answer is on the page. Let us find out where.
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