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What a marketing agency costs — the whole list

Everything is here: monthly retainers, fixed-price projects and hourly rates. A monthly engagement runs 12,900–49,900 NOK, a defined project 14,900–260,000 NOK. All prices exclude VAT, invoiced monthly on 30-day terms.

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Monthly retainers

Ongoing work, fixed fee

Foothold

Get found where your buyers are already looking

12,900NOK/mo

excl. VAT · 3-month term

Local service businesses and smaller e-commerce

  • Technical SEO and ongoing fixes
  • Keyword research, refreshed quarterly
  • Google Business Profile and local landing pages
  • 2 optimised pages or articles per month
  • Monthly report with revenue attribution
  • Your own specialist — no account manager in between

Recommended ad budget: 5,000–10,000 NOK/mo

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Most chosen

Growth

Organic and paid pulling in the same direction

24,900NOK/mo

excl. VAT · 3-month term

Established B2B companies and scaling e-commerce

  • Everything in Foothold
  • Google Ads: build, management and bidding
  • Visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews
  • 5 optimised pages or articles per month
  • Conversion work on your highest-value pages
  • Tracking and data layer set up by us, not your developers
  • Quarterly review with your leadership

Recommended ad budget: 15,000–40,000 NOK/mo

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Scale

Full channel mix with a team inside your process

49,900NOK/mo

excl. VAT · 6-month term

Companies across several markets or in hard competition

  • Everything in Growth
  • Meta, LinkedIn and YouTube alongside Google
  • International SEO and multilingual structure
  • 10 pages or articles per month, including digital PR
  • Your own dashboard, updated daily
  • We write tickets straight into your Jira or Linear
  • Weekly standups with your team

Ad budget to suit, usually 60,000 NOK/mo and up

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Before you commit

Trial engagement, 30 days 19,900 NOK

Want to test the working relationship before committing? We run a full analysis, rank the fixes by estimated business impact, and implement the three heaviest. You keep everything either way.

  • Technical audit and keyword map
  • Prioritised list of fixes with estimated impact in revenue
  • The three heaviest fixes implemented, not just recommended

Fixed-price projects

Defined problem, known total cost

For teams who want to solve one thing at a time, or who need a business case that holds up internally before committing to anything ongoing. Every quote itemises the hours by activity.

Fixed prices for defined projects at Nordveia
ProjectFixed price
SEO audit and action planFixed price. Technical, content and competitors. 2–3 weeks.24,900 NOK
Keyword research and site structurePrimary term per page plus a map of the future structure.39,900 NOK
Technical SEO projectMost common in e-commerce. Price follows CMS and site size.75,000–180,000 NOK
Content projectMainly B2B. Production, refresh and pruning of content.120,000–260,000 NOK
Site migrationWe QA before launch. Most agencies do not.60,000–200,000 NOK
AI visibility (GEO/AEO)Getting cited by the AI answers, not just ranking in Google.45,000–150,000 NOK
Google Ads buildAccount structure, conversion tracking and the first campaigns.14,900 NOK
Conversion-focused landing pageCopy, design and build. Live within three weeks.29,900 NOK
New websiteBuilt to be found from the start, not optimised afterwards.95,000–250,000 NOK

Hourly rates

What an hour costs with us

We would rather set a fixed project price than bill open hours — most projects mix disciplines. But you should know what they are built on.

  • Senior strategist1,750 NOK
  • Specialist — SEO, Ads or analytics1,350 NOK
  • Content manager and project lead1,150 NOK

Per hour, excluding VAT.

The rest of the market

What agencies here normally charge

So you have something to compare against. The figures below are market ranges for digital agencies in 2026 — not our prices.

Hourly rate
800–2,000 NOK/hour
Monthly retainer
8,000–60,000+ NOK/mo
Defined project
30,000–400,000 NOK
One-off SEO audit
10,000–50,000 NOK
Google Ads management fee
3,000–20,000 NOK/mo
Percentage of ad spend
10–20% of spend

We never take a percentage of your ad budget. That model — 10–20% of spend — means the agency earns more the more you spend, whether or not it works. A flat fee makes our incentive the same as yours.

What drives the price

Four things decide where in the range you land

Your own capacity

The most common bottleneck. Clients almost always underestimate how much time implementation takes. If you are short on internal capacity we take on more of the work, and the price goes up.

Your platform

Shopify moves faster than WooCommerce. Custom builds can go either way — often a better ceiling, but more work to get there.

Site size

More templates and more pages means more work. A 40-page site and a 40,000-page site are not the same engagement, even when the problem sounds identical.

Competition in your niche

Finance, legal and iGaming demand more of everything. A local trade business ranks on a fraction of the effort.

Frequently asked questions

Questions we get every week

How long does SEO take to work?

The first movement in the data usually shows after eight to twelve weeks. Clear business impact normally takes six to twelve months, depending on competition and how much technical debt is in the way.

How much does SEO cost with you?

From 12,900 NOK/month on our Foothold retainer and 24,900 NOK/month on Growth. If you would rather have a defined project, an SEO audit is 24,900 NOK and a technical project 75,000–180,000 NOK. The whole price list is public on the pricing page.

Can you work with our existing development team?

That is how we prefer to work. We write tickets straight into your project tool and join your standups. If you have no team we take on more of the implementation, and the price goes up accordingly.

Is link building included?

Digital PR and links are included from the Scale tier. On lower tiers we prioritise technical work and content first, because links are rarely the bottleneck until the foundation is right.

How much does Google Ads management cost?

Two separate costs. The ad budget goes directly to Google — realistically 5,000–30,000 NOK a month for a smaller company. The management fee goes to us and starts at 12,900 NOK a month, flat. Most agencies charge 10–20 percent of spend instead, which we do not.

What ad budget do we need to start?

Below roughly 5,000 NOK a month the algorithms do not get enough conversion data to optimise, so results stay noisy. Between 5,000 and 10,000 NOK a month is a realistic starting point for a single market.

Do you take a percentage of our ad spend?

No. It is the most common model in the market and the one with the worst incentive: the agency's revenue rises with your spend regardless of return. We charge a flat monthly fee.

Can you take over an existing account?

Yes, and we prefer to. Taking over an account with history means the conversion data already exists, which is usually worth more than a clean start.

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