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§ Affordable SEO Salt Lake City

Affordable SEO in Salt Lake City.

Burnt Bacon offers affordable SEO for Salt Lake City and Utah small businesses — real optimization at honest, transparent pricing, with no inflated retainers or long lock-in contracts. You get keyword research, on-page and technical SEO, content, and honest reporting from a real Utah team, scaled to a budget that makes sense for a small business.
Honest Pricing
No Lock-In
Real Optimization
Utah Team
Plain-English Reporting
Honest Pricing
No Lock-In
Real Optimization
Utah Team
Plain-English Reporting
Honest Pricing
No Lock-In
Real Optimization
Utah Team
Plain-English Reporting
Honest Pricing
No Lock-In
Real Optimization
Utah Team
Plain-English Reporting

§ The fine print

Affordable doesn't mean cheap.

“Cheap SEO” usually means $99 a month for keyword-stuffed nonsense and a stack of spammy links that get your site penalized. That’s not what we do. Affordable, to us, means honest value — real SEO work, priced for a small business that doesn’t have a Fortune 500 marketing budget.

No bloated agency overhead

We're a small Utah team — no giant office, no layers of account managers, no $20k onboarding. You pay for the work, not the lobby.

No offshore content mills

Every page, link, and report is built by the same humans you talk to. We won't ship you AI-spun garbage and call it SEO.

Results-focused, not hour-focused

We don't pad retainers to fill a timesheet. Budget goes to the work that actually moves rankings, calls, and leads.

You only pay for what moves the needle

If a tactic isn't earning its keep, we kill it. Cheaper isn't always better — but smarter spending almost always is.

§ What's included

What's included.

Not a tease — the baseline for every affordable SEO engagement we take on.

Keyword research

Real search intent for your Utah customers — commercial, local, and informational. No vanity terms.

On-page SEO

Titles, meta, headings, internal links, and copy tuned for both Google and AI engines.

Technical fixes

Crawlability, Core Web Vitals, schema, indexation. The plumbing that quietly moves rankings.

Content

Service pages, geo pages, and blog posts written by humans who actually know your industry.

Local SEO basics

Google Business Profile, citations, and review strategy so nearby customers find you.

Analytics & dashboard

Google Analytics set up properly plus a simple SEO dashboard — no 47-tab spreadsheets.

Dedicated PM

One human you can email, call, or meet for coffee. Same person from kickoff to year three.

Honest monthly reporting

Rankings, traffic, calls, leads, and what we shipped — in plain English. No padding.

§ SEO packages

Three tiers, no surprise fees.

Pricing is scoped to your market, competition, and goals. We don’t print exact numbers because honest numbers depend on honest scope. The audit is free — that’s where we get specific.

For brand-new sites

Fundamental

The starter tier. Foundational on-page SEO, local setup, keyword research, and a clear roadmap. Built for small businesses just getting serious about being found.

Most popular

Growth

The middle tier most Utah small businesses pick. Everything in Fundamental, plus ongoing content, technical work, and link earning to push you up the rankings.

For competitive markets

Performance

The deep-end tier. Everything in Growth, plus more content velocity, deeper link work, AIO optimization, and weekly check-ins for tight competitive races.
Want the broader method? The SEO / AIO pillar covers it. Need statewide work? See our Utah SEO agency page. Local only? Local SEO Salt Lake City is the page you want.

§ Built for Utah

Built for Utah small businesses.

There are bigger SEO agencies and there are cheaper ones. We aim to be the one that picks up the phone, tells you the truth, and shows you the rankings.

Built for Utah small businesses

Restaurants, contractors, attorneys, escape rooms — we've ranked small Utah businesses since 2014. We know what SLC buyers search for and what they don't.

Real humans, no outsourcing

Your strategist is the person writing your reports. Pick up the phone, you get the team — not a sales rep handing you off to a call center.

12+ years and still here

Most 'cheap SEO' agencies disappear in a year. We've been doing this since 2014, through every Google update — and we're still answering the phone.

§ Where we work

Areas we serve.

Headquartered in South Jordan, we handle affordable SEO for small businesses across Salt Lake City, the Wasatch Front, and Utah County — Sandy, West Jordan, Draper, Murray, Lehi, Provo, and up to Park City. If you’re a Utah small business that needs to be found, we can help.
Salt Lake City
South Jordan
Sandy
West Jordan
Draper
Murray
West Valley City
Lehi
Park City

§ How we work

How our SEO process works.

Five steps. No retainer-and-pray. The same way we’ve ranked Utah businesses for over a decade — at a price small businesses can actually live with.

01

Audit

We dig into your current rankings, traffic, technical health, and competitors. You get a free video walkthrough — yours to keep either way.

02

Strategy

Keyword targets, content roadmap, technical priorities — written in plain English with the why behind each one, scoped to your budget.

03

On-page & technical

Schema, internal linking, Core Web Vitals, and the on-page work that moves rankings fastest for the dollar.

04

Content & local

Service pages, geo pages, blog posts, Google Business Profile, and the local signals that earn calls from nearby buyers.

05

Report & iterate

Every month: rankings, traffic, leads, what we shipped, what's next. No padding, no jargon, no surprises on the invoice.

Read the deeper philosophy on the SEO / AIO page, or skim our blog for plain-language takes on Google Business Profile and AIO vs SEO.

§ Receipts

What our clients actually say.

Real Utah businesses. Real results.
Burnt Bacon redesigned our entire site and our organic traffic doubled within 6 months. Craig and his team are the real deal — professional, communicative, and they actually deliver.

Nielsen's Frozen Custard

OWNER

We've worked with other web agencies before and none of them came close to the level of communication and results we got with Burnt Bacon. Highly recommend.

Alcatraz Escape Games

MARKETING LEAD

They built our site from scratch and handled everything — design, setup, and SEO. Best investment we've made in our online presence.

The Break Grill

OWNER

§ Questions

Frequently asked questions.

How much does affordable SEO cost?
Our SEO plans start at a small-business-friendly monthly rate and scale with your goals; we quote exact pricing after a free audit.
Truly cheap SEO usually isn’t — it relies on spammy tactics that can hurt you. Affordable SEO done right focuses budget on the work that actually moves rankings.
Keyword research, on-page and technical SEO, content, local SEO basics, and honest monthly reporting.
No long lock-in contracts — we earn the next month by delivering results.
Most small businesses see meaningful movement in 3–6 months, with gains compounding after that.
Want more background? Read our notes on Google Business Profile and AIO vs SEO on the blog, or head straight to contact.

§ Pair it with

Beyond affordable SEO.

SEO / AIO Pillar

The full method — search and AI optimization, end to end.

Utah SEO Agency

Statewide SEO for Utah businesses, beyond just local.

Salt Lake City Web Design

Map Pack and local search for SLC businesses.

Web Design

Hand-coded WordPress and custom builds with SEO baked in.

§ Ready when you are

Want affordable SEO that actually works?

Free video audit of your current SEO and AI visibility — yours either way. We’ll tell you what’s working, what’s broken, and what’s worth your budget next.

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