What they described isn’t one small broken setting. It’s potentially a crawl architecture + multilingual + caching configuration issue. That can range from light tweaks to a deeper restructuring project. Without the technical details we asked for, we’d basically be guessing at a price.
We shouldn’t quote a “fix everything” number blindly. I’d reposition so we offer a paid technical stabilization audit first. That way we’re not bundling this into SEO or a monthly program yet just shifting the focus to solving the stability problem first. Once the site is stable and properly configured, then ongoing monthly services make sense.
If he wants a flat number without providing details, we can either:
- Quote a conservative high-end project number to protect ourselves, or
- Require the paid diagnostic first.
I’d strongly recommend the diagnostic route. It keeps us professional and protects scope.
Gives us: • A full performance and crawl diagnosis • Clear root cause identification • A defined remediation plan • A scoped implementation quote
It would be a pretty advanced audit based on what they described it involves:
- Multilingual configuration review
- Crawl behavior analysis
- Dynamic section load analysis
- Cache layer review
- Cloudflare review
- Bot filtering review
- Server resource pattern analysis
- Potential Elementor / dynamic query amplification
Pricing wise I’d go $1500 – $2000 total for a proper technical investigation. We’ll provide clear deliverables so it doesn’t turn into unlimited troubleshooting.
Diagnostic deliverables:
- Crawl scope analysis report
- Robots + noindex audit
- Multilingual load amplification review
- Dynamic section caching analysis
- Cloudflare + bot traffic review
- CPU usage pattern review
- Clear root cause summary
- Written remediation plan with implementation pricing
Time estimate internally: 8 to 12 focused hours.If implementation becomes a larger project, we can quote that separately.
