By city
Six markets, and they do not behave the same way
AI SEO and GEO across Lagos, Abuja, Accra, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Douala — with an honest note on how contested each one is.
In short
AfriShield AI runs AI SEO and generative engine optimisation in six African cities: Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria, Accra in Ghana, Nairobi in Kenya, Johannesburg in South Africa, and Douala in Cameroon. Pricing is the same USD 150, 400 or 900 a month in every market, invoiced in local currency on request. Competitive difficulty is not the same — Douala is the thinnest market, Johannesburg the hardest.
AI SEO in Lagos
Nigeria · invoiced in NGNLagos is the most contested market on this list, but contested by local agencies rather than international ones. Expect three to six months before a competitive commercial term moves, and faster movement on area-level and long-tail terms.
AI SEO in Abuja
Nigeria · invoiced in NGNAbuja is meaningfully less contested than Lagos for commercial terms. A well-structured site with genuine local content can move faster here than the Lagos equivalent, often inside three months on mid-tail terms.
AI SEO in Accra
Ghana · invoiced in GHSAccra is moderately competitive — thinner than Lagos and Johannesburg, denser than Douala. Diaspora-intent terms are the least contested and often the most commercially valuable, which is where we would usually start.
AI SEO in Nairobi
Kenya · invoiced in KESNairobi has the strongest local SEO agency field in East Africa, so head commercial terms are genuinely contested. Travel and safari intent, by contrast, is contested mostly by OTAs — which are beatable on specificity and on AI citation in a way they are not on raw domain strength.
AI SEO in Johannesburg
South Africa · invoiced in ZARThis is the hardest market we work in, and the one where we are most likely to tell you to start at Foundation and prove the loop before spending more. If your budget is small and your terms are head commercial terms in Sandton, we will say so on the first call rather than take the money.
AI SEO in Douala
Cameroon · invoiced in XAFThis is the least contested market we work in and the one where results typically arrive fastest — often inside six to ten weeks on commercial terms, because there is so little optimised competition to displace.
Plans compared
Three plans, the same price in every market
Foundation costs $150 a month, Engine $400 and Operation $900. Each one is month to month, with no setup fee.
| Plan | Price in USD | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | $150 a month | Technical + AI-visibility foundation, keyword map, and two published pages a month. |
| Engine | $400 a month | Everything in Foundation plus four published pages a month, local landing pages, and competitor tracking. |
| Operation | $900 a month | Full content operation: weekly publishing, local pages on demand, and a quarterly strategy review. |
Why per-city pages
Because a swapped city name is not a local page
A buyer in Douala and a buyer in Johannesburg are not running the same search. One is working bilingually in a market where most competitors have no structured data at all; the other is in the most contested search market on the continent, comparing agencies that all already rank. Writing one page and swapping the city name serves neither, and search engines have been able to spot that pattern for years.
So each page carries the real districts, the actual business mix, how buyers there search, and an honest read on how hard that market is. Where a market is a bad fit for your budget, the page says so. The underlying service and the three prices do not change by market — only the keyword map, the local signals, and how long it is likely to take.
Questions
What buyers ask before choosing a market
Direct answers on which cities we cover, what it costs in each, and why every market has its own page.
- Six: Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria, Accra in Ghana, Nairobi in Kenya, Johannesburg in South Africa, and Douala in Cameroon. Each city has its own page with the districts covered and an honest note on how contested that market is.
- No. Pricing is USD 150, 400 or 900 a month in every market, invoiced in local currency on request. What changes by market is the keyword map, the local signals, and how long results are likely to take.
- Johannesburg is the hardest of the six, the most contested search market on the continent. Douala is the thinnest, where most competitors have no structured data at all.
- Because a swapped city name is not a local page. Each page carries the real districts, the actual business mix, how buyers there search, and how hard that market is. Where a market is a bad fit for a budget, the page says so.
Get started
Find out what you are currently invisible for
A thirty-minute call. We look at what you rank for now, what your competitors hold, and whether this is worth your money yet. If it is not, we will say so.