About this guide

What this property is for

A business searching for a marketing agency usually has a problem rather than a channel in mind, and every agency it contacts will recommend the channel that agency sells. This guide is the comparison that ought to exist before those conversations, with measured figures where they exist and an explicit list of the situations where the answer is to buy nothing.

Where the figures come from

Search volumes, keyword difficulty and click costs are Ahrefs estimates for Ireland retrieved on 9 September 2026, with click costs in US dollars as the tool reports them. They are estimates from one tool on one date, not counts, and they change.

Some terms return no difficulty or no cost per click. Those are marked as not reported rather than presented as zero or as easy.

The conflict of interest

Published by a company that sells several of the channels it compares. Three pages exist mainly because of that conflict rather than despite it: the guide names the situations where nobody should be hired, it declines to publish a market price it cannot source, and it states that its own target term is the hardest one measured in the whole project.

Editorial policy

• Every figure carries its tool, its country and its date.
• No page publishes a market rate for agency fees, because no survey exists to cite.
• No page projects customers or revenue from a budget.
• No page promises a position, a timescale or a result.
• Interpretations are labelled as interpretations, separately from measurements.
• No page names another company as a comparison.
• “Best” appears only as this reference's assessment against its published criteria, with the frame attached.
• No page carries Review, AggregateRating, Award or Event structured data.

Date policy

Each page shows an edition date and an updated date. Measured figures carry their own retrieval date, which does not change when the surrounding page is edited.

How to cite

SEO Agency Dublin. “[Page title].” Best Digital Marketing Agency Dublin: The Channels Guide. Edition [date], updated [date]. [URL]

Corrections

Email contact@seoagencydublin.ie with the page URL and the figure or sentence concerned. Accepted corrections change the page and its updated date and are logged here.

Corrections log: none at the current edition.

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