SEO retainer · 3-month minimum
Monthly SEO with a report
you’ll actually read.
Rankings, traffic, conversions, and exactly what we did this month. One page, plain English. We baseline where you sit, fix what’s broken, do the on-page and Google Business Profile work, and measure the change every single month.
Every retainer starts with a baseline: where you rank, where you rank for, how organic traffic converts, how your Google Business Profile is performing. That baseline is what every future month is measured against.
The black-box SEO retainer
How the rest of the market tends to sell SEO. Five symptoms you’ve probably seen.
- 01You pay every month. You see rankings reports that mean nothing to your business.
- 02You can’t answer the simple question: which keywords actually drove revenue last month?
- 03You’re told it takes 6–12 months to see results, with no measurable checkpoints in between.
- 04When you ask "what did you do this month?" the answer is a vague mix of "audits", "content", and "outreach".
- 05You churn out, find another agency, and the cycle restarts.
Baseline → Cleanse → Rebuild → Report → Run
Five steps, every month. Same methodology we apply to every service — the deliverable changes, the discipline doesn’t.
Baseline
In week one we capture where you actually sit — ranking positions for every keyword that matters, organic traffic, conversion sources, Google Business Profile health, and page-speed grades. This is the starting line every monthly report measures against.
Cleanse
Fix what’s broken before adding anything new. Page speed, broken redirects, duplicate content, technical SEO issues that drag the whole site down. Most SEO retainers skip this step because it isn’t exciting. We don’t.
Rebuild
On-page work and content production aligned to the keywords that actually convert for you — not the keywords with the highest volume. Plus Google Business Profile optimisation if local search matters to you.
Report
A real monthly report. Not a dashboard you ignore. One page, plain English: where you ranked, where you rank now, what we did this month, what we’re doing next. You read it in five minutes.
Run
Same five items measured every month for the life of the engagement. Quarterly review meeting where we discuss whether the strategy still fits, with the data to back it up.
What lands in your inbox every month
The retainer delivers the same set every month. No surprises, no busy-work theatre.
One-page monthly report
Rankings delta, organic traffic by channel, conversions, Google Business Profile metrics, and a plain-English summary of what we did. Sent on the first business day of the month.
On-page and technical SEO work
Content updates, internal linking, schema markup, page-speed fixes, broken-link cleanup — whatever the data says will move the needle this month.
New content or content updates
Either a new piece targeting an opportunity keyword, or substantial updates to existing pages. We brief, you approve, we publish.
Google Analytics + Search Console review
Weekly checks on traffic patterns, broken queries, and indexation issues. Anything urgent surfaces immediately; everything else lands in the monthly report.
Google Business Profile management
Posts, photo updates, review responses, Q&A monitoring. If local search matters to you, this is half the win.
How it’s priced
Two ways to engage. Hygiene that holds, or growth that compounds.
SEO Care
From $189 / month
Default-included on every website build tier.
Maintenance, monitoring, and reporting. Technical hygiene, Search Console review, Google Business Profile maintenance, minor on-page tuning, monthly summary. Not active growth — the floor that stops decay.
SEO Retainer
From $1,200 / month
Active-growth upgrade for buyers ready to invest.
Two long-form content pieces per month, structured backlink outreach, ranking expansion across new keyword clusters, active competitive monitoring. The growth motion, not the hygiene one.
Three-month minimum on the Retainer because SEO that runs for one month produces nothing. After three, month-to-month — stay because it’s working, not because of a contract.
When we’re NOT the right fit
We’d rather tell you upfront than three months in.
- ✗You need a viral content engine — that’s a content agency, not an SEO retainer.
- ✗You expect to dominate national-level commercial keywords in three months on an SMB budget. Either the timeline or the keywords need to give.
- ✗You don’t have the capacity to approve content briefs or review monthly reports. SEO without the client engaged in decisions stalls fast.
Common questions
How long until I see results?
Why a three-month minimum?
What about Google Ads?
Will you guarantee a #1 ranking?
What if we already have an SEO provider?
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Where does your data actually sit?
SEO that compounds depends on the data infrastructure underneath. Score your current data posture in five minutes — same brand of measurement we apply to SEO retainers.
Free · 5 minutes · No payment
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Book a 30-minute discovery call. We’ll look at where you sit now, what would move the needle most, and whether an SEO retainer is even the right tool for the job.
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