⭐ MONTHLY SEO RETAINER — ITEMISED, NO LOCK-IN ✅ CASE STUDIES WITH COSTS 🔥 400+ CLIENTS

NO RANKING GUARANTEES. NO TWELVE MONTH CONTRACT. ITEMISED SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

✅ PACKAGES
Starter — $490/mo
4 guest posts (DR 50+), 8 articles (1,500w), monthly technical audit, rank tracking on 50 keywords.

Growth — $1,240/mo
10 guest posts, 20 articles, technical fixes implemented (not just listed), internal linking work, 200 keywords tracked, fortnightly call.

Scale — $3,100/mo
24 guest posts, 50 articles, digital PR outreach, CRO review on money pages, dedicated account manager, weekly reporting.

✅ CANCELLATION
30 days notice, any time, no exit fee. Billing stops the following month. You keep everything delivered.

✅ CASE STUDY 1 — home services, UK
Start: 1,140 organic sessions/mo. Month 9: 18,400. Spend with us: $11,160. Their revenue from organic went from roughly $2k/mo to $31k/mo by their own reporting.

✅ CASE STUDY 2 — B2B SaaS
Start: 9,800 sessions/mo. Month 9: 14,200. Spend: $11,160. A 45% lift for eleven thousand dollars. They renewed; I would understand if they had not, and I include this one because it is the realistic outcome in a competitive niche.

✅ CASE STUDY 3 — ecommerce, failed
Start: 4,100 sessions/mo. Month 6: 3,800. Spend: $7,440. We could not move it. Refunded the final two months and ended the engagement. The site had a technical problem on a platform the client would not migrate off, and I should have walked away in month one.

✅ WHAT HAPPENS IN MONTH ONE
Days 1-5 audit and keyword mapping. Days 6-10 technical fixes. Days 11-20 first content batch live. Days 21-30 first outreach placements go out, typically landing in month two. You will see very little ranking movement in month one and I will say so again on the call.

Case study 3 being a failure with a refund, in a sales listing, in this section. That is the only one of the three I needed to read.

Vouch, Growth tier for seven months. Results between case study 1 and 2. Reporting is clear and the technical fixes actually got implemented, which is where most retainers quietly do nothing.

As somebody who sells a competing service: the itemisation here is what the whole section should look like. You can price-check every line against the marketplace.

Pushback: $490/mo buying 4 links and 8 articles is roughly what those cost retail, so the audit and tracking are effectively free, which makes me wonder where the margin is.

Fair question. The links are my own inventory at cost and the articles are written in-house, so retail pricing is my margin. The Starter tier makes about 22%, the Scale tier about 40%.

Answering a margin question with actual percentages is more than I expected. Withdrawn.

Is $490/mo worth it for a site making nothing yet?

No. Spend that on content yourself for six months first. I turn down about one enquiry a week for this reason and it is still the right answer.

The month-one description answering the pinned rules question before anyone asked it is a nice touch.