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SEO package pricing, and every other price on one page
SEO package pricing starts at $450 a month, and the other seven services here are priced the same way: eight services, three tiers each, from $300. The deliverable count is on the page, and so is the list of what each tier leaves out.
What buyers check first
- Price on the page
- Cancel any time
- What is not included, listed
Entry point
$300/mo
SEO package pricing, and the price of everything else
Short answer
SEO package pricing here starts at $450 a month and runs to $2,200, and every other service carries a published number too. Digital marketing pricing across the panel spans $300 a month for local SEO up to $5,500 for a one-off website build.
| Service | Billing | Starter | Growth | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEO | Monthly retainer | $450/mo 1 site, 10 target keywords | $950/mo 1 site, 30 target keywords | $2,200/mo Multi-site, 100 target keywords |
| Content Writing | Monthly retainer | $350/mo 4 posts/mo | $780/mo 10 posts/mo | $1,800/mo 25 posts/mo |
| Local SEO & GBP | Monthly retainer | $300/mo 1 location | $650/mo Up to 3 locations | $1,400/mo Up to 10 locations |
| Link Building | Monthly retainer | $500/mo 5 links/mo | $1,150/mo 12 links/mo | $2,600/mo 30 links/mo |
| Website Builds | One-off project | $1,200 one-off · Up to 5 pages | $2,800 one-off · Up to 15 pages | $5,500 one-off · 30+ pages or e-commerce |
| Social Media | Monthly retainer | $400/mo 12 posts/mo, 2 channels | $850/mo 24 posts/mo, 4 channels | $1,900/mo 48 posts/mo, all channels |
| Google & Meta Ads | Monthly retainer | $450/mo Up to $3k/mo ad spend | $900/mo Up to $10k/mo ad spend | 12% of ad spend, minimum $1,800/mo $10k+/mo ad spend |
| AI Search Optimization | Monthly retainer | $400/mo 20 tracked prompts | $900/mo 60 tracked prompts | $2,000/mo 150 tracked prompts |
All packages and prices. Retainers bill monthly and cancel any time; website builds are one-off projects.
Every cell carries a deliverable count, not just a number. Ten tracked keywords is a different product from a hundred, and a price on its own hides that.
These are fixed price SEO tiers, and fixed price everything else. Published SEO pricing is unusual enough in this market that you can hold it against any quote you already have and see the difference immediately.
The same flat rate pricing runs across the whole set: content writing packages, link building packages, local SEO services, social media management pricing, PPC management services, website design packages and AI SEO services.
SEO packages, tier by tier
Value and cost are two different things.
Why this matters
Short answer
Three tiers, separated by how many keywords are tracked and how many pages are worked each month. Starter covers 10 keywords, Growth 30 and Scale 100, with page volume rising alongside. First deliverables land within 10 business days of the approved brief.
Monthly SEO packages run in three tiers here, separated by how many keywords you track and how many pages get worked on each month. First deliverables land within 10 business days of the brief.
Starter
1 site, 10 target keywords
$375/mo billed yearly
- Technical audit + fix list
- 10 keywords tracked
- 4 pages optimized/mo
- Monthly report
- Not included: Link building
- Not included: Content writing
Growth
1 site, 30 target keywords
$792/mo billed yearly
- Everything in Starter
- 30 keywords tracked
- 10 pages optimized/mo
- 2 new content briefs/mo
- Competitor gap analysis
- Not included: Link building
Scale
Multi-site, 100 target keywords
$1,833/mo billed yearly
- Everything in Growth
- 100 keywords tracked
- Unlimited page optimization
- 6 content briefs/mo
- Quarterly strategy review
Small business SEO packages usually start at the first of those SEO pricing tiers. An SEO retainer in this shape is a monthly commitment you can end, not a twelve month agreement with an exit clause buried in it.
Content, links and social: a month of production
These three lines are priced by unit count, because that is the only honest way to compare them. The Starter and Scale ends are shown here; Growth sits between them in the table above.
Starter tier
- Content writing
- $350/mo, 4 articles
- Link building
- $500/mo, 5 placements
- Social media
- $400/mo, 12 posts
Scale tier
- Content writing
- $1,800/mo, 25 articles
- Link building
- $2,600/mo, 30 placements
- Social media
- $1,900/mo, 48 posts
On link building, you approve every target before anything goes live and the publisher metrics are shown to you first. That is a working rule, not a promise about results.
Monthly or yearly: the arithmetic
Short answer
Yearly billing charges 10 months instead of 12. That is two months free, roughly 17 percent, and it is the same percentage on every tier. It is shown as a subtraction rather than a discount badge because a subtraction is checkable.
Yearly billing charges 10 months instead of 12. That is the whole mechanism, and it is easier to check as a subtraction than as a percentage.
On the $950 Growth SEO tier, twelve months is $11,400 and the yearly price is $9,500. You keep $1,900.
Monthly or yearly billing is your call, and the yearly discount is exactly two months free, billed once a year. Retainers only: a one-off build has no yearly equivalent, so the toggle leaves those prices alone.
There is no penalty for staying monthly and no automatic renewal at the end of a yearly term.
What no tier includes
What is my hard cost dollar for deliverable? It is always an equal exchange. What exactly do you get for the investment that you are making?
Why this matters
Read this before the price
No tier includes your ad spend, private blog networks, sitewide footer links, directory or comment links, guaranteed rankings, guaranteed AI citations, review-generation campaigns, or undisclosed AI-only content. If it is not written in the tier list, assume it is not in the package.
Never included, any tier
- Your ad spend
- Guaranteed rankings
- Guaranteed AI citations
- Review-generation campaigns
Refused on principle
- Private blog networks
- Sitewide footer links
- Directory and comment links
- Undisclosed AI-only content
Priced separately
- Custom graphics on Content Starter
- Landing page builds on Ads
- Video production on Social
- Ecommerce on Web Starter
The link refusals are not squeamishness. No PBNs and no link farms is what safe link building means in practice, and the rule tracks the Google spam policies , which treat link schemes as a violation regardless of who sold them to you.
Stated exclusions are also the cheapest scope creep control there is. When the scope boundary is written down before anyone pays, "not included in this tier" is a fact you already knew rather than an argument in month three.
Build your stack and watch the total
No email, no gate, no follow-up call. Build your own package, screenshot it, take it somewhere else and compare if you want to.
Stack builder
Pick what you need. See the total.
These are the same published prices as the table above. Nothing is estimated and no email is required to see a number.
Monthly total
$0
retainers, billed monthly
Billed yearly
$0
$0/mo equivalent, 2 months free
One-off
$0
website builds, charged once
Nothing is charged here. The order form arrives pre-filled and you are invoiced after the brief is agreed.
The usual answer
- New site, under 20 pages
- Book a discovery call
- Ranking already, want more
- Custom proposal
- In-house marketer, no capacity
- Hire a second person
- Agency buying white-label
- Negotiate a rate card
- Genuinely not sure
- Another call
Start here
- New site, under 20 pages
- Starter, one service
- Ranking already, want more
- Growth SEO plus content
- In-house marketer, no capacity
- Growth content or links
- Agency buying white-label
- Scale, flagged on the brief
- Genuinely not sure
- Starter, because it cancels
Local service business
Local SEO Starter plus Content Starter. $650/mo for one profile, four posts and four articles. No paid ads, no review campaigns.
Ecommerce operator
SEO Growth plus Link Building Starter. $1,450/mo for 30 tracked keywords, 10 pages a month and 5 editorial placements. Product photography is not included.
SaaS founder
Content Growth plus AI Search Starter. $1,180/mo for 10 articles and 20 tracked prompts. Nobody can promise the citations, and we say so in the tier.
The objection, stated fairly
A fixed package can spend your budget on activity while the real problem sits somewhere else. Ten articles will not help a site Google cannot crawl. It is the most common criticism of SEO package pricing in the industry, and it is correct often enough to take seriously.
Where the objection binds
It binds hardest on sites with a live technical fault. If pages are not being indexed, or a migration went wrong, buying content is buying a bigger pile on top of a broken foundation.
It also binds when the business problem is not search at all. Some companies do not need more traffic, they need the traffic they already have to convert.
What we do about it
The technical audit runs first, in every SEO tier including Starter. If it turns up something that makes the rest of the tier pointless, the brief says so before production starts.
And some people should not buy a package at all. If your situation needs a custom diagnosis rather than a fixed monthly output, the three ways to buy marketing sets out which of them fits.
- 1
Any time
You ask
A line in the brief or an email. No renegotiation and no new agreement.
- 2
Next brief
It takes effect
The new tier starts on the next brief cycle rather than the next contract term.
- 3
Same cycle
The difference is prorated
You pay the gap for the remaining period. Nothing is back-charged.
- 4
Always
Nothing is clawed back
Work produced under the old tier stays yours, whichever direction you move.
Who actually does the work
White label production runs through vetted production partners, coordinated by us. We would rather you read that here than work it out later.
No individual is named, because the people on a vendor bench are not ours to put on a website. You get one brief, one point of contact and one invoice, not a chain of suppliers to manage.
The criteria a partner has to meet
Published vendor vetting criteria are more useful than published names. These are the standards a production partner has to clear before any work reaches you.
Common practice
- Links
- Private networks, footer links
- Content
- Undisclosed AI-only output
- Ads
- Agency owns the account
- Reporting
- Whatever the tool exports
Our requirement
- Links
- Editorial placements you approve
- Content
- Native English, sourced claims
- Ads
- You own the account
- Reporting
- Same format every month
On rankings we follow Google's own guidance on hiring an SEO , which says to walk away from anyone guaranteeing first place. So do we.
What lands in your inbox every month
Short answer
One report a month in the same format every month, so month three is comparable to month one. It states what shipped against the tier you pay for, movement in fixed charts, and what runs next. Depth scales with tier; the layout does not.
One report, same format every month, so month three is comparable to month one. The depth changes between a $300 tier and a $5,500 one. The layout does not.
- What shipped, itemised against the tier you pay for
- Movement charts in a fixed format, month over month
- What runs next month, and the reason it was chosen
Day 1 to day 30, with dates
Short answer
Day zero you order and the brief form arrives within one business day. You approve the brief, production starts against it, and first SEO deliverables land inside 10 business days. The first report closes the month, and nothing begins before the brief is agreed.
The first month is the one buyers cannot picture. Here it is, in order. The full process, step by step covers what happens after.
- 1
Day 0
Order placed
You pick a service and a tier. The brief form arrives within one business day.
- 2
Day 1 to 3
Brief returned
You send it back, we confirm scope and fix a start date. Questions get resolved here, not mid-production.
- 3
Day 5 to 10
First deliverables
Timing follows the service. Content drafts land within five business days of a brief; SEO deliverables within ten.
- 4
Day 30
First report
The fixed-format report, itemised against the tier. This is also the first natural cancel point.
- 5
Month 2 on
Steady cadence
Same cycle, no re-scoping, no renewal conversation.
Why there are no testimonials here
The evidence standard
Because this is a new operation with no client results to show, and borrowing or inventing them is not an option. No testimonials, no case studies, no client logos, no star ratings and no review markup anywhere. They appear when they are real, sourced and consented.
Rather than borrow results, the site carries no testimonials, client logos, star ratings or review markup.
They go up when real, sourced and consented, in line with the FTC's endorsement guides . Two of the pages ranking above this one for package pricing display star ratings with no visible evidence behind them.
What stands in for proof is here: the prices, the exclusions, the vetting criteria, the sample report.
What you own, and what cancelling changes
The last question before anyone pays is what happens if they stop.
Often the case
- Your website
- Rebuilt on their platform
- Content produced
- Licensed while you pay
- Ad accounts
- Opened under the agency
- Leaving
- 30 to 90 day notice
Here
- Your website
- Yours, always
- Content produced
- Yours on delivery
- Ad accounts
- Opened under you
- Leaving
- Cancel any time
The price CTA opens an order form and you are invoiced once the brief is agreed, so nothing is charged before scope is settled. The full terms are on the terms page.
Every published price on one axis
What happens between ordering and being invoiced
SEO services pricing: what the published number covers
The figure in the table is a fixed monthly fee for a fixed monthly output. Only three things move it, and all three are visible before you agree to them.
SEO services pricing here starts at $450 a month for a technical audit, ten tracked keywords and four pages optimized. Growth at $950 raises that to thirty keywords and ten pages, and Scale at $2,200 covers multiple sites and a hundred keywords.
- The tier you pick
- Tiers are separated by counts, not by adjectives. Ten tracked keywords is a different product from a hundred, and the fee follows the count.
- How many services you stack
- Each line keeps its own published price. Two Starter services cost the sum of the two numbers in the table, with no bundle rate applied on top.
- Monthly or yearly billing
- Yearly charges 10 months rather than twelve. The deliverables in the tier do not change when the billing period does.
Nothing else is added later. There is no set-up fee, no onboarding fee, no minimum term and no separate charge for the monthly report. If a number is not in the table above, it does not reach the invoice.
SEO packages and pricing are also quoted apart from the things a retainer cannot carry, so the published figure stays the whole figure.
- Ad spend stays in your account and is paid to Google or Meta directly.
- A website build is project-priced, $1,200 to $5,500, because the work finishes.
- Paid tools you already own stay yours; we work inside them rather than rebilling them.
Everything on the retainer side renews month to month until you stop it, at the same number you started on. A tier change is something you ask for, not something applied to your account after a quiet review.
SEO pricing packages: how a monthly price is composed
Two ingredients sit inside every package price, and the mix between them is what differs from one service line to the next.
A package price is the time a named person spends plus whatever gets bought on your behalf. Both halves are inside the published number, which is why the split is worth seeing.
- Link building: most of the fee leaves the panel as payment to the publisher.
- Content writing: most of it is research, drafting and editing time against a brief.
- SEO: audit and implementation time, plus the rank tracking the report is built from.
- Local SEO: profile work, posts and citation checks, priced per location.
That composition is why the tiers step the way they do. A higher tier is a larger block of the same work rather than a different service, so the jump between two rows is a jump in volume you can count.
SEO monthly pricing and yearly pricing describe the same package. Yearly charges 10 months, so the Growth SEO tier comes to $9,500 for the year instead of $11,400.
| Billed monthly | 12 x $950 = $11,400 |
|---|---|
| Billed yearly | 10 x $950 = $9,500 |
| Difference | $1,900 |
The difference is the only thing the billing choice changes. Deliverable counts, scope and the right to cancel read the same on both, and the panel still opens at $300 a month for a single local profile.
Pricing questions, answered
The eight that come up most, including the two nobody enjoys asking.
Is there a minimum term or a notice period?
Neither. There is no minimum contract, no 30, 60 or 90 day notice requirement and no early-termination fee. A month already begun is not pro-rated, because the deliverables for that month are still produced and shipped, and you keep them.
How much does an SEO package cost?
Ours: $450, $950 and $2,200 a month, for 10, 30 and 100 tracked keywords. How much does SEO cost elsewhere depends on scope: Ahrefs surveyed 439 providers and found an average agency retainer of $3,209 a month, provider-reported and global. SEO package pricing moves with site condition, competition and how much implementation the provider takes on.
What is included in an SEO package?
Starter covers a technical audit and fix list, 10 tracked keywords, four pages optimized a month and a monthly report. Link building and content writing are separate. Every tier lists what it excludes as well as what it includes, which is the half most package pages leave out.
Is SEO worth the cost?
It is worth it when the organic demand would be expensive to rent through paid search and you can support the work long enough to judge it. Not yet if your site has a live indexation fault, or if you cannot act on the recommendations.
What is a sensible SEO budget for a small business?
Enough to run one service properly for six months beats three for two. On these numbers that is $450 a month for SEO, or $300 for local SEO, held steady. A budget that forces you to stop before the work can be judged is the wrong budget at any price.
Why is there no minimum contract?
Because the scope is fixed month by month, there is nothing to amortise across a year. You can stop after month one. Work already in production for the current month still ships, and you keep everything produced up to that point.
What does the yearly option actually save?
Yearly billing charges 10 months instead of 12. On the $950 Growth SEO tier that is $9,500 a year instead of $11,400, so you keep $1,900. There is no penalty for staying monthly.
Can I buy two services at once, and what does that cost?
Yes. The stack builder on this page adds them up using the same published prices. As an example, SEO Growth plus Link Building Starter is $1,450 a month.
Who does the work, and is it subcontracted?
Production runs through vetted white-label partners, coordinated by us. We publish the criteria those partners have to meet rather than the names, because the standard is the part that protects you.
Why are there no reviews or case studies on this site?
Because this is a new operation and there are no results to show yet. Inventing them is not an option, so the site carries no testimonials, no client logos and no review markup.
Sources
| Ahrefs SEO pricing survey of 439 providers | Ahrefs, read 2026-09-06 |
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| Google Search Central on SEO timelines | Google Search Central, read 2026-09-06 |
Each link was opened on the date shown. Every price on this page comes from src/data/pricing.ts rather than from any of them, and where a figure is illustrative rather than measured the page says so beside it.