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SEO packages with the price on the page
Three SEO packages, priced from $450/mo, each defined by counts rather than adjectives: keywords tracked, pages optimized per month, and the work each tier deliberately excludes.
In one line
An SEO package is a fixed monthly scope of search work sold at a published price, here from $450/mo. Here that means a set number of tracked keywords, a set number of pages optimized each month, a technical fix list, and a report, with exclusions stated rather than discovered later.
SEO packages and what each tier costs
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
These seo packages are billed at the price shown, with no scoping call in the way. First deliverables within 10 business days of the brief.
Every tier is billed monthly, and the scope is fixed by a brief you agree before anything is invoiced.
Page one for this search is split between agency package pages that show tiers without numbers and cost guides that give a range and then ask for a call.
Everything each tier includes and excludes
The same list that drives the price cards, laid out so the tiers can be read against each other. Exclusions are printed because an unstated exclusion is what turns a good month into an argument.
Starter
1 site, 10 target keywords
Included
- Technical audit + fix list
- 10 keywords tracked
- 4 pages optimized/mo
- Monthly report
Not included
- Link building
- Content writing
Growth
1 site, 30 target keywords
Included
- 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
Included
- Everything in Growth
- 100 keywords tracked
- Unlimited page optimization
- 6 content briefs/mo
- Quarterly strategy review
Which tier you actually need
The tiers are separated by volume rather than by how carefully the work is done. Buying more than your site can absorb does not make the work arrive sooner, so pick by page count and approval speed.
All three seo packages run the same process and the same reporting. What changes between them is volume.
Starter
A single site under about twenty pages, with one clear service or product line and a short keyword list that everyone already agrees on.
You are on this tier when: You have fewer pages than the monthly optimization quota would touch, and no backlog of technical debt.
Growth
A site with real depth, several service lines, and someone internally who can turn a content brief into a published page.
You are on this tier when: You keep finding keywords the ten-keyword allocation cannot cover, or you want briefs because writing is happening internally anyway.
Scale
Multiple sites or one large site, where the constraint is throughput rather than knowing what to do.
You are on this tier when: Your optimization backlog is longer than a month of Growth quota, or you are managing more than one domain.
One out of 20 landing pages drive roughly 85% of all your traffic.
Why this matters
What an SEO month actually contains
SEO retainers are sold by the month and described in adjectives, which is why two quotes never compare. Below is the same month described in counts. Step through it, then read what changes between tiers.
How a month actually runs
Order, brief, production, delivery, report. The same four steps every month, so a second month can be compared against a first.
- 1
Day 1
Brief
A short form covering the site, the targets, and anything off limits. No call unless you want one.
- 2
Day 1 to 10
Audit and first fixes
Crawl, technical audit, and the first pass of on-page work. First deliverables land within 10 business days of the brief.
- 3
Ongoing
Monthly cycle
Optimization quota worked through, keywords tracked, content briefs produced where the tier includes them.
- 4
Month end
Report
Fixed format, itemised against the tier you bought. Same sections every month so two reports can be compared.
Most best practices, most blog posts are not correct.
Why this matters
A typical SEO retainer
- Price
- Quoted after a scoping call
- Scope
- Described in adjectives
- Exclusions
- Discovered in month two
- Contract
- 6 to 12 month minimum is common
- Reporting
- Dashboard access
The Super Panel
- Price
- Published on this page
- Scope
- Counted: keywords, pages, briefs
- Exclusions
- Listed on the tier
- Contract
- Billed monthly
- Reporting
- A written report naming what moved
What SEO marketing packages usually include, and what this one leaves out
Short answer
The market’s own working definition of a monthly SEO package covers audits, on-page work, content, link building and reporting. Link building is excluded here at Starter and Growth. That matters more than any other line on this page.
It means a $2,000 package elsewhere and a $450 one here are not the same basket of work, and comparing on the headline number alone will mislead you.
This is stated plainly because it works against us. It is easier to sell a package that appears to include everything, and harder to sell one that names what it does not.
Links are real work with a real cost, so they are sold separately and priced on their own page rather than folded in and thinned out.
Link building is excluded at Starter and Growth, and content writing is excluded at Starter. Both are named on the tier so you can see what it does not cover before you buy, not after.
If links are what your site actually needs, link building is priced separately.
Cost per tracked keyword, worked out
Short answer
Starter works out at $45 a tracked keyword, Growth at about $32, and Scale at $22. Page optimization runs at roughly $113 a page at Starter and $95 at Growth.
Nothing in this search result publishes a per-keyword figure, which makes two quotes almost impossible to compare on anything but the headline.
It is a scope unit rather than a value unit. Ten keywords that matter beat a hundred that do not, which is why the tiers are chosen by site size and approval speed rather than by the biggest number available.
Is a monthly SEO package worth buying at all
Short answer
Two of the ten results on this search are forum threads asking exactly that, and two of the People Also Ask questions ask whether SEO is still worth paying for. The doubt is reasonable, and no vendor page on this search engages with it.
The honest answer is that it depends on the site, and mostly on things a package cannot change: whether the pages can be crawled and deployed to, whether anyone can approve work, and how large the off-page gap to the competition is.
Where those are fine, on-page work is the highest-leverage money available. Where they are not, a retainer will produce reports rather than results, and the disqualifying cases are listed further down this page rather than left for you to discover.
For the budget picture around this, what SEO actually costs across a whole plan.
What the price buys at each tier
The fees that are not on this page because they do not exist
No setup fee. One provider ranking on this same search publishes a $1,000 SEO startup cost applied to all plans, stated separately from the monthly price.
No onboarding fee and no per-site surcharge below Scale. The monthly figure on the tier is the only number.
The comparison is on a competitor publishing a $1,000 startup cost.
A section of a site can lose traffic with nothing to appeal
Most search engine optimisation pages, including the catalogue this one sits in, describe two states: you are fine, or you have a penalty and can file a reconsideration request. Google’s November 2024 post describes a third, and it is the one that catches people.
Alongside manual actions, Google runs systems that judge whether a section of a site is independent of, or starkly different from, its main content. Where it is, that section is measured on its own rather than carried by the domain around it.
Traffic can fall as a result, and Google states plainly that this is not a demotion and not a spam violation.
The practical consequence is that there is nothing to appeal. Google does not publish the threshold at which a section is judged independent, so the mechanism cannot be tested from outside.
What that leaves is ordinary discipline on the things you can see: keyword tracking that covers the section rather than the homepage, and internal links that connect it to the rest of the site.
Then meta titles and meta descriptions written for the pages that already earn traffic, and a heading structure that matches what the section is actually about.
None of it is exciting. Box, WebTek and the marketplaces around Legiit all describe scope in hours or in deliverables per month rather than by the search intent those deliverables serve, which is the part that decides whether the work pays.
That gap matters more now that AI Overviews sit above the results, because a page can satisfy a query without earning a visit. A productized service does not fix that. What it fixes is the argument about what was bought, which is the only part of this either of us controls.
What this does not say: Google does not publish the threshold at which a section is judged independent, so the mechanism cannot be tested from outside.
| Google Search Central blog, Updating our site reputation abuse policy | 2024-11-19 |
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What a month contains, and what it needs from you
A month is keyword research, site health and technical fixes, on-page work across the pages that already earn traffic, schema where it helps, and a content gap pass that feeds topic clusters. One site per retainer at Starter and Growth.
What the monthly report contains is the same four things every time: what shipped, rank change on the tracked set, what runs next month, and what is waiting on you. The last line is the one most reports leave out.
Against the alternatives: a freelancer is cheaper per hour and stops when they stop, an in-house hire is capacity you employ, and this is a monthly retainer against a counted list. None of the three is automatically right.
What we cannot show you, and what to check instead
The first result on this search carries 867 reviews (observed 2026-09-06). A marketplace result on the same page carries 2,701 (observed 2026-09-06). There is nothing comparable here, and none of it will be invented.
What is checkable instead is on this page: the tracked keyword count, the page-optimization quota, what is excluded, and a monthly report whose numbers you can verify yourself in your own Search Console rather than taking on trust.
The independent check is your own Search Console.
How billing works, and what cancelling changes
Short answer
Billed monthly in advance. There is no minimum contract and no notice period, so cancelling stops the next renewal. Work already in production for the current month still ships, and every deliverable produced stays yours.
The audit, the fix list and the briefs are documents you keep. Nothing is withdrawn because the retainer ended.
The same policy is set out in what cancelling SEO means in the terms.
When an SEO package will not move anything
If the gap in referring domains to the sites already ranking is very large, on-page work will not close it on its own. That is measurable before you buy, and worth measuring.
The same applies to a site that cannot be crawled or deployed to, and to anyone expecting rankings inside a quarter.
When an SEO package is the wrong purchase
Short answer
SEO is a poor fit when the site needs traffic this quarter, when nobody can approve on-page changes, or when the product has no search demand behind it. In all three cases paid ads answer the question faster and cheaper.
- You need revenue this quarter. SEO rarely moves that fast on a young domain.
- Nobody on your side can approve or publish changes. The work stalls in a queue.
- Your category has negligible search volume. We will say so rather than sell a retainer into it.
- You want a ranking guarantee. Nobody can honestly give one, and anyone who does is selling risk.
Questions before you order
A tier here is not cheap SEO or affordable SEO bought by the hour on Fiverr, nor an enterprise engagement of the kind OuterBox sells.
What is included is stated: crawl errors and indexing checked, Core Web Vitals and page speed measured, and a turnaround, for a small business, a local business or ecommerce.
Still not sure this is the right tier, or whether SEO is the right spend at all? Tell us what you are trying to move and we will say which tier fits, or that none of them does.
How much does monthly SEO cost?
Here it is $450/mo for 10 tracked keywords and 4 pages optimized, $950 for 30 keywords and 10 pages, and $2,200 for 100 keywords with unlimited page optimization. Ranking agencies on this same search publish $2,000 to $7,000+.
Is link building included in an SEO package?
Not at Starter or Growth. The market’s standard bundle usually does include it, so a cheaper headline here is buying a smaller basket rather than the same one discounted. Links are priced separately on their own page.
Is there a setup or startup fee on top of the monthly price?
No. One provider ranking on this term publishes a $1,000 SEO startup cost on all plans. The monthly figure here is the only number.
How many keywords should a package track?
Enough to cover what you actually sell, which is usually fewer than the biggest number on offer. Starter tracks 10, Growth 30, Scale 100. Ten keywords that matter beat a hundred that do not.
What does one tracked keyword actually cost?
About $45 at Starter, $32 at Growth and $22 at Scale. It is a scope unit rather than a value unit, but nothing else on this search publishes it at all.
Is there a minimum contract or a notice period?
Neither. Billing is monthly, cancelling stops the next renewal, and work already in production for that month still ships.
What is in the monthly report, and can I verify it myself?
Rank positions with the change since last month, technical fixes completed or blocked with the reason, pages optimized listed by URL, and what runs next. Every number in it can be checked in your own Search Console.
Are monthly SEO packages actually worth it?
It depends on things a package cannot change: whether your pages can be crawled and deployed to, whether anyone can approve work, and how big the off-page gap is. Where those are fine it is the best-value work available. Where they are not, you will get reports.
How is a fixed price honest when every site is different?
Because the deliverable is fixed, not the outcome. Ten tracked keywords and four optimized pages is the same amount of work on your site as anyone else’s. What varies is how far it moves you, which is why the tiers publish counts rather than promises.
What if my site needs more than the tier allows in month one?
The audit will say so plainly. Some sites need a technical clean-up before ongoing optimization is worth buying, and we would rather say that in the first fortnight than bill twelve months against a site that cannot rank.
Sources cited on this page
| Source | Cited for |
|---|---|
| surveyed 439 SEO providers | Ahrefs pricing survey, cited for the market benchmark figures. |
| Google’s own guidance on hiring an SEO | Google Search Central, cited on realistic timelines and on guarantees. |
Start SEO from $450/mo
Pick a tier and send the order. You get a brief form and a start date within one business day, and nothing is charged until that brief is agreed.
Entry point $300/mo. Cancel any time. No long contracts.
Still deciding?
Read how the process runs end to end: order, brief, production, delivery, report.
How it worksSources
| Google Search Essentials | Google Search Central, read 2026-09-06 |
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| Google Search Central on SEO timelines | Google Search Central, read 2026-09-06 |
| Manual Actions report, cited here for what a penalty looks like on a site being optimised | Google Search Console Help, read 2026-09-06 |
Each link was opened on the date shown. Where a figure is illustrative rather than measured, the page says so beside it.