SEO service plans: technical fixes, AI visibility, and local, from $499 a month

Honest retainers for a small to mid sized site sit between $499 and $2,000 a month in 2026. Our SEO Foundations plan is $499 a month for technical and on page work, SEO Growth is $999 a month once content and off page work start, and Authority and AI Visibility is $1,999 a month for entity, AEO, and multi location work. One off sprints start at $349. Anything under about $300 a month is usually an automated report with no engineer attached.

Technical fixes can move impressions within two to four weeks because you are unblocking pages Google already wanted to crawl. New content and authority work typically take three to six months to show in positions, and six to twelve months to compound into steady leads. Anyone quoting thirty days for competitive terms is describing an ad campaign, not SEO.

No agency can create one directly. Google generates knowledge panels from its own understanding of an entity, drawn from structured data, consistent profiles, and credible third party sources. What we do is build that evidence: Organization and Person schema, a consistent sameAs graph, a Wikidata item where notability allows, and citations on sources Google already trusts. Once a panel appears, we help you claim and correct it through Google's verification flow.

SEO targets the ranked list of links. AEO, answer engine optimisation, targets the direct answer, whether that is an AI Overview, a featured snippet, or a voice result, and it rewards short factual answers placed directly under a clear question. GEO, generative engine optimisation, targets being cited inside generative tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, which rewards entity clarity, original data, and quotable phrasing. The three overlap heavily, and the same page can win all three when it is structured properly.

For the audit, no. We can crawl the public site and read Search Console with view only access. For the fixes, yes, we need an administrator account and ideally staging. We work on staging first, keep a rollback point, and never push template changes straight to live during business hours.

Creating a profile is free with Google. Our fee covers the work around it: eligibility check, category and service selection, service area configuration, description and photo preparation, product entries, review flow, and walking you through verification. Google runs verification itself, and it can request a video call or postcard, so we prepare the evidence rather than promise an approval date.

Yes, and it is the setup we recommend. A care plan keeps the site online, updated, and backed up. An SEO plan grows the traffic that site depends on. Clients who run both get one engineer accountable for both sides, so a plugin update never quietly breaks a page that took four months to rank.

Yes. Agencies get technical SEO and WordPress fixes under their own brand, with reports written in your voice and no contact with your client unless you invite us. Pricing starts at $79 a month per site for care work, and SEO sprints are quoted per property.