SEO retainers · engagements from six months

Rankings compound.So does revenue.

Technical fixes that hold, content built around real queries, and links that survive an audit. Reported every month in numbers your board already understands.

Client rankings — 14-month engagementEXAMPLE
Organic sessions, last 12 months
46,180+142%
KeywordUS searches / moGoogle position (gain)
industrial water treatment 1,900 #4+7
reverse osmosis maintenance cost 720 #2+14
boiler feedwater specification 480 #3+9

Example data from the B2B manufacturing case. Positions from daily rank tracking on Google US, search volumes from Google Keyword Planner, sessions from Google Analytics 4 compared with the 12 months before the engagement.

+118%
Median growth in organic sessions over the first 12 months
31
Retainer engagements since 2021
2.8×
Median return on retainer in month 12, where revenue is tracked
9 mo
Median time to payback, where revenue is tracked

Medians across 31 retainer engagements since 2021, from Google Analytics and Search Console data. Growth covers engagements that ran 12 months or longer. Return and payback cover only clients who track revenue: return is added organic revenue in month 12 divided by that month's fee, and payback is the month added revenue first covered all fees paid. Results vary with market, budget and starting position.

What we fix

Three levers. Nothing else.

Most agencies sell activity. We work the three things that move organic rankings — technical health, content and authority — and report on each one separately.

01 / TECHNICAL SEO

The site has to be crawlable before it can rank

Index bloat, render-blocking scripts, broken internal links, slow templates. Unglamorous work that decides whether anything else lands.

  • Crawl and log-file analysis
  • Core Web Vitals remediation
  • Internal link architecture
  • Structured data
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02 / CONTENT

Pages that answer the query, not the keyword

We map the questions your buyers actually type, then build pages that end the search instead of adding another thin post to the pile.

  • Query and intent mapping
  • Briefs and production
  • Cannibalization cleanup
  • Refreshes of decaying pages
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03 / AUTHORITY

Links you could show a regulator

Digital PR, industry placements and reclaiming mentions you already earned. No networks, no rentals, nothing that needs hiding.

  • Digital PR campaigns
  • Unlinked mention reclamation
  • Toxic backlink review
  • Competitor gap analysis
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How the retainer runs

Audit first. Then the same cycle every month.

STEP 01

Audit

A full technical, content and link baseline, delivered by the end of week two with a prioritized backlog. Re-crawled every quarter.

STEP 02

Fix

We ship the technical backlog with your developers, or implement it ourselves if you would rather, always on staging first.

STEP 03

Publish

Briefs every month, plus finished and edited pages on Growth and Scale, for the queries that carry commercial intent.

STEP 04

Earn

Digital PR and outreach on Growth and Scale, against a target list you approve before we contact anyone.

STEP 05

Report

One page each month: rankings, sessions and pipeline, plus what we are doing next month and why.

From page four to the shortlist B2B MANUFACTURING · 14 MONTHS
Selected work

From page four to the shortlist

A specification-driven manufacturer with strong products and almost no organic presence. We rebuilt the technical foundation, then published 21 pages built around the exact terms its customers' engineers search for.

+142%
Organic sessions
+14
Inquiries a month
#1–3
For 11 commercial terms
10 mo
To full payback
Pricing

Priced by scope, not by hours.

All prices in USD. Monthly plans are billed monthly with a six-month minimum term; after that, cancel with 30 days' written notice. The diagnostic and pay-as-you-go articles are one-off payments with no commitment. The full policy is on the refund page.

From $13 for a single article to $420 a month for the full program. Both ends are on this page — pick the shape that fits, and we will tell you if you have chosen the wrong one.

Most clients start with the diagnostic: $160, credited against your first month if you continue. Pay as you go if you would rather test our writing first.

PAY AS YOU GO
1 article
$13
$13.00 per article
Order

one-off · no commitment

  • Written to a brief, not to a word count
  • Keyword and intent research included
  • One revision round
  • Delivered in 5 working days

Volume pricing down to $5.42 per article at 24.

DIAGNOSTIC
$160
one-off · two weeks
  • Technical, content and link baseline
  • Prioritized backlog you can act on alone
  • Written recommendation
  • Credited against your first month if you continue
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STARTER
$250
per month
  • Technical audit & quarterly re-crawl
  • 2 content briefs per month
  • Rank tracking, 100 keywords
  • Monthly report
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GROWTH
$345
per month
  • Everything in Starter
  • 6 briefs + production per month
  • Digital PR, 2 campaigns per quarter
  • Rank tracking, 500 keywords
  • Monthly call with your team
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SCALE
$420
per month
  • Everything in Growth
  • 12 briefs + production per month
  • Dedicated strategist
  • International & multilingual SEO
  • Revenue attribution modeling
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Start with the diagnostic.

Two weeks, a fixed $160 fee, and the findings are yours whether or not we work together. If you continue, the fee is credited against your first month.

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