SEO retainers
Continuous, engineered, honestly reported.
A monthly retainer on the things SEO actually depends on: technical health, content, and authority. With AEO/GEO layered on top by default. Reported against revenue, not activity.
What’s included
Every retainer client gets, at minimum.
Initial audit and strategy
A four-layer audit synthesised into three to five prioritised themes that set the year. Not a data dump. The synthesis is the product.
Continuous technical work
Indexability, canonicalisation, internal linking, schema, Core Web Vitals. Monitored continuously, fixed against severity, not vibe.
Keyword and content
A keyword map tied to commercial intent, content briefs that consider human reader and AI extractability, production at the cadence the tier supports.
Authority building
Digital PR, brand mentions in authoritative sources, link earning where it stands up to scrutiny. No private blog networks, no buying links.
AEO / GEO layer
Every engagement now treats AI search as a layer on top of classical SEO. Entity, schema, llms.txt, answer-shape content, AI visibility tracking.
Monthly reporting
A report you can read in five minutes that tells you whether organic search is contributing to revenue. AI Overview impressions and citations sit alongside classical organic.
How it runs
One team, one playbook, monthly cycle.
The work runs against the playbook documented in our internal delivery system. Same team on your account month after month. Same monthly cycle: content briefs in week one, technical pass in weeks two and three, report and review at the end of the month. The quarterly review steps back from the monthly noise and asks the real question: is this engagement still pointing at the right outcomes.
Frequently asked.
How long until I see results?
SEO compounds over months, not weeks. The honest answer is: meaningful movement in three to six months, compounding from there. Anyone who promises specific rankings inside a specific window is being dishonest about how search works. That's the agency we're built to be an alternative to.
Why a monthly retainer rather than a project?
Because the work is continuous. Technical health drifts, content needs producing, authority compounds, AI systems change weekly. A one-off engagement leaves the system without a maintainer. Retainer clients also get cheaper per-month results. The cost of understanding your account is recovered over time.
What if I only need an audit?
We sell standalone audits. See Technical audits. They're often the cleanest way to start a relationship that becomes a retainer, but they stand on their own as a deliverable.
Do you guarantee rankings or traffic numbers?
No. Search outcomes depend on factors outside any agency’s control: algorithm changes, competitor moves, the broader market. We promise process, communication, and honesty. The first agency you talk to who guarantees a number is the agency to walk away from.
What if it stops working?
We tell you, in the report, the month it stops working. Then we change what we’re doing. The alternative, quietly continuing, is how SEO got its reputation. We are deliberately built to not be that.
Start with an audit.
Whether paid or free, the audit gives you the same priorities. The paid audit goes deeper and becomes the strategy if you take us on as a retainer.