SEO and website pricing: what working together costs
Monthly care plans are priced up front, so you know the number before you ask. Project work is scoped after a short conversation, because the honest answer depends on what your site already has.
Keep your website fast, secure, and up to date
Three tiers of managed WordPress hosting and maintenance. Start with upkeep only, or add more content support and monthly performance reporting. Move between tiers whenever your needs change.
Essential Care
Maintenance only
$89/month
For businesses that need dependable WordPress hosting and routine website maintenance.
- Managed WordPress hosting
- WordPress core and plugin updates
- Security monitoring
- Weekly website backups
- Broken link monitoring
- Up to 30 minutes of routine content updates per month
Professional Care
Maintenance plus website performance reporting
$149/month
For businesses that want additional content support and monthly visibility into website performance.
- Everything included in Essential Care
- Up to 1 hour 30 minutes of routine content updates per month
- Monthly Looker Studio website performance report
- Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 monitoring
- Basic website and analytics performance monitoring
- Notification of notable website or tracking issues
Growth Care
Full website support
$249/month
For businesses that need more frequent content changes and closer technical oversight.
- Everything included in Professional Care
- Up to 2 hours 30 minutes of routine content updates per month
- Enhanced technical website monitoring
- Monitoring for website functionality and accessibility issues
- Priority support for website maintenance requests
What counts as a content update. Text edits, swapping or replacing images, updating hours and contact details, adding a staff member or testimonial, and publishing content you supply. New pages, redesigns, custom development, new functionality, plugin configuration, and content writing are not included and are quoted separately as additional work. Included time is per month and does not roll over.
Available for websites I build. Website Hosting Care plans are offered exclusively for WordPress websites built by Strategy Search Partners, so the site being maintained is one I know. You can change tiers month to month.
Ongoing SEO with a clear monthly scope
Three tiers of SEO strategy, reporting, and hands-on implementation. Each plan has a defined monthly service allowance, so you know exactly how much work is included.
SEO Essentials
Foundational SEO strategy
$525/month
For businesses that need structured SEO analysis, strategic direction, and foundational implementation.
- Monthly SEO performance report
- Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console analysis
- Keyword research and organic search opportunity analysis
- Basic competitor analysis
- Keyword ranking tracking
- Technical and on-page SEO recommendations
- Up to 3 hours of hands-on SEO implementation
- One monthly strategy meeting
- SEMrush-powered research and analysis
Monthly service allowance: Up to 8 hours across reporting, research, meetings, communication, and implementation.
SEO Growth
Ongoing optimization and content development
$925/month
For businesses ready to implement SEO recommendations and develop content consistently.
- Everything included in SEO Essentials
- Up to 8 hours of hands-on SEO implementation
- One SEO-focused content piece per month, up to 800 words
- On-page optimization of priority pages
- Internal linking improvements
- Competitor and keyword-gap analysis
- Monthly implementation summary and prioritized next steps
Monthly service allowance: Up to 15 hours across reporting, research, meetings, communication, content creation, and implementation.
SEO Performance Partner
Advanced, comprehensive SEO strategy
$1,450/month
For businesses that need deeper technical analysis, ongoing implementation, and broader strategic guidance.
- Everything included in SEO Growth
- Up to 15 hours of hands-on SEO implementation
- One SEO-focused content piece per month, up to 1,000 words
- Expanded technical SEO analysis and prioritized fixes
- In-depth competitor and content-gap research
- Site architecture and internal linking strategy
- AI search visibility and content-readiness analysis
- Monthly strategic review and quarterly SEO roadmap
Monthly service allowance: Up to 24 hours across reporting, research, meetings, communication, content creation, and implementation.
Three-month initial engagement recommended. The first three months establish a performance baseline, complete the research, prioritize opportunities, and begin implementation. Commitment, renewal, and cancellation terms are confirmed in your service agreement.
Add AI visibility reporting — $99/month per domain. See how your business appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, tracked month over month alongside your keyword rankings. Available as an add-on to SEO Essentials and SEO Growth. SEO Performance Partner already includes AI search visibility analysis.
Hosting care, SEO care, or both
The two services can be purchased separately or combined.
Website Hosting Care
Focuses on hosting, website maintenance, routine content updates, and website performance reporting on eligible plans. It does not include ongoing SEO strategy or dedicated SEO implementation.
Compare hosting care plans →SEO Care
Focuses on organic search performance, SEO strategy, keyword tracking, and hands-on optimization. SEO Growth and SEO Performance Partner also include monthly SEO-focused content creation.
Compare SEO care plans →Additional work. Work beyond the included monthly allowance requires prior written approval and is billed at $50/hour unless otherwise quoted.
Implementation limitations. SEO implementation is subject to CMS capabilities, available access permissions, and technical feasibility. Custom development and work requiring external contractors are excluded from the monthly retainer and require separate written approval.
SEO results. Rankings, organic traffic, leads, and conversions are not guaranteed. Results depend on factors including competition, website condition, search engine changes, and implementation.
Scoped after a look, not before
These three services cannot carry a fixed price honestly. A five-page site built last year and a three-hundred-page site with a decade of history need very different work, and the number depends on what is already there. Each one is quoted after a short conversation and a look at your site, so the figure you get is the figure you pay.
SEO & GEO Audit & Strategy Roadmap
A technical, content, and competitive review of your site, ending in a prioritized roadmap you can act on with or without me.
Number of pages, how the site is built, and how many competitors need analyzing.
See what’s included →Technical SEO Fix Plan
A prioritized, step-by-step plan for the technical issues holding your rankings back, from crawl and indexation problems to Core Web Vitals, with developer-ready documentation your team can act on.
How many issues surface, how severe they are, and how your site is built.
See what’s included →SEO & GEO Content Strategy
Keyword and prompt research, content mapping, and page-by-page briefs built for traditional search and AI answers alike.
How many pages you are targeting, how competitive the terms are, and the depth of research needed.
See what’s included →Need the website itself built?
Website builds are quoted in three packages, with the first year of hosting included. Every Care plan is designed to sit on top of one.
Not sure which plan fits?
Book a free 30-minute call. We will look at your site together and I will tell you honestly which tier makes sense, or whether you need one at all.