Monthly SEO + GEO retainer — a fractional senior team that compounds your traffic
A retainer is only worth paying if it compounds. Most agencies sell hours and call them retainers. We sell program throughput: a fixed monthly cadence of content shipped, schema deployed, GBP posts pushed, indexing requests fired, and citation share measured. The same operating cadence we run on our own 10-site portfolio.
What ships every month
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Content
8–20 fully written and scheduled pages or posts (volume scales with retainer tier). Voice-matched, schema-aware, validation-passed. Includes city pillars, blog clusters, FAQ pages and product copy.
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Indexing
Google Indexing API + IndexNow on a 10-minute cron. GSC crawl monitoring with re-submission for any URL stuck in "Discovered – not indexed" past 14 days.
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GBP operations
Weekly post per location, monthly photo upload per location, review request flow active, NAP drift checks.
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Schema + technical
Schema graph maintenance as the catalog grows, hreflang and canonical hygiene, redirect map curation, sitemap re-submission, broken-link sweep.
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CWV + performance
Monthly Core Web Vitals review against CrUX field data. Regression hunts and fixes triggered when LCP/INP/CLS slip out of "Good".
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AI-citation tracking
Weekly probes across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on your tracked queries. Citation gap-to-fix loop into the content engine.
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Reporting
Monthly executive summary + raw data dump. We measure recoverable traffic, not vanity metrics.
Why a retainer compounds
Three flywheels. Each one alone is decent. Together they are how you become an organic traffic moat.
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Content velocity
A site that publishes 20 pages a month consistently outperforms a site that publishes 100 in a sprint and goes silent. Google rewards freshness signals over the long tail.
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Indexing speed
Pages indexed in hours rather than weeks accelerate the topical authority signal — and feed back into how Google ranks every page.
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Citation share
Every time the LLMs cite you instead of a competitor, you compound brand authority — which feeds back into rankings, click-through and downstream conversion.
Engagement model
Three tiers. All include the same flywheels — only the volume scales.
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Starter
$3,500/mo · 8 pages · 1 GBP · weekly indexing · monthly report
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Scale
$7,500/mo · 16 pages · up to 5 GBPs · weekly indexing + citation tracking · biweekly call
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Portfolio
$15,000+/mo · 30+ pages · multi-state GBP network · daily indexing + dashboard access · weekly call
What clients ask about SEO + GEO Monthly Retainer
No annual lock-in. Standard cancel terms: 30-day notice. We earn the renewal monthly. Most clients stay because the math compounds.
Yes — common for franchise businesses. We pre-build content during slow seasons and shift the cadence so peak season ships ahead of demand.
Either model works. We have replaced agencies, augmented in-house teams and run as the only SEO function. Most often we are the senior layer that an in-house junior team executes against.
Stand-alone projects (programmatic build, GEO setup, content agent) sit outside the retainer. The retainer maintains and compounds what those projects ship.
Tracked organic + AI-search metrics: indexed URLs, GSC clicks/impressions/CTR, Map Pack rank, CrUX field data, citation share per LLM. We share the dashboards live, not just slide screenshots.
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