A good website nobody can find is just an expensive brochure.
Digital Growth is the ongoing work that builds your search presence: content, Google Business, reviews, local visibility and conversion. $450 a month, everything in Website Care included.
Maintenance protects the asset. Growth develops it.
Website Care — $59/mo
Hosting, updates, backups, security, monitoring, bug fixes and content changes. It keeps what you have working. It does not, on its own, bring you more enquiries.
Digital Growth — $450/mo
Everything in Care, plus content, Google Business management, reviews, local SEO, keyword tracking and conversion work. This is the part that grows visibility over months.
Every month, on your account
New to paying for ongoing work? Start with the difference between maintenance and growth in our guide to website maintenance costs.
What we will not promise you
Why three months minimum: content needs to be indexed, reviews need to accumulate and local signals take time to register. Judging this work after four weeks tells you nothing. If it is not working by month six, we will tell you before you have to ask.
Who this is genuinely for
A good fit
Local service businesses — trades, clinics, contractors, studios — who get work through search and referral, already do good work, and have a site that does not reflect it.
Not a fit
Businesses wanting instant results, national e-commerce competing on ad spend, or anyone who needs a rebuild first. If your site is the problem, we will quote a build instead.
Digital Growth, answered plainly
How much does SEO cost for a small business?
Our Digital Growth plan is $450 a month, billed quarterly at $1,350. In the UK and US, dedicated SEO retainers commonly run from $500 to $1,500 a month, and agency-tier local SEO in Australia frequently sits above that. We are deliberately at the lower end because we bundle it with hosting and maintenance rather than selling it as a standalone service.
What is the difference between website maintenance and SEO?
Maintenance protects the asset; growth develops it. Maintenance keeps the site secure, updated, backed up and online — necessary, but it does not by itself bring more enquiries. Digital Growth is the separate ongoing work of building search presence: content, Google Business Profile, reviews, local signals and conversion improvements.
How long before I see results from SEO?
Expect early movement in impressions and Google Business views within four to eight weeks, and meaningful change in enquiries between three and six months. Content has to be indexed, reviews have to accumulate and local signals take time to register. Anyone promising results in weeks is describing paid advertising, not search.
Do you guarantee first page Google rankings?
No, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does. Nobody controls Google’s results, so a guarantee is either inexperience or a sales tactic. What we commit to is the work that reliably builds search presence over time, reported monthly in plain language — including the months where progress is slow.
What exactly do you do each month?
Two researched and published blog posts, four Google Business Profile posts, review generation and response management, tracking of fifteen keywords, ongoing on-page optimisation, five local citations a month for the first three months, conversion improvements to calls-to-action and forms, and a monthly report with a call.
Why is there a three-month minimum?
Because judging search work after four weeks tells you nothing useful. Content needs to be crawled and indexed, and local signals compound slowly. Three months is the shortest honest window. After that it is a rolling arrangement with no lock-in.
Do I need Website Care as well?
Yes, and it is already included in the $450. Growth work requires technical control of the site — there is no safe way to optimise a website we cannot update, back up or roll back.
Is this local SEO or national SEO?
Local. Our Digital Growth plan is built for service businesses that win work within a defined area: trades, contractors, clinics, studios and professional services. Competing nationally on ad spend or against large e-commerce catalogues is a different discipline and a different budget.
Who writes the blog content?
We do, researched around what your customers actually search for rather than generic filler. You get a chance to review before anything is published, and everything is written to answer a real question a customer would ask.
What if it is not working?
We will tell you before you have to ask. If six months of honest work has not moved the numbers, the right answer might be a different channel, a rebuild, or nothing at all — and we would rather say that than keep invoicing you.
Want to know where you actually stand?
Send us your website and your Google listing. We will look at both and tell you honestly what is worth fixing first — whether or not that turns into work for us.