SEO Pricing
ScaledOn SEO engagements typically start at $2,000 a month. What you actually pay depends on what we find when we look at your site, and we look before we quote.
We run the analysis before any conversation about working together.
THE PRICE
What SEO costs at ScaledOn
Monthly SEO engagements typically start at
$2000
a month
Ongoing SEO across all four layers
Project work scoped and priced on its own
No long-term contracts, on any engagement
Project-based work is scoped separately, priced on the specific job rather than a monthly retainer. A technical cleanup, a site migration, or a one-time content build does not need an ongoing engagement, and we will tell you when that is the better fit.
No long-term contracts. That applies to every engagement we run.
WHY WE LOOK FIRST
Any Agency Can Quote You Today. That Is the Problem.
Two ways to price SEO. Only one starts with your business.
THE GENERIC WAY
TIER CHART
Pick a package
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Fit you into it
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Hope it works
Ask ten agencies what SEO costs and you will get ten numbers within a day, none of which are based on your website. They are based on a tier chart written before anyone had heard of your business.
THE SCALEDON WAY
Built For You
Analyze the site
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Name the elephant
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Price the right work
Before we agree to work with you, we analyze your site, your visibility, your rankings, and your competitors, and we tell you what is actually holding your traffic back. Then we price the work that fixes it.
We call it naming the elephant: the real problem standing between your business and growth. Sometimes it is one thing. More often it is two or three problems compounding.
That order matters for a practical reason. A business with a solid technical foundation and thin content needs a completely different engagement than a business with strong content that search engines cannot crawl properly. Priced from a tier chart, those two businesses pay the same. Priced from an analysis, they do not.
If we look and cannot find a clear path, we will tell you that too.
WHAT SETS YOUR NUMBER
Five things that move the price.
01
How much is broken underneath
A site with crawling problems, duplicate pages, or slow load times needs technical work before content has anywhere to land. Sites that have been through several redesigns or platform migrations usually need more of it.
02
How competitive your market is
Ranking for a term with four serious competitors is a different job than ranking for one with forty. We check what it actually takes to compete in your market before quoting it.
03
How many locations you have
One location is one set of local signals. Twelve locations is twelve sets, plus the work of keeping them from competing against each other in search results. This is the single biggest driver of price for multi-location businesses.
04
How much content you need built
Some businesses have years of useful pages that need reorganizing. Others are starting close to empty. Building is more expensive than fixing.
05
Whether you need AI visibility work
Showing up in Google’s AI answers and in tools like ChatGPT is a separate body of work from ranking in traditional results. Most businesses have close to zero presence there right now. Some need it urgently, some can wait, and we will tell you which you are.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
Every SEO Engagement
Covers Four Layers
In an ongoing engagement, these four layers are not a menu you pick two items from. They depend on each other: content that search engines cannot crawl will not rank, and a page ranking well in Google can still be absent from AI answers. So every ongoing engagement covers all four, weighted toward whatever your analysis says needs the most attention. That weighting is where your number comes from, not which boxes you check.
01. FOUNDATION
Technical SEO
Making sure search engines can find, read, and trust your pages. Crawling, indexing, site speed, site structure, and schema, which is the language AI systems read to decide who to trust.
02. authority
Content that builds your standing
Pages and blog posts built around what your customers actually search and ask, not the terms that look best in a ranking report. This is what makes search engines and AI tools treat you as a credible source on your subject.
03. discovery
AI Visibility
Structuring your content so AI platforms select your business as the source when someone asks a question. Answer Engine Optimization covers being chosen for AI answers. Generative Engine Optimization covers becoming a brand AI tools reference by name. Both are running work with proof behind them, not a service we are planning to offer. See Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization.
04. local reach
Local Visibility
For businesses with physical locations, this is Google Business Profile management, location pages that are genuinely different from each other, review volume, and local schema. For multi-location businesses it is also the work of getting your locations to reinforce each other instead of splitting your own search results.
Plus monthly reporting that connects the work to the number that runs your business, whether that is booked appointments, qualified leads, enrollments, or revenue. Not rankings in isolation.
What if you only need one thing fixed?
Then we quote that one thing. A local visibility build, a technical cleanup, a migration, a set of pages: if it is a defined job with a finish line, we scope it and price it on its own. You do not have to buy an ongoing engagement to get it.
What project work will not do is hold a position once you have it. Rankings move because competitors keep working and search engines keep changing, and a project ends. If your goal is to get somewhere and stay there, that is what the monthly engagement is for. If your goal is to fix a specific problem, a project is the honest answer and we will say so.
Already working with us? The engagement grows with the business. Open new locations, launch a new product line, decide AI visibility has moved from someday to urgent: that comes in as a change order, scoped and priced on its own and added to your current engagement. What we are already running for you continues as it is. You are not repricing the whole engagement, renegotiating an agreement, or waiting for a renewal date to get started on the new work.
Proof First
SEO Results From Accounts We Manage
174%
more leads
Home improvement brand, from 272 to 747 leads per month
38%
more traffic
Continuing education institution, plus 69% higher conversion in six months
251%
organic traffic growth
Regional power equipment retailer, technical and content build
who this is not for
If You Are Looking for $99 SEO, We Are Not It
There is a market for SEO at a few hundred dollars a month, and it is a real market. At that price the work is automated: bulk directory submissions, template pages, an automated report. Some businesses get something out of it.
We do not compete there and we will not pretend to.
Our engagements involve a technical specialist, a content strategist, and a strategist who owns the account, and that is why the number typically starts at $2,000.
Two cases where we will tell you not to hire us:
Your site may not need SEO yet.
If your website is small, brand new, and in a market with almost no search competition, SEO may not be your constraint yet. Paid ads or fixing your conversion path often move revenue faster at that stage.
SEO cannot manufacture demand.
If nobody is searching for what you sell, SEO cannot manufacture demand. We will say so rather than sell you an engagement that cannot work.
COMMON QUESTIONS
What business owners ask before they start.
Most agencies charge between $500 and $7,000 a month, and the range is wide because the work varies that much. ScaledOn SEO engagements typically start at $2,000 a month. Project-based work, like a technical cleanup or a site migration, is scoped and priced separately. What you pay depends on your site’s technical condition, how competitive your market is, how many locations you have, how much content needs building, and whether you need AI visibility work.
An SEO package is a bundled monthly plan covering technical fixes, content, and authority building for one price. Most packages are priced from a tier chart rather than from your website. We price after analyzing your site, so the work matches what is actually wrong instead of what fits a preset tier.
Because tiers are set before anyone has looked at your site. Two businesses paying for the same tier can need completely different work. We publish our starting point openly, then quote the specific engagement after the analysis.
Technical SEO helps search engines crawl, read, and trust your site. Content SEO establishes you as a credible source. Local SEO handles map results, Google Business Profile, and location pages. AI visibility gets your business selected in AI-generated answers. Every ongoing ScaledOn engagement covers all four, weighted by what your analysis shows.
Yes, if it is a defined job with a finish line. We scope it and price it as a project. If your goal is to reach a position and stay there, the monthly engagement is usually the better fit. We will tell you which one your situation calls for.
It depends on what is broken. Technical fixes can move results in two to four weeks. Content authority builds over three to six months. AI visibility takes longer because it depends on a consistent body of credible content. After the analysis, we give you a timeline based on your data.
Three months is enough to fix technical problems and see early movement. It is not usually enough to build content authority or AI visibility, both of which compound over quarters. We would rather tell you the real timeline up front.
No. There are no long-term contracts on any ScaledOn engagement. If the work is not producing, you should be able to leave.
See What Is Actually Holding Your Traffic Back
We analyze your site, your visibility, and your competitors, and we tell you what we find before there is any conversation about working together. You will see where your technical setup, content, AI visibility, or local presence is falling short, and what it would realistically take to fix. If we do not see a path, we will tell you that instead.