Ours run $6,500 to $14,500 a month. Here's what sits in each band, what drives you up or down, and what a retainer should never be spent on.
Retainer pricing should be a function of work volume and complexity, not of your revenue. Ours is: $6,500 a month for a focused program, $14,500 for large catalogues with real technical debt and heavy production. Below is what actually sits inside each band.
If your agency can't say how many hours become shipped work, you're buying meetings.
— Arise GEO, Monthly SEO Retainer Pricing
Retainer size should track your backlog, not your revenue.
— Arise GEO, Monthly SEO Retainer Pricing
Technical remediation queue, content briefs, schema and entity work, monthly AI probe, and reporting — sized for one workstream at a time.
For $20M+ ecommerce and SaaS with real technical debt: parallel technical and content workstreams, full production, multi-market coverage and weekly cadence.
Catalogue and template count, markets and languages, engineering availability, content production volume, and whether paid media is in scope.
Monthly reports nobody reads, keyword lists with no owner, link buying, and 'strategy' hours that never become tickets.
We can promise this because our methodology already works. Hundreds of pages now sit in position #1 across our clients' catalogs. The risk shouldn't be on you — it's on us.
The $4,500 standalone audit. Below the $6,500 retainer we can't staff the cadence that makes retainers work, so we'd rather not take the money.
Three months minimum, then rolling monthly. The refund guarantee covers the 90-day plan.
Briefs at every band; full production at the upper band or as a scoped add-on.
Reporting is included, not billed separately — and it's a small share of the hours by design.
Audits scoped within 24 hours. Results within 90 days, or your money back.
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