What happens in the first month?
It starts with the audit: a full crawl and human review of indexing, site structure, speed, and content gaps, ranked by what will actually move positions. Rank tracking is set up and shared with you in week one, and the first fixes ship before the month is out — you can watch both happen.
How long until results show?
Months, not days — anyone promising page one in a week is selling something else. Technical fixes can move positions within weeks; competitive keywords usually take several months of compounding work. The shared tracker means you see every movement along the way, in both directions.
What exactly gets tracked?
Your target keywords, checked continuously against live Google results for the locations and languages your customers search in. Positions are charted over time alongside clicks and the pages earning them — not simulated indexes or vanity impressions.
How often do we get reports?
The rank-tracking dashboard is live around the clock — open it whenever you like. On top of that you get a monthly written report in plain English: what moved, why it moved, and what we are doing next. While active fixes are shipping, you also get short weekly checkpoint notes.
Who owns the data and the accounts?
You do. Search Console, analytics, and the rank tracker are set up in your name or transferred to it. If we ever part ways, you keep every account, every report, and every ranking we earned — nothing is held hostage.
What does the retainer look like?
An audit first, always — it stands alone, and you keep it either way. If we continue, the retainer runs a monthly loop: priorities, fixes shipped, tracking, and a plain-English report. No long lock-ins; the shared tracker is the reason to stay, not a contract clause.
What drives the cost?
Four things: how many keywords and markets we track, how much content needs to be built or restructured, how much technical debt the site carries, and how competitive your terms are. We quote after the audit, never before it — a number given sooner would be a guess.
Why transparent rank tracking?
Because the reputation problem in SEO is opacity. When you watch the same dashboard we do, wins are verifiable, losses are undeniable, and every decision gets made on shared facts instead of a monthly PDF you have to take on faith.
Do you guarantee rankings?
No — and you should be wary of anyone who does, because Google’s organic results are not for sale. What we guarantee is the work itself, measurement you can verify any day of the week, and a straight answer when something is not working.
Is SEO the right spend for us right now?
Sometimes it is not, and the audit will say so. If the site is slow, broken, or built on the wrong foundation, that money is better spent fixing the website first. The right fit: you want durable search visibility and can invest in months of compounding work, not an overnight spike.
