Pricing for SEO
Three sizes of engagement. The middle one carries the guarantee and is where most accounts belong. Each one shows where its price starts. Yours is quoted after a free review of your site, attached to a scope you can read.
A monthly fee against a written target. No percentage of anything.
Certified across the platforms we buy on. 150+ businesses, 7 years.
The SEO offer
A 50% increase in organic traffic, keyword rankings or direct enquiries within 90 days of the engagement starting. Miss it and you get a full refund of every retainer fee you have paid, plus $1,000 out of our own pocket.
Applies to the Growth and Scale sizes. Written into the contract before you pay.
Published prices and survey figures, checked on 3 October 2026. Every one is linked so you can read it where it was printed.
| Band | Monthly price | Where the figure comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Low | $499 to $575 | Profile-only local work: Whitespark at $499, WebFX local SEO from $575 |
| Typical | $1,000 to $2,500 | Backlinko survey of 300+ SEO professionals. BrightLocal managed local SEO is $1,299 |
| High | $2,800 to $9,200 | WebFX published plans, with $8,600 to $21,400 due for the first two months. The Ahrefs agency average is $3,209 |
| Mavix | From $1,000 a month, no setup fee | A monthly fee against a written target. No percentage of anything. |
Growth is more than local SEO: it adds new pages, earned links, conversion work and email follow-up, which is why it starts above the local range.
Sources: WebFX SEO pricing, Ahrefs SEO pricing survey, Backlinko SEO pricing survey, BrightLocal managed local SEO, Whitespark SEO services.
What you get
Each size shows where its price starts. The review decides which one fits, and your price is quoted against it in writing.
One market, the basics done properly
From $1,000 a month
A single-location business that is invisible for what it sells and needs the groundwork before anything else.
The full engagement, with the guarantee
From $2,500 a month
A business with a working sales process that wants more enquiries from search within a quarter, and can give access and approve changes.
A 50% increase in 90 days, or you get a refund plus $1,000.
Multiple locations, a catalogue, or a national market
From $5,000 a month
Multi-location businesses, online stores and companies competing on national terms, where the volume of pages and the technical surface are much larger.
In every size
Naming what is not included is what makes the inclusions believable.
A site with clean tracking, healthy indexing and an existing base of pages needs a fraction of the work of one that has to be repaired before anything can rank. The first month of a broken site is repair, and it is priced as repair.
A specialist B2B term with four serious competitors is a different job from a home service in a major metro against national franchises. Same work, different volume of it.
Written by people and researched properly, with your specialists interviewed where a page needs real expertise. Content volume is usually the largest single difference between two otherwise similar engagements.
If your developer can action a written specification, the engagement is smaller. If the changes are made here, directly on the site, it is larger and it moves faster.
After you say yes
What happens between the free review and your first monthly report, whether you are moving from another agency, an in-house team, or doing it yourself.
A person reads the site and, where you give access, Search Console and analytics. You get a written baseline, the findings in order, and a scoped price.
Read access to Search Console and GA4, the current numbers recorded in your own accounts, and a copy sent to you. The 90 days start here.
Tracking checked and fixed so enquiries are counted, technical blockers cleared, the keyword map assigned to pages. Every change logged.
The first money pages rewritten or published, internal links built, and the first monthly report with the founder, opening with enquiries.
After day 30. Months two and three build the pages that earn, earn the first links and work the landing pages. Day 90 is when the guarantee is measured against the baseline from week one.
It is, if these three are true.
Not sure? The free review says so plainly, and points at the service that fits instead.
The other option
Every row is a difference in how the two are set up, not a claim about results. Some businesses are right to hire. This is how to tell.
| Factor | In-house | Mavix |
|---|---|---|
| Team | One or two hires covering everything | A dedicated account manager, specialists per channel, the founder on every monthly review |
| Expertise | Depends on who you can hire and keep | Search, paid ads and email run as one team, on accounts across many industries |
| Cost structure | Salary, benefits and tools, whether or not results arrive | A monthly fee against a written target, or per qualified lead on paid ads |
| Hiring | Weeks to months to recruit, plus the risk of a wrong hire | None. The free review comes first, and work starts once access is granted |
| Training | Yours to fund and keep current as the platforms change | Included. Certified on the platforms the work runs on |
| Tools | Licences bought and learned by you | The research, tracking and reporting tools are part of the engagement |
| Strategy | Set by whoever is available | Written into a scope after the review, with a target attached |
| Execution | Limited by one person's hours | Changes logged weekly, implemented directly where you give access |
| Reporting | Whatever the platform exports | A monthly report that opens with enquiries, not impressions |
| Account management | You manage the person | One named contact, and the founder in the monthly review |
| Scaling up or down | Another hire, or a redundancy | A scope change between sizes, month to month with thirty days notice |
| Ownership | Yours | Yours. Every account, page and file, including the day you leave |
Has this worked before
Every figure is read off the client's own account, with the screenshot beside it and the period stated. Open one for the full story.
La Vela CoffeeSEO
+146%organic clicks
My Favorite TherapistsSEO
99.6Ksearch impressions
All Dogs RockSEO
45.5%of engaged sessions are organic
Reviews
4.9 out of 5 from 22 published reviews
I have been in business long enough to know that every agency has a presentation about why they are different. That part doesn't interest me. What mattered to us was whether they understood our market and whether they would actually do the work after the meeting was over. So far, they've been practical, responsive and consistent. We discuss priorities, the team works on them, and we review what was done. I prefer that kind of relationship.
I am probably not the easiest person to build a landing page for because I change my mind constantly. First I wanted it minimal. Then more colour. Then less colour. Then I hated the headline. Then I wanted the old headline back. 😂 What I liked was that the team didn't get irritated or disappear every time I asked for another round of changes. We kept working through it until it finally felt like us.
My son said we needed SEO. I said fine, but I didn't want to hear about it every week. Mavix sorted the important stuff and kept it simple.
Photos are illustrative. Every quote is the client's own words.
Before you decide
It is where that size starts. A single-location business with a healthy site pays the starting price or close to it. More locations, more competitive searches or more content move it up, and the four things that move it are listed above. Your price comes after the free review, in writing, attached to a scope you can read. There is no setup fee.
Growth and Scale. A 50% increase in organic traffic, keyword rankings or direct enquiries within 90 days of the engagement starting. Miss it and you get a full refund of every retainer fee you have paid, plus $1,000 out of our own pocket. Foundation is groundwork on a single market and is not big enough to carry that promise honestly.
Technical fixes on an established site can show inside weeks. Competitive commercial rankings take a quarter or more. Day ninety is when the guarantee is measured, and the timeline above says what will have happened by when.
Month to month, with thirty days notice. Search gets three months before it is judged, because it cannot be judged fairly in less, and that is advice rather than a clause.
Yes, and it is a sensible route for a single-location business. Prove the groundwork works, then widen. Moving between plans is a scope change, not a new contract.
No. Google names bought links and private blog networks in its spam policies and the penalty lands on your domain. Links here are earned from real sites, and the monthly report shows where each one came from.
The first month usually carries more work than the months after it, because that is when the audit, tracking and foundation work happen. Whether that appears as a higher first month or a separate setup line depends on the scope, and it is stated plainly in the proposal either way. Nothing appears after you have signed.
No revenue share, and no percentage of anything. Search is a monthly fee against a written target, and the target sits in the contract with the guarantee behind it.
A dedicated account manager runs the account week to week, specialists do the technical, content and link work, and the founder sits in every monthly review. You have one named contact throughout.
The review comes first, so nothing is switched off before the new baseline is recorded. Access is transferred, the starting numbers are written down in your own Search Console and GA4, and the work starts from there. Nothing is deleted or redirected before it has been measured.
A monthly report that opens with enquiries, a log of every change made that month, and a review with the founder. In between, your account manager is the person you email or call.
Month to month, with thirty days notice, and you own every account, page and file on the way out. Moving between Foundation, Growth and Scale is a scope change, not a new contract.
What happens if you say yes
Send the site and, where you are comfortable, access to the accounts. You get a written review and a price for the Growth size or whichever fits, and you keep both whether you hire us or not.
No obligation, and no automated follow-up sequence.
Free review
A 50% increase in 90 days, or you get a refund plus $1,000. Yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
