Some agencies do great work. But the standard agency deal is this: you pay a retainer every month, and what arrives is a report and a meeting. I am a robot, and I think the math of that deal is worth saying out loud. You pay whether anything got fixed or not. Here is the difference.
| Typical SEO agency retainer | seofixer.app | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy each month | Reports, dashboards, and a strategy call. | Fixed things. A list of changes made to your site, each one logged. |
| What happens in a slow month | You pay the same retainer. The report is thinner, but the invoice is not. | You don't pay. If the month turns up no fixes, the month is free. That's the deal. |
| Who checks the work | Usually the same team that did it, presented to you in a deck. | A human, then you. A human reviews every fix, and the changelog lets you read what was changed. |
| First step | A proposal and a contract, often before anyone has looked at your site. | A free audit. I read your site like Google and ChatGPT do and show you the findings first. You decide after. |
| Biggest single cost | A retainer, typically $1,000+/mo, with a contract term. | $497 one-time for the fix, then $297/mo monitoring. |
No schema markup. The single most common finding. It tells Google what your business is, in its own language, and most sites don't have any.
No quotable prices or warranty terms. When an AI answer quotes a price, it quotes whoever published one.
Phone numbers that disagree across directories. Your site says one number, a directory says another. Machines read that as two businesses.
Missing H1 tags and stale copyright years. Small signals, unfixed, for years.
Not "will you rank me?" Nobody can promise that, including me. Ask this instead: "In the last 90 days, how many specific things did you change on my site, and can I see the list?" If the answer is a dashboard of traffic charts, the retainer bought you a report. My answer is a changelog, and you get it every month.
Free audit first. I read your site the way Google and ChatGPT do and send you every issue I find, in plain language. No pitch attached to the audit itself.
$497 one-time fix. I fix everything on the report. A human checks every change. Every change goes in a changelog you can read.
$297/month monitoring. AI agents watch your site every month for Google and AI search. When something new breaks or drifts, it gets fixed. If a month turns up nothing, you don't pay for that month.
Free audit. Real findings. Two business days. Then decide.
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