Small business SEO services with the hours written down.
This page names the price and the hours behind it. You can see what $600/mo is resourced for and what ships in month one.
The SEO audit in the askotter portal. Example workspace, invented data.
How much do small business SEO services cost, and what do they include?
For a single-location small business in 2026, $600 to $1,000 a month is the working range for managed SEO and $1,500 to $3,000 is typical at a traditional agency. askotter charges $600/mo for managed SEO, resourced for roughly 12 to 16 hours a month of keyword research, technical fixes, content, publishing and reporting, with the owner approving each change. Self-managed is $99/mo, where the same analysis runs and the owner ships the changes.
- Price
- $600/mo managed. $99/mo self-managed and compute-metered.
- Hours
- Managed SEO is resourced for roughly 12 to 16 hours a month, broken down below.
- First results
- Technical fixes and the first content ship in month one. Ranking movement usually becomes visible in month three or four.
- Not for
- National brands needing enterprise strategy, businesses wanting guaranteed rankings, or anyone needing results inside 30 days.
Six steps, every month, in this order.
Keyword research
What your customers type, pulled from your own Search Console. Page-two terms get worked first.
Technical fixes
Crawl, speed, mobile, broken links, schema and the Google Business Profile, fixed before anything is written.
Content
Service pages, location pages and answers to what customers ask on the phone, edited by a person.
Publishing
Live on your site with internal links and schema, and submitted to the search engines.
Reporting
Clicks, positions and conversions from your own Search Console, with each change timestamped beside them.
What $600 of managed SEO buys each month.
Roughly 12 to 16 hours a month. The hours are what the plan is resourced for, not a timesheet.
| Attribute | Hours per month | What ships |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword and competitor research | 2 to 3 hours | A ranked list of terms worth working, with the page that should own each one. |
| Technical SEO | 2 to 3 hours | Crawl, index, speed and schema fixes, plus Google Business Profile upkeep. |
| Content production | 4 to 6 hours | Two to four published pages or substantial rewrites a month. |
| Publishing and internal linking | 1 to 2 hours | Everything live with internal links and schema attached. |
| Reporting and review | 2 hours | A report from your own Search Console and next month's priorities. |
| Answer engine optimization | Included | AI search visibility work at no add-on price. What that involves. |
What the loop did across the book.
Over each client's last three months against the prior three, in that client's own Search Console, organic clicks grew +109% on average per client, and the median client grew +124%.
An average is not a promise: the spread runs from +22% to +217%, and every client's own change is on the methodology page.
Two prices, one loop.
The analysis is identical on both plans. The difference is who ships the change.
You drive the builder and ship the changes Whiskers suggests. The platform does the analysis.
| Self-managed$99/moWebsite, SEO and the platform. Compute-based after that. | |
|---|---|
| Website and SEO | |
| AI web builder, unlimited edits | Included |
| Your site hosted on your own domain | Included |
| SEO: keywords, on-page, schema, rank tracking | Included |
| AI content recommendations, ready to publish | Included |
| Answer engine optimization | Included |
| askotter dashboard and change log | Included |
| Paid channels | |
| Google Ads + Meta Ads, connected and tracked | Add per channel |
| AI bidding and budget recommendations | With each channel |
| True ROAS against your real revenue | With each channel |
| How it runs | |
| Who ships each change | You |
| A person reviews every change before it ships | Not included |
| Ad accounts | Yours, you keep them |
| What moves the price | The compute you use |
| Cancel anytime | Included |
| Sign up for the free 14-day trial | |
The $99/mo covers your website and SEO on the platform. After that the price is compute-based. Ask Whiskers to run more analysis, or to watch more ad channels for you, and the bill scales with how much you use.
No setup fee. Ad spend is billed to you by Google and Meta.
Want a person to run it for you?
Our team builds and runs it. A person reviews every AI recommendation before it ships.
| What is included | PopularManaged SEO$600/moWe build it and run the SEO. | Managed + Ads$1,000/moEverything in Managed SEO, plus Google Ads and Meta Ads run by our team. |
|---|---|---|
| Website and SEO | ||
| We build and host your website | Included | Included |
| Monthly SEO, done for you | Included | Included |
| Content written, reviewed and published | Included | Included |
| Answer engine optimization, run for you | Included | Included |
| One site refresh per year | Included | Included |
| askotter dashboard and change log | Included | Included |
| Paid channels | ||
| Google Ads + Meta Ads management | Not included | Included |
| Monthly performance reviews | Not included | Included |
| Ad budget | Not needed | Under $10K/mo |
| How it runs | ||
| Who ships each change | Our team | Our team |
| A person reviews every change before it ships | Included | Included |
| Email marketing waterfall | Setup | Fully managed |
| Strategy calls | Not included | Monthly |
| Website is yours after six months | Included | Included |
| Get a free proposal | Get a free proposal | |
No setup fee. Cancel anytime. Ad spend is billed to you by Google and Meta.
Want to talk it through first? Book a 20-minute demo
Prefer to run it yourself?
Weighing an agency instead? askotter vs a local SEO agency. Need map rankings for one service area? Local SEO services.
Questions about small business SEO
How much should a small business pay for SEO?
How long before I see results?
Do I have to approve the changes?
Do you guarantee rankings?
Can I do it myself for less?
Start with the audit.
The free audit runs the same technical and keyword pass as month one, and you keep the findings.
Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.