# SEO retainer

> SEO retainer at ellul.ai: £449 a month, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A business that wants steady growth from search.

- Price: £449 a month (monthly)
- Time: Monthly, rolling
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/seo-retainer

## What is included
- Keyword plan and technical fixes
- New and improved pages every month
- Monthly report on rankings, traffic and enquiries
- No long contract

## What other providers charge
Other agencies publish a median of £449.50 a month for SEO (338 prices, middle half £297.50 to £800). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/prices/seo/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
149 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for SEO retainer between November 2025 and November 2026, 72 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/freelance_forhire, r/forhire, r/SEO.

## What the buyer supplies
- Access to Google Search Console, Analytics and your site's editor
- The services, areas and customers you want to be found for

## What the price does not cover
- Google decides rankings; the fee covers the work, not a position
- No links are bought; a full site rebuild is quoted separately
- Search results usually take months to move, not weeks

## Rules that apply
- Google's spam policies class buying or selling links for ranking purposes as link spam, and say sites that break the policies may rank lower or not appear at all. Source: [Google Search Central: Spam policies](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies)
- Google's spam policies treat generating many pages mainly to manipulate search rankings as scaled content abuse. Source: [Google Search Central: Spam policies](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/seo-retainer#quote