SEO Services

SEO services built to compound, not spike and stall

Technical fixes, content built around real search demand, and links that hold up. Run by the same team handling your ads, so nothing gets optimised twice or missed entirely.

From $600 per month No long lock-in Delivered in-house

Why SEO stalls

You've probably paid for SEO before. Here's what usually went wrong.

Most businesses aren't new to SEO. They're new to SEO that actually moved something.

01

Reports instead of movement

Forty pages of charts every month showing impressions climbing, while the number of people actually contacting you stayed exactly the same.

02

Content written for a robot

Blog posts stuffed with a keyword nobody searching for your service would ever type, published on a schedule rather than for a reason.

03

Nobody touched the site itself

Your agency couldn't access the build, your developer wasn't briefed, and the technical problems holding everything back never got fixed.

04

Rankings for terms nobody buys on

Page one for a broad informational phrase that brings traffic and no enquiries, while the terms with real intent were never targeted.

What you get

What's included every month

The exact mix shifts with your situation. This is the shape of it.

Foundations

  • Technical audit and fixes covering crawling, indexation, speed, and structure
  • Keyword research based on commercial intent, not just search volume
  • Content mapping so every page has one job and one target
  • On-page optimisation across titles, headings, internal links, and schema
  • Analytics and Search Console set up properly so the data can be trusted

Ongoing work

  • Content production briefed by SEO and written by our writers
  • Link building through outreach and digital PR, never bought in bulk
  • Internal link architecture maintained as the site grows
  • Monthly reporting in plain English with a call attached to it
  • Quarterly strategy review where the plan changes if the data says it should

How we work

No black box, no mystery method

You'll know what we're doing, why, and what it's meant to produce before you pay anything.

STEP 01

Discovery call

Thirty minutes on your business, your market, and what you've already tried.

STEP 02

Audit and plan

We look at your site and your competitors and tell you what's actually holding you back.

STEP 03

Fix the foundations

Technical problems first. Content on a broken site is money spent on nothing.

STEP 04

Build and earn

Content against real demand, plus links earned through outreach rather than bought.

STEP 05

Review and adjust

Monthly, on a call, with a human. What moved, what didn't, and what changes next.

If your Google Ads run with us too, the two feed each other. Paid data shows which terms convert in weeks, so we know which ones deserve six months of SEO effort instead of guessing at the start.

Investment

What SEO costs with us

One number, agreed before we start. No hourly billing, no surprise line items.

Priced on your site, not on a package tier

A five-page local business and a two thousand product store need very different amounts of work. Pretending otherwise is how agencies end up underdelivering on one and overcharging on the other.

What moves the number: how big your site is, how competitive your market is, how much technical work is needed upfront, and how much content you want produced each month.

Starting from

$600

per month

Final pricing depends on scope. We give you one figure after the first call.

Get a scoped price

Worth knowing

SEO isn't right for every business

If it isn't right for yours, we'd rather say so on the first call than take a retainer we can't justify.

SEO makes sense if

  • People are already searching for what you sell, even if they aren't finding you
  • You can wait three to six months for compounding returns rather than needing leads this week
  • Your margins survive a customer acquisition cost that drops over time rather than rising
  • You want a channel you own rather than one you rent from an ad platform
  • Your site can be changed, or you're willing to let us change it

Start elsewhere if

  • You need enquiries inside thirty days. Ads will get you there, SEO won't
  • Nobody is searching for your product yet because the category doesn't exist
  • Your site converts badly. Sending more traffic to it just wastes more of it
  • You're testing SEO for a quarter to see if it works. It won't show its hand that fast
  • You want to approve every keyword, every link, and every sentence before it goes live

Common questions

Questions we get on SEO calls

Three to six months for meaningful movement in most markets, longer in competitive ones. Technical fixes can show up faster, sometimes within weeks, because you're removing something that was actively holding the site down.

Content and links take longer because they're building something rather than unblocking it.

No, and neither can anyone else. Google doesn't sell rankings and nobody controls the algorithm.

What we will do is tell you which terms are realistic for your site, roughly how long they should take, and what has to happen first. If someone guarantees you a position, ask them what happens when they miss it.

Yes, and it matters more than most people expect. A lot of SEO work is changes to the site itself rather than things done around it.

If you'd rather we work alongside your existing developer, that's fine too. We'll write the specifications and they can implement them.

The technical work and the content stay yours and keep working. Rankings usually hold for a while and then slowly slip as competitors keep moving and you don't.

SEO isn't a switch you flip once. But unlike ads, it doesn't stop the day you stop paying.

No. Bulk link packages are the fastest way to build something that collapses at the next algorithm update, and cleaning up after them costs more than doing it properly did.

We earn links through outreach and digital PR. It's slower and it holds.

The main structural difference is that our SEO, ads, content, and development teams are the same team. Nothing gets briefed across a company boundary, so the technical work actually gets done and the content is written by people who saw the keyword research.

The second difference is that we take on fewer clients, so nobody is running your account between eleven others.

Find out what's actually holding your site back

Thirty minutes, no pitch. We'll look at where you stand and tell you what we'd prioritise first.

Or email hello@culmen.digital
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