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What professional SEO services include, how monthly retainers work, and what fair pricing looks like. SEO from Kihan Marketing starts at $1,500 per month.
We are an organic SEO agency, which means rankings come from pages that earn them, not from bought links. SEO services, monthly, with no long lock-in. SEO services, small business pricing from $1,500 a month, is what most owners want when they compare the best SEO company small business budgets can justify.
None of this is secret. Google's own SEO starter guide covers the same fundamentals, from the source.
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Professional SEO services combine technical fixes, on-page optimization, content, and authority building under a monthly retainer, and most US agencies charge roughly $1,500 to $5,000 per month. Kihan Marketing's SEO services start at $1,500 per month, run month to month with no long term contract, and typically show early movement in weeks and meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days.
If you are about to hire an agency, the most useful question is simple: what does the retainer actually cover. Professional SEO services are not one activity. A real program runs four workstreams in parallel: technical health, on-page optimization, content, and authority building. Agencies that sell only one of these, usually a monthly batch of blog posts or a pile of directory links, can bill you for a year without moving revenue.
On-page SEO services handle everything on the pages themselves: title tags, headings, page copy, internal links, and the structure that search engines and AI answer engines read. Technical work keeps the site crawlable and fast. Content closes the gap between what you sell and what buyers type into Google or ask ChatGPT. Authority work earns the links and mentions that make the rest of it rank. Organic SEO services means all of this working together, earning traffic you do not pay for click by click.
SEO services are sold monthly because the work is continuous. Rankings respond to a steady accumulation of fixes, content, and authority, not a one time push. Month one of a well run retainer is front loaded: a full audit, keyword and competitor research, and a prioritized roadmap. From month two the cadence repeats: ship technical and on-page fixes, publish content, build authority, measure, adjust.
The honest timeline looks like this: early movement in weeks, usually rising impressions and long tail rankings, then meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days as target pages start climbing. Competitive head terms take longer because trust has to accumulate. If an agency will not walk you through this curve before you sign, treat that as your first red flag.
| Phase | What a good agency delivers |
|---|---|
| First 30 days | Full audit, keyword and competitor research, roadmap, priority technical fixes |
| Weeks 3 to 8 | On-page fixes live, first content published, early movement on long tail terms |
| Days 60 to 90 | Meaningful traction: rising impressions, target pages climbing, first organic leads |
| Months 4 to 12 | Compounding growth: content library deepens, authority builds, cost per lead falls |
Timeline reality check
Expect early movement in weeks and meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days. Anyone promising page one rankings in 30 days is either targeting terms nobody searches or gambling with tactics that get sites penalized.
Most agencies price SEO one of three ways: a monthly retainer, an hourly rate, or a fixed project fee. The retainer is the standard for ongoing growth because the work never really finishes. Across the US market, serious retainers for small and mid sized businesses commonly land between $1,500 and $5,000 per month, with hourly consulting typically in the $100 to $300 range.
What moves the price is competition and scope: how contested your keywords are, how many pages and locations you need, the condition of your site, and how much content has to be produced. Be wary of the bottom of the market. Packages priced at a few hundred dollars per month cannot fund real work, so they substitute thin content and junk links, which can leave your site worse off than doing nothing.
| Pricing model | Typical US range | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly retainer | Roughly $1,500 to $5,000 per month | Ongoing growth, the standard way to buy SEO |
| Hourly consulting | Commonly $100 to $300 per hour | Audits, second opinions, supporting an in house team |
| One time project | Often $5,000 to $30,000 by scope | Migrations, technical cleanups, site rebuilds |
| Cheap bulk packages | Under $500 per month | Rarely anyone. This tier usually means thin content and spam links |
Kihan Marketing pricing
We publish our starting prices. SEO services start at $1,500 per month, growth packages start at $3,000 per month, and website design starts at $5,000. Everything runs month to month with no long term contract.
Every agency pitch sounds similar, so judge them on verifiable behavior instead of promises. The pattern behind professional SEO services is transparency: clear pricing, a written monthly scope, plain language explanations, and reporting tied to leads rather than vanity metrics. Use this checklist on every sales call you take, including ours.
Walk away from guarantees
Google's own guidance warns that no one can guarantee a number one ranking. An agency that guarantees positions is either picking keywords nobody searches or using shortcuts that trade a quick spike for long term damage.
Kihan Marketing is a Seattle web development and SEO agency serving businesses across the US. Our honest pitch is structural, not magical: we do web design and SEO under one roof. Most SEO engagements stall at implementation, where the agency writes recommendations and your developer queue buries them. Because we build websites ourselves, technical fixes, page speed work, and new landing pages actually ship instead of sitting in a PDF.
We also price the way we would want to buy. Starting prices are published: SEO services start at $1,500 per month, growth packages start at $3,000 per month for businesses that want a faster pace, and website design starts at $5,000 when the site itself is the bottleneck. Everything is month to month with no long term contract, which means we have to re-earn the engagement every 30 days. That is exactly the accountability you should demand from any agency.
Getting a number is simple. Call (425) 954-3452 or request a proposal, and you will have a scoped plan with exact pricing within one business day, free. If we are not the right fit, the proposal still tells you what needs doing.
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Call (425) 954-3452 for a free proposal. You get a scoped plan and exact monthly pricing within one business day, with no long term contract attached.
Most US agencies charge roughly $1,500 to $5,000 per month for a serious retainer, and hourly consulting commonly runs $100 to $300 per hour. Kihan Marketing’s SEO services start at $1,500 per month and growth packages start at $3,000 per month, billed month to month with no long term contract.
Expect early movement in weeks, usually rising impressions and long tail rankings, and meaningful traction in 60 to 90 days. Competitive head terms take longer because authority has to build. Any agency promising first page rankings in 30 days is either targeting terms nobody searches or using tactics that risk penalties.
Not with us. Kihan Marketing runs month to month with no long term contract. Many agencies require 6 or 12 month commitments, and while SEO is genuinely a multi month effort, the commitment should come from results, not paperwork. Month to month terms keep the agency accountable every 30 days.
On-page SEO services optimize what is on your pages: titles, headings, copy, internal links, and structure. Technical SEO fixes how the site works underneath: crawlability, speed, indexing, and schema markup. A professional retainer includes both, because a great page Google cannot crawl properly will not rank no matter how good the content is.
Usually no. Packages priced at a few hundred dollars per month cannot fund real content, real technical work, or real outreach, so they tend to deliver thin AI content and low quality directory links. That can leave a site worse off than doing nothing. If budget is tight, a smaller scope done properly beats a large scope done badly.
At Kihan Marketing, yes. Content is a core workstream of the retainer alongside technical fixes, on-page optimization, and authority building. When comparing agencies, always ask whether content is included or billed separately, because a retainer that excludes content often stalls once the initial technical fixes are done.
Yes. SEO services do not require rebuilding your site, and we work on WordPress and other platforms. That said, web design and SEO under one roof is our strongest setup, because recommendations get implemented directly instead of waiting on a third party developer. If the site itself is holding rankings back, we will say so plainly. Website design starts at $5,000.
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