Most agencies hide the price. Here is ours, in full.

Most Canberra businesses pay between $500 and $1,700 a month with us, depending on how competitive your market is and how much content and link work you need. Across Australia the average retainer sits around $2,500 to $3,500 a month, so Canberra tends to cost less because local search competition here is lighter than Sydney or Melbourne. We publish our prices in full above, with no quote call required.

Because you deserve to know what you are paying before you book a call. Most agencies make you fill in a form and sit through a sales pitch just to get a number, which wastes your time and hides how they cost their work. We list all three packages, what is in each one, and roughly where the hours go every month. If a price is not on a pricing page, that usually tells you something.

No. Every package is month to month with no lock-in. You can pause or cancel with 30 days notice. Long fixed contracts exist to protect the agency, not you, and they remove the pressure on us to keep earning your business each month. We would rather keep you because the work is paying off, so we keep our terms simple and let the results do the arguing.

Very little real work, and often real damage. A genuine SEO hour costs $100 to $300, so a $99 to $200 package buys under an hour a month, which is why those services rely on automated spam and low-quality links. Those tactics can trigger a Google penalty that costs thousands to recover from. Cheap SEO is not a saving, it is a bill you pay later.

Foundations at $500 a month suits a small local business in a low-competition niche and covers the technical basics, on-page work and your Google Business Profile. Growth at $1,200 adds more content and active link building for businesses chasing competitive local terms. Authority at $1,700 is for competitive or multi-location work with senior strategy, heavier content and digital PR. The main difference is how many hours go into content and links each month.

Most businesses see early movement in three to six months, with stronger results building from six to twelve months. SEO compounds, so the work you pay for this month keeps returning value long after. If you need customers this week, SEO is the wrong tool on its own and we will tell you so, because paid ads are faster for immediate demand. We report progress every month so you can see exactly what is moving.

Because there is less competition for most Canberra search terms. Fewer businesses are fighting for the same local keywords, so it takes fewer hours and fewer links to reach page one. That lower difficulty is why our packages start at $500 a month when many Sydney and Melbourne agencies start at $2,500 or more. You are paying for the result, and in Canberra the same result costs less to win.

It is worth it when the value of the extra work outweighs the retainer, and for most Canberra service businesses that bar is low. If one new customer is worth a few hundred dollars or more, a single extra job a month often covers the fee, and everything past that is profit. The calculator above lets you test this against your own numbers. Where it does not stack up, usually very high cost per lead or a tiny margin, we will say so rather than sell you a plan.

Because it is skilled people spending real hours, not a piece of software. A month of work covers technical fixes, on-page optimisation, genuinely written content, earning links, managing your local profile and reporting, and a competent SEO hour costs $100 to $300. That is why anything priced like a subscription app is not doing the work. It is not that good SEO is overpriced, it is that cheap SEO is not really SEO.

Enough to fund real work, and no more than the maths supports. For most small Canberra businesses that is $500 to $1,200 a month: enough hours to make steady progress without stretching the budget past what a few new customers can repay. Spending too little buys a token effort that never moves the needle, which is the worst value of all. Start where the numbers work, prove the return, then scale the spend as the results come in.

Every package covers the same core jobs, with more hours on each as you move up: a technical health check and fixes, on-page optimisation of your key pages, new content on a set cadence, Google Business Profile and local work, link building, and a plain-English monthly report. The comparison table above shows exactly how the hours and deliverables change between Foundations, Growth and Authority, so you can see what your money buys before you commit.