Aggressive content, advanced schema, AI Overview conquest, and priority support. The plan for small businesses in competitive markets who want to stop playing defense and start taking ground.
Inferno is the aggressive small business SEO tier. It's the right fit if:
Inferno is still small business SEO — it's not an enterprise tier. If you need a dedicated team of 10 and six-figure spend, Phoenix Method isn't the right shop. But if you're a small business that wants a serious SEO engine without agency overhead, Inferno is the top of our stack.
Monthly technical audit, weekly rank tracking, weekly GBP monitoring, 2 hrs Spark content, 6 hrs Blaze content, competitor surveillance, and client portal access.
≈ 3-4 content pieces per month — blog posts, landing page builds, or comprehensive page rewrites. Audit-found SEO fixes pull from these hours too — when the monthly crawl surfaces issues, we work them in alongside content. Aggressive growth at scale. You set priorities, we execute at speed.
Documented schema types — FAQ, HowTo, Review, Article, LocalBusiness, Service, Product, and similar — implemented on your pages and maintained each month. Earns rich results in Google and positions your content for AI Overview citations. Most competitors don't bother with this layer.
Your requests jump to the front of the queue. Urgent changes, time-sensitive content, and quick-turn requests are handled same-day whenever possible. Direct line and faster response than any other tier.
Ongoing identification of pages eligible for Google AI Overview citations, restructuring them for citation-worthy format, and tracking citation wins over time. The new frontier of search visibility, baked into your monthly plan.
Your personalized Notion dashboard — real-time rankings, current-month deliverables and their status, content calendar, monthly reports, competitor intelligence, billing, and direct messaging with us — all in one place. Updated every month. You always know exactly where your SEO stands and what's coming next.
A typical Inferno month:
Inferno pace is roughly double Blaze output. If Blaze is "active growth," Inferno is "market domination." The work volume is where the difference shows up.
Will: Produce aggressive ranking movement across a broad keyword footprint. Build genuine topical authority over a sustained engagement — timelines vary by market, competition, and starting state. Earn rich results and AI Overview citations. Keep you ahead of local competitors who aren't investing at this level. Handle urgent work without making you wait a week.
Won't: Compete with enterprise brands on their branded terms. Replace the need for a strong site foundation. Produce results from a broken or dormant business — SEO amplifies what's working; it can't rescue a business model that isn't.
Downgrade when: growth goals stabilize, market competition eases, or budget tightens seasonally. You keep all the foundation Inferno built; you just slow the content pace. See Blaze details →
An SEO blog post (typically 1,200-2,000 words), a new landing page built from scratch, or a substantial rewrite of an existing page. Schema-only work counts as hours but not as a "content piece." We plan the mix with you each month based on what's going to move the needle most.
Urgent site changes, time-sensitive content, and quick-turn requests handled same-day whenever possible. Same-day isn't guaranteed for every request (some things take longer by necessity), but Inferno clients get to the front of the queue and have a faster direct line than other tiers.
For most, yes. Most small businesses are better served by Blaze. Inferno is specifically for competitive markets, multi-location operators, or businesses with aggressive growth targets where the extra content volume and schema depth produce meaningful competitive advantage. If you're not sure, we'll be honest — Blaze is often the right answer.
Yes. Month-to-month through Square. Cancel anytime and it stops at the next billing cycle.
Not as a standard plan. Clients who outgrow Inferno typically need paid media, dedicated PR, or larger content output — all available as custom-scoped engagements we can coordinate on. We'll have an honest conversation about what you need next if you get to that point.
The retainer is organic SEO only, but paid advertising is available as a separately scoped custom engagement alongside your retainer if you want coordinated paid and organic.
Inferno is the aggressive small business SEO plan. Competitive markets, multi-location, AI Overview conquest, priority support. No contract, cancel anytime.
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