The essential monthly SEO maintenance plan for small businesses ready to protect their rankings and build momentum over time. Light on scope, heavy on fundamentals.
Spark is the right plan if you're a small business that:
If you're in a competitive market trying to climb fast, or a high-growth practice in a crowded niche, you'll outgrow Spark quickly. Most of those businesses start at Blaze ($900/mo) instead.
Full site crawl every month checking for broken links, indexing issues, slow pages, missing meta tags, duplicate content, and schema problems. Technical errors silently kill rankings — this catches them early.
Your target keywords tracked weekly so you always know exactly where you rank, what's climbing, and what's slipping. Every strategy decision backed by real data, not gut feeling.
We review your GBP listing every week to catch unauthorized edits, respond to reviews, and verify your info is current. A single bad edit can quietly drop your local rankings before you notice.
≈ 1 blog post OR equivalent site updates — schema tweaks, meta tag optimization, or page improvements. Audit-found fixes come out of these hours too — when the monthly crawl surfaces issues, we triage the highest-impact ones first so your time goes where it moves the needle.
A typical Spark month in the life of a small business client:
Most of the work happens quietly. You'll hear from us when there's something you need to know or approve — not just to fill inbox space with activity reports.
Will: Hold your current rankings against algorithm updates and competitor moves. Catch technical regressions early. Keep your GBP active and well-maintained. Produce steady, incremental content that compounds over time.
Won't: Move you from invisible to dominant overnight. Win aggressive competitive markets through sheer content volume. Replace a needed foundation investment (if your site has no technical foundation, start with one of our setup packages before a retainer).
Upgrade when: you're plateauing at Spark and want growth, you're in a competitive local market, you want faster content output (2+ pieces/month), or you want competitor intelligence and a client portal. See Blaze details →
Technically you can start Spark without a setup, but if your site has technical issues or an unoptimized GBP, you'll waste months of retainer time fixing foundations that a one-time setup would have handled in week one. Most clients start with the $800 Local SEO Setup or $1,200 SEO Foundation Setup, then transition into Spark. See setups →
Yes, any time. Upgrading from Spark to Blaze or Inferno is one click — we swap the Square subscription and scale up deliverables the next month.
Buy additional à la carte — content work is $100/hr for retainer clients (25% off standard rate). Or upgrade to Blaze for the month if you're consistently hitting the ceiling.
Yes. Month-to-month, no contracts. Cancel through Square or by email and it stops at the next billing cycle.
Not as a core deliverable. Link building requires its own scope and budget. Retainer content naturally attracts links over time, and we handle citation-style links as part of local SEO work. For proactive link building campaigns, that's typically Blaze or Inferno scope plus add-on budget.
Spark is the lowest-commitment way to put a practitioner on your SEO every single month. No contract, cancel anytime. Result timelines vary by market and starting state — we prioritize the fastest-moving levers first so progress becomes visible as soon as the data supports it.
Start Spark — $500/mo Talk First