How much does SEO cost in Australia?
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Most Australian agencies charge between $1,500 and $10,000 a month, and that range says more about scope than quality. The Growth System runs at $6,500 a month and Agentic Search Engineering at $11,000 a month, on a monthly, 6-month or 12-month term. You enter through the Agentic Website Full Build at $12,000, or the Agentic Migration at $3,000 if your current design is worth keeping. A cheap retainer usually buys a report and a blog post. Ours buys 30 to 50 shipped production units a month, which is the number actually worth comparing.
How much does SEO cost for a small business?
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Between about $1,000 and $3,500 a month covers most small businesses, and for a local business in a market without heavy competition the lower end genuinely works. Our programs start at $6,500 a month plus a one-off build, which is built for businesses fighting for a whole market. That said, if you run a local business and you are serious about winning search, talk to us anyway. We would rather look at your market and tell you honestly what it needs than have you assume the door is shut.
Is SEO a good investment?
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It compounds where ads do not, which is the whole case. A ranking you earn keeps returning traffic after the work is done; a paused ad stops the same day. The risk is not the channel, it is buying activity instead of output. Compare agencies on units shipped and numbers moved, not on hours or on the size of the report.
SEO retainer or project: which is better?
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A project fixes a known problem, a retainer wins a market. Take a project when you need a migration, a rebuild or an audit and you have a team to act on it. Take a retainer when the goal is continuous ground gained, because search rankings move weekly and a quarterly engagement cannot respond to that.
Do I have to sign a 12-month contract?
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No. Both retainers run monthly, on 6 months or on 12 months, and you choose. Longer terms exist because compounding work rewards them, not because we need to lock you in. You own the site, repository, content and data from day one, so leaving is a notice period rather than a negotiation.
What is included in the retainer?
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Everything on the pricing page, with no line-item extras. Audits and diagnostics run continuously, the 90-day plan is broken into weekly releases, and implementation is handled end to end: pages, technical work, schema, internal links and source-layer actions, built and deployed by us. You also get direct access to the people doing the work, an approval gate before anything goes live, and a monthly decision memo.
What is the audit and is it credited?
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The AI Visibility Audit is $4,500 and takes six business days. It hands you a ranked plan tied to commercial impact rather than a spreadsheet of best practices. If you start a program within 14 days, the audit fee is credited in full.
Do we have to rebuild our site?
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Not always. If your current design is worth keeping, the Agentic Migration at $3,000 clones it faithfully onto infrastructure the loop can run, and you are live in days. If the design is what is holding you back, the audit will say so and the Full Build at $12,000 covers the whole rebuild. We would rather migrate than sell you a rebuild you do not need.
Who owns the website?
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You do, from day one. The site, the repository, the content and the data are yours, on your own hosting. There is no proprietary platform to leave and no lock-in past the term. If we part ways you keep everything and it keeps working.
How is monthly production counted?
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Units are weighted by effort, so the roadmap stays honest. A supporting article or refresh is one unit. A technical, schema or source-layer batch is two. A priority-page rebuild or conversion experiment is three. A net-new commercial page is five. Every unit is verified live before it counts.
What sits outside the package?
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Ad spend, third-party tooling and any subscription you keep in your own name sit outside the package. Everything Searchmaxxed produces, ships and measures is inside it, at the published price.
