Senior technical SEO oversight on a monthly cadence — from $1,200/mo.
From $1,200/mo · monthly billing, cancel any month · Smaller sites that need technical SEO oversight from a senior practitioner but not a full implementation retainer.
The entry tier of the SEO ladder. Built for sites that have outgrown DIY technical SEO — or never had it — and need a senior practitioner watching the technical surface each month, surfacing the issues that matter, and steering implementation work to whoever does the actual building. Audit-Light is oversight without the implementation retainer.
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What audit-light SEO covers
- A monthly technical-SEO audit pass. Indexability, crawl health, broken-link scan, structured-data validation, Core Web Vitals on the templates that drive traffic, mobile UX.
- A monthly written report — what changed, what was found, what needs attention, ranked by impact rather than by alphabetical order.
- Search Console oversight. Warnings triaged, coverage and indexing issues flagged, structured-data errors surfaced, manual actions monitored.
- Algorithm-update monitoring with a written summary if an update has touched your traffic, what the diagnostic looks like, and what implementation work would address it.
- A monthly 30-minute walkthrough — live or recorded, your choice — covering the report and the questions you have.
- Implementation guidance rather than implementation itself. When the audit surfaces work that needs building, it is written up as a spec your developer or agency can act on.
The audit cadence this retainer is built around
Audit-Light SEO is itself the $500 pre-check level of audit work delivered on a recurring monthly cadence rather than as a one-shot report. Over a year the rolling work covers the full pre-check audit surface several times over, with the focus shifting each month to whichever surface matters most.
- A monthly written report at $500-level pre-check audit depth on the surface that mattered most that month.
- An annual consolidation covering what the year of monthly audit passes has surfaced, the trends across the data, and the structural work that has shown up repeatedly.
- A standing scoping function — when something surfaces that needs more than monthly oversight, the audit work that has gone into surfacing it credits against whichever engagement follows.
If the audit surfaces work past Audit-Light scale — substantial implementation, multi-property reach, or executive-level reporting — the report routes the engagement to Standard SEO or Enterprise SEO. Audit work credits forward.
How the relationship works
Audit-Light is oversight rather than implementation. The handover surface is built around the monthly report and the working relationship with whoever does the actual building.
- A monthly 30-minute walkthrough — usually a live call, available as a recording if you prefer asynchronous — covering the report and the questions it raises.
- A single email contact for everything SEO-related, with response within one business day.
- A walkthrough at relationship start covering the cadence, the report shape, the Search Console oversight, and the implementation-guidance workflow.
- An annual review consolidating the year’s monthly reports and the trends across them.
Scope flex and no lock-in
Who this is for
- ✅ Smaller site with rankings worth protecting and no senior SEO practitioner in-house.
- ✅ You have a developer or agency who handles implementation but no one watching the technical SEO surface each month.
- ✅ You want monthly written reports you can read, not a dashboard you have to log into.
- ✅ You expect to grow into a fuller SEO retainer eventually and want this tier to be the on-ramp.
- ❌ You need implementation work as part of the retainer, not just oversight — that is Standard SEO.
- ❌ Multi-property publisher, large ecommerce, or enterprise marketing team with ongoing implementation capacity — that is Enterprise SEO.
- ❌ A one-off SEO audit rather than ongoing oversight — that is a project engagement, not a retainer; reach out and we can scope it.
Considering a different SEO tier?
Site with rankings to protect, a decision-maker who can act on the audit, and a real implementation surface? Standard SEO at $3,000/mo. Multi-property publisher, large ecommerce, or enterprise marketing team? Enterprise SEO at $5,000/mo. Different shape entirely? All services.
