Continuous execution, not a report that gets filed.
Managed SEO Retainers
Continuous execution against the Course and Sight phases of the Bearing Method — content, authority, and technical work on a fixed monthly cadence, with monthly recalibration.
Who this is for
Businesses past the one-off diagnostic stage who want continuous, senior execution against a plan.
Signs you need this
- A completed audit is sitting unactioned
- A previous retainer billed unscoped hours with no visibility into the work
- Rankings are holding but nobody's proactively adjusting for algorithm or AI-answer-engine shifts
What's included
- Fixed monthly capacity (10/20/35 hours depending on tier) across content, technical, authority, and AI-visibility work
- Monthly reporting and re-bearing
- Direct senior contact throughout
- Onboarding within 5 business days
What's excluded
- Capacity beyond the purchased tier's stated hours in a given month (rolls to the following month by agreement, not billed extra without a change order)
- Guaranteed ranking positions
How we do it
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Course
Content, internal linking, entity and authority work executed on the agreed monthly cadence.
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Sight
A new reading taken every month: what moved, what didn't, what the plan corrects for next.
Packages for Managed SEO Retainers
C·1
Ascend
A fixed ~10 hours a month, senior-run, executing against one focus area of the Bearing Method's Course.
Onboarding within 5 business days
Full details →C·2
Meridian
~20 hours a month across the full discipline set — technical, content, local, and authority — executed as one plan, not four separate ones.
Onboarding within 5 business days
Full details →C·3
Zenith
~35 hours a month, full-discipline execution plus expanded content velocity and tracked AI-visibility monitoring.
Onboarding within 5 business days
Full details →Tools & data
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GA4, Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs/Semrush-class tooling, Looker Studio (the monthly reporting view), PageSpeed/CrUX
the full stack, applied on a fixed cadence.
FAQ
01 What's a "prepaid block"?
Three months, paid up front, with a stated monthly hours-equivalent per tier. After the block, you agree month-to-month continuation directly — no surprise auto-renewal into a new block.
02 What happens to unused hours?
Capacity not used in a given month rolls to the next by agreement — it isn't billed again, and it isn't simply forfeited.
03 Who actually does the work?
A senior practitioner, from kickoff to monthly report. No junior hand-off, no outsourcing.
04 Can we start with an audit first?
Most clients do — a diagnostic package gives the retainer a real Datum and Bearing to execute against from day one.
05 What's the difference between the three tiers?
Hours-per-month capacity and the breadth of discipline covered simultaneously — full comparison on the pricing page.
Continuous execution, fixed capacity.