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What's actually inside an SEO package

SEO retainers are where vague deliverables go to hide. Here's what the line items in ours actually mean.

SEO has a reputation problem, and it's earned. "We'll improve your rankings" is not a deliverable — it's a horoscope.

Here's what the items in our SEO packages actually mean in practice.

Website & backlink audit. Before anything, we map what Google currently sees: crawl issues, broken pages, toxic links, and what you already rank for. This becomes the baseline every monthly report is measured against.

Keyword research & strategy. Not a spreadsheet of 500 keywords — a shortlist of searches with commercial intent that you can realistically win, mapped to specific pages.

On-page optimisation. Titles, headings, internal links, page structure and schema markup, page by page. Unglamorous, compounding.

Link building. Other credible sites pointing at yours. Done slowly and legitimately — directories, industry publications, suppliers, local associations. Anyone promising 50 links a month is buying them somewhere you don't want to be.

Reporting you can read. Every month: what we did, what moved, what's next — in plain English, tied to the audit baseline.

That's the whole trick. SEO isn't magic; it's maintenance done consistently while your competitors do it sporadically.

( Put this into practice )

Every Hotpot package is published with the price attached — compare inclusions before you ever book a call.