Which SEO plan is right for your business?
Five monthly plans, four rebuild tiers, and one honest way to choose. This page gets you to the right one in about five minutes, including the cases where the right answer is the cheaper plan, or no plan at all until your website is fixed. All prices are on the page and all plans are month to month, no lock-in.
First question: is the site itself the problem?
Before you buy any monthly plan, look at the thing you'd be optimising. If your site is slow, looks dated on a phone, or you'd be embarrassed sending a customer to it, SEO money is going into a leaky bucket. Fix the bucket first: website rebuilds start from $690, with every old URL redirected so the rankings you already have survive the move. Then put a plan behind it. If your site is solid, read on.
"I just want to dip a toe in": Starter, $390 a month
Starter is the entry point for a business testing the water. We audit your site and where you stand in Google and AI search, do the basic requirements (schema, llms.txt and AI-crawler access, and your Google Business Profile basics), optimise your key pages, and keep an eye on things with a monthly site-health check and a plain-words report. It's deliberately lean, no lock-in, and it steps straight up to Local + AI Visibility when you're ready for the full foundations.
Pick Starter if: you want the basics done properly and a professional watching the signal, without committing to a full campaign yet.
"I want to be found locally, and in AI search": Local + AI Visibility, $779 a month
Local + AI Visibility is the entry plan and the foundation the rest build on. It's for local businesses and trades that live off "near me" searches, and it covers both halves of being found: the technical and on-page SEO, plus the AEO foundations that get you into AI answers, installed and maintained (llms.txt, AI-crawler access, schema and structured content). Your Google Business Profile is set up, optimised and managed, you get suburb and service pages and one content asset a month, and every month you get a report of how you're showing up across the five engines your customers actually ask: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews. All of it on a live dashboard, with a plain-words report each month.
Pick Local + AI Visibility if: your customers search "your trade + suburb" and are starting to ask AI who to use, your Google profile is bare or unmanaged, and you want the foundations set right before you invest in a bigger campaign.
"I want it to grow, not just exist": Growth, $1,995 a month
Growth is the most popular plan for a reason: it's the first tier where we're building, not just maintaining. Everything in Local + AI Visibility, plus a multi-cluster keyword and content program with three to four articles a month, content-gap and competitor analysis, quality link and citation building, and Core Web Vitals engineering where the fixes actually ship (we build and host sites, so nothing waits for "your developer"). Reporting steps up to fortnightly. Because we build, host and run the site and do the SEO under one roof, you're paying senior engineers, not an agency layer on top.
Pick Growth if: SEO is a revenue channel you want to invest in, you have real competitors fighting for the same searches, and you want a report that shows enquiries, not just rankings.
"I want to lead my market, not just compete": Authority, $2,595 a month
Authority is everything in Growth plus paid amplification managed in-house: part of the fee runs Google Ads across paid search and social to lift the rankings the SEO is already earning. Content velocity goes up, landing-page and conversion work comes in, the cadence moves to weekly, and you get a dedicated strategist. Specialist AEO agencies charge $3,200 to $5,000 a month for the search work alone; Authority is $2,595 with the build, hosting, SEO and managed ads under one roof.
Pick Authority if: you're in a competitive field, you want paid and organic pulling in the same direction, and you want someone senior owning the strategy with a weekly hand on it.
"I run multiple locations or brands": Dominance, from $5,400 a month
Dominance is everything in Authority, scaled across multiple locations or brands: a larger managed ad budget, a dashboard built around your structure, and quarterly strategy sessions to keep the whole footprint moving together. It starts from $5,400 because the scope is set by how many sites, suburbs and brands you're running.
Pick Dominance if: you're a multi-site or multi-brand operation, one plan can't cover every market you're in, and you want a single team running the search and the ads across all of it.
Not sure? Two low-risk ways in
The $199 onboarding survey: we come out, walk your business, and survey your site, market and competition, so any plan you pick is grounded in what we saw rather than what a form told us. Recommended with any plan, and it's the best $199 you can spend if you're torn between two tiers.
The $890 AI Search Audit: a one-off, prioritised fix list of what Google and the AI engines see on your site today, written so any developer can action it. If you want proof before a monthly commitment, start here; comparable audits run $1,500 to $3,500.
When we'll tell you to buy less
Some agencies size the plan to your wallet. We size it to the job, and sometimes the job is smaller than your budget. A brand-new business with no reviews and three pages doesn't need Growth yet; it needs Local + AI Visibility while the foundations set. A business in a tiny niche with no real search competition doesn't need Authority; it needs Local + AI Visibility and patience. If the smaller plan fits, we'll say so at signup, in writing.
Ready? Sign up online
Pick your plan and sign up at plans.alienwebdesign.com.au: choose the plan, tell us about the business, and we confirm scope within one business day before any payment is taken. Prefer a human first? Talk to us and we'll recommend a plan honestly, even if it's the smallest one. The full inclusions live on the SEO packages page and the rebuild packages page.
Common questions
Can I change plans later?
Yes, any month. Everything is month to month with no lock-in, so you can start on Local + AI Visibility and step up to Growth or Authority when the business is ready, or step down if you need to pull money back for a season. The work compounds either way; nothing is lost by moving.
What happens after I sign up?
We confirm your details and scope within one business day, no payment is taken until that's agreed. Then the first month starts with the groundwork: access sorted, baseline measured, the highest-impact fixes identified and started. You get a plain-words report every month from there.
Do I need the $199 onboarding survey?
It's optional and recommended. We come out, walk the business and survey your site and competition so we fully understand what we're optimising. If you're remote or want to skip it, we start from a video call and what we can measure instead.
What if my website itself is the problem?
Then fix that first, and we'll say so honestly. SEO on a slow, dated site is pouring money into a leaky bucket. Website rebuilds start from $690 for a one-pager and from $1,490 for a five-page site, with every old URL redirected so the rankings you have survive.
Still torn between two plans? Ask us. Recommending the smaller one when it fits is how we keep clients for years instead of months.