ONGOING SEO SERVICES · UK & EUROPE
Keep improving the pages that should bring you customers. Direct support for technical SEO, useful content, AI search visibility and the path to an enquiry.
An ongoing SEO retainer gives your website an agreed monthly capacity, a prioritised work queue and a review of what changed. From £1,500 per month, with deliverables and responsibilities agreed before work starts.
Direct consultant contact · Based in Istanbul · Available worldwide
SEO RETAINERS IN SHORT
An SEO retainer is an ongoing monthly SEO service: an agreed amount of work each month on technical fixes, page improvements, content and reporting, organised around one priority list. Unlike a one-off audit, it turns recommendations into delivered changes month after month. Maksut retainers start at £1,500 per month.
FROM RECOMMENDATIONS TO DELIVERY
Your website may need a technical fix, a better service page or a clearer route to contact. We choose the work together, then deliver within the agreed capacity.
Investigate crawl and indexing issues, internal links, templates and structured data. Make agreed WordPress changes or provide clear briefs for your developers.
You receive: findings, change notes and release checks.
Refresh service, category or product pages around real buying questions. Agree any new content before adding URLs, so pages have a distinct purpose.
You receive: priority URLs, briefs or reviewed copy, and publishing notes.
Review a defined sample of relevant questions and sources. Improve useful business information and supporting evidence where the findings justify it.
You receive: dated observations, gaps and agreed actions.
Review offers, calls to action and form journeys. Improve the friction we can identify; formal experiments depend on suitable traffic and measurement.
You receive: documented changes and the evidence available after release.
MONTHLY SEO RETAINER PRICING
Start with your website, target market, current priorities and who can approve changes. I will review whether ongoing support is a sensible fit.
ONGOING SEO SUPPORT
From £1,500 / month
Your first message starts a scope discussion. It does not start a subscription.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Work directly with the person investigating and implementing the changes. Your team stays involved in the decisions that need business knowledge or approval.
Confirm goals, capacity, access, ownership and commercial terms before starting.
Review search data, key pages and measurement. Build an initial roadmap with dependencies and checkpoints.
Approve priorities, make changes and record what shipped. Review results and adjust the next cycle.
Review capacity and commercial fit quarterly. Document changed priorities and any agreed handover.
A REPORT YOU CAN USE
Monthly reporting brings delivery and business signals together, with limitations stated clearly.
URLs updated, technical changes, review notes, approvals and blocked tasks. See how the agreed capacity was used.
Available Search Console trends and important landing pages. AI observations use a recorded question sample; they do not represent every answer a platform produces.
Available referral and consented landing-page data, qualified enquiries and sales where your CRM supports them. Missing attribution stays unknown.
A ChatGPT referral can identify a channel without revealing the exact conversation or citation. A change in traffic alone does not establish return on investment. We review the evidence with your lead and sales feedback.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT ENGAGEMENT
For an existing site with a continuing search and conversion roadmap, an owner who can approve work and capacity for implementation.
Discuss the fit ↗For a focused visibility review or a defined implementation scope. A useful starting point when you need evidence before committing to monthly work.
Explore AI SEO services ↗For controlled updates, backups and operational checks. Care is scoped separately from the monthly SEO work.
WordPress care ↗BEFORE YOU COMMIT
Clear responsibilities make ongoing work easier.
The agreement selects work across technical SEO, commercial content, internal links, AI search visibility and enquiry-path improvements. Each month has an approved priority list, delivery notes, a performance review and next steps. Capacity and responsibilities are written down; every possible service is not automatically included each month.
Maksut retainers start at £1,500 per month. The current planning range is £1,500–£4,000 monthly, depending on the site, markets, technical work and content responsibility. Your proposal states the monthly fee, capacity, any onboarding or third-party costs and applicable taxes before work starts.
We confirm access and measurement, review important pages and technical issues, agree the initial priorities and begin the work that fits the approved capacity. The first review records changes, unresolved dependencies and the next priorities. Exact milestones depend on the site and proposal; a first-month ranking or sales result is not promised.
The usual initial term is three months. Your proposal confirms the start date, minimum term, renewal and cancellation notice before you commit. At a scope review we decide whether to continue, change the capacity or conclude the engagement; notice follows the agreed terms.
AI search work can form part of the agreed roadmap: a defined question sample, cited-source review, content gaps and technical improvements. Reporting separates sampled mentions and citations from referral visits and qualified enquiries. For a standalone AI visibility audit or implementation project, use the AI SEO service instead.
Yes. Agreed technical changes and page improvements can be implemented directly, with appropriate staging and review. Larger plugin builds, migrations or redesigns receive a separate scope. If your team handles development, I can provide implementation briefs and review the agreed changes.
The proposal states who researches, briefs, drafts, edits and publishes each piece. You provide business knowledge and approve factual or brand-sensitive claims. Existing pages are refreshed where useful; a fixed article quota is not a substitute for a relevant commercial purpose.
Paid advertising, a guaranteed backlink quota, hosting, premium licences and operational website care are outside the standard scope unless explicitly listed. WordPress updates, backups, security response and WooCommerce transaction checks belong in a care plan. Any additional outreach or specialist work needs an agreed scope and budget.
The monthly review covers completed work, relevant Search Console trends, landing-page behaviour and enquiries where tracking allows. You help qualify leads and connect sales in your CRM. Revenue attribution can be incomplete; AI citations and rankings are diagnostic signals, not proof of return on investment.
If a task is blocked, we can move to the next approved priority. Carry-over, client delays and extra capacity follow the written agreement and are recorded in the review. Urgent SEO work may replace a planned task by agreement. The retainer does not provide an unlimited task queue or emergency hosting cover.
Yes. Maksut is an independent developer and SEO consultant based in Istanbul, working remotely with UK and European teams and suitable clients worldwide. Agency collaboration, access, confidentiality, approvals and reporting ownership are agreed at the start.
No. Search rankings, AI answers and sales decisions are outside a provider’s control. The engagement defines the work, capacity and review process. We use the evidence to decide what to improve next and whether continued investment is justified.
START WITH YOUR WEBSITE
Share your URL, target market and the work that keeps getting postponed. I will help you decide whether a monthly retainer fits.
Independent developer and SEO consultant based in Istanbul, working with UK and European businesses and agencies. Suitable projects worldwide.
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