# Ecommerce SEO pricing with nothing hidden Source: https://www.smartecomseo.com/pricing/ Updated: 2026-09-29 Three month-to-month plans for Shopify stores, billed through Stripe. You see the deliverables before you pay, and you can cancel before any billing date. ## Shopify SEO plans ### Starter: Custom monthly, quoted after a fit call For smaller catalogs that need the foundations fixed and a steady flow of pages. - Monthly keyword research and target keyword map - Technical fixes and schema every month - Articles and buying guides scoped to your catalog - Money collection pages every month - Internal linking to new pages - Monthly report and live Google Sheet ### Standard: Custom monthly, quoted after a fit call Our core plan for established Shopify brands that want to grow organic revenue every month. - 10+ hours of keyword research a month (about 10,000 keywords narrowed to 60 targets) - About 20 articles a month, roughly 100,000 words - AI-drafted, human-edited, checked by at least 3 people - 20 money collection pages a month - 15+ hours of technical fixes and schema a month - 500–3,000 internal links a month - Optimization of your existing content - Monthly report: revenue, positions, traffic, impressions - Live Google Sheet of everything published - Bonus: custom RAG chatbot trained on your products ### Scale: Custom monthly, quoted after a fit call For large catalogs, Shopify Plus stores and brands selling into several markets. - Everything in Standard - Articles and collection pages at full volume across markets - International SEO: Shopify Markets and hreflang - GEO work for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews - Priority technical support - Optional link building and digital PR budget ## Why two Shopify stores pay different amounts ### Catalog size A store with 3,000 SKUs needs more collection pages, more internal links and more technical clean-up than one with 50. ### Markets and languages Each extra Shopify Market or language adds hreflang work, translated or localized pages, and more monitoring. ### Content volume Articles and collection pages are the biggest line item. More pages per month means more research, writing and editing hours. ### Technical debt Duplicate URLs, app bloat, broken redirects and missing schema take hours to fix before new content can perform. ### Competition A niche where page one is held by big retailers with DR 80+ needs more content and links than one held by small stores. ### Links and PR Link building is optional and priced separately, because the right budget depends on the gap between you and the sites ranking above you. ## Where a monthly budget goes further | | Paid ads | SEO with SmartEcomSEO | |---|---|---| | You pay for | Every click, every time | Pages, fixes and links that stay on your store | | When you stop paying | Traffic stops the same day | Pages keep ranking and selling | | Over time | Costs tend to rise as competitors bid | Each month builds on the last | | AI search | No effect on ChatGPT or AI Overviews | Content and entities that AI assistants cite | | Speed | Traffic on day one | Usually two to four months to build | | Best use | Launches, testing, retargeting | Long-term revenue that does not depend on budget | ## If you turn off your ads, are you still making money? Our founder spent a decade in paid traffic before moving into SEO. Ads work. The problem is that they only work while you pay. Our top client makes an extra $100,000 a month from organic search. If our work stopped today, the pages we built would still bring them an extra million next year. No ad account behaves like that. That's why we price SEO monthly. The plans above buy a fixed amount of research, pages, links and fixes each month, and everything you pay for stays on your store. To estimate what extra organic traffic could be worth to you, try the [Shopify SEO ROI calculator](/tools/shopify-seo-roi-calculator/). ### Month-to-month, no lock-in You're billed monthly through Stripe and can cancel before your next billing date from the customer portal. The details are in our [payments policy](/payments-policy/) and on [how we work](/how-we-work/). ## What the work has produced ## Pricing questions ## Not sure which plan fits? Send us your store. The free mini audit tells you what we would work on first and which plan makes sense. [Get a free audit](/free-audit/) ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does Shopify SEO cost? It depends on catalog size, the number of markets you sell into, how much content you need each month and how much technical debt the store carries. Our plans are listed above and billed monthly. Across the industry, retainers range from a few hundred dollars for basic maintenance to several thousand a month for stores publishing content at volume. Be wary of very cheap plans that promise dozens of pages with no editing. ### Is there a setup fee or minimum term? There is no minimum term. All plans are month-to-month and you can cancel before your next billing date. Onboarding, keyword research and the technical baseline all happen inside the first month of your plan. ### Are backlinks included in the price? No. Link building and digital PR are optional and quoted separately, because the right budget depends on how far your authority is behind the sites ranking above you. We only use white-hat link building and digital PR. Many stores get strong results from content, collection pages and internal links before they spend anything on links. ### How is SEO spend different from ad spend? With ads you rent traffic: stop paying and it stops. With SEO you pay for pages, fixes and links that stay on your store and keep ranking after the work ends. SEO is slower to start, usually two to four months before clear movement, but each month adds to the last. A common approach is to run both and shift budget toward SEO as organic revenue grows. ### How do I pay and how do I cancel? You pay by card through Stripe on a monthly subscription. You get access to the Stripe customer portal, where you can download invoices, update your payment method and cancel. Cancel before your next billing date and you will not be charged again. The full rules are on our payments policy page. ### Is SEO worth it for a small store? Not always. A catalog of around a dozen products at $30 each usually does not have the keyword surface or margins to pay back a monthly retainer. SEO pays best for larger catalogs, higher prices or both. Our free Shopify SEO fit score looks at your products, prices, collections and authority and tells you honestly whether it is likely to pay back.