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Care & SEO Retainer · GTA + Canada
Website maintenance services for local businesses: updates, backups, monitoring and content edits, plus the ongoing SEO work that keeps you ranking. One fee from $300/mo CAD.
The slow leak
Rarely anything dramatic. The contact form quietly stops delivering after a host change and nobody notices for five weeks. The hours say you close at 5 when you now close at 7.
Meanwhile the competitor down the road adds two pages and a dozen reviews, and their listing starts outranking yours on searches you used to own.
None of that shows up as a crisis. It shows up as a quiet month, and by the time you connect the two, you have lost a season of work.
What the fee covers
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Security patches applied, offsite backups running, uptime watched. You find out about a problem from an email, not from a customer who could not reach you.
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New photos, changed hours, a price update or a fresh service added. Small changes get done that week instead of sitting in a ticket queue behind bigger clients.
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Page speed watched over time and dead links and broken forms caught before they cost you an inquiry. A form that silently stopped sending is the most expensive bug a local site can have.
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The retainer covers real search work: keyword tracking, page updates, Google Business Profile posts and reporting. Maintenance alone keeps a site alive; this keeps it competitive.
Straight pricing
The care and SEO retainer starts at $300/mo CAD.That covers the upkeep and the ongoing search work together, because paying separately for both is how small businesses end up with two invoices and one result.
Adding Google and Meta ads management brings it to $600/mo. The full stack with CRM and social management is $1,000/mo.
One honest note: if you have a small static site that rarely changes, you may not need a plan at all. Being told that costs you nothing, and it is a better outcome than paying for a service you would never use.
Platform reality
Yes, considerably. A WordPress site is software running on a server, and every plugin is another door someone can walk through if it goes unpatched.
Builds made here use Astro, which ships plain HTML files with no database and no plugin stack. That removes most of the attack surface and most of the reasons a site breaks on its own.
WordPress maintenance is still offered where a business wants to stay put. The tradeoff gets explained honestly first, including the cases where migrating costs less over two years than maintaining what you have.
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Keeping a site alive is the minimum. Getting it found is the part that pays, and that is local SEO, a strong Google Business Profile and ads when you need speed.
FAQ
Updates and security patches, uptime monitoring, backups, broken link and form checks, speed monitoring, and small content edits like new photos, changed hours or a price update. On the retainer it also covers the ongoing SEO work rather than stopping at housekeeping.
The monthly care and SEO retainer starts at $300 CAD, which covers both the upkeep and the ongoing search work. Adding Google and Meta ads management makes it $600. Pure hosting is separate and usually costs a few dollars a month, paid directly to the host.
If your site is a static Astro build like the ones made here, the security risk is low and you can go without one. If you are on WordPress with a stack of plugins, skipping updates is how sites get defaced or quietly broken. The audit will tell you which category you are in.
Yes, as long as the site is in reasonable shape and access is available. Some builds are held together in ways that make ongoing work more expensive than a rebuild, and if that is the case you will be told before you sign up rather than after.
Uptime monitoring flags it and the fix starts the same day, not when a customer eventually tells you. For most static builds an outage means a hosting problem rather than a site problem, which usually resolves in minutes.
Any time, month to month. You own the domain, the hosting account and the code, so cancelling means the work stops, not that your site disappears. Nothing is held hostage.
Work with me
Send your website link. You get a free written audit covering speed, broken links, forms that stopped sending, and the search ground you have lost since launch.
