01Why most SEO pricing is vague on purpose
An agency that says 'it depends' is often telling the truth about the difficulty of forecasting rankings, and also protecting itself from having to justify a fixed number against work that can be hard to scope up front. The problem for a buyer is that 'it depends' makes it impossible to compare two quotes, or to know whether 500 EUR a month is a good deal or an empty one. A published number with a published feature list at least lets you compare it against what you actually get.
- 'It depends' protects an agency from being held to a number
- Vague pricing makes it impossible to compare two competing quotes
- A published number tied to a published feature list is at least checkable
02What 297 EUR a month actually includes
FOUND covers Google Business Profile management, local SEO targeting 5 keywords, 2 AI blog posts a month written in your voice, schema markup on the pages that need it, a monthly ranking report, and monitoring of competitors and reviews. It builds on top of the Maintenance plans, so hosting, backups and uptime are already handled underneath it. It does not include paid ad management, that sits in GROWTH at 1,497 EUR, and it does not promise a specific Google position, because nobody controls that.
- FOUND: GBP management, local SEO, 2 blog posts, schema, monthly report, monitoring
- Builds on top of Maintenance, so hosting and backups are already included
- No promised Google position, and no paid ad management bundled in at this tier
The first external client running the full setup
SCP Shine & Style is the first client outside PROOF48 itself running the complete SEO architecture: a verified Search Console property, a static sitemap, schema on every page, a daily sitemap resubmit loop, and a plan that maps every long search query to exactly one page. That is what the FOUND plan's monthly ranking report and schema line actually mean in practice, not a vague promise of 'better SEO' with nothing to point at.
See the build: SCP Shine & StyleQuestions, answered
Does 297 EUR a month get me on page one of Google?
Nobody can promise that, and anyone who does is selling something else. FOUND builds the technical and content foundation that ranking actually depends on, over months, not a guaranteed position by a date.
What if I need more than 5 target keywords?
FOUND covers 5 as the starting scope. A business with a wider service list or several locations usually moves up to BROADCAST or GROWTH, which include more content volume alongside the same SEO base.
Where PROOF48 fits
SEO for a small business starts at 297 EUR a month with FOUND: Google Business Profile, local SEO, blog content, schema and monthly reporting, built on the same architecture already running on proof48.com and on SCP Shine & Style. No guaranteed position, because nobody can guarantee one honestly.
Cosmin Tiu · Founder, PROOF48
Cosmin has worked in online marketing and software development since 2018, and has built with AI every day since January 2023. He still writes code from scratch daily, in Python, React, Rust and C#. PROOF48 ships business websites in 48 hours and invoices afterwards, so every opinion on this blog was paid for in real builds, not in theory.