STRAIGHT PRICING

Web design and SEO pricing.

Every number on this page is the real number. Every deliverable is listed. Three different products for three different problems, and you should only buy the one that matches yours.

Why the prices are on the website.

Almost nobody in this market publishes what they charge. The reason is not that pricing is complicated. It is that a number you cannot see is a number that can change depending on how your business looks when you walk in, what your truck costs, and how badly you seem to need help. Ask the other guys why theirs are not published. The answer will tell you something.

Here is the whole thing, out loud. If a project genuinely needs more than the number on this page, I will tell you why before you pay anything, and you will get to say no.

WEBSITES

Built once. Yours forever.

$750 one time
And $0 a month, permanently

A hand-coded website you own outright

No WordPress, no page builder, no template. Written by hand, which is why every one of them scores where it does on Google's own speed test instead of somewhere near it.

  • Hand-coded, no theme and no plugins to break
  • Built for phones first, because that is where your customers are
  • Search fundamentals handled properly at build time, not sold back to you later
  • Your domain, your hosting, your code, in your name from day one
  • Live in days, not months
  • No monthly fee, ever, for the site itself

The rental model is everywhere around here. Zero down, a hundred and fifty a month, and in three years you have paid $5,400 and own nothing. Stop paying and the site goes dark, because it was never yours. This is the opposite arrangement.

Talk about a website → Grade your current site free →
SEO & GROWTH

The part that never finishes.

Your website is a job with an end. Staying findable is not. Reviews age, competitors publish, directories go stale, and the businesses above you are working on it this month. These are monthly, and the work is listed so you can picture it.

$695 / month
Foundation

Presence management, and I will not call it SEO

This protects what your website already earned. It is maintenance, not growth, and naming it honestly matters more to me than making it sound bigger.

  • Google Business Profile managed weekly: posts, photos, services, hours and categories kept accurate
  • Every Google review replied to in your brand voice, and anything under four stars answered by me personally
  • A review request engine running continuously
  • Citations built and kept consistent
  • Quarterly audit of your map results for fake and keyword-stuffed listings
  • One page of reporting a month: your grid, and your leads
$1,150 / month
Growth

This is where SEO actually starts

Everything in Foundation, plus the work that moves position in a market where other businesses are trying to move too.

  • Four content pieces a month, built from your real jobs, your photos, your numbers
  • Active link building, worked from a list of every link your top three competitors have
  • Full geo-grid rank tracking across your whole service area
  • Quarterly review of which keywords are worth the fight
  • Everything in Foundation, still running underneath
$2,250+ / month
Authority

For markets decided on links and reputation

Scoped after a look at your market, because the work is genuinely different depending on what you are up against.

  • Heavy link acquisition and digital PR
  • Original local data pieces, the kind that get picked up
  • Higher content cadence
  • Multiple locations or category ownership
  • Partner and sponsorship campaigns

Every plan starts with a one-time $500 setup: your baseline grid, a full audit of the listings that already exist for you, and the cleanup that gets your profile and citations into a state worth maintaining. That is the heaviest month of the work, it is priced on its own so the monthly number stays honest, and without a baseline nothing that happens afterward can be proven. Then three months to start, month to month after that. The three months are not a lock-in tactic, they are the physics: Google has to crawl changes, index them, decide whether to trust them, and watch them hold. There are no ranking guarantees here and you should walk away from anyone who offers you one.

Talk about a plan → Get your free ranking snapshot → How SEO actually works →
CUSTOM SYSTEMS

When a website is not the thing you need.

From $10,000 scoped
Custom software

Real software, built by hand, owned by you

Member portals with logins and roles. Live directories. Booking and dispatch platforms. Automation that removes a job somebody is currently doing by hand. Mobile apps.

  • Built on Cloudflare Workers and D1, which is why it runs for pennies instead of hundreds a month
  • Scoped and quoted before anything is written
  • Every line of it yours, in your repository
  • No per-seat licensing and no platform you can be evicted from

Woosh Rides is the honest example. A full booking and dispatch platform with live fare quoting, driver assignment, payment capture, and real-time tracking, built from nothing. If what you are describing sounds like that, this is the lane. If it does not, I will tell you so instead of selling you into it.

Talk about a build → See what has been built →

Everything belongs to you.

This is the same promise across all three lanes and it is the reason any of the rest of it matters. The website is registered to you. The Google Business Profile is under your account. The analytics and Search Console are yours. The content was written for you and stays with you. The code lives in your repository. The links point at your domain.

Stop working with me and you keep every piece of it, including the parts that took months to earn. There is no version of leaving where your site goes dark, your rankings get held hostage, or you discover the thing you paid for was rented. If that sounds like a low bar, ask the last agency you spoke to what happens to your content when you cancel.

QUESTIONS

The stuff people actually ask.

Is $750 really the whole price for a website?

For a standard business site, yes. Larger builds with many pages, e-commerce, or custom functionality cost more, and I will tell you the number before any work starts. What will not happen is a $750 quote that quietly becomes $2,000 by launch.

Do I have to buy SEO if you build my site?

No. The build includes the search fundamentals done properly, and plenty of clients never buy anything else. SEO is for businesses in markets where other people are actively competing for the same customers. If yours is not one of those, I will say so.

How long does SEO take to work?

Six to twelve months for real movement in a competitive local market. Some things move faster, like a Google Business Profile that has never been filled out properly. But the actual fights take time, because the signals that matter are the ones that cannot be faked quickly. Anyone promising thirty days is either lying or running ads and calling it SEO.

Why will you not guarantee a ranking?

Because nobody can, and the people who do are relying on you not reading closely. It is easy to reach number one for a phrase nobody searches. What I will guarantee is the work, the list of what was done, and a monthly report that leads with how many people called you.

What happens if I cancel?

After the initial three months you can stop any month. You keep the website, the profile, the content, the analytics, the links, all of it. Nothing gets switched off and nothing gets taken back.

Why is this cheaper than the agency quoting me more?

Two reasons. There is no office, no account manager, and no sales team between you and the person doing the work. And the sites are hand-coded on infrastructure that costs almost nothing to run, so there is no monthly platform bill baked into your price. You are paying for the work instead of the overhead.

Will these prices go up?

Probably, for new clients. The SEO lane is new and the current pricing reflects that. If you start now you are taking a small risk on a service without a long local track record, and the price is where it is because of that. Existing clients keep the rate they signed at.

Not sure which one you need?

Tell me what is actually going wrong and I will tell you which of these fixes it, including when the answer is none of them.

(330) 439-5120 chad@scrolltheory.media
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Tell me what you are working with and what you need it to do. You will get an honest read on which lane fits, what it costs, and whether it is worth doing at all.

(330) 439-5120
chad@scrolltheory.media
Wooster, OH

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