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SEO strategy & consulting services

You need to know where your priorities lie, and that’s what we’re good at. We look at your market, competitors, search demand, current performance, content, technical setup, and business goals to find the opportunities most likely to improve your position. Then we turn them into a clear roadmap, prioritized by impact, effort, and revenue potential.

Prioritized Ranked by business value Built for your team's capacity AI search included

Who our SEO consulting services are for

A good SEO strategy should lead to real business value. So, when the opportunity is there but the direction is not, you need an SEO strategy consultant who can turn scattered insights, stalled performance, and competing priorities into a focused plan for organic growth and revenue. Our services are a best fit for:

Businesses without a clear SEO direction
Internal marketing teams that need specialist guidance
Companies with recommendations but no priorities
Sites preparing for growth, redesigns, or migrations
Businesses whose SEO performance has stalled

What working with an SEO strategy consultant brings

01

Clear priorities backed by business value

You know which searches, pages, and fixes deserve investment, and why. We help you decide what to build, fix, improve, or remove, with every recommendation tied to its likely impact on visibility, leads, and revenue.

02

A roadmap your team can execute

Your audits, dashboards, and existing research become a ranked sequence of work. Each priority is ordered by impact, effort, and revenue potential, so your team knows what comes first and what can wait.

03

Fewer mistakes in execution

We review plans, briefs, and implementation before they go live, diagnose stalled performance, and give your team or external partners clear direction. We catch weak decisions early so the work stays aligned with the strategy.

SEO consulting services that give you a clear way forward

You leave with a strategy that shows where the opportunity is, which work deserves investment, and what should happen first. Everything listed is a part of that plan, so your team can move from direction to execution easily.

Includes
  • SEO opportunity and performance assessment
  • Prioritized SEO roadmap
  • Keyword and search intent strategy
  • Competitor and SERP gap analysis
  • Keyword-to-page map
  • Content and landing page plan
  • Technical SEO priority list
  • Site structure and internal linking plan
  • AI search visibility recommendations
  • Measurement framework, KPIs, and handoff call
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How our SEO consulting services work

SEO strategy can be the starting point for a larger SEO engagement or a focused project on its own. You can bring us in to assess where you stand, plan the work, and guide your internal team, or pair the strategy with our other SEO services so we can carry it through execution and ongoing improvement. In every case, the goal is the same: we help you find where your strongest opportunities are, put them in the right order, and give you a clear plan for turning search visibility into business value.

Strategy created around the business

We start with your market, offer, customers, margins, sales process, current search performance, and internal resources. You get an SEO strategy shaped by the results your business needs and the work your team can realistically deliver.

Search volume alone does not decide the plan. We weigh commercial value, search intent, competition, current authority, implementation effort, and revenue potential before recommending where to invest.

SEO opportunity and performance assessment

We review your rankings, organic traffic, conversions, content, site structure, technical setup, backlinks, competitors, and search demand. You get a clear view of what is helping performance, what is suppressing it, and where the site has room to grow.

We also look at the work already completed. Existing audits, dashboards, research, and recommendations are brought into the process so useful insight does not get buried or duplicated.

Keyword and search intent strategy

We assess the searches your buyers use as they discover a problem, compare options, and prepare to act. You get a prioritized keyword strategy that connects search demand to the pages most likely to influence leads, sales, and revenue.

We map keywords to existing or planned pages, identify intent mismatches, and show where several terms should be targeted together. The result is a clearer page plan and fewer pages competing against one another.

Competitor and SERP gap analysis

We study the businesses already winning the searches that matter to you. You get a clear view of where competitors are stronger, where their coverage is weak, and where your site has a realistic opportunity to compete.

This includes the pages they rank with, the intent and format Google rewards, the topics they support, and the authority behind those results. We use those findings to shape the strategy, rather than copying whatever the largest competitor has published.

Content and landing page planning

We identify which service pages, landing pages, category pages, product pages, and supporting articles should exist. You get a page roadmap that shows what to create, what to improve, and how each page supports the wider search strategy.

When content execution is part of the engagement, our SEO content writing services can take those priorities from planning through research, writing, optimization, and internal linking.

Technical SEO priorities

We review the technical issues affecting crawling, indexing, rendering, site structure, page performance, and authority flow. You get a ranked technical priority list based on potential impact, rather than a long export of every issue a tool can detect.

We can hand those recommendations to your developers, review their implementation, or carry the work into a broader engagement through our technical SEO services.

Site structure and internal linking plan

We assess how pages are organized, how easily important sections can be reached, and how authority moves through the site. You get recommendations for navigation, page hierarchy, hub structures, supporting content, and internal links.

The goal is to make your priority pages easier for search engines to understand and easier for users to find, while giving future content a structure it can build into.

AI search visibility recommendations

We review how clearly your site communicates its services, expertise, entities, and relationships to AI-powered search systems. You get practical recommendations for page structure, supporting evidence, content coverage, and brand clarity.

These recommendations sit inside the wider organic search strategy, so AI visibility does not become a disconnected list of tactics.

A prioritized SEO roadmap

Everything comes together in one written strategy. You get a ranked sequence of work showing what should happen first, what can wait, who should own it, and what business outcome each priority is intended to support.

The roadmap can include quick wins, foundational work, longer-term growth projects, and dependencies between teams. It gives everyone involved one source of direction instead of several competing documents.

Strategy handoff and implementation guidance

We present the strategy, talk through the decisions behind it, and answer questions from the people responsible for execution. You get a clear handoff rather than a document sent without context.

For ongoing consulting engagements, we can review briefs, content, technical changes, migrations, redesigns, and implementation before they go live. This helps catch weak decisions early and keeps the delivered work aligned with the strategy.

Measurement and next-step planning

We define the rankings, qualified organic traffic, leads, conversions, revenue, and AI search visibility signals that should be tracked. You get a measurement framework tied to the goals the strategy was built to support.

For ongoing work, we use performance data to decide what should change next. The roadmap stays focused on the opportunities producing value, instead of continuing with tasks simply because they were included in the original plan.

Why choose our SEO strategy & consulting services?

You should not have to implement generic SEO advice into your business. We look at the full search picture, explain the trade-offs behind each recommendation, and make sure every part of the plan works together and is tailored to your business.

When you work with us, you benefit from:

  • More than seven years of hands-on SEO experience
  • Senior strategic direction from research through handoff
  • Strong technical SEO expertise behind every recommendation
  • Broad knowledge across content, site structure, search intent, and performance
  • Direct access to the person doing the research and making the decisions

Working with Phrase It provides you with experienced guidance that accounts for the full SEO system, keeps costly mistakes out of execution, and gives your team a stronger basis for every decision that follows.

Inside an SEO consulting engagement

01

Business fit

We establish what growth needs to look like, where SEO can contribute, and what your team has the time, budget, and capacity to deliver. That keeps the strategy grounded in the business from the start.

02

Search diagnosis

We connect performance data with what is happening across your competitors, content, site structure, and technical setup. The goal is to identify the real causes behind weak or missed performance before deciding what should change.

03

Priority model

Each opportunity is weighed against commercial value, difficulty, competitive conditions, required effort, and speed to impact. The strongest viable work moves forward, while low-value distractions are removed from the plan.

04

Strategy handoff

You receive the written strategy and a live walkthrough of the decisions behind it. Your team can take over from there, or keep us involved for ongoing guidance, reviews, and support as the roadmap moves into execution.

Become our next sucessful case study

01

Focusing on three categories built a $42K monthly channel

A home and garden store earned almost nothing from organic search. We identified the three categories where margin, demand, and a beatable SERP overlapped, ignored the rest of the catalog, and rebuilt the site structure and internal links around those opportunities. Within twelve months, organic search generated more than $42,000 in monthly revenue on a $2,000 retainer.

02

Prioritizing high-intent pages drove up to 10 qualified calls a day

An agricultural supplier had real demand but little visibility for its highest-value products. We focused the strategy on product landing pages, buying guides, and comparison content instead of broad top-of-funnel topics. That work generated up to 10 qualified calls per day, 146,000 organic clicks, and $356,000 in SEO-influenced revenue.

03

Sequencing updates by data increased clicks 10x

Across a portfolio of B2B SaaS products, we used performance data to decide which pages to refresh and in what order. The optimized pages achieved a 10x average increase in clicks, while target keywords reached first-position rankings. The gains came from better sequencing, not more content.

FAQ

What does an SEO consultant do?

An SEO consultant diagnoses why organic search performance is where it is, decides which opportunities are worth pursuing, and delivers a prioritized strategy tied to business value. The role is judgment rather than production: an SEO strategy consultant establishes what to do, in what order, and why, then guides whoever executes it. Some consultants also support or review implementation.

What do SEO consulting services include?

SEO consulting services include an opportunity and performance assessment, a prioritized roadmap, keyword and search intent strategy, competitor and SERP gap analysis, a keyword-to-page map, a content and landing page plan, technical SEO priorities, site structure and internal linking recommendations, AI search visibility guidance, and a measurement framework with KPIs. The output is one written strategy plus a walkthrough.

How is SEO consulting different from ongoing SEO services?

SEO consulting decides the work; ongoing SEO services carry it out. A consulting engagement produces the strategy, priorities, and reasoning your team then executes. An ongoing retainer means the implementation, content, and technical work happen for you each month. Teams with execution capacity often need consulting only, while teams without it need both.

Do you also implement your recommendations?

We can, though many clients do not need us to. You can engage Phrase It for a one-time strategy, ongoing consulting, or strategy plus implementation support, depending on your team's capacity. Where your team can execute, we stay in a review and guidance role instead, which is usually the cheaper and faster arrangement.

Can you work with our internal team?

Yes. Working alongside internal marketing and development teams is one of the most common consulting arrangements. That usually means handing over the strategy with a live walkthrough, reviewing briefs, pages, or technical work before it ships, and staying reachable for the questions that come up mid-execution. Your team keeps ownership of the work and gains senior direction behind it.

Pick the level of SEO support your site actually needs.

Three clean ways to work together, with add-ons for complexity that deserves its own scope.

Package 01

Managed SEO Core

Best for: Businesses that want steady SEO progress around one priority product, service or category.

How do we turn our highest-priority SEO opportunities into correctly published pages every month?

For brands that need consistent strategy, content, publishing and technical oversight around one priority area.

  • Complete four strategically selected SEO pages
  • Create up to three developer-ready technical tickets
  • Or implement one approved light technical fix
  • Publish and configure the included pages in WordPress
  • Add and improve internal links
  • Check new work for duplication and cannibalization
  • Monitor crawlability, indexation and Core Web Vitals
  • Verify completed technical fixes
  • Track up to 100 agreed Google queries
  • Track up to 25 commercially relevant AI-search prompts
  • Update your Looker Studio and AI traffic reports
  • Lead one monthly strategy and results call
  • Set the priorities for the following month
$2,000 per month A focused SEO consulting package for moving one commercially important part of the website at a sustainable pace.
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Package 03

Managed SEO Scale

Best for: Businesses in competitive markets where multiple page groups and technical priorities need to move at the same time.

How do we compete across several valuable search opportunities without losing strategic focus or control over execution?

For established brands that need higher production, deeper technical oversight, and coordinated SEO execution across multiple priority areas.

  • Complete 16 strategically selected SEO pages
  • Research and write new pages or substantially improve existing ones
  • Publish and configure the included pages in WordPress
  • Create up to nine developer-ready technical tickets
  • Or implement up to three approved light technical fixes
  • Build and maintain internal links across the areas being developed
  • Manage content consolidation, duplication, and cannibalization
  • Monitor crawlability, indexation, templates, and Core Web Vitals
  • Investigate up to two substantial technical priorities
  • Review important website changes before or after release
  • Verify completed technical fixes
  • Track up to 500 agreed Google queries
  • Track up to 100 commercially relevant AI-search prompts
  • Update Looker Studio and AI-traffic reports
  • Lead two monthly working and results calls
  • Coordinate SEO requirements with writers, developers, and stakeholders
  • Maintain a rolling 90-day SEO plan across multiple priority areas
$5,000 per month For businesses that need enough production, technical oversight, and senior coordination to compete across several valuable search opportunities.
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Add-ons

Keep the packages clean. Scope the complexity separately.

Add specialist work only when the site, platform, or growth plan genuinely needs it.

Ecommerce SEO Add-on

For stores with categories, product pages, filters, collections, and faceted navigation.

Page Speed Optimization Add-on

For sites with Core Web Vitals, loading, script, image, or layout shift issues.

AI Search Visibility Add-on

For brands that want to show up in AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and answer engines.

Content Production Add-on

For clients who need us to write, not just plan.

SEO Migration Add-on

For redesigns, CMS changes, domain moves, or URL changes.

Not sure which package fits? That is what the first call is for.

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Share your site, goals, and what is getting in the way. We'll reply with the clearest next step, whether that is working together or fixing something first.

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