Website and SEO Expertise, Certified by the Platforms.
Why We're Different
We Fix SEO Problems. Not Milk Them.
Most agencies structure packages to keep you long after the problem's fixed. We fix what's broken and hand it back working. Want us around after? That's on your terms.
You'll know what we did.
Most agencies send a dashboard link and call it reporting. You get plain language: what we worked on, what moved, what's next.
We bill by hours, not deliverables.
Four blog posts cost the same whether they took two hours or ten. We track the time and put it where it moves something.
Three months, not twelve.
Long enough to prove it's working. Short enough that you're never stuck paying for something that isn't.
Real clients, real numbers.
Most agencies sell you with an average. Never how long it took, or what that business actually got. Every market's different. Go check ours.
Pick The One That Fits
Our Three SEO Package Prices
Most agencies limit what's included by what you pay. Our monthly plans include all our labored services, scoped to the hours it takes to fix your problem.
AI Visibility for $150/month
See when ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers mention your business. Up to 50 tracked prompts on one domain. Available on any monthly plan.
SEO Upkeep for $450/month
Once the heavy lifting is done, the work gets lighter and so should the bill. Keyword tracking stays live, Google Search Console stays monitored, one content piece a month, and a technical health check. Month to month, because at this stage you shouldn't be committing to anything.
SEO Consulting for $250
One hour with the founder, screen share, your site up, straight answers on what to fix and in what order. Book any plan within 30 days and the $250 fee applies to it.
What's Included:
6 hours of Dedicated SEO Work, Prioritized With You
Up to 20 Keywords Tracked in SEMrush
Google Business Profile management
Technical Health Monitoring & Fixes
Monthly Reporting Log of Changes, Performance, and Suggestions for Next Month
What's Included:
Starting at 10 Hours of Dedicated SEO Work Every Month
Up to 75 Keywords Tracked in SEMrush
Content, Page Optimizations, GBP Management, Technical Fixes
Monthly Reporting Log of Changes, Performance, and Suggestions for Next Month
Honest Expectations
SEO is a Winning Channel. It Just Takes a Minute.
Month 1
Baseline set, tracking configured, technical audit run and the worst issues fixed. You'll see site health move first, because that's what moves first.
Months 2-3
Structure and content work begins. Keyword movement starts showing in tracking. Nobody should be judging rankings yet.
Months 3-6
Rankings climb and compound. One client hit 3.2X organic traffic within two months of new pages being indexed. That's fast, not typical.
Month 6+
The compounding gets real to where you see steady progression. The 494% keyword growth client took a full year. Beating four competitors combined took a year too.
Every SEO strategy is customized around what and where you need to rank higher. No averages or "results may vary" here. Just what we made happen.
The Proof
What Better SEO Strategy Produces
Trusted by Businesses That Needed a Reliable Agency
Founder Led Conversations
A Meaningful Partnership, Not a Pushy Pipeline
I'm Paul Bonnell, founder of Waivium. Most agencies out there build trust around the founder, then hand you off. You bought into that person and ended up being put through a pipeline instead.
What we do to keep it from turning into a handoff is establishing a cadence. It's a Marine Corps habit that keeps a rhythm so everyone's in sync, and it's how we operate: regular check-ins with direct answers. Small enough for real conversations, not so big that getting help means filling out a ticket.
Wix SEO Experts
Wix Site That Isn't Ranking?
Most Wix site owners do roughly half of the SEO assistant setup and figure that's enough to rank. It's a decent starting point, but it's just a technical checklist, not a strategy. Every result on this page including our site happened on a Wix site, and we're certified Wix Studio experts.
Free SEMrush SEO Report
Website Traffic Low? Rankings Sitting Still? Start Here.
Whether your site needs a redesign or your SEO's gone quiet, the free report provides the data to tell you which. We run your site through our SEMrush account and grade every finding by severity, so you know what's actually wrong.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions About Our SEO Packages
Quick answers about SEO pricing, contracts, timelines, and how it all works.
Ours are $750 a month for SEO Starter, which is fixed at six hours of work. SEO Growth starts at $1,250 for ten hours and scales in two-hour blocks.
If you want ads, creative, and strategy on top of SEO, that starts at $2,500. Prefer to start without a monthly plan? A consult is $250 and a one-time tune-up is $750. Every number is on this page, which is more than most agencies will tell you before a sales call.
Because most of it isn't priced by the work, it's priced by the package. Agencies sell you set projects, and some of those projects take two hours while others take ten. You pay the same flat rate either way, so you end up overpaying on the easy ones and never know it.
We price by hours instead. It keeps us honest about where your time goes, and we game plan with you every month to prioritize what actually needs doing.
A set monthly rate for a defined amount of work, with no surprise scope and no invoice creep. SEO Starter is fixed at $750 a month for six hours, and the consult is a fixed $250 for an hour. SEO Growth starts at $1,250 and only grows if you decide to add hours. Either way, you know the number before any work begins.
Three months, then month to month. We only ask for a minimum of three because that's how long SEO needs before there's anything worth judging, and we'd rather set that expectation than take your money for one month and disappoint you. After that you stay because it's working, not because you signed something. Most agencies want an annual commitment.
Most small businesses start with Starter. Six hours a month is enough to fix what's broken and build momentum without a big commitment. If you're in a competitive market or have a lot of ground to cover, Growth gets you there faster. And if you're not ready for either, take the free report or book a consult and we'll tell you straight which one fits.
We tell you before doing the work, and it becomes either a one-time project or a custom quote. We never quietly absorb it and we never surprise bill for it.
100%. Move up, move down, or add hours to Growth in two-hour increments as the work grows. Nothing about your plan is locked once the first three months are done.
Technical fixes are the fastest and show in weeks. Rankings build over months with traffic to follow. The timeline above has the honest version, month by month.
Yes, it's included in every plan: Google Business Profile management, local keyword targeting, and the location signals that put you in front of nearby buyers.
Most of our clients are Illinois and Iowa businesses, and there's a page for each market with pricing and proof: Sauk Valley, Quad Cities, Clinton, Burlington, Rockford, and the Fox Valley.
Yes, most SEO work starts on sites another agency or freelancer built. And if the site's structure is the real problem, we'll tell you upfront rather than billing you monthly to work around it.
Real, honest work, and a report that backs what we've done. Content, page optimizations, technical fixes, and Google Business Profile management, prioritized with you based on what's holding the site back. The sample month above shows how ten hours typically get spent.