Three tiers.
No surprises.

Web management services typically cost $100 to $3,500 per month in 2026. Small business retainers cluster around $100 to $650/month; mid-market and corporate sites run $500 to $3,500/month; ecommerce reaches $1,500 to $5,000/month. Web Management SEO offers three flat-rate tiers at $900, $1,500, and $2,400 per month with every capability included at every tier — only volume and market coverage scale with the price.

A complete web management retainer covers six to nine ongoing categories of work: website hosting and uptime, SEO and on-page optimization, Google Business Profile management, content publishing, reviews and reputation management, monthly analytics reporting, AI chatbot for lead capture, and tech-stack integrations. Web Management SEO bundles all of them into every tier — Essential, Pro, and Premium — with volume and market coverage scaling by tier rather than capabilities being unlocked.

Website maintenance is the technical floor — backups, software updates, security monitoring, uptime checks. It keeps the site alive but does nothing to grow traffic or leads. Web management is everything in maintenance plus the active growth work: SEO, content publishing, Google Business Profile management, reviews, monthly reporting. Maintenance keeps a site running; management makes a site found.

A full-time in-house webmaster typically costs $55,000 to $90,000 per year plus benefits — roughly $5,000 to $8,000 per month all-in once taxes, PTO, and tooling are factored. Web Management SEO's Essential plan at $900/month covers website, SEO, GBP, content, reviews, and reporting under one retainer — under 20% of an in-house cost, with no hiring risk, no PTO coverage gaps, and no single point of failure.

No. Hosting, SSL, CDN, and security are included at every tier. There are no hourly overages, no setup fees, no premium plugin licenses billed separately. The three tier prices — $900, $1,500, $2,400 — are the entire price book. Most competitors charge $150 to $250 per hour for anything outside their fixed scope; we do not.

Hourly agency billing typically runs $150 to $250 per hour for web management and SEO work. A single hour fixing a broken plugin, a malware cleanup, or a CMS update can match a full month of flat-rate management. Flat monthly retainers eliminate this unpredictability — you know the cost going in, and the agency carries the risk of scope variability, not you.

Essential ($900/mo) covers one location and one market — including market exclusivity for your trade in your town: Astro website, GBP, citations, reviews, lead-capture chatbot, monthly report + mid-month pulse. Pro ($1,500/mo) adds higher content volume, service-area pages, competitor tracking, and priority response for competitive markets. Premium ($2,400/mo) covers two to three locations or service areas with exclusivity across all of them, plus a quarterly review call. Every tier has a six-month minimum, then month-to-month.

No setup fee — the first month's retainer covers onboarding, audit, GBP setup, citation submission, and site build kickoff. No annual contracts at any tier; every tier has a six-month minimum, then month-to-month with 30-day notice. No custom quotes — the three tiers are the entire price book, by design.

No. You don't need a CRM. Qualified leads from the chatbot, forms, and Google hit your email inbox — that's the whole interface. We deliver the lead; you run the sales process. Monthly reports and mid-month pulse emails replace any dashboard login.

No. Competitor exclusivity is written into every engagement — per geography, per vertical. First in your market gets first refusal for as long as you stay. Premium extends exclusivity across two to three locations or service areas.