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Measured on leads.
Not clicks.

Search and paid work best when they're engineered into the build rather than bolted on afterwards. Every page ships with tracking that measures enquiries and revenue, not vanity traffic.

SEO

Technical SEO done at build time

Crawlability, structured data, internal linking, page speed and metadata built in from the first commit, plus the audit that tells you exactly what's holding an existing site back and in what order to fix it.

  • Full technical audit with a prioritised fix list
  • Structured data and schema markup
  • Search Console setup and monitoring
  • Content briefs your writers can actually use
Search analytics on a laptop

Local

Local and multi-location search

Google Business Profile, location pages with genuinely distinct content rather than duplicated doorway pages, and the local signals that decide who shows up in the map pack.

  • Google Business Profile setup and optimisation
  • Area and suburb landing pages
  • Local citations and consistency
  • Review generation process
Aerial view of the Cape Town city bowl

Paid

Google Ads without the waste

Campaigns built around actual search intent, negative keyword discipline and conversion tracking that reports real leads, so you can tell which spend earned money and which just spent it.

  • Search and Performance Max campaigns
  • Conversion tracking wired to real leads
  • Negative keyword and search-term hygiene
  • Monthly reporting in plain English
Upward performance charts on a tablet

Retention

Email, CRM and the money you already earned

Welcome, abandoned-cart, post-purchase and win-back flows, plus the list hygiene and segmentation that makes them worth sending. The cheapest revenue in the business.

  • Lifecycle and automation flows
  • Segmentation and list hygiene
  • Campaign design and build
  • Revenue attribution per flow
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Packages
& pricing

SEO starts from R22,000. Every package is a fixed price, never hourly, quoted to your scope after a short call, so the number you agree is the number you pay. If your job doesn't fit a package, I'll quote it properly rather than bend one.

Launch

Search Foundations

Fix the foundation once so the data is trustworthy from day one.

Fixed price, quoted to your scope · 2–3 weeks

Choose it when: You have a site but no reliable data, or you've been paying for SEO and can't actually tell whether it's working.

What's included

  • Full technical audit, prioritised by impact
  • GA4 and conversion events configured properly
  • Search Console setup and baseline
  • Structured data implementation
  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • Keyword map and content gap analysis
  • Written 30/60/90-day plan

Not included

  • Ongoing optimisation
  • Content writing
  • Link building
  • Ad spend or ad management
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Most chosen
Scale

Search Retainer

Measured on enquiries. Not impressions.

Per month · 3-month minimum

Choose it when: The foundation is right and you need consistent growth, from someone who can actually implement the fixes rather than just recommend them.

What's included

  • Monthly technical SEO, with fixes implemented not just listed
  • 2–4 content briefs per month
  • On-page optimisation
  • Google Business Profile management
  • Google Ads management, spend allowance scales with your tier
  • Search term and negative keyword hygiene
  • Monthly report on leads and revenue
  • Monthly strategy call

Not included

  • Ad spend (paid to Google directly)
  • Ad spend above your tier allowance, then 10% of spend
  • Writing the content itself, only briefing it
  • Paid link placement
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Enterprise

Multi-Market Search

Every market, one strategy, one report.

Per month, plus ad spend · 3-month minimum

Choose it when: You're across multiple regions, brands or languages and the reporting currently arrives in four incompatible formats.

What's included

  • Everything in Scale, per market
  • Market-level keyword and content strategy
  • Consolidated cross-market reporting
  • Liaison with your internal team or other agencies
  • Quarterly strategy session
  • Competitor tracking per market

Not included

  • Ad spend
  • Translation and localisation production
  • In-market PR or outreach
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No VAT is charged (not VAT-registered), so the price you're quoted is the price you pay. Projects can be paid monthly with no deposit, the same amount every month from the start, with the total always shown; or paid once, 50% to start and 50% on completion. Website and store builds paid monthly include managed hosting for the first year. Care runs with no lock-in, 30 days notice. Other retainers have a 3-month minimum, long enough for the work to show. UK and other international clients are quoted in local currency at local rates. Ask for a quote.

Start here if you're not sure

Digital Audit

Find out what's actually wrong before anyone quotes you to fix it. A fixed-scope review of your website, search presence, systems and operations, delivered as a written, prioritised plan you own outright and can take anywhere. Most people book this instead of a proposal, because a proposal tells you what I want to sell and an audit tells you what you actually need.

Credited in full against any project over R60,000 booked within 60 days , so if we work together, it costs you nothing.

What you get

  • Technical review of your site, speed, structure, mobile, accessibility
  • Search visibility check and keyword gap analysis
  • Analytics and conversion tracking audit, is your data even trustworthy?
  • Systems and operations review, where the manual work is hiding
  • Written report, prioritised by impact and effort, with rough costs
  • 60-minute walkthrough call

From the blog

Straight answers to the questions people actually ask before they call.

Insights

How much does SEO cost in South Africa?

Real South African SEO retainer pricing by tier, what's normal to expect included, and why most agencies hide their prices.

Read it → Insights

How to tell if your SEO agency is actually doing anything

The practical checks that reveal whether your SEO retainer is producing real work, or just a monthly report nobody acts on.

Read it → Insights

Google Ads management fees in South Africa: percentage vs flat fee

How South African Google Ads management is typically priced, and the maths that decides whether a flat fee or a percentage costs you more.

Read it →

Straight
answers

How much does SEO cost at CreativeDigital?
SEO starts from R22,000 with Search Foundations, a one-off that sets up conversion tracking, Search Console and structured data, and audits the technical issues in order of impact. Ongoing, the Search Retainer is a monthly fee for SEO, Google Ads management or both, quoted to your tier, with a 3-month minimum. Every package is a fixed price quoted to your scope after a short call, never hourly, and no VAT is added because the studio is not VAT-registered.
Is Google Ads spend included in the management fee?
No. Ad spend is paid to Google directly. Search Retainer includes a spend allowance that scales with your tier, and spend above it is managed at 10% of spend.
Do you implement SEO fixes or just send a report?
Implemented. Technical fixes are made on the site every month, not handed over as a list for your developer, and the monthly report is on leads and revenue rather than rankings alone.
How long does SEO take to show results?
Three months is the shortest window where the work starts to show in the numbers, which is why retainers have a 3-month minimum and run month to month after that.

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