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A buyer's guide for owners with an SEO retainer: the updated scope of work, legacy-package red flags, and the 20-minute monthly self-check that keeps everyone honest.
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A buyer's guide for owners with an SEO retainer: the updated scope of work, legacy-package red flags, and the 20-minute monthly self-check that keeps everyone honest.

Not a definitions post: an allocation model. Where the marginal hour goes by company archetype, the 2026 tilts, and the quarterly rebalancing rule.

Leaving BrightEdge? Find your notice date before the renewal, learn which data the contract lets you keep, export through the channels BrightEdge offers.

RankControl vs Advanced Web Ranking, checked September 2026: AWR measures rankings and AI answers in keyword units. RankControl writes pages that close gaps.

SE Ranking tracks AI answers three different ways; RankControl makes the pages and checks seven engines weekly. Features, engines, pricing and a clear verdict.

Moving AI search work off Advanced Web Ranking? Export rank history within the 20,000-row cap, cancel the only way AWR accepts, and beat the 30-day login cliff.

Leaving Search Atlas? Move OTTO's fixes into your CMS before the pixel goes, export rank and AI data on the right plan, and cancel inside the refund window.

A practical guide to SEO in Claude with MCP servers: connecting them, researching from Search Console, drafting, publishing with a confirm step and tracking citations.

Leaving SE Ranking for AI search work? Export rank history before row caps bite, get past the backlink sample limit, cancel cleanly and use the 60-day window.

Ten MCP servers for SEO work in Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT, checked on each vendor's site: what they do, what they really cost, and how many to connect.

Five SEO tools a small marketing team can actually run in 2026, checked on each vendor's own pages: what they cost per seat, what changed this year, and which job each does.

The evergreen answer with receipts: what Google's policies actually say, what the spam updates actually hit, why AI takes the blame, and the safe-harbor list.
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