How Much Does SEO Cost a Month?
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SEO Costs · Part 2 The monthly number For a small or local business in the United States, a monthly SEO retainer usually lands between $500 and $1,500. Mid-sized companies…
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How Much Does SEO Cost?
October 2, 2026
SEO Costs · Part 1 The short answer Most businesses that pay for SEO pay somewhere between $500 and $5,000 a month. That is not a guess. A 2026 survey…
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Read More →Automatic Updates: Why We Turned Them Off, and What That Costs
September 24, 2026
Site Hardening · Part 9 The advice everyone gives Turn on automatic updates. It is the first line of almost every WordPress security checklist, and for most sites it is…
Read More →Fewer Moving Parts: Running WordPress With Almost No Plugins
September 24, 2026
Site Hardening · Part 8 Every plugin is someone else’s code A typical small-business WordPress site runs twenty to forty plugins. Each one is software written by someone you have…
Read More →Locking Down .htaccess Without Breaking Your Site
September 24, 2026
Site Hardening · Part 7 The most powerful file you never read On most shared hosting, a small file called .htaccess decides how the server treats every request that reaches…
Read More →File Permissions That Actually Stop Writes
September 24, 2026
Site Hardening · Part 6 The numbers everyone quotes Every hardening guide has the same line: 644 for files, 755 for folders, 640 or tighter for your configuration file. Part…
Read More →Files That Should Never Live on a Web Server
September 24, 2026
Site Hardening · Part 5 The door nobody installs Most hardening advice is about software: which plugins to trust, which versions to run. This part is about something quieter —…
Read More →One Hosting Account, One Target: The Dormant Site Problem
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Read More →Let the Edge Hold the Door: Cloudflare in Front of WordPress
September 24, 2026
Site Hardening · Part 3 The layer in front of your server For most small sites, every visitor goes straight to the hosting server. Every bot, every scanner, every login…
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