SEO AGENCY — REMOTE-FIRST, US-WIDE

Rankings that hold. Built to survive a manual review.

Technical SEO, content strategy, link building, local SEO, e-commerce SEO, and penalty recovery for businesses tired of guessing why they don't rank. Every method is white-hat, every fix is documented by name and date, and five deliverables are priced and buyable today — no sales call required.

Written no-manipulative-tactics guarantee on every engagement.

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We named this agency after the tactics we refuse to run. "Black Hats" is our attitude — fast, aggressive, allergic to excuses. Every method we actually use is 100% white-hat and Google-guidelines-compliant, backed by a written no-manipulative-tactics guarantee on every engagement.

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WHAT WE DO

Six services. Every one has a real price attached to at least one deliverable.

What we've actually done

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Regional HVAC group · 14 locations
Local SEO Launch Pack + management retainer — Google Business Profiles and citations rebuilt across every location after a franchise-wide rebrand scattered them.
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Mid-market e-commerce retailer · home goods
E-commerce SEO retainer — category pages rebuilt around merchandising-aware keyword targets; non-brand organic now carries traffic the paid budget used to carry alone.
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Regional professional services firm
Penalty Recovery — diagnosed a manual action tied to a previous vendor’s link scheme, documented the remediation, and got the reconsideration approved. One of the 12 manual actions in our recovery count.

SAMPLE REPORT FORMAT — ILLUSTRATIVE

Every fix. Every link. Named.

Most agencies report a monthly summary. We report the work itself — dated, sourced, and checkable. This is the format every client sees, on every engagement, one-off or retainer.

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07/14 — Canonical tag corrected on /category/outdoor-furniture — dev ticket SBH-1142, shipped same sprint.
07/09 — Link earned: contextual placement from a sourced data study — live at referring-site.example/article — reported the day it went live.
06/28 — Structured data added across 212 product pages — schema validated, zero errors.

Sample entries, illustrative of our report format — not a real client's data.

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Campaigns delivered since 2016

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Google penalty recoveries, incl. 12 manual actions lifted

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Average non-brand organic growth across 12-month engagements

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Average client retention

Diagnose. Plan. Execute. Report.

01

Diagnose

We start by finding out what’s actually happening — a crawl, a rankings check, a backlink review, or a full audit, depending on what you bought. No proposal gets written before this step.

What you see: A written scope built from real data about your site, not a template.

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Plan

Findings become a plan: a prioritised fix list, a content calendar, a link-earning roadmap, or a remediation sequence. Every item is ranked by impact, not listed alphabetically.

What you see: A documented plan with dates and priorities attached, before any work ships.

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Execute

We do the work and name every tactic as we go — audits shipped, briefs written, links earned, Google Business Profiles fixed, reconsideration requests filed.

What you see: Dated tickets and live URLs, updated as the work happens, not batched into a monthly summary.

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Report

You see what changed, why, and what it means for what happens next — in plain language a non-technical stakeholder can still follow, with the technical detail available underneath for anyone who wants it.

What you see: A report built to be forwarded to your own boss or board, not just filed away.

What it costs

Buy today

Rank Snapshot

12-page diagnostic: crawl health, rankings, backlink risk, top 3 fixes

3 business days

$290

Technical SEO Audit — Standard

Full crawl & architecture review, up to 500 URLs

7 business days

$1,450

Local SEO Launch Pack

GBP optimisation, citation cleanup, one location page, review workflow

10 business days

$1,200

Scope together

Link Building & Digital PR

Earned links only — data studies, expert commentary, journalist outreach

3-month minimum

from $2,500/mo

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Penalty Recovery Programme

Full remediation and reconsideration management past the Diagnosis Sprint

from $2,800/mo

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Questions before you buy

Is "Black Hats" just marketing? Do you actually use black-hat tactics?

No. The name is the attitude — fast, aggressive, no-BS. Every method we run is white-hat and Google-guidelines-compliant, and it’s written into your contract as a no-manipulative-tactics guarantee. If a technique wouldn’t survive a manual review, we don’t run it.

Do I have to commit to a retainer to work with you?

No. Five deliverables — the Rank Snapshot, both audit tiers, the Keyword & Content Strategy, and the Local SEO Launch Pack — are fixed-price, one-off purchases. Buy one, see the work, decide from there. Retainers are quote-only because they’re scoped to your situation, not because the price is hidden.

Can you guarantee rankings?

No, and we’d distrust anyone who says they can. Nobody controls Google’s algorithm. What we guarantee is the method: documented, white-hat, and reported to you by name and URL so you can verify it yourself.

What if my previous agency did something shady and I got penalised?

That’s most of what Penalty Recovery & Site Rescue does. Start with the Diagnosis Sprint ($2,400) — a clear verdict on what happened and whether recovery is realistic, before you commit to anything bigger.

Tell us what's happening with your rankings. A specialist reviews it and tells you straight whether it's fixable, and what it would take.

Book a strategy call

Or start with a fixed answer. The Rank Snapshot is a 12-page diagnostic on your domain for $290, delivered in 3 business days.

Get the Rank Snapshot — $290

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