Elevate Retainer

Elevate Retainer SEO for Recruitment Agencies

£1,495 per month for 16 hours of data-driven SEO that repairs technical debt, strengthens authority, and builds the visibility your agency needs to compete in both Google and AI-driven search.

The Elevate Retainer is for recruitment agencies that have grown past the basics. You’ve built a solid foundation, but results have plateaued - content isn’t ranking, competitors are outranking you, and your site isn’t surfacing in AI results. Elevate delivers the structure and expertise needed to overcome complex SEO challenges and build sustainable, compounding visibility.

Key Takeaways

Growth slows when technical debt, weak content structure, and limited authority block progress.
Elevate delivers a structured monthly programme to fix, refine, and scale your SEO.
Ideal for agencies with active marketing efforts but inconsistent organic performance.
A proven, data-led retainer that delivers measurable growth in visibility, leads, and applications.

When Your Ambition Outgrows Your Website

Agencies often hit a ceiling. Content is being produced, campaigns are running, but rankings stay flat and applications are slow to scale. Job boards remain the lifeline while competitors with stronger SEO dominate your desired searches.

Elevate Retainer changes that. It is not about ticking SEO boxes.

Why Agencies Choose the Elevate Retainer

Agencies often hit a ceiling where “good enough” SEO stops working. The site has traffic, but it’s unqualified. Content exists, but it’s not ranking. Authority is diluted, and AI-driven visibility is nonexistent. Elevate solves these problems through structured, month-by-month optimisation built for growth.

Your site is technically live but underperforming - Elevate removes the friction.
You’re producing content that never climbs - we rebuild structure and intent alignment.
You’ve invested in SEO before but lack visibility gains - Elevate exposes where effort is wasted.
You’re struggling to appear in Featured Snippets, People Also Ask, or AI Overviews - we fix that through schema and content reinforcement.
You want predictable, compounding growth - Elevate creates the framework that drives it.

What the Elevate Retainer Delivers Each Month

Keyword and Topic Strategy: We carry out advanced keyword research and topical mapping for your specialist markets.
This produces a clear, rolling content plan built around long tail searches, commercial intent, and AI surfacing opportunities.
Content Optimisation and Creation: Each month we optimise priority pages and support new content creation. That typically means four to five page level improvements, plus one high quality blog or guide.
Pages target two to three primary keywords with supporting terms to reinforce topical relevance.
On Site Content Hub Development: We build scalable knowledge hubs through pillar pages and interlinked clusters.
These hubs position your agency as an authority and help Google and AI engines understand your expertise.
Technical SEO and User Experience: We remove technical debt by fixing crawl errors, indexation gaps, duplicate pages, and schema issues. We also enhance site navigation, job application flow, and user experience.
This supports both rankings and conversions.
Authority Building: We dedicate time to safe, strategic link acquisition. This includes outreach, niche directory placements, and producing data driven resources such as salary guides and market reports that attract backlinks.
AI and Schema Optimisation: We ensure your site is prepared for AI driven search by adding structured FAQs, voice and SGE checks, and schema enhancements.
These tactics increase inclusion in People Also Ask, Featured Snippets, and AI Overviews.
Reporting and Strategy Alignment: Every month you receive a report covering rankings, content performance, AI visibility, and leads. A one hour strategy call keeps priorities aligned and ensures progress compounds.

Who Is This Package For

The Elevate Retainer is for recruitment agencies that have matured beyond the basics and now face complex SEO challenges limiting growth:

You’ve fixed the fundamentals but can’t break past stagnant rankings.
You’re investing in marketing but struggling to convert traffic into enquiries.
You’ve built content, but it lacks structure, intent focus, and authority.
You suspect technical debt or content overlap is holding your site back.
You want deeper, more consistent visibility across both Google and AI search.
You need expert support that feels like an in-house SEO function, without enterprise cost.

The Elevate Growth Story

Case Study:

A tech recruiter had invested heavily in marketing but couldn’t scale organic leads. Elevate restructured their architecture, refined their content targeting, and added advanced schema. Within four months, their visibility in AI Overviews increased by 44%, and inbound applications grew by 29%.

What clients say:

“The Elevate programme gave us the structure we were missing. Kaizen SEO delivered consistent, measurable growth without the enterprise level price tag. We are now competing on a national stage we previously thought was out of reach.” - Director, Midlands tech recruiter

Expert insight from Kaizen SEO:

“When results plateau, it’s rarely because effort is missing, it’s because structure is. Elevate provides the framework that converts effort into momentum.” - Dan, Founder of Kaizen SEO

How Elevate Drives Scalable Growth

How do you move beyond flat rankings and inconsistent results?
By rebuilding the structure that supports your site’s authority, fixing technical debt, strengthening interlinking, and aligning every page around commercial intent. Elevate creates the framework that allows your visibility to grow month after month.

How do you secure Featured Snippets, People Also Ask spots, and AI Overview placements?
By publishing content that answers search questions better than anyone else and reinforcing it with precise schema. Elevate ensures your agency is the one Google and AI systems choose to surface when clients or candidates ask the questions that matter.

FAQs

Q: What does the Elevate Retainer include for recruitment agencies?
A: A structured programme of technical fixes, content optimisation, schema, internal linking, authority building, and AI readiness tasks that deliver compounding visibility growth.

Q: How quickly will we see results from Elevate?
A: You will see technical and indexing improvements within weeks. Growth in rankings, applications, and leads builds steadily from there.

Q: How is Elevate different from Dominate?
A: Elevate is designed for structured growth on a mid tier budget. Dominate is for enterprise agencies that need aggressive, multi market expansion.

Q: Can Elevate help us expand nationally?
A: Yes. Elevate includes geo targeting, site architecture and interlinking strategies that enable your agency to move from regional to national visibility.