What each paid SEO data check costs
Any paid plan 3 minute read
Who it is for: Anyone wondering why these wait to be pressed.
Because each one is bought from a data provider and costs real money every time it runs. Nothing here fires on its own, each button says how many more you have this month before you press it, and you can see what is left at any time.
Why it matters
A tool that spends quietly is a tool you stop trusting. Most products in this category refresh data on a schedule you did not choose and bill you for the volume afterwards. We would rather you pressed the button.
What to do
- Nothing runs automatically. No audit, no re-crawl and no scheduled job reaches any of this. Every one of these calls happens because somebody pressed a button.
- What is left is shown before the press, not after. Each section on the Insights page says how many more of that check your plan has this month, beside its own button.
- You can see what is left. Your dashboard shows what share of the month's search data you have used and when it resets.
- A refusal explains itself. If a press would go past what your plan has left it is refused with the reason, rather than failing quietly or charging you anyway.
What you get back
A ceiling you can see before and after every press, with nothing spent that you did not ask for and no bill arriving later for volume you did not choose.
How to make money from it
Knowing the ceiling is what lets you price a retainer rather than guess at one. The monthly allowance that comes with each plan is on the pricing page, and Agency carries the largest of them — the one to be on if you are running this across a book of clients rather than one site.
Worth knowing. These are the only calls in the product that cost per use, which is why they are the only ones that wait to be asked. The crawl, the 101 checks and the verification behind every finding run on our own servers and are on every plan.
This one needs a paid plan. What each plan includes.