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For SEO teams running a repeatable monthly retainer
Monthly SEO retainer
A repeatable monthly SEO cycle: audit, content, links and reporting.
4 columns10 tasks30-day plan
After you sign up, this template arrives selected in the first setup step.
A retainer is the same month, thirty times over — which is exactly why it drifts. Audit slips behind content, outreach gets skipped in a busy week, and the report is written the night before the call. This board lays the cycle out on a thirty-day rhythm: kickoff on day one, audit by day five, content through the middle of the month, the performance report on day thirty.
The board
BacklogIn ProgressReviewDone
The green column is the done column — every delivered, velocity and trend number is counted from it.
The plan
The day numbers are relative to the start date you choose; they become real dates when the board is created.
- Day 1Monthly kickoff & priorities
- Day 5Technical SEO audit
- Crawl & fix errors
- Core Web Vitals check
- Day 7Keyword & content plan
- Day 15Content production
- Draft articles
- Editorial review
- Day 20Link building outreach
- Day 30Monthly performance report
When this is the right one
- You bill the same scope every month and rebuild the plan every month.
- Reporting is the task that gets compressed when the month gets tight.
- A new account manager needs to see what the retainer actually includes.