Crypto SEO
Crypto SEO — organic search retainer for Web3 brands
Crypto SEO is the flagship retainer. Six-month minimum, full search engine: technical, on-page, content, links, paid-search alignment. We rebuild organic pipelines for crypto, fintech and Web3 companies that lost traction with generalist agencies.
Crypto SEO is a six-month retainer that runs a complete search engine for one crypto, fintech or Web3 brand — technical fixes, AEO-structured content, donor links, weekly tracking, monthly ROI report — under one fixed monthly fee.
Best fit: Crypto exchanges, wallets and on/off-ramps with stalled organic growth · Crypto licensing firms (VASP, MiCA, EMI) competing on YMYL search · Tokenization, RWA and DeFi infra projects with technical buyers · Web3 SaaS and dev-tool companies switching from a generalist SEO agency
Quick Facts
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Monthly fee (base) | From $3,200 USD · 131,000 UAH |
| Minimum term | 6 months |
| Tracked queries | 50–150 commercial queries |
| Pages restructured / month | 2–4 priority pages, full GS Playbook pass |
| New AEO content / month | 4–8 long-form articles (1,500–3,000 words) |
| Donor placements / month | 6–12 niche-relevant links (DR 40+, traffic-verified) |
| Reporting | Weekly position tracker, monthly ROI report |
| AI search tracking | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews |
What does the Crypto SEO retainer actually deliver?
A working organic search engine — discovery, technical fixes, restructured priority pages, monthly content production, donor link building and ROI reporting — under one fixed fee.
The retainer covers four parallel tracks. Technical: JS rendering, crawl budget, schema (Organization, Article, FAQPage, Product, BreadcrumbList, Person for named experts), hreflang, Core Web Vitals, llms.txt and AI-crawler robots. On-page: 2–4 priority pages restructured per month under the GS Playbook v4.3 — H1 disambiguator (so "Crypto SEO" is not parsed as a category term but as your specific service), Quick Facts table near the top, AEO H2 questions, ≤30-word direct answers, named-expert byline.
Content: 4–8 long-form articles per month, ranked by citation potential not keyword volume, written by editors with crypto and fintech context, every draft reviewed for de-AI compliance. Links: 6–12 placements per month on niche-relevant crypto, fintech and legaltech media (DR 40+, organic traffic verified) — guest posts written by us, anchor and URL diversification matched to natural patterns from competitor profiles.
Reporting: weekly position tracker for the full query universe, monthly ROI report linking organic traffic to qualified leads, share-of-voice movement against three named competitors, and the AI-citation count across five platforms.
Why is the minimum term six months?
Crypto search wins compound on the link side after month three and on the content side after month four. Anything shorter shows costs without showing results.
The first 90 days are a build-out: technical fixes ship in weeks 1–4, the first content cohort lands in months 2 and 3, the first donor links land in month 2 (if topic-fit donors exist) or month 3 (if we have to write outreach assets first). What you measure in months 1–3 is mostly leading indicators: indexation health, schema validation, ranking velocity, AI-citation seedlings.
Lagging indicators — qualified leads, share-of-voice, top-3 commercial rankings — start appearing in months 4–6. Cutting at month three is paying for the build and missing the harvest. The math only works on a six-month minimum, and we say so on the discovery call so nobody is surprised.
Do you guarantee top positions?
No. Search results are probabilistic and crypto is a YMYL vertical with high algorithmic volatility. We publish expected ranges and document our methodology instead.
Any agency promising "guaranteed #1 in 60 days for crypto exchange queries" is either lying or about to be deindexed. Google's helpful-content signal, MUVERA, and the SpamBrain crypto vertical move quarterly. We have brought clients to top-3 on hard commercial queries inside 4 months and we have also fought algorithmic suppression for two months before recovering — both happen to good work.
What we guarantee is process: written scope, weekly tracker, monthly ROI report, transparent donor list with traffic verification, and a no-PBN, no-link-farm rule. If the work is done and the result is not yet there, we extend with you, we do not extend ourselves.
What if our team handles part of this in-house?
We slot in. We can run technical and links while your team handles content, or content while your devs handle technical — but the retainer fee adjusts on scope.
The most common pattern: a crypto company has a content team that knows the product but no technical SEO and no link team. We run the technical layer, schema engineering, content briefs (your writers execute), and the link program. Saves cost on writing fees, keeps founder voice in the copy.
Alternative pattern: a SaaS-first team with strong content and a working link list, but no AEO experience and no clue what their AI-search baseline is. We run AEO restructuring, schema, and AI-citation tracking — content stays yours, links stay yours. The fee compresses to roughly $2,000–$2,400 in those scopes; we will quote it on the discovery call.
How do you handle restricted Google Ads or Meta Ads accounts?
We do not push organic SEO into a paid problem. Advertising and SEO lines stay separate; we coordinate, but budgets and team leads differ.
Many crypto clients arrive blocked from Google Ads or with a Meta account in moderation purgatory. Crypto SEO retainers focus exclusively on organic; if paid is part of the brief, we pair the SEO retainer with the Crypto Advertising line (separate fee, separate quote, separate weekly cadence) and have one shared monthly review where SEO and paid teams compare attribution. We do not bury paid-search hours inside the SEO retainer to look cheaper. It is dishonest and it produces worse work.
Frequently asked questions
Can you sign an NDA before the discovery call?
Yes — mutual NDA on request, our standard form or yours, no charge. We do not need pricing or strategy details before signing.
We default to mutual NDA. Send your form and we sign within one business day. Our standard form is two pages and covers data on both sides.
What does the discovery call cover?
30 minutes: your goal queries, current organic baseline, AI-citation snapshot, two or three quick wins, and whether the retainer is the right spend for you right now.
If we think a smaller scope is better, we will say so on the call. If we think the work needs to wait until you finish a regulatory event or product launch, we say that too.
Which crypto verticals do you not work in?
Anonymous mixers, non-KYC platforms in restricted jurisdictions, and projects whose business model is ICO-only without a product. We work with regulated and visible brands.
We are not a moral arbiter, but our donor relationships only place links to KYC-compliant, jurisdiction-visible brands. The work does not produce results otherwise.
Do you publish case studies for ranked clients?
Yes for clients who allow it; otherwise framework-named cases with anonymized metrics. Our cases page shows fastoffshorelicenses.com and cryptolawindex.com publicly.
Some clients we name and screenshot. Others we frame as 'European crypto-licensing firm' with the same methodology and numeric range. Both are honest.
Can we start with just an audit and skip the retainer?
Sometimes — for sites with no AEO baseline at all we run a one-off Crypto Growth Audit at $1,800. It is the same first-month deliverable, packaged separately.
If the audit finds the retainer is not yet justified — e.g., product not launched, regulatory perimeter unclear — we tell you on the call rather than push the retainer. Lots of clients audit, take the punch-list in-house, and come back six months later.
Want to scope this for your case?
A 30-minute discovery call is enough to know whether this package fits — and whether the niche multiplier lands the price where you want it.