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Cybersecurity SEO

Your buyers don't search
for your product.

They search for the problem — "detect lateral movement," "SOC 2 evidence collection," "OT network visibility." Ranking for your category name wins you nothing if nobody types it.

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The difference

Why cybersecurity SEO isn't normal SEO.

Three things break the standard playbook in this category.

Volume is a trap. A keyword with 40 searches a month can carry a $200,000 deal. Optimising for traffic charts in security is how agencies produce reports that look good and pipelines that don't move.

Your readers are auditors. A security practitioner spots shallow content in one paragraph, and so, now, does the search engine. Content that can't survive scrutiny doesn't get links, citations, or rankings.

You can't out-publish them. Your competitors have content teams and budgets you don't. Volume is a losing war. Specificity is a winnable one.

What's included

Six parts, one system.

Cybersecurity keyword research

Your buyers do not search for "NDR platform." They search for the problem — "detect lateral movement," "SOC 2 evidence collection," "OT network visibility." We map the terms your buyers actually type, at every stage, and find the ones your competitors have not claimed.

Technical SEO audit

Crawlability, indexation, site architecture, Core Web Vitals, and the structural issues holding your rankings back. Delivered as a prioritised fix list your developers can action, not a 90-page PDF nobody reads.

On-page optimisation

Page-by-page work on titles, structure, internal linking and schema — so that each page targets one intent instead of six, and search engines can tell what it is for.

Content strategy and briefs

We write the briefs your team or ours executes: what the page must cover, what it must prove, and which objection it removes. Written so a practitioner would not roll their eyes.

Authority and off-page

Digital PR, research placement, review profiles and the citation footprint that makes a search engine treat you as a category authority instead of another vendor site.

AI search visibility

When a CISO asks an AI assistant "best MDR for healthcare," you either get named or you do not. We structure your content and entity footprint so you are cited in AI answers, not just ranked in blue links.

Pricing

Two ways to buy it.

Published, like everything else on this site.

Technical SEO Audit

$4,500
one-off · 2 weeks
  • Full crawl and indexation audit
  • Site architecture review
  • Keyword and intent map
  • Competitor gap analysis
  • Prioritised fix list for your developers
  • Credited against a retainer within 30 days

Cybersecurity SEO

$7,000
per month · 6-month minimum
  • Everything in the audit, ongoing
  • Monthly content briefs
  • On-page and technical implementation support
  • Authority and digital PR
  • AI search visibility work
  • Monthly reporting on pipeline, not rankings
What sets this apart

Four commitments.

01

We report pipeline, not rankings

Rankings are a means. We baseline your organic-to-opportunity conversion first and report against that. A number-one ranking that produces nothing is a failure we'll name.

02

No SEO before the message is right

Driving qualified traffic to a page that can't explain what you save the buyer wastes the traffic. If your positioning is the bottleneck, we'll say so and fix that first.

03

Briefs your practitioners respect

We write for an audience that can detect bluffing. That means fewer pieces, researched properly — not a content mill with cybersecurity keywords sprinkled on.

04

Every price published

$4,500 and $7,000. Same for everyone, on this page, so you can rule us out without booking a discovery call.

FAQ

Questions we get asked.

How long does cybersecurity SEO take?
Measurable ranking movement in 90 days, meaningful traffic in six months, pipeline contribution around nine. Competitive categories take longer. Anyone promising rankings in 30 days is selling you activity, not results.
Our keywords have almost no search volume. Is SEO even worth it?
That is the best argument for it. A term with 40 searches a month in enterprise security can carry a $200,000 deal. We optimise for intent and deal value, not for traffic charts — a page that brings 200 of the right visitors beats one that brings 20,000 of the wrong ones.
Can't we just publish more content?
Volume is how security companies lose at SEO. Your competitors are better funded and can out-publish you forever. You win on specificity — content that survives practitioner scrutiny on questions nobody else has answered properly.
What is AI search visibility and does it matter yet?
Buyers increasingly ask an AI assistant before they open a search engine. Being cited in those answers depends on your entity footprint, your structured data, and whether your claims are corroborated elsewhere. It matters now, and almost nobody in this category is working on it.
Do you do the writing, or just the strategy?
Either. The audit and strategy stand alone if you have writers. If you do not, content production is a separate service at $6,000 a month.
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