SEO guarantees for established businesses in Canada and the US
The short answer
We put two SEO guarantees in writing. If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Both come with every plan, month to month, with no long-term contract.
Not “trust the process”. Two dates you can hold us to.
Free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We confirm which of your keywords qualify, live.
Reviewed by Aone Marcus, SEO Director at Awkward Media · Updated October 2026
13 yrs
ranking businesses in Canada and the US
60 days
to page one, or we work free
20 days
to see the first improvements
15
new clients a month max, so results don't slip
Two guarantees. Terms printed beside each.
No fine print you find later. Here is exactly what we stand behind, what you do to stay eligible, and what happens if we miss.
Guarantee 01
If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.
The metrics are set together before the campaign begins, so “visible improvement” is measured against a number you agreed to.
Guarantee 02
If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
Keyword eligibility is confirmed on your strategy call, based on your market and competition.
And no long-term contract. Month to month on every plan.
See if I qualifyDay one to day 60. Every date in writing.
Plenty of agencies ask you to wait six to twelve months before judging them. Here is what happens on ours, and when.
We search your service the way your customers do, in your towns, and confirm which keywords qualify. We also agree the metrics the 20-day check will measure.
The keyword list and the metrics are written down and agreed before the work starts. The 60-day clock starts with the campaign.
Service pages, the technical fixes your site needs, your Google Business Profile, and links from sites Google already trusts.
You should see visible improvement in your key metrics. If you don’t, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.
Your qualifying keywords should be on the first page of Google. If they aren’t, we keep working for free until they are.
We keep pushing your keywords toward the top positions. Every month you get a report walked through live on Google Meet, plus our app any time.
Can SEO be guaranteed? Yes, if you guarantee the right thing.
No one controls Google, and Google says so itself: no one can promise a number one ranking. So we don’t sell a position. We put up what we control, our time and our fee, against two dates and a keyword list you approve before we start.
| Guarantee type | What’s promised | The catch | Who carries the risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Number one, guaranteed” | The top spot on Google. | Often a search nobody makes, or shortcuts a Google update later wipes out. | You do. |
| Pay for performance | You pay only when a keyword ranks. | The agency picks easy keywords that rank fast and sell little. | Shared, on the agency’s terms. |
| Money back after 6 to 12 months | A refund if nothing moves by the end of the contract. | You pay out the whole term before you can claim it. | You do, for the whole term. |
| No guarantee at all | “Trust the process.” | Nothing to hold the agency to. | You do. |
| Awkward Media | Page one in 60 days for the keywords you approve. Visible improvement in 20 days. | Keywords qualify on the strategy call, before you pay anything. | We do. In writing, month to month. |
We guarantee what we’ve diagnosed as reachable.
We search it live
On the call, in your market, the way your customers search.
We read who holds page one
How strong the sites above you are, and what it takes to pass them.
It goes on your written list
The keywords we can move to page one in 60 days are the ones the guarantee covers.
Your side: approve the list and the deliverables, give us access and approvals on time, and keep the changes we make in place.
Page one was the floor. Here is where clients went.
Real client positions on Google, from local service firms to national stores. The guarantee sets the date. The work keeps going after it.
Inside the 20-day window
#37 to #1. In 20 days.
In 20 days, 360 Hazardous Cleanup went from #37 to #1 on Google Maps for “blood cleanup services”, with one review, above a rival with 76.
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Been burned before? Check any guarantee for these.
Many owners who come to us paid for a promise that never had anything behind it. These six signs show up before you sign. Use them on anyone, including us.
“Number one, guaranteed”
No one controls Google. A promise of the top spot for everything is a sales line, not a guarantee.
No written keyword list
Without the keywords agreed up front, there is nothing to measure the guarantee against.
Locked behind a long contract
If you have to sign for 12 months to get it, the guarantee protects the agency, not you.
Terms you only see after signing
Ask to read them before you pay. Ours are on this page.
A refund you claim at month 12
By then you have paid for the whole year. Look for a check in the first weeks.
Keywords nobody searches
Page one for a search with no buyers is worth nothing. Ask how close each keyword sits to a sale.
What we put in writing instead
A written list of target keywords before we start. The metrics the first check measures. Month to month, no long-term contract. And two guarantees: If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
We don't take everyone. On purpose.
We take on 15 new clients a month. That's what it takes to hold the rankings we promise, so we check every business first.
A good fit if
Not a fit if
Your next step
A free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in your market, live, look at who holds page one and tell you which keywords qualify for the guarantee.
Bring with you
We search your market live
The way your customers do, in the towns you serve.
We show who's above you, and why
On Google, on Maps and in the AI answers.
You leave with a road map
Yours to keep. If we can help, we'll invite you to work with us.
For established businesses doing at least $20,000 a month.
SEO guarantees FAQ
Two, in writing. If you don't see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren't on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Both come with every plan, month to month.
No one controls Google, so no one can honestly promise a number one ranking. What an agency can guarantee is what it controls: its time and its fee. Ours are put up against two dates and a keyword list you approve before we start.
Our guarantee is the first page of Google within 60 days for the qualifying keywords we agree together. After page one we keep pushing toward the top positions, and many of our clients rank first. You can see their positions in our case studies.
A keyword we have searched live in your market on the strategy call and diagnosed as reachable on page one within 60 days, based on your competition. The qualifying keywords are written down and agreed before the campaign starts.
The leading metrics for your campaign, agreed together before we start. Visible improvement is measured against a number you agreed to, so there is no argument about it on day 20.
We keep working at no cost until your qualifying keywords are on the first page of Google. You don't pay us for that time.
You get $200 on top of a refund of your payment for that period.
Approve the agreed keyword set, metrics and deliverables, give us timely website access and content approvals, and keep the changes we recommend in place.
The day your campaign starts.
No. Every plan is month to month and both guarantees come with it. There are no long-term contracts.
No. Both guarantees are included in every plan, alongside AI SEO, our app and the monthly report on Google Meet. See our SEO pricing for the ranges.
Book the free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in your market, live, look at who holds page one and tell you which keywords qualify for the guarantee.
