Skyfield Digital provides senior SEO and GEO leadership on a fractional basis: a strategist who sets the roadmap, directs your in-house team or vendors and owns the results, without a full-time executive salary.
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No obligation. Your audit covers Google rankings, technical SEO and how AI engines answer for your brand.
Many companies do not fail at SEO because of effort. They fail because nobody senior is deciding what to do first, checking the work and connecting it to revenue. Marketers publish content without a keyword map, developers ship releases that break indexing and vendors report activity instead of results.
Skyfield Digital's fractional SEO service puts an experienced strategist in that seat. Your fractional lead builds the roadmap on our Five Pillars of SEO framework, turns it into tickets and briefs your team can act on, reviews everything before it ships and reports to leadership every month. Where your team has gaps, our production team fills them.
The role covers AI visibility too. Your lead decides which prompts to track across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, how content should be written to be cited and how to correct what AI engines say about your brand, so GEO is part of the same plan rather than a separate project.
Every number we report comes from Google Search Console, GA4 and your own tracked AI prompts.
Your fractional lead owns each area below and either directs your team or brings in ours.
A 90-day plan and 12-month roadmap tied to revenue goals, reviewed and re-prioritized every month as results come in.
Audits translated into developer tickets with acceptance criteria, release reviews before they ship and indexing monitoring after.
Keyword and prompt maps, briefs for your writers or ours, editorial standards built for Google and AI citations and refresh priorities.
A link and digital PR plan, vendor management if you already have one, and Skyfield's own outreach team when you do not.
Which prompts to track, how to structure content to be quoted, entity and schema standards and a plan for fixing brand sentiment in AI answers.
A monthly report and review with rankings, organic revenue, AI share of voice and the decisions leadership needs to make next.
Each model fits a different team. Here is how they compare.
| Full-Time Head of SEO | Fractional SEO Lead | Traditional Agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | Salary, benefits and tools, often six figures | A monthly retainer starting at $1,500 | Monthly retainer, execution only |
| Time to start | 3 to 6 months to hire and ramp | Within two weeks | 2 to 4 weeks onboarding |
| Strategy ownership | In house | Senior strategist embedded with your team | Account manager, strategy varies |
| Execution capacity | One person, needs a team | Directs your team, Skyfield fills gaps | Agency team, limited direction of your staff |
| GEO and AI visibility | Depends on the hire | Included | Rarely included |
| Commitment | Employment | Month to month | Often 6 to 12 month contracts |
A fractional lead has to own both channels. Here is what that means in practice.
What the SEO side doesWhat the GEO side does
Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity reward the same disciplined execution. One leader setting the standard covers all of them.
Within a month your team has a roadmap and knows exactly what to do next.
A full SEO and GEO audit plus conversations with your marketers, developers and leadership to understand capacity and goals.
A prioritized 90-day plan and 12-month roadmap with owners for every item, whether that is your team or ours.
Weekly direction, tickets, briefs and reviews for your team, with Skyfield production covering content, links and technical work where needed.
Monthly leadership reporting on rankings, revenue and AI visibility, and a roadmap that shifts as the data comes in.
Skyfield Digital sells SEO and GEO together. Plans start at $1,500 per month and scale to $10,000 per month on the Scale plan. Every plan includes SEO and GEO content, backlinks, on-page optimization and AI prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and Google AI Overviews.
Start ranking on Google and showing up in AI answers.
Build topical authority across search and AI.
Own your category on Google and in AI recommendations.
Enterprise output that grows with your budget.
Every plan includes a dedicated strategist who leads your program. Teams that want a heavier leadership mix and lighter production, or the reverse, can have the plan shaped to fit.
Start with a free audit. You will get a clear view of your rankings, technical health, content gaps and how AI engines answer for your brand, along with the first 90 days of a roadmap.
Fractional SEO is senior SEO leadership on a part-time or retainer basis. A fractional SEO lead sets strategy, prioritizes the roadmap, directs your in-house marketers, writers and developers, reviews the work and reports to leadership, the way a head of SEO would, for a fraction of the cost of hiring one.
Companies that have people who can execute, such as marketers, writers or developers, but nobody senior who knows what to do in what order. It also fits companies between SEO hires, companies with an agency that needs direction, and founders who want an expert in the room without a full-time salary.
A traditional agency does the work for you. A fractional SEO lead directs the work your team does and steps in where you have gaps. At Skyfield Digital you can combine both: fractional leadership plus our production team for content, links and technical fixes on any plan.
Fractional leadership is included in every Skyfield plan through your dedicated strategist, starting at $1,500 per month on Launch. Teams that want a heavier leadership component with less production, or the reverse, get a plan shaped to that mix. See the pricing page for the standard tiers.
Sets and updates the roadmap, prioritizes tickets for developers, briefs and reviews content, checks technical releases, manages link building, tracks rankings and AI visibility, and presents results to leadership with clear next steps.
Yes. Your fractional lead owns AI visibility as well as Google rankings, including which prompts to track, how content should be structured to be cited, and how to fix brand sentiment in AI answers.
No. We do not require long-term contracts. Most fractional engagements run for a year or more because the roadmap keeps producing, but you are never locked in.
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