RankMyStore runs three ecommerce SEO packages: Crawl from $1,500 per month, Walk at $2,500 per month, and Run at $5,000 per month. Every package wins on two fronts at once: the traditional Google results your buyers still use, and the AI answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini that they increasingly trust instead. All prices are in Canadian dollars.
What Do You Get at Each Level?
| Crawl | Walk | Run | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly investment (CAD) | From $1,500 | $2,500 | $5,000 |
| Best for | Stores starting SEO and AI visibility | Stores ready to steer what AI says about them | Stores that want to lead their market |
| Targeted keywords | 10 | 20, plus topic clusters | 50, plus full topic-cluster map |
| Technical foundation (Month 1) | Full | Full | Full |
| Product and collection page optimization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Content writing | Yes | Higher volume | Highest volume |
| AI visibility monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom prompt tracking across top AI platforms | No | 10 prompts | 25 prompts |
| Digital PR strategy and outreach | Yes | Yes | Yes, priority targeting |
| Backlinks and brand-mention placements per month | Budget-based | Budget-based, more | Budget-based, most |
| Reddit, YouTube, and Quora strategy | No | No | Yes |
| Monthly performance report | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Contract | Month-to-month | Month-to-month | Month-to-month |
Digital PR placements such as paid features, sponsored content, and publication fees are billed to and covered by you. We handle the strategy, targeting, outreach, and quality control. The number of placements per month depends on how competitive your niche is and the PR budget you set.
Why Do Online Stores Need SEO and AEO Together?
Shoppers no longer just type two words into Google and click a blue link. They ask a full question to an AI assistant and read the answer. That creates a new question every store owner should ask: when a buyer asks an AI which store to buy from, does your store get mentioned, or does a competitor?
The shift is measurable. Roughly 1 in 6 US searches now shows an AI Overview, more than double the share seen in early 2025, and 97 percent of those AI answers are for informational, help-me-decide questions. When an AI Overview appears, the top traditional result can lose about 34.5 percent of its clicks. The traffic that still arrives from AI is worth winning: in Ahrefs’ own published data, visitors from AI search converted about 23 times better than visitors from traditional search.
Our packages are built for both fronts. Strong traditional SEO, good content, authority, and a fast crawlable store, is what makes you eligible to be quoted by an AI in the first place. Then we work on getting your brand mentioned across the web, because in a study of 75,000 brands across millions of AI Overviews, Ahrefs found the strongest correlation was between how often a brand is mentioned around the web and how often AI mentions it.
What Happens in Month 1?
Every package starts with the same foundation month. A slow or uncrawlable store cannot rank well and cannot be quoted by AI, so we fix the house first.
- Technical audit and resolution. We crawl your store and fix what holds it back: broken pages, redirect problems, messy site structure, faceted navigation issues that burn crawl budget, missing tags, and errors that quietly bleed traffic.
- Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed. We measure and improve how fast your pages load, how quickly they respond, and how stable they are while loading, because fast stable pages help both rankings and AI crawlability.
- AI crawler access. We check robots.txt, firewall and Cloudflare rules, and rendering so AI crawlers can actually read your pages. A meaningful share of websites block AI crawlers without realizing it, forfeiting AI visibility. We also confirm important content is not hidden behind heavy JavaScript that AI crawlers cannot read.
- Keyword research and competitor benchmarking. We identify the keywords and buyer questions worth winning for your store, and benchmark where you stand against competitors in both traditional search and AI answers.
- Dashboards set up. We configure GA4, Google Tag Manager, and Google Search Console so tracking is clean from day one, and layer in rank tracking plus AI visibility monitoring.
By the end of Month 1, you have a fast, fully crawlable, properly tracked store and a clear data-backed plan.
What Is Included in Crawl From $1,500 Per Month?
Crawl gets the fundamentals right so your store starts showing up in both Google and AI answers.
- Technical foundation (Month 1, as above). Full audit and resolution, Core Web Vitals work, AI crawler access, keyword research, competitor benchmarking, and dashboard setup.
- 10 targeted keywords. We select and track the 10 keywords and buyer questions most likely to drive qualified traffic and revenue for your store.
- Product and collection page optimization. We improve your key product and collection pages so they are structured the way Google and AI prefer: clear headings, short factual statements, bullet points, tables, and FAQ sections with real answers.
- Content writing. New AI-friendly content each month targeting your priority topics and the questions your buyers actually ask, including buying guides and comparison content that earns AI citations.
- Content freshness. We keep your most important pages current. AI assistants measurably prefer fresher content, and a single updated page can drive a surge of new AI mentions.
- On-page and schema fundamentals. Optimized title tags, meta descriptions, URL slugs, and internal linking, plus structured data such as Product, FAQ, and Organization schema, so search engines and AI understand your pages accurately.
- AI visibility monitoring. We monitor how often your brand is mentioned and cited in AI answers across the major platforms, and track your AI Share of Voice against competitors.
- Digital PR strategy and outreach. We identify the third-party sites where a mention would move the needle most, such as gift guides, product roundups, and review publications, and run outreach to earn brand mentions and backlinks. Placement costs are covered by you.
- Monthly performance report. Traffic, rankings, conversions, AI mentions, and a plain-language summary of what improved and what happens next.
What Is Included in Walk at $2,500 Per Month?
Walk includes everything in Crawl, plus active control over the exact AI conversations that decide your sales.
- 10 custom prompts tracked across the top AI platforms. We track your 10 most important buyer questions and monitor exactly how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, and Grok answer them. For each prompt we see whether the AI mentions you, mentions a competitor, or skips you entirely.
- AI gap analysis. We find the high-value questions where competitors get mentioned and you do not, and the pages where competitors get cited and you do not. Each gap becomes a concrete content or outreach action.
- Topic authority strategy. We map which subjects AI already associates with your store and which ones it does not, then prioritize the content that closes those gaps.
- Expanded content program. A higher volume of new content and optimizations each month, built around the prompt gaps and topic gaps we uncover, plus 20 targeted keywords with supporting topic clusters.
- Cited-domain intelligence for smarter PR. We identify exactly which publications AI trusts in your niche, then focus your PR and outreach on earning mentions there, where they compound the most.
What Is Included in Run at $5,000 Per Month?
Run includes everything in Walk, scaled up, plus a multi-platform strategy to own the conversations AI trusts most.
- 25 custom prompts tracked across the top AI platforms. Broader and deeper coverage of your buyer questions, enough for multiple product lines or customer segments at once.
- Platform optimization strategy for Reddit, YouTube, and Quora. AI assistants heavily favour certain external platforms when building answers. Reddit is among the most-cited domains in AI answers, and YouTube is the second most-cited source. We find the exact high-traffic threads, videos, and communities in your niche where your store should be present, and guide authentic participation there.
- 50 targeted keywords and a full topic-cluster map. The most comprehensive content program: 50 keywords organized into complete clusters covering every angle of your priority topics, plus shareable assets such as data studies and comparison guides that naturally attract links and mentions.
- Priority PR targeting. We combine cited-domain intelligence across your key AI platforms into a priority target list of the publications that appear most consistently in your niche, and focus your PR budget on the highest-compounding placements.
How Is the Work Paced?
You are never paying a flat retainer for vague SEO. The work follows a defined rhythm based on how often each task genuinely needs doing.
| Cadence | What we do | Why this cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Once, mostly in Month 1 | Site audit, HTTPS and robots.txt and sitemap checks, site architecture, AI crawler access, GA4 and Tag Manager and Search Console setup, brand profiles | Foundational items that only need doing right once, then maintained |
| Monthly, the ongoing engine | Content writing and optimization, freshness updates, on-page SEO, internal linking, rank tracking, link and mention building, AI Share of Voice monitoring, reporting | The recurring work that compounds your visibility month after month |
| Quarterly | Brand visibility audit, AI visibility benchmark, link and mention audit, competitor gap analysis, AI accuracy check | Health checks that catch drift and new opportunities |
| Yearly | Topical map refresh, content completeness audit, decaying content sweep, AI brand gap analysis | Big picture strategy resets |
What Do You Report Every Month?
Every month you get one report with two views, built to answer a single question: is this driving real business value?
- Traditional search performance. From dashboards you can verify yourself: GA4 traffic, engagement, and conversions such as sales and revenue; Search Console impressions, clicks, and average position; keyword rankings over time.
- AI performance. AI mentions, how many AI answers include your brand; AI citations, how many cite your pages; AI Share of Voice against named competitors; custom prompt results for Walk and Run; which third-party sources feed your AI visibility; and an AI accuracy check that flags incorrect claims about your brand.
- Plain-language summary and next actions. What improved, what it means for your store, and exactly what we do next month.
What Are the Contract Terms?
- Billing: month-to-month for the duration of the contract term.
- Term: choose a 6-month to 12-month engagement.
- Cancellation: you can end the contract at any time. No lock-in, no penalties.
- Digital PR costs: strategy, targeting, outreach, and quality control are included in your package. Media and placement fees are billed to and covered by you.
- Honest expectations: we do not promise guaranteed rankings or a fixed number of AI mentions, because no honest agency controls Google’s or an AI model’s algorithm. We promise the right work, done consistently, measured transparently.
What If You Need a One-Time Project?
| Project | Investment |
|---|---|
| Ecommerce SEO audit | $4,000 CAD |
| Ecommerce SEO migration | From $6,000 CAD |
| Hourly consulting | $350 CAD per hour |
Which Package Is Right for Your Store?
- Choose Crawl if you are getting serious about SEO and want to start appearing in AI answers with a solid, well-tracked foundation.
- Choose Walk if you want to actively see and improve exactly how AI describes your store for your most important buyer questions.
- Choose Run if you want to lead your market, with deep AI prompt coverage plus ownership of the Reddit, YouTube, and Quora conversations AI trusts most.
Whichever you choose, the goal is the same: more qualified buyers finding your store and choosing it, whether they search on Google or ask an AI.