What does the Care plan include?

The Care plan includes weekly optimization, monitoring, and reporting with no upsells. It covers items such as keyword tracking, click-through optimization, broken link monitoring and fixes, internal link building, automated blog content, page and content optimization, security and malware monitoring, uptime and SSL monitoring, weekly database backups, Core Web Vitals monitoring, and a monthly care report.

What is the difference between Care and Managed?

Care includes the monitoring, optimization, and reporting. Managed includes everything in Care plus hands-on maintenance work, such as applying updates, using staging for high-risk plugin testing, fixing issues found by monitoring, database and speed optimization, and verified backups with restore drills.

How much do the plans cost?

Care costs $49 per month or $490 per year. Managed costs $149 per month or $1,490 per year, and both annual options include 2 months free.

Are there setup fees or contracts?

There is no setup fee for Care, including if you start from the free plugin or prefer hands-on onboarding. Both paid plans are month-to-month with no contract, and you can cancel anytime.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Q: Is there a free option to check my WordPress site health?

Yes. The free plugin gives an instant read-only health report covering cron health, PHP errors, database bloat, updates, admin audit, and a live email test. It is free forever, requires no account, and nothing is transmitted anywhere.

Start free with the SiteHale WordPress plugin. Upgrade when you’re ready: Care runs every optimization, monitor and report we do. Managed adds the hands-on maintenance work on top. Two flat prices, nothing hidden behind them — no upsells to dodge.

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The SiteHale Plugin — Free

Install it, click Site Checkup, and get an instant read-only health report of your WordPress site: cron health, PHP errors, database bloat, updates, admin audit, and a live email test. No account. Nothing transmitted anywhere. Free forever.

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SiteHale Care

Everything we watch and optimize, every week. Flat price, no upsells.

$49 /month or $490 /year — 2 months free

Start from the plugin: $0 setup.

Already ran the free Site Checkup? Click Connect and you’re onboarded — no setup fee, ever.

Prefer hands-on onboarding? Also free.

We do the hands-on work — deep site assessment, SEO plugin setup or migration, staging, server-level monitoring — at no charge.

Month-to-month — cancel anytime, no contract.

Monthly — $49/mo Annual — $490/yr

Start free with the plugin · Get a free site review first

Early SiteHale customers keep the rate they signed up at — thank you for betting on us first.

Everything included:

Google keyword tracking

Click-through optimization

Broken link monitoring & fixes

SEO keyword optimization

Internal link building

Google Business Profile posts

Automated blog content

Page & content optimization

Knowledge base improvements

Security & malware monitoring

Uptime & SSL monitoring

Weekly database backups

Core Web Vitals monitoring

Monthly care report

SiteHale Managed

Everything in Care, plus the hands-on work — we do the maintenance, not just the watching.

$149 /month or $1,490 /year — 2 months free

Includes all of SiteHale Care.

Everything in the Care column, and then the work itself — done by us, on your site.

Month-to-month — cancel anytime, no contract.

Monthly — $149/mo Annual — $1,490/yr

Not sure which plan? Ask us

On top of Care:

Updates applied for you, weekly — low-risk ones go onto production behind a fresh database snapshot, get smoke-tested after, and roll back on regression. High-risk plugins — WooCommerce, page builders, payment gateways — are tested on staging first.

A private staging copy of your site, included — built at onboarding and kept in sync with production. Normally a hosting upgrade or a developer’s afternoon.

We fix what the monitoring catches — a PHP fatal, dead cron, failing checkout, expiring certificate, a changed admin account. On Care you get the alert; on Managed it’s ours to resolve.

Database & speed optimization, monthly — autoload bloat, expired transients, table overhead. The things that actually move server response time, not a one-click plugin toggle.

Verified backups with restore drills — kept off-site, restored into staging on a schedule and smoke-tested. A backup nobody has restored is a guess.

Month-one catch-up cleanup — your whole pending update backlog cleared and broken plugin installs fixed, bundled into the first month.

Scoped, not open-ended: custom development, redesigns, content writing beyond the SEO automation, and 24/7 emergency response aren’t included — we quote those separately. Response is business days.

Managed is set up from your hosting login — the same one every care plan asks for. We add our own key from your host’s panel; you can remove it in seconds. We confirm your host supports it during the free assessment, before you pay anything.

What actually runs on your site depends on what your site supports — our free assessment maps it before you pay a dollar. Every plan gets everything its site can safely use.

Not ready to buy? Get a free site report first — the same assessment, written up and sent to you, with nothing to cancel afterwards.

What $49/Month Buys Elsewhere

The same budget, three very different outcomes.

An SEO tool subscription

$50–$140/mo. Semrush, Ahrefs and friends are excellent at producing a to-do list. Then the list sits there, because the tool doesn’t do the work — you do. Most subscriptions go unused after month two.

One hour of an agency

$100–$200/hr. A typical small-business SEO retainer runs $500–$2,500/mo, and much of it goes to meetings, decks and status calls. The actual site work is a fraction of the invoice.

SiteHale

$49/mo flat. The work itself, done directly on your site every week by automation we run on our own sites first — with a monthly report showing exactly what ran and what it found.

Comparing a specific tool? See how we stack up against Outrank, ClickRank, Distribb and WordPress maintenance plans — honest concessions included.

Pricing Questions

What’s actually free?

The SiteHale WordPress plugin and its Site Checkup — a real, read-only health check you can run as often as you like, with no account and no data leaving your site. The paid plans are the service on top. Care ($49/mo) runs the same checks — and dozens more — automatically every week, does the SEO work for you, puts humans on the alerts, and delivers a monthly care report in your dashboard. Managed ($149/mo) adds the hands-on maintenance: updates applied for you and staging-tested first, speed and database work, and verified backups with restore drills.

Is there a setup fee?

No — there is no setup fee. Install the free SiteHale plugin and click Connect, or subscribe right here: either way you start at $49/mo (or $490/yr) with nothing added on top.

Prefer we do everything hands-on? We still do the real work — a deep site assessment, SEO plugin setup or migration (Yoast and RankMath settings import cleanly — nothing is lost), safety checks against your specific theme and page builder, staging and server-level monitoring where your host allows it, and your baseline report — at no extra charge.

Is there a contract?

No — it’s month-to-month, cancel anytime right from your account. We keep it that way on purpose: SEO compounds slowly, and we’d rather earn each month by showing you what we did than lock you in. One honest note — SEO is a long game, so give it a few months to prove itself before you judge the results. Everything we build stays on your site if you leave: the content, the links, the fixes, the SEO data. It’s yours.

Will the price go up on me?

Your rate is locked at what you signed up at. If our list price rises later, early customers keep their original rate — that’s our thank-you for betting on us first.

What isn’t included?

Site redesigns, custom development, ad management, and social media beyond Google Business Profile posts. SiteHale is the ongoing SEO and site-health work — the stuff that needs to happen every week and usually doesn’t. If your site needs something outside that, we’ll tell you plainly in the assessment.

Do you work with any WordPress site?

Almost. Our free assessment checks your theme, page builder and plugins first, and we only enable what we’ve verified works with your setup. If your site isn’t a fit — it happens — we’ll say so before you pay anything.

Start With the Free Site Checkup

Install the plugin and see your site the way our automation sees it — in seconds, on your own screen. No obligation, no sales call theater. Prefer to talk it through, or want your Google rankings looked at too? We’ll do that free as well.

Get the Free Plugin Subscribe — Care $49/mo

Want the maintenance done for you as well? SiteHale Managed is $149/mo.