REHAB SEO PRICING (2026)
Rehab SEO costs $3,000 or $5,000 per month at Sweet Media, while broader behavioral health retainers across the industry span $2,500 to $20,000+ monthly by campus count, metro competition, and technical debt. Every proposal lists deliverables line by line on month-to-month terms.
| Scope | Typical monthly |
|---|---|
| Sweet Media Core SEO + AEO | $3,000 / mo (month-to-month) |
| Sweet Media Growth SEO + Web Rebuild | $5,000 / mo (includes custom site) |
| Multi-campus / enterprise industry range | $8,000 – $20,000+ / mo |
Month-to-month partnerships with zero annual lock-in. Ad spend and LegitScript fees are paid directly to platforms.
WHY PROPOSALS DIVERGE
Two agencies can pitch identical slide decks while budgeting completely different hours for clinical writing, technical cleanup, and multi-campus local work.
2026 PRICING BREAKDOWN
Compare Sweet Media's published month-to-month tiers against broader multi-state network retainers.
| Engagement tier | Monthly investment | Included deliverables & fit |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet Media Core SEO + AEO | $3,000 / mo | Single-site or focused regional program: technical SEO, GBP management, program & condition pages, clinical content, and CallRail VOB reporting. |
| Sweet Media Growth SEO + Web | $5,000 / mo | Competitive metro or outdated website: full custom website rebuild included, expanded program & location publishing, digital PR outreach, and CRO. |
| Multi-location regional network | $8,000 – $15,000+ / mo | Three or more campuses or distinct brands requiring per-campus GBP governance, territory mapping, and network-wide content velocity. |
| Low-cost generalist vendor | Under $2,000 / mo | Typically automated audit PDFs, two generic blog posts, and zero behavioral health compliance review or CallRail admissions tracking. |
Monthly investment
Included deliverables & fit
Sweet Media Core SEO + AEO
Monthly investment
$3,000 / mo
Included deliverables & fit
Single-site or focused regional program: technical SEO, GBP management, program & condition pages, clinical content, and CallRail VOB reporting.
Sweet Media Growth SEO + Web
Monthly investment
$5,000 / mo
Included deliverables & fit
Competitive metro or outdated website: full custom website rebuild included, expanded program & location publishing, digital PR outreach, and CRO.
Multi-location regional network
Monthly investment
$8,000 – $15,000+ / mo
Included deliverables & fit
Three or more campuses or distinct brands requiring per-campus GBP governance, territory mapping, and network-wide content velocity.
Low-cost generalist vendor
Monthly investment
Under $2,000 / mo
Included deliverables & fit
Typically automated audit PDFs, two generic blog posts, and zero behavioral health compliance review or CallRail admissions tracking.
All Sweet Media retainers run month-to-month. Paid media spend, LegitScript application fees, and physician medical review are separate from SEO fees.
WHAT SETS YOUR SCOPE
We score these six operational variables during your free five-day audit before quoting a retainer.
Ranking detox in Orange County or South Florida requires deeper authority and page velocity than ranking an outpatient program in a secondary metro.
Every physical campus adds GBP governance and local pages, and each level of care (detox, RTC, PHP, IOP) requires its own search cluster.
Heavy WordPress theme bloat, crawl traps, and broken redirects slow rankings; our $5,000 Growth tier includes a full custom site rebuild when needed.
Payer-aware program pages, condition guides, and decays refreshes written to person-first NIDA and YMYL standards rather than commodity word counts.
Journalist pitching, behavioral health citations, and local community links that withstand Google healthcare core updates without paid link-farm risk.
Dynamic number insertion and landing-page tracking so your team can compare organic cost per admission directly against paid search.
HOW SCOPING WORKS
No opaque retainers — you see exact page counts, technical fixes, and exclusions before signing.
Before Quote
We inspect your Search Console history, competitor keyword gaps, mobile PageSpeed, and GBP footprint to confirm whether Core ($3K) or Growth ($5K) fits.
Days 1–30
We fix indexation, canonicals, Core Web Vitals, schema, and primary level-of-care and insurance verification pages first so commercial queries move earliest.
Months 2–4
Scheduled publication of distinct campus pages, diagnosis clusters, and operator-approved educational guides linked straight into admissions paths.
Monthly
Monthly reviews connect organic clicks, GBP calls, and tagged CallRail VOBs directly to your effective cost per organic admission.
Confirm exclusions in writing when comparing proposals. Standard SEO retainers do not include:
DOCUMENTED SEO ROI
Published organic growth from named behavioral health engagements tracked in Google Search Console and CallRail.
New Hope Health
Rebuilt Knoxville and Tennessee program pages and content architecture, growing tagged monthly SEO VOB calls from 13 to 31.
Hillside Horizon
Combined custom site rebuild, parent-intent SEO (557 to 6,074 monthly visits), and restructured Search across 6,549 tracked CallRail calls.
PRICING QUESTIONS
What treatment center owners and CFOs ask when comparing SEO retainers against paid search.
At Sweet Media, Core SEO + AEO is $3,000 per month and Growth SEO (which includes a custom website rebuild) is $5,000 per month, both billed month-to-month. Across the broader behavioral health industry, retainers typically range between $2,500 and $20,000+ per month depending on campus count and metro competition.
No. Every Sweet Media partnership is month-to-month, and you own your domain, codebase, Search Console, Google Business Profiles, and CallRail data from day one.
Many treatment centers come to us on slow, plugin-heavy WordPress sites that fail mobile Core Web Vitals and bury insurance verification. Rebuilding the site upfront removes technical friction immediately instead of charging a separate $25,000 web project before SEO can perform.
Technical fixes, GBP updates, and existing striking-distance pages often lift qualified calls within 60 to 90 days, while competitive metro head terms compound over 6 to 12 months. For most commercial-insurance residential or PHP programs, a single incremental admission covers multiple months of SEO retainer.
Sub-$2,000 packages rarely fund original clinical copy, healthcare compliance review, or genuine outreach. Worse, cheap link schemes and duplicated city templates can trigger Google manual actions or core-update drops that cost far more to clean up later.
Yes. Run our free SEO strategy audit tool to inspect your current keyword footprint, mobile PageSpeed, and site hierarchy in two minutes.
Run the free rehab SEO audit →From the Blog
Deeper guides on behavioral health marketing, admissions, and channel execution.
NEXT STEP
Share your domain, campus locations, and levels of care. We will send a five-day audit and clear monthly deliverables with zero annual lock-in.
$3K Core SEO + AEO or $5K Growth SEO with custom web rebuild.
No 12-month contracts; stay because verified VOBs grow.
Your domain, site code, GBP, and CallRail remain yours.
Sweet Media · Costa Mesa, CA · $3,000 Core / $5,000 Growth · Month-to-month
