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What Is White Label SEO? A Simple Guide for Agencies
White label SEO is when an agency sells SEO under its own brand while a specialist partner does the work behind the scenes. Your client sees your name on every report. The partner stays invisible.
Why agencies use it
Most agencies get asked for SEO long before they want to hire and manage an in-house SEO team. White label lets you say yes to those clients, keep the relationship and the margin, and hand delivery to a partner who does this all day.
The alternative is usually referring the work out, which means giving away the revenue and handing your client a relationship with somebody else.
What is included
Typically technical and on-page audits, keyword research, on-page optimization, technical fixes, local SEO, content, and monthly reporting, delivered as branded files you present as your own.
How it works
You bring the client and the goals. The partner does the work under your brand. You deliver the results and keep the client. No hiring, no training, and no software stack to manage.
In practice there are three stages: a discovery call where the partner learns your service tiers, onboarding where access and brand assets change hands, then monthly delivery where you review and forward the reporting.
How to choose a partner
One point of contact. If you are chasing three people for updates, you have bought yourself a management job.
Work delivered under your brand, never theirs. Check the templates before signing.
Transparent pricing that protects your margin. You should be able to calculate your client-facing rate on day one.
A free sample or audit. Any partner confident in their delivery will show you real work on a real domain before asking for commitment.
A written NDA. Standard, not something you should have to request.
What to watch out for
Partners who upsell your clients directly. Long lock-in contracts. Vague deliverables that let a thin month pass as a full one. And anyone selling link volume, which is the fastest way to damage a client's domain and your relationship with them.
If you want to see how we run it, the white label SEO page covers what is included and the margins it is priced for.
Ready to try it?
The delivery side is described on white label SEO services, and the commercial side on the SEO reseller program page. Pricing and markup are covered in white label SEO pricing.
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