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A B2B SaaS SEO agency you can audit.

Technotize is a B2B SaaS SEO agency. We win the searches your buyers run when they compare software, and report MQLs, SQLs and pipeline from your CRM.

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What B2B SaaS SEO is, and why generic SEO fails for software.

Five differences that decide whether an agency's playbook works on a software site.

B2B SaaS SEO is the practice of ranking a software company's website for the search queries used by its buying committee, structured around pipeline outcomes rather than traffic. Five things separate it from generic SEO.

"What is CRM" about 40,000 US searches a month
Volume
Buying
"HubSpot vs Pipedrive" a fraction of that
Volume
Buying

Few people typing "what is CRM" are about to buy one. Nearly everyone typing "HubSpot vs Pipedrive" is.

The buyer is sophisticated.

Your buyer knows the category, has heard of every competitor and has a rival's pricing page open in another tab. Definitions don't move them. Integration guides, workflow comparisons and migration steps do.

The buying cycle is long.

Content for people still learning the problem fills a traffic chart. Your pipeline comes from buyers already comparing vendors, so we write for them first. How to map content to buying intent

The price is high.

A high contract value pays for fewer, deeper pages, each one tied to a deal. We plan by deal value, not post count. Content budgets by contract value

Several people decide.

The user, the manager, IT or security, finance and procurement each search differently, and each needs a page that answers them. B2B SaaS SEO strategy, step by step

Pipeline is the number that counts.

Traffic, rankings and domain rating are inputs. The report that matters to your CFO shows opportunities with amounts on them.

Generic SEO vs B2B SaaS SEO

Generic SEOB2B SaaS SEO
Who searchesOne person making one decisionA buying committee: user, manager, IT, finance and procurement
Which keywordsThe highest search volumeThe queries buyers use when they compare, switch and integrate
What gets writtenPosts picked to hit a volume targetFewer, deeper pages written from your product and your sales calls
Who writesGeneralist writersWriters who specialise in software, checked by a senior editor
LinksWhatever raises domain ratingEditorial placements, pointed at the pages that sell
What gets reportedTraffic, rankings, domain ratingMQLs, SQLs and pipeline from your CRM
AI searchSold as a second retainerRun inside the same program, from the same pages and links
What moves firstA traffic chart, from month twoRankings on buyer queries in months 3 to 6, then pipeline in months 6 to 9

The B2B SaaS SEO playbook we run.

The same order on every program. Every step links to the full guide, so you can run it yourself if you'd rather not hire anyone.

Four query types that actually convert

Comparing

Comparisons and alternatives

Salesforce vs HubSpot. Asana alternatives. Best CRM for outbound sales.

The buyer has decided to buy in your category and is narrowing the list. Volume is low, and intent is as high as search gets.

How we build comparison pages
Switching

Migration and switching

Migrate from Pipedrive to HubSpot. Moving off Salesforce.

The buyer has decided to leave their current tool. A page that shows the export, the field mapping and the cutover answers the question that blocks the switch.

Finding switching keywords
Connecting

Integrations and stack

Slack and HubSpot integration. Pipedrive Zapier triggers.

These reach the people who already use one tool and argue for the next one inside the buying committee.

Integration pages that rank
Listening

Problem-aware, from your sales calls

The exact phrases your buyers say out loud.

They don't show up in keyword tools, so almost nobody targets them. We mine your call transcripts and support tickets for them.

Mining sales calls for keywords

Why the big keywords usually disappoint: the high-volume keyword trap. The full process, from seed list to page plan: B2B SaaS keyword research.

The program, step by step

Step 01, month 1Audit and keyword map

We crawl the site, read your Search Console and CRM, talk to sales, and map every query type to a page that exists or needs to. You get the map in month one.

Keyword mapSample
QueryTypePagePlan
yourtool vs hubspotComparing/compare/hubspotBuild
migrate from pipedriveSwitching/migrate/pipedriveBuild
slack integrationConnecting/integrations/slackRefresh
lead routing delaysListening/guides/lead-routingBuild

B2B SaaS SEO strategyThe SEO maturity modelVertical vs horizontal SaaSEnterprise SEO strategy

SaaS SEO case studies, with the working shown.

Three named clients, three different jobs. Every number here is on the case study, with its source.

$360,520 to $1,156,360Monthly pipeline, November 2024 to the December 2025 peak, Workwize's HubSpot

"There was even a point where our organic inbound leads actually overtook our paid ads."André Stoorvogel, Head of Marketing, Workwize

MQLs 28 to 111 a monthSQLs 15 to 39 a monthDomain rating 27 to 71, with 829 placementsWorkwize case study

Authority numbers come from Ahrefs, traffic from the client's own analytics, pipeline from the client's CRM. All case studies

How a SaaS SEO company should tie rankings to pipeline.

The question to ask any agency first. If they can't answer it with a client's own data, their report is a traffic chart.

We agree the definitions with your RevOps team before the first report. Their number is the number of record.

01A queryWhat the buyer types
02A page that ranksSearch Console
03A session and a formYour analytics
04An MQLYour CRM
05An SQLYour CRM
$An opportunityWith an amount on it
1,852 to 13,420Organic visits a month
28 to 111Inbound MQLs a month
15 to 39Inbound SQLs a month
$360K to $1.16MMonthly pipeline

Workwize, June 2024 to the 2025 peaks, from their own analytics and CRM. Ahrefs traffic value never appears in our reports: it estimates ad spend avoided, not pipeline.

The line for your CFO: judge us on the opportunities number in your CRM. Every month we show which pages moved it.

Getting cited in AI search: ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews.

AI search runs inside the same program, with citation tracking included from the Growth plan up.

51%of B2B software buyers now start their research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google, according to G2's March 2026 survey of 1,076 buyers.
74AI citations for Da Vinci across six AI platforms, measured July 2026, in a category where most competitors have none
1 to 35MQLs a month from AI referrals at Workwize, mid-2025 to early 2026
In the OverviewThe guide that lived at this URL was cited in Google's AI Overview for "b2b saas seo" in September 2026, and ranked fourth in the results below it.
What earns a citation

Google says its usual SEO best practices apply to AI Overviews and AI Mode, so the pages and editorial links that win the ranking are the ones we build for citations. That's why we don't split the work into two retainers. How we run AI search

What we don't sell

An llms.txt file or a batch of FAQ schema presented as an AI strategy. Google says no special markup is needed to appear in its AI features (Google's documentation). Our method is public: the AEO checklist, GEO vs SEO and how AI engines choose sources.

What a SaaS SEO agency costs.

Our prices are public, and so is what each one buys. Most of our clients land on Growth. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

Foundation

$4,000/mo

For Series A and early Series B, with one to three marketers in house.

  • 4 new pieces and 2 rewrites a month
  • 5 link insertions and 3 guest posts a month
  • Full audit, then a quarterly technical cycle
  • Monthly call and a live dashboard
See what's included

Growth

Where most land
$9,000/mo

For Series B and C, with four to ten marketers.

  • 10 new pieces and 4 rewrites a month
  • 12 link insertions and 6 guest posts a month
  • Monthly technical cycle and AI citation tracking
  • Slack channel, replies within four hours
  • 2 original-research campaigns a year

Scale

$15,000/mo

For Series C and later, with several products or verticals.

  • 16 new pieces and 6 rewrites a month
  • 20 link insertions and 10 guest posts a month
  • Programmatic pages where the use case supports it
  • 4 research campaigns a year
See what's included
Term
Three months, then month to month with thirty days' notice. No setup fee and no lock-in.
Above $15K
Scoped individually, around your product lines and team. Enterprise SEO for SaaS has its own page.
Links that drop
A placement that goes offline or falls below the minimum DR gets replaced at no cost.
Not included
Paid media, brand and design work, email programs and bought link inventory.
Not sure which plan fits?Thirty minutes with Rizwan. You leave with the plan we would run and what it would cost.

How long SaaS SEO takes to work.

Plan on six to nine months before pipeline moves. Here's what you can check before then, and what you shouldn't expect yet.

Months 1 to 3

The foundations ship

The audit, the keyword map, the technical fixes, the first pages and the first links ship. You can check every fix and placement in the tracker and the ledger.

Months 3 to 6

Rankings move

Rankings move on low-competition buyer queries, the first AI citations appear, and sessions grow on the pages that sell. Not yet: pipeline. Anyone showing you pipeline in month two is counting something else.

Months 6 to 9

Pipeline shows up

Pipeline shows up in your CRM and starts to compound. The budget moves toward the pages that produced it.

Year two

The biggest months

The biggest months so far. Workwize's peak pipeline month, December 2025, was month 19 of the program.

The long version, with the leading indicators for each quarter: how long B2B SaaS SEO takes.

How to choose a B2B SaaS SEO agency, including us.

The eight red flags buyers raise most about an SEO agency or firm, and a check for each that takes five minutes. Run them on every agency you talk to. Run them on us first.

The report shows traffic and rankings, never pipeline.

Ask for a redacted monthly report from a SaaS client. You're looking for MQLs, SQLs and pipeline from that client's CRM. Ours: the Workwize numbers on this page.

They guarantee rankings.

Walk away. Google says no one can guarantee a #1 ranking. What an agency can commit to is scope, cadence and a ledger. Ours are on the pricing page.

Their case studies aren't software.

Ask for named SaaS clients, with dates. A plumber's site and an online store are a different business. Ours: every client on our case studies is named.

They sell blog posts by the dozen, with no page plan.

Ask for the page plan in order of buying intent. Comparison and integration pages should come before trend posts. Ours: each plan sets a piece count, and the month-one keyword map decides which pages fill it.

A senior sells, a junior delivers.

Ask who will run your account, by name, and how many other accounts that person runs. Ours: the people are named on this page. Ask us their account count on the first call.

Links they can't show you.

Ask for the ledger: every placement, with domain, DR, traffic and live status. Ours: Atom.com's case study bands all 290 placements by DR and traffic, names twenty of them, and shows 289 still live.

"AI search" with no receipts.

Ask for citations by platform, with the date they were measured. Ours: Da Vinci's 74 citations across six AI platforms, measured July 2026.

They hold your accounts, or lock you in.

Search Console, analytics and your CMS should stay in your name, and after a short minimum, leaving should take a month. Ours: we work in your accounts, with three months minimum, then thirty days' notice.

For a shortlist, start with our comparison of 11 SaaS SEO agencies. If you need a strategist rather than a whole team, read when SaaS SEO consulting is the better buy.

SEO agency, in-house hire or freelancer?

Each one is the right answer for someone. Here's how to tell which is yours.

An in-house hire

You keep the knowledge in the building. One person rarely writes, earns links and fixes code at the same pace, and a senior hire takes months to find. Right when you can fund a team, not just a person.

Outsourcing vs in-house, in detail

A freelancer or consultant

Sharp strategy at a lower monthly cost, and no bench: when they're away, so is your program. Right when you already have writers and developers and need direction.

SaaS SEO consulting

An agency

A bench under one scope: strategist, writers, link builders, technical SEO. The risk is junior delivery, so check who's on the account. Right when you want the whole program run and reported.

See the programs we run

An SEO agency for SaaS companies, Series A to enterprise

We work with software companies that sell to other businesses. If you already have an SEO lead, we work beside them. Atom.com has its own marketing team, and we've run their link building for fifteen months.

Not for teams that need leads this quarter.Run paid search. SEO doesn't pay back that fast. Here's how SEO and PPC compare for B2B SaaS.

Not for products still looking for product-market fit.SEO amplifies the message you have. Fix the message first.

Not for programs outside English.We write for US, UK and European markets, in English.

Several product lines and a procurement process need a different program.That program is enterprise SEO for SaaS.

Who does the work.

Named people, not an account-manager layer.

Rizwan Khan
Rizwan KhanFounder. Leads strategy on every program.
Adnan Khan
Adnan KhanCo-founder and Head of SEO. Runs the technical audit and the link program.
Umar Usman
Umar UsmanCo-founder. Owns delivery and the client side of every program.
Ilinka Trenova
Ilinka TrenovaEditorial lead. Every piece passes her edit before it reaches your CMS.

Around fifteen specialists in total, most of them in Pakistan, with the editorial lead in Europe and clients across the US and Europe. Meet the whole team

B2B SaaS SEO agency FAQ.

The questions we hear before the first call, answered here so the call can be about your site.

What is B2B SaaS SEO?

B2B SaaS SEO is the practice of ranking a software company's website for the search queries used by its buying committee, structured around pipeline outcomes rather than traffic. It differs from generic SEO in five ways: the buyer is sophisticated, the buying cycle is long, the price is high, several people decide, and pipeline is the number that counts.

How is B2B SaaS SEO different from generic SEO?

Generic SEO chases search volume, publishes posts to hit a quota and reports traffic. B2B SaaS SEO targets the queries buyers use when they compare, switch and integrate, publishes fewer and deeper pages written from your product and your sales calls, and reports MQLs, SQLs and pipeline from your CRM.

What does a B2B SaaS SEO agency do?

It runs five workstreams under one scope: a keyword strategy built on how buyers compare and switch, content for those queries, editorial links, technical SEO and AI search. A good one reports the result in MQLs, SQLs and pipeline from your CRM, with traffic and rankings as inputs underneath.

How much does a B2B SaaS SEO agency cost?

Ours costs $4,000, $9,000 or $15,000 a month, and most of our clients land on the $9,000 plan. Programs above $15,000 a month are scoped individually. Every plan runs three months, then month to month with thirty days' notice, and there is no setup fee.

How long does B2B SaaS SEO take to produce results?

The first fixes, pages and links ship inside 90 days. Rankings on low-competition buyer queries usually move between months three and six, and pipeline between months six and nine. The biggest months so far have landed in year two: Workwize's peak pipeline month was month 19 of the program.

Is SEO still worth it for B2B in 2026?

Yes, if your buyers research before they buy, and software buyers do. G2's survey of 1,076 buyers, run in March 2026 and published that April, found that 51% of B2B software buyers now start their research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google. Google says its usual SEO best practices apply to AI Overviews and AI Mode, so SEO is how you show up in both.

Which B2B SaaS SEO agency is the best?

The one that fits your stage, deal size and sales motion, and can show pipeline from a client's CRM rather than a traffic chart. A product-led tool and an enterprise platform need different programs. If you are building a shortlist, our comparison of 11 SaaS SEO agencies is a place to start.

What keyword types should a B2B SaaS company target?

Four types, in this order. Comparisons and alternatives, where the buyer is narrowing the list. Migration and switching, where the buyer is leaving a tool. Integrations, which reach the people who argue for a tool inside the buying committee. Problem-aware phrases from your sales calls, which keyword tools miss.

Should B2B SaaS companies do SEO in-house or with an agency?

In-house keeps the knowledge in the building but one hire rarely covers writing, links and technical work at once. An agency brings a bench under one scope. Many teams do both: an in-house lead owns the roadmap and an agency runs workstreams. We run links for Atom.com next to their own marketing team.

What link-building approach works for B2B SaaS in 2026?

Editorial placements on publications with real readers, pointed at the pages that sell, and logged so you can check each one. The 2024 and 2025 link spam updates made non-editorial links far more expensive to hold. Atom.com's 290 placements average DR 68.3, and 289 were still live after fifteen months. We do not use private networks or link farms.

How much does B2B SaaS SEO cost?

Most B2B SaaS programs run between $4K and $25K a month. What moves the number is technical scope, content volume and link-building cadence. Our own plans are $4K, $9K and $15K a month, with a three-month minimum and month to month after that.

What does the technical SEO work for B2B SaaS include?

Crawlability and indexation, Core Web Vitals (LCP under 2.5s, INP under 200ms, CLS under 0.1), schema and structured data, internal linking architecture, JavaScript SEO for single-page marketing sites, migrations, international SEO and crawl budget management.

How does B2B SaaS SEO measure pipeline contribution?

Through multi-touch attribution in your existing CRM or attribution model, whether HubSpot, Salesforce or custom. The chain runs keyword to ranking to organic session to MQL with an organic lead source, and on to the pipeline those MQLs create in opportunity stages.

What industries does B2B SaaS SEO work best for?

Any B2B software vertical where buyers research before they buy. We have written playbooks for twelve: CRM, ERP, EdTech, HR tech, fintech, LegalTech, construction, IoT and cloud platforms, medical devices, network security, healthcare and real estate. The economics work best between roughly $10K and $500K ACV.

Do you work with our in-house marketing team?

Yes. We work in your CMS, your project tool and your Slack, not ours, so your team sees every brief, draft and technical ticket as it moves. Atom.com's marketing team has worked next to ours for fifteen months.

Thirty minutes with Rizwan, not a sales rep.

Bring your Search Console, and your last agency's report if you have one. You'll leave knowing which pages we'd build first, and whether SEO is the right channel for you this year. If it isn't, we'll say so.

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