FAQ

Straight answers before you commit

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Working with RankYield

What does “yield” mean at RankYield?

Yield is the return your marketing produces for every dollar and every hour you put in. We judge our work by revenue, pipeline and profit, not by impressions, clicks or traffic on their own.

What happens in the free Yield Audit?

We review your ad accounts, analytics and search visibility (read-only access), identify where spend and rankings leak, and walk you through the three changes we would make first. You keep the findings whether or not you hire us.

Do you lock clients into long contracts?

No. Every engagement starts with a 90-day initial term, long enough to fix tracking, rebuild structure and run the first tests properly. After that it is month to month with 30 days’ written notice, and you keep every account, asset and report if you leave.

Who will actually work on our account?

A named strategist leads your account and is supported by channel specialists. You will meet the people doing the work before you sign, and they will be the ones on your calls.

Where are you based, and who do you work with?

RankYield is remote-first and works with businesses across the United States and Canada. Our team keeps Eastern business hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm, and every client gets a named strategist on their time zone’s working day.

We’ve been burned by an agency before. Why would this be different?

Most bad agency experiences come from three things: no access to your own accounts, reports that hide the real numbers, and long contracts that remove the pressure to perform. We remove all three. Accounts stay in your name, reports tie back to your CRM or store revenue, and after the initial term you can leave on 30 days’ notice.

Why not just hire someone in-house?

You may well end up doing that, and we are happy to help. An agency gives you senior PPC, SEO and AI specialists for less than the cost of one senior hire, with the tools already paid for. Many clients use us to build the playbook, then bring parts of it in-house with our documentation.

How quickly can you start?

Our target is seven days from signed agreement to the first fixes live: access granted, tracking checked, wasted spend cut and a 90-day plan agreed. Larger rebuilds are scheduled in the plan so nothing goes live untested.

Results & reporting

Do you guarantee results?

We don’t guarantee rankings or specific numbers. Nobody controls search engines or ad auctions, and promises like that are a red flag. We do commit to a clear plan, agreed KPIs, transparent reporting and fast course-correction when something underperforms.

How do you report performance?

You get a live dashboard plus a monthly plain-English report covering revenue, pipeline, cost per acquisition and what we are changing next. We tie numbers back to your CRM or ecommerce platform wherever possible.

How quickly can we expect to see improvement?

Paid media fixes often show in the first weeks; SEO compounds over months. During onboarding we agree 30-, 60- and 90-day milestones so progress is measurable from the start.

Pricing & access

How is RankYield priced?

Most engagements use a flat monthly management fee scoped to channels and complexity, rather than a percentage of ad spend, so our incentives stay tied to your return, not your budget size. See our pricing page for the engagement models.

Do we own our accounts and data?

Yes. Ad accounts, analytics properties, content and reports belong to you. We work through access you grant and hand everything over cleanly if we part ways.

Do you need access to our CRM?

Read access to your CRM or ecommerce platform lets us optimise to real revenue instead of form fills. It is strongly recommended but not required to get started.

What is the smallest budget you work with?

For PPC we recommend at least $3,000 a month in ad spend, so there is enough data to optimise and our fee can pay for itself. SEO engagements start from a flat monthly fee with no media budget required. If we think you are too early for an agency, we will tell you on the audit call and point you to what to do first.

Find out what your marketing should be yielding

Our free Yield Audit shows where your ad spend leaks, which rankings are worth winning and the three moves we’d make first. No obligation, no hard sell.

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