How to judge an SEO company in Sri Lanka
The category has a trust problem, and it is earned. Ranking guarantees, contracts that bill for “SEO work” without naming a deliverable, and monthly reports built from a rank-tracking tool nobody has audited are all common enough here that a careful buyer should assume them until shown otherwise.
Four questions separate agencies faster than any pitch deck. Ask them of us as readily as of anyone else.
- Can they show you the raw export? Not a screenshot of a dashboard, the Search Console or analytics export the numbers came from, with the date range visible.
- Will they say no? An agency that has never turned down a prospect is selling capacity, not judgement.
- Is the deliverable named? “Content” is not a deliverable. “Four briefs, edited, published to your CMS” is.
- Who does the work? Ask which named person touches the account, and how many other accounts that person carries.
What we do, and what we do not
Maxinium sells search, technical SEO, content strategy, local search and AI search visibility. It does not build websites, run social accounts or manage paid ads. That is a deliberate limit rather than a gap: the agencies that do all five tend to do the fifth one badly, and search is the one that compounds.
For software companies the engagement is different enough to have its own page; see SaaS SEO services, which is sold worldwide rather than scoped to Sri Lanka.
The proof, and its limits
Every case study on this site publishes the export it was built from, the date the screenshot was taken and the method used to measure it. Where a surface was not measured it is labelled “not audited” rather than estimated.
One limit is worth stating plainly: the published case studies are properties Alston owns and operates, not client accounts. They demonstrate method and results on real sites with real traffic, which is more than most agency case studies show, but they are not client testimonials and are not presented as such.
Pricing, and when to walk away
What each of the three tiers includes is itemised on the SEO packages page. What none of them carries is a published figure: scope decides the fee, and a number on a page is either wrong for most readers or an anchor that has to be walked back on the first call. There is no free audit either, it commits unpaid hours before fit is established, and it attracts people shopping for a free report rather than for help.
If your site has almost no content, no product-market fit yet, or a budget that needs results inside a month, SEO is the wrong spend and we will say so. Send the site and the competitors outranking you and you will get an honest answer either way.