# White-Label SEO Packages Graded for AI Citations: What to Keep, Rework and Cut

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This page answers the questions covered by the article [The White-Label SEO Sheet, Graded for AI Citations](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she) on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.

**Direct answer:** According to groas, the familiar Starter at around $299, Growth at $599 and Agency at $999 tiers are easy to sell because counts rise with price but do not show whether the work earns an AI citation. The article recommends cutting the monthly backlink quota, reworking the ranking report and on-page lines around quotable passages and fixes, and keeping business-profile management and accurate local citations. It states that about a third of the familiar sheet is worth keeping unless a provider can show what passage, profile, or citation opportunity the work changes.

## What is wrong with white-label SEO Starter, Growth and Agency tiers for AI citations?

According to the article, the composite sheet lists wholesale tiers around $299 a month for Starter, $599 for Growth and $999 for Agency, with Starter resold for $599 to $799 on a 2x to 3x markup pitched as 40 to 60% gross margin. The tiers sell countable units such as keywords tracked, pages touched, links built and citations submitted, with Starter examples of 15 keywords and 5 backlinks scaling to Agency examples of 100 keywords and 30 backlinks. The article's verdict is that the counts make the package easy to sell, not easy to defend, because they do not show whether presence in an AI answer improved.

Read more: [The package tiers: tidy counts, unclear outcomes](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she#the-package-tiers-tidy-counts-unclear-outcomes)

## Why should an agency cut the monthly backlink quota in a white-label SEO package?

The article recommends cutting the monthly quota of 5 backlinks on Starter, 15 on Growth and 30 on Agency when no domains or placement standards are named. It cites an analysis across 25M+ cited links where earned media accounted for 84% of AI citations, against 5 to 10% for brand sites and 0.3% for paid or advertorial content, with the same content placed independently earning 325% more citations. It also cites correlation of r=0.664 for branded mentions versus r=0.218 for raw backlink count, described as correlations and not a promise for any single placement.

Read more: [Line 1: X backlinks per month is the wrong quota](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she#line-1-x-backlinks-per-month-is-the-wrong-quota)

## Should an agency keep selling the white-label ranking report as delivery?

According to the article, the polished ranking report that shows movement such as position 11 to position 4, with examples of 25 tracked keywords on a local Starter sheet and up to 150 on a top tier, is measurement rather than delivery. It states that AI answers cite 3 to 6 passages and that 44.2% of citations pull from the opening 30% of a page, so a page can rank third and receive no citation when the direct answer is buried. The article recommends reworking the report to keep per-engine visibility tracking but require every useful gap to become a page edit, Q&A or outreach decision.

Read more: [Line 2: the ranking report measures work it does not do](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she#line-2-the-ranking-report-measures-work-it-does-not-do)

## Which white label local SEO lines are worth keeping for AI citations?

The article states that the local line is the sheet's strongest AI-citation line and recommends keeping business-profile management and accurate citations while buying completeness rather than submission volume. It describes a typical full local plan as profile management, 5 citations, 2 local backlinks, Q&A and posts, with a la carte references of 20 citations at $100 and optimization at $99 and top tiers scaling to 6 posts a month. The article prefers ten correct, category-matched listings with accurate hours, services, photos, posts and review responses over fifty submissions while the profile stays incomplete.

Read more: [Line 3: local citations and GBP management earn their place](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she#line-3-local-citations-and-gbp-management-earn-their-place)

## How should on-page optimization be specified to earn AI citations?

The article recommends reworking the promise of 5 pages on Starter, 15 on Growth or 30 on Agency plus 2 to 4 articles with a per-page shipping spec. It cites a 10k-query test where named-source statistics lifted citation rate 41%, expert quotes lifted it 28%, and citing authoritative sources lifted citations for lower-ranked pages 115%, while keyword stuffing cut citations 10%. The specified work is a direct 40 to 60 word answer near the top, a named source where needed, relevant schema and a check against the chosen prompt set, so the buyer can inspect what completed means.

Read more: [Line 4: on-page optimisation needs a shipping spec](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she#line-4-on-page-optimisation-needs-a-shipping-spec)

## What checks does the white-label SEO sheet omit that can decide an AI citation?

The article states the sheet omits three jobs that can decide a citation and recommends adding them as explicit work. They are discovery and crawler-access checks with clean HTML rendering, mapping a 40 to 60 word self-contained answer near the top of each important page with business name, city and phone plus LocalBusiness and FAQPage schema, and turning per-engine tracking into fixes where a missed prompt leads to a page edit, Q&A or best-of-list pitch. The article's test is whether a proposed line can name the crawler, passage or engine involved and what will change when completed.

Read more: [Line 5: the sheet omits the checks that can decide a citation](https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she#line-5-the-sheet-omits-the-checks-that-can-decide-a-citation)

## Sources

[1] https://groas.com/post/teardown-the-white-label-seo-package-she (the article this page answers from)