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Payroll Software Pricing & Plans

#3critical priority

https://example.com/

Last seen Sep 5, 2026, 10:07 AM

Primary question

How much does payroll software cost for a small team?

Experimental

Page trajectory

AI Overview Suppression: 0%

Fast Climber

POSITION

2.3

LATEST WEEK

44.8k impr.

Average position is improving quickly, but the trend is still too active to project confidently.

Top queries

Last 90 days
payroll software99.0k impr.1.1
payroll software pricing33.7k impr.1.9
best payroll for small business21.2k impr.1.3
online payroll service11.8k impr.1.0
payroll cost per employee6.6k impr.1.7

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LCP — 4G Fast

TTFB234.50ms
Transfer1.28s
Overhead4.92s

Page weight

JS2.3 MB
CSS291 KB
Images152 KB
Fonts56 KB

What changed

Four things changed.

Being found used to mean ranking. Now it means being the page the answer uses, and the answer chooses differently.

People stop at the answer.

−39.8%

Where AI Overviews appeared, they cut outbound organic clicks by 39.8% in a randomized field experiment, "without improving the user experience."
Agarwal and Sen, Indian School of Business and Carnegie Mellon, revised July 2026 ↗

The answer is not the results.

Under 1 in 5

Fewer than one in five sources appear in both the AI Overview and the search results under it, across 11,500 queries.
Grossman et al., SIGIR 2026 ↗

The answer favors pages that are kept up.

75%

of the pages ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity cite were updated in the last year.
Seer Interactive, July 2026 ↗

Google rates unmaintained pages low.

Low

"Unmaintained and inaccurate/misleading content is a reason for a low Page Quality rating."
Google, Search Quality Rater Guidelines, September 2025 ↗

The answer uses pages that are kept up, wherever they rank, and changing the date doesn't count. So every page has to hold up, all the time.

The old way

What people do now, and where it stops working.

Track rankings.

A rank tracker says where a page sits in the results. The answer above the results is mostly other pages, so a good position no longer means being seen.

Publish more, or re-date what is there.

The answers favor pages that are kept up, not new ones. Changing the date without changing the page does not count: Google asks site owners whether they do it, and answers its own question with "No."

Run a crawler.

A crawler finds the title that is too short. It cannot tell you what the title should say, or whether what the page says still holds up, which is what Google rates.

Hand it to an agency or an audit.

A sample of pages, a few times a year. Google ran eight core updates from August 2024 to May 2026, and each one judges the whole site again.

How probeo does it

Every page, kept up. Not just the ones someone remembers.

Probeo reads every page the way Google and the AI answers do, continuously. When a page stops holding up, you see which one, why, and what it should say instead.

  1. Every page, continuously

    Not a sample a few times a year. Every page, ordered by what it is worth, because Google judges the whole site again with every core update.

  2. Checked the way the answer checks

    Whether the page answers its question and whether what it says still holds up, graded against Google's own rater guidelines. Not where it ranks.

  3. What to change, not just what is wrong

    Not "title too short". What the page should say instead, and why.

  4. Kept up for real

    Content Production rewrites the facts, not the date, then measures what happens after. Publishing stays with you.

Issue distribution by PageRank

Current issue instances grouped by the PageRank of their affected pages.

29,537 issue instances·across 1,240 pages

Proof

What happened when our customers started using us.

Average position in Google

The last 28 days against the 28 before. Four customers.

3.6 places higher on average, and 1.2 to 5.2 across the four.

Search Console.

Higher in Google. Across four customers, average position rose 3.6 places in the latest 28 days against the 28 before, between 1.2 and 5.2 places each.

From each customer's own Search Console.

Cited in AI Overviews twice as often. On average, customers' cited AI Overview impressions doubled the month after they started with probeo.

Each of the three is measured against its own month before, from Search Console's generative AI appearance report.

Cited AI Overview impressions

The month before probeo against the month after. Three customers, each against its own before.

2.0x on average, and 1.7x to 2.2x across the three. Each dot is one customer.

Search Console, generative AI appearance.

Probeo's seasonal search context chart in click-through view: daily points colored above and below a rising 28-day trend, last year flat underneath, and a dashed modeled baseline after the cutoff.
One customer's click-through rate, with last year underneath.
Click-through, this year and last

One customer, all search, the same calendar weeks in 2025 and 2026.

Last year click-through held between 0.7% and 0.9% across these weeks. This year it ran between 1.5% and 2.5%, with the dip after the rewrite, when more searches showed the pages than clicked them.

Search Console, weeks starting May 18 to August 24.

Without probeo, we'd still be looking for consultants to give us this information.

Dorian, CMO, Bizee

The products

Three tiers. Each built on the one before.

Site Clarity finds what is wrong, Content Intelligence tells you what your pages are doing, and Content Production does the work.

Site Clarity

For teams who want every page checked continuously, and will do the fixing.

$0.20per managed pageper month

Every page, checked for:

  • Accessibility
  • Technical SEO
  • Structured data
  • Open Graph
  • Performance
  • Security headers
  • Link graph
  • Stack detection
  • Search Console + GA
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Content Intelligence

For teams who need to know what each page is for, and whether it still holds up.

$3per managed pageper month

Everything in Site Clarity, plus:

  • Page archetype
  • Intent
  • Funnel position
  • Role drift
  • Canonical identity
  • Brand voice
  • Question similarity
  • Page quality
  • Factual claims
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Content Production

For teams who want new pages written and old ones rewritten, then measured, not just reported.

$9per managed pageper month

Everything in Content Intelligence, plus:

New content

  • Opportunities
  • Gap analysis
  • New pages

Refactoring

  • Page rewrites
  • Fact refresh
  • FAQ from People Also Ask

For both

  • Cited research
  • At scale
  • After-publish tracking
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