What we do each month

When an owner asks for SEO, what they usually mean is: when someone nearby searches for what I do, I want to show up, and I want them to call. That is local search, and most of it runs through your Google Business Profile and the listings that feed it, not through tricks on the site. Local SEO starts at $500 a month, and the work has three parts.

1. Google Business Profile work

The profile is what shows in the map results, with your hours, phone, photos, reviews and services. We keep it complete and current: categories and services that match what you do, hours that match the door, photos of the real business, posts when there is something to say, and answers to the questions customers leave there.

2. Listings cleanup

Your business is listed in more places than you have looked: directories, map apps, data brokers. When the name, address, phone or hours differ from one to the next, the profile suffers and customers get sent to the wrong place. We find the listings and make name, address, phone and hours match everywhere.

3. On-page work on your site

The site has to say, plainly, what you do and where, on pages a search engine can read: page titles, headings, the service area, the address and phone in the right places. We work on your existing site if it allows it, or on the one we build.

A shop owner checks his business listing on a map on his phone inside his store

The monthly report

Each month you get a report showing calls, form fills and profile views. Those are the numbers that matter to a business: how many people called from the profile or the site, how many sent the form, how many looked at the profile. We do not report a pile of keyword positions, because a position is not a customer.

What local SEO is and is not

It is steady, unglamorous work on the profile, the listings and the site, done every month, reported in calls and form fills. It is not a switch that puts you at the top of the map, and anyone who sells it that way is selling something else. Results depend on your market, your competition and your reviews, and we do not promise a ranking, a traffic figure or a number of leads.

The price

Local SEO is from $500 a month. Larger markets are quoted after a look at the competition, because the work in a crowded trade in a big market is more than the work for a one-of-a-kind shop in a small town. There is no long-term contract.

A note about Google

We work on your Google Business Profile as your designer, not as Google. Google does not verify or endorse these services, and no ranking is guaranteed.

Common questions

What does local SEO cost?

From $500 a month. Larger markets are quoted after a look at the competition. The price is in writing before anything starts, and there is no long-term contract.

Can you promise a first-page ranking?

No. Nobody can, and Google itself lists promised rankings as a warning sign. Google does not verify or endorse these services, and no ranking is guaranteed. What we commit to is the work each month and a report of calls, form fills and profile views.

Do I need a new site first?

Not always. If your current site works on a phone and lets us make on-page changes, local SEO can run on it. If it does not, we say so on the call and you decide. Tell us the address of the site you have now and we will look before we quote.

What is in the monthly report?

Calls, form fills and profile views for the month, in a report you can read in a few minutes. Those are the numbers that tell you whether the work is bringing people to the phone and the form.

Someone from Google called me. Is that real?

Google does not call to sell listings, verify your business over the phone or threaten to remove it. Hang up, sign in to your own Google Business Profile and check it yourself. If something there needs fixing, we can walk through it on a call.

Get a price for local SEO

Tell us about your business, your market and the site you have now. We look, call you, and send the price in writing.