What local SEO is
When someone nearby searches for what you do, Google shows a map with three businesses under it. Local SEO is the work of getting your business into that box, across the whole area you serve, for the searches that turn into calls and visits. It is a different discipline from national SEO: the ranking signals are your Google Business Profile, your reviews, the consistency of your business information across the web, and how your website supports all three.
Two ways to work with us
Automated Local SEO, $150 per month. Connect your Google Business Profile, tell us your service area, and our system does the weekly work: posts, Q&A, category and attribute tuning, review responses drafted for your approval, and a monthly local article on your website. A person reviews anything customer-facing before it publishes. You get a monthly before-and-after report. Best for single-location businesses that want to stay visible without managing anything.
Advanced Local SEO, from $500 per month. Everything in Automated, plus a strategist on your account: location landing pages written with real local content, citation cleanup, competitor grid tracking across your service area, a review generation strategy, and local link building. Best for competitive categories (legal, medical, home services) and businesses with two to four locations. From five locations, Franchise SEO gives you better per-location pricing.
What "ranking locally" actually means
Google decides local rankings on three things. Relevance: does your profile and website say, in Google's vocabulary, what the searcher typed. Distance: where the searcher is standing relative to your address. Prominence: how established you look across the web, driven by reviews, citations and mentions. Our work touches all three, and the rank grid in your report shows you the result street by street.
The Google Business Profile, done properly
Most profiles we audit are half finished. The primary category is too general, secondary categories are missing, services are blank, attributes are unset, the description is a slogan rather than a list of what you do and where. We rebuild it against your actual competitors: categories chosen by looking at who ranks, every applicable attribute, services listed individually with descriptions, products or menu items, a booking link, questions and answers seeded with what customers actually ask, and a photo plan you can execute with a phone.
Citations and consistency
Your name, address and phone number appear on dozens of directories, many of which you have never seen. Old suites, old numbers and duplicate listings quietly undermine Google's trust in your data. We find them, fix them or merge them, and keep them consistent.
Reviews
Review count matters, but recency and responses matter more. A business with three hundred reviews and none in the last quarter looks closed. We set up a request flow that runs from your POS, your invoice, or your technician's phone, and we draft replies for every review within a day for your approval.
The website's role
The profile ranks; the website confirms. A location page that repeats the same facts as the profile, describes the neighborhoods you serve, and answers the questions customers ask is what turns a good profile into a top-three profile. Advanced includes those pages; Automated includes a monthly local article.
The rank grid
A single ranking number hides the truth. We track a seven-by-seven grid across your service area for your most important searches, monthly, and show it in every report: green where you are top three, yellow where you are on the first page, red where you are invisible. It is the clearest picture of local SEO progress there is, and it shows you exactly where the next page or the next set of reviews needs to go.
Timeline
Profile and citation fixes show effects in two to four weeks. Movement in the map pack for competitive searches usually appears between weeks six and twelve. That is why every plan has a three-month initial term.
What it costs
Automated $150 per month. Advanced from $500 per month, priced on competition and number of locations. Both have a three-month initial term, then month to month. You can move from Automated to Advanced at any monthly renewal.
