How much does local SEO cost?

It depends on your number of locations, how competitive your market is, your trade, the size of your service area and what is included each month. A fair quote starts with a look at your actual map, which is why we send pricing with your scan.

Why is local SEO pricing so different from one agency to the next?

Agencies include very different work under the same name. Some only build citations once, some manage your profile every week and some add website work and ads. Compare the monthly list of work, not just the price.

What should be included in local SEO?

For a service business, usually Google Business Profile fixes, weekly posts and photos, review replies, citation cleanup, tracking your rank across your service area and a clear monthly report. Website work and ads are sometimes added on.

Is a long contract normal for local SEO?

Some agencies ask for one, but it is not needed. Profile changes usually take a few weeks to show, so a short trial tells you a lot. Make sure you own your accounts either way.

Is cheap local SEO cost worth it?

Sometimes, if the work is clear and inside Google's rules. Be careful with low cost offers built on bought reviews, keyword stuffed business names or fake listings, since those can get your profile suspended.

How do I get your pricing?

Request your map scan. We run your 49 point scan and send your map, a short video walkthrough and pricing together.

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Local SEO pricing: 10 things that drive the cost, and how to compare offers

Local SEO pricing is all over the place, and most agencies do not explain why. How much local SEO costs comes down to how much work your market needs and what is actually included. Here is what drives local SEO cost, the red flags to watch for and the questions to ask before you sign.

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What drives local SEO cost: 10 things to know about local SEO pricing, and what we do about each

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The number of locations changes the work.
Each location has its own Google Business Profile, its own map and its own competitors. Two locations is close to twice the work, so local SEO pricing that does not change with locations is worth questioning.
What we do: we scan each location separately and treat each profile as its own map, so you can see the work for every location.
Competition in your market matters most.
A trade with a handful of weak listings needs less work than one where strong competitors hold most of the map. Local SEO cost should reflect what it will take in your market, which nobody can know without looking first.
What we do: we scan your market before we start, so you can see who holds the map and how much ground there is to win.
Your trade and the searches behind it.
Some trades have many separate searches, like repair, install and emergency service, and each one can need its own services and posts. Trades with a single main search are usually simpler to cover.
What we do: we look at the main searches for your trade and focus the work on the ones you actually want calls from.
The size of your service area.
Covering one town is very different from covering a metro or several counties. The map changes every mile or two, so a bigger area means more ground to check and more towns to build into your profile and posts.
What we do: we build your service area around up to 20 towns you approve and scan a 49 point grid that covers the area you want.
What is actually included each month.
Two offers can sound the same and include very different work. Ask for the list: profile fixes, weekly posts, review replies, citations, website work and how often each happens.
What we do: we put our monthly work in writing: profile fixes, one post a week with up to three photos, review reply drafts, a weekly profile check and a monthly rescan.
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Reporting you can understand.
A report full of charts you cannot read does not tell you if the work is paying off. Good reporting shows where you rank across your area, what changed and what was done that month.
What we do: we send a monthly rescan on the same 49 points, with a plain update on your map, calls and clicks from Google, what we did and what comes next.
Contract length and who owns your accounts.
Long contracts protect the agency, not you. Make sure you stay the owner of your Google profile and website, and that you can leave without losing them.
What we do: we work with no contract, and you stay the owner of your profile the whole time.
Red flag: promised rankings.
Nobody controls Google's results, so a promise of a top spot or page one is a promise nobody can keep. It often comes with tactics that put your profile at risk to get a quick bump.
What we do: we do not promise rankings. We show you the same map every month so you can judge the work yourself.
Red flag: no reporting, or bought reviews.
An agency that cannot show what it did each month is hard to hold to anything. Buying reviews, writing fake ones or stuffing keywords into your business name breaks Google's rules and can get reviews removed or the profile suspended.
What we do: we keep every tactic inside Google's guidelines and every change goes to you for written approval first.
How to compare local SEO offers side by side.
Ask each agency to show your current map before you pay, list the monthly work in writing, explain the contract and show a sample report. If an offer will not answer those questions, the low price is not much of a deal.
What we do: we send your 49 point scan, a short video walkthrough and pricing together, so you can compare us with anyone else.

Proof

What the work looks like on real profiles

We sign mutual NDAs with our clients, so we describe the work instead of naming the business.

A painting contractor in Florida with hundreds of reviews. We cut 106 service entries down to 37, replaced a description that was cut off at Google's 750 character limit and cleaned up duplicate and ZIP code service areas. The owner gets a dated change log every month.

A moving company in Missouri. We set 20 owner approved service area towns and wrote replies to its unanswered reviews, including careful replies to older negative ones. Nine replies were posted once the owner signed off on them.

An appliance repair and HVAC company in Utah with more than 250 reviews at 5.0 ranked only 10th at its own address. We traced it to a shared coworking address, switched it to a service area business with 20 towns and advised against opening a second profile that could risk a suspension.

A pressure washing company in Central Texas. We removed a house cleaning category for work it does not do, added an emergency spill cleanup service and rewrote a description that had been copied from another service. Every change was applied after the owner approved it in writing.

When a painting client saw a dip in his website analytics, we rescanned the map the same day and showed him with his own numbers that his map position had held, so nothing got undone in a panic.

A locksmith in Southern California had no Google profile, so it appeared at 0 of 49 points. We coached the owner through Google's video verification, and a rescan on the same grid found it at 30 of 49 points and in the top 3 at 10.

Every business and market is different. We do not promise rankings. We show you the same map every month so you can see what changed.

Why us

Why owners compare offers and pick us

One business of each type per service area. We will not work for your direct competitor in the same towns.
Google Business Profiles and Google Maps are what we focus on, not a menu of everything.
You see the proof: a 49 point map of your area before we start, and the same map every month after.
Nothing changes on your profile without your written approval, and you stay the owner of it.
No contract. Stay because it is working.

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The package

What you get every month

A 49 point Google Maps scan of your service area before we start
Profile fixes: categories, services, description, service area, hours, attributes and booking or quote links
One post a week plus up to three photos from your work, approved by you
Suggested replies to new reviews, posted only after you approve
A weekly profile check that catches changes Google or anyone else makes
A monthly rescan on the same 49 points, with a plain update on your map, calls and clicks from Google, what we did and what comes next

Pricing comes with your scan. Request your map scan at no cost and we will send your map, a short video walkthrough and pricing together.

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Get your scan and local SEO pricing together.

Send us your business and the towns you want customers from. We will run your 49 point map scan and send your map, a short video walkthrough and pricing together.

What happens next

1.We run your map scan and look at your profile and search results.
2.You get a short note with what we would fix first.
3.If it makes sense, we set it up on a 15 minute call.

Local SEO pricing: 10 things that drive the cost, and how to compare offers

What drives local SEO cost: 10 things to know about local SEO pricing, and what we do about each

The number of locations changes the work.

Competition in your market matters most.

Your trade and the searches behind it.

The size of your service area.

What is actually included each month.

Reporting you can understand.

Contract length and who owns your accounts.

Red flag: promised rankings.

Red flag: no reporting, or bought reviews.

How to compare local SEO offers side by side.