Local SEO
Local SEO as a one-time technical setup: profile, citations, NAP consistency, local schema — then an honest list of what little actually recurs, instead of a permanent retainer for a solved problem.
Local SEO has the worst value-to-noise ratio in the industry: a mountain of retainer offers for what is, technically, a bounded setup — Google Business Profile configured properly, categories and service areas chosen deliberately, NAP consistent across the citations that matter, local business schema on the site, and a review process that does not embarrass you. Most of that is done once and maintained in minutes a month.
This engagement does the setup properly and then tells you the truth about the recurring part: review responses, the occasional post, and monitoring — work measured in minutes, billed accordingly or handed to your team with instructions. 2026 published data puts local SEO at $500–$1,500/month as an agency product; the honest technical version is a $500–$2,000 one-time setup with optional light-touch maintenance.
The honest limits: no guaranteeing map-pack positions, no fake-review schemes (that risk is yours forever), no citation-blasting five hundred directories — the twenty that matter carry nearly all the signal. Multi-location businesses scale differently; the setup cost per location drops fast after the first.
What the engagement covers
- Google Business Profile: categories, services, service areas, products, attributes — configured deliberately
- Citation audit and correction on the directories that actually carry signal
- NAP consistency: site, schema, profile and key citations matching exactly
- LocalBusiness schema per location, emitted and validated on your site
- Review process design — how to ask, where to point people, how to respond, in one page
- One-page monthly checklist for your team — or light-touch monitoring here, your call
Honest limits
What this is deliberately not.
Not this: Map-pack position guarantees — nobody honest sells them
Not this: Fake or incentivized reviews — a permanent-risk scheme, refused outright
Not this: Mass citation blasting — five hundred thin directories is noise sold as work
Not this: Permanent retainers for a setup problem — the recurring part is minutes, not a retainer
Questions · Local SEO
Asked before building.
Published 2026 data puts agency local SEO at $500–$1,500/month; the honest technical reality is a one-time setup — profile, citations, NAP, schema — at $500–$2,000, with genuine recurring work measured in minutes. Multi-location setups scale per-location pricing down after the first. Fixed quote after seeing locations and current state.
Usually not the sold version. What recurs: responding to reviews, an occasional profile post, catching accidental profile edits. That is a checklist, not a retainer. If you would rather not touch it, light-touch monitoring exists at honest minutes-per-month pricing.
No honest provider guarantees that — proximity and competition weigh heavily, and Google reshuffles local results constantly. What this does is remove every self-inflicted obstacle: profile completeness, category precision, NAP chaos, schema gaps. That is the controllable part, done completely.
Per-location setup drops sharply after the first — the pattern (schema template, citation process, profile checklist) is built once and applied. Multi-location programs run $300–$1,500/month only where the maintenance genuinely recurs across locations. The quote reflects counted locations, not a multiplier on a single-location price.
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