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Local SEO services priced by location
Google Business Profile management and local ranking work from $300/mo for one location, with GBP posts, citation work and a monthly rank grid counted per tier.
In one line
Local SEO is search work aimed at map results and location-based queries rather than national rankings. Here it covers Google Business Profile optimisation, a counted number of GBP posts each month, citation work, and a rank grid showing where a business ranks across its service area.
Local SEO services and what each tier costs
Starter
1 location
$250/mo billed yearly
- GBP audit + optimisation
- 4 GBP posts/mo
- Citation check
- Monthly rank grid
- Not included: Review generation campaigns
- Not included: Multi-location management
Growth
Up to 3 locations
$542/mo billed yearly
- Everything in Starter
- 8 GBP posts/mo
- Citation building, 20/mo
- Review response drafting
Scale
Up to 10 locations
$1,167/mo billed yearly
- Everything in Growth
- Per-location rank grids
- Local landing pages
- Quarterly strategy review
These local seo services are billed at the price shown, with no scoping call in the way. Profile audit within 5 business days. Every tier is billed monthly, and the scope is fixed by a brief you agree before anything is invoiced.
This search returns a local pack plus national agencies whose pages describe the service and hide the price. Almost none publish per-location pricing, which is the number a multi-location buyer needs.
Everything each tier includes and excludes
The same list that drives the price cards, laid out so the tiers can be read against each other. Exclusions are printed because an unstated exclusion is what turns a good month into an argument.
Starter
1 location
Included
- GBP audit + optimisation
- 4 GBP posts/mo
- Citation check
- Monthly rank grid
Not included
- Review generation campaigns
- Multi-location management
Growth
Up to 3 locations
Included
- Everything in Starter
- 8 GBP posts/mo
- Citation building, 20/mo
- Review response drafting
Scale
Up to 10 locations
Included
- Everything in Growth
- Per-location rank grids
- Local landing pages
- Quarterly strategy review
Which tier you actually need
Tiers here are separated by location count, because that is what actually drives the work: every location has its own profile, its own citations, and its own rank grid.
All three local seo services run the same process and the same reporting. What changes between them is volume.
Starter
One location or one service area, with a profile that exists and is verified but has never been worked on properly.
You are on this tier when: You have one pin on the map and nobody has audited the categories since the profile was created.
Growth
Two or three locations, where citation consistency across them has started to drift and reviews need answering.
You are on this tier when: You are finding conflicting addresses or phone numbers on directory sites, or reviews are going unanswered for weeks.
Scale
Up to ten locations, where per-location measurement and local landing pages are the difference between growth and noise.
You are on this tier when: An averaged rank number across your locations has stopped telling you anything useful.
The rank grid is the deliverable, not the dashboard
Short answer
Every tier includes a monthly rank grid: your position for target terms measured across a grid of points in the service area, not a single average. Rankings vary sharply by distance from the pin, and a single number hides exactly the thing local SEO is meant to change.
A grid makes the work falsifiable. It shows where you are already strong, where the drop-off starts, and whether last month’s work moved the edge of the coverage area.
Scale runs a separate grid per location, because averaging ten locations produces a figure that describes none of them.
What a month produces
Local work is visible in public, so most of the deliverables can be checked without logging into anything.
- GBP posts published on the profile, at the tier’s count
- Profile fields, categories, services and photos audited and corrected
- Citation checks, and from Growth upward new citations built
- A rank grid for the target terms, in the same format each month
What a local SEO month actually contains
Local work lives or dies on the profile and the citations behind it, both of which are countable. Here is the month in counts rather than in promises about the map pack.
What a local SEO month actually contains
Within 5 days — Profile audit. The Google Business Profile is audited against every field the platform exposes: categories, services, attributes, hours, and the photo set. The gaps come back as a list, not a summary.
Month 1 — Profile and citation cleanup. Fields are completed and inconsistent citations are corrected against one canonical set of business details. Duplicates found during the sweep are named in the report.
Ongoing — Posts and Q&A. Profile posts run on a fixed monthly cadence, four a month on Starter and eight on Growth, and review-response drafting starts at Growth. Both are deliverables with counts, so you can check them without logging in anywhere.
Month end — The report. Profile changes made, citations corrected, posts published, and the review-response state. Where a platform blocked a change, the block is written down rather than left as silence.
Select any milestone to read what is produced at it. Every date is a published commitment from this page, not an estimate of results.
What the price buys at each tier
Billed monthly at the price shown. The yearly option is the same scope with two months off, and nothing here is quoted as a slice of your budget.
Locations are the lever. Profile post cadence moves with it, at four a month on Starter and eight on Growth, and citation building at twenty a month starts at Growth. Profile hygiene itself is identical at every tier, because a half-done profile is not cheaper, it is just wrong.
Prices resolve from the same source as the cards above. Switch metric to compare cost against volume.
How a month actually runs
Order, brief, production, delivery, report. The same four steps every month, so a second month can be compared against a first.
- 1
Day 1 to 5
Profile audit
Categories, services, hours, attributes, photos and duplicate listings. The audit lands within 5 business days.
- 2
Week 2
Corrections applied
Fixes made on the profile and any incorrect citations flagged for correction.
- 3
Ongoing
Posting and citations
GBP posts at the tier’s cadence, citation work from Growth upward, review responses drafted for you to send.
- 4
Month end
Rank grid and report
The grid, the changes made, and what runs next month.
What the monthly report contains
Local work is public, so the report is mostly a record of things you can verify yourself.
From Scale, each location gets its own grid rather than sharing an average that describes none of them.
- The rank grid for each target term, at every measured point in the service area
- GBP posts published, with links
- Profile fields changed, and why
- Citations checked or built, with the source and the status
Why review generation is excluded
Short answer
We draft responses to reviews and we do not run campaigns to solicit them. Incentivised or gated review solicitation breaches Google’s prohibited and restricted content policy, and the risk lands on your profile rather than on ours.
Responding well to the reviews you already have is legitimate, useful, and included from Growth upward.
This is one of several places on this site where the honest answer is a smaller scope rather than a bigger invoice.
What actually moves map rankings
- Primary category accuracy, which is the single highest-leverage field on the profile
- Proximity, which nobody can change, and which is why the grid matters
- Consistent name, address and phone data across the citations that exist
- Activity on the profile: posts, photos, answered questions, responded reviews
Two of those four are administrative and get fixed in the first fortnight. The rest is cumulative, which is why this is sold monthly rather than as a one-off cleanup.
How this differs from the usual arrangement
Neither column is a verdict on quality. The left is how this service is normally sold, taken from the pages ranking beside this one.
A typical local SEO retainer
- Price
- Quoted per business
- Ranking proof
- A single average position
- GBP posts
- "Regular posting"
- Reviews
- Generation campaigns upsold
- Multi-location
- Custom quote
The Super Panel
- Price
- Published per location band
- Ranking proof
- A grid across the service area
- GBP posts
- A counted number per month
- Reviews
- Response drafting only, and it is stated
- Multi-location
- Up to 3 at Growth, up to 10 at Scale
The three things buyers ask before ordering
Local SEO attracts more misconceptions than any other service on this site.
Can you get me to the top of the map pack?
Not as a promise. Proximity to the searcher is a ranking factor nobody can change, which is precisely why the rank grid exists: it shows you where you already win, and where the drop-off starts.
Why will you not get me more reviews?
Because incentivised or gated solicitation breaches Google’s review policies and the penalty lands on your profile. Responding well to the reviews you already have is legitimate and included from Growth upward.
Do I still need normal SEO?
Usually yes, if you sell anything people search for without a location attached. The two target different result types and are sold separately so you can buy only what your customers actually use.
What this pairs with
Website builds matter here more than most people expect: a local landing page that loads slowly on a phone loses the customer between the map result and the call.
The SEO package covers everything that is not location-based. Businesses with both a service area and a national product line usually need both, and the split between them is worth agreeing in the brief.
Everything this service does to a profile is documented in the Google Business Profile guide.
When local SEO is the wrong spend
Short answer
Local SEO does nothing for a business with no service area, no verified profile it can access, or a category where customers never search geographically. Review generation campaigns are also excluded at every tier, deliberately.
- You have no physical location and no defined service area.
- Nobody can get owner access to the Google Business Profile.
- You want us to solicit reviews at volume. Review generation campaigns are excluded at every tier.
- You need multi-location management on Starter. That starts at Growth.
Questions before you order
How much do local SEO services cost?
Starter is $300/mo for one location, Growth is $650/mo for up to three, and Scale is $1,400/mo for up to ten. It is the lowest entry price on this site.
How long until the map pack moves?
Profile corrections can change things within weeks. Competitive terms in dense areas take months, and proximity to the searcher sets a ceiling nobody can lift.
Do you need access to my Google Business Profile?
Yes, manager access at minimum. Without it the work is limited to advice, which is not what you are buying.
What is a rank grid?
A map of measurement points across your service area showing your position for a target term at each one. It replaces the single average position most reports show.
Will you get me more reviews?
No. Review generation campaigns are excluded at every tier. Review responses are drafted for you from Growth upward.
Do you build citations?
Citations are checked at Starter and built from Growth upward, at 20 a month. The check comes first because correcting a wrong listing beats adding a new one.
Can you handle more than ten locations?
Beyond ten, send the details through the order form and we will price it against the same per-location logic rather than inventing a new one.
Do you write local landing pages?
Local landing pages are included at Scale. Below that, page writing is a separate service.
Does this include national SEO?
No. This service targets map and location queries. National ranking work is the SEO package, and the two are often bought together.
What if my profile is suspended?
Reinstatement work is outside the tiers. Tell us in the brief and we will say plainly whether it is something we can help with before you buy anything.
Sources cited on this page
- Google’s prohibited and restricted content policy for reviews – Cited for the review generation exclusion.
- Google’s guidelines for representing your business – Cited for profile accuracy requirements.
Start Local SEO & GBP from $300/mo
Pick a tier and send the order. You get a brief form and a start date within one business day, and nothing is charged until that brief is agreed.
Entry point $300/mo. Cancel any time. No long contracts.
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