Local search · St. Clairsville, Wheeling and the valley
How much does SEO cost for a small business?
My prices are on this page. Month to month, and nobody honest promises a ranking.
The first visit is free: 30 minutes at your place. You leave with the first three things I’d fix. No obligation.
Blake Porterfield, St. Clairsville Fisher College of Business, Ohio State, 2015. As seen in The Intelligencer and The Times Leader.
The short answer
$150 to start. From $250 a month to keep it going.
Most small businesses here start with a $150 Google listing tune-up, because the map listing is where nearby customers look first. Local search care, which keeps it working, starts at $250 a month, month to month. Putting your name, address and phone right on 12 or more directory sites is $250 once.
- Google listing tune-up
- $150 flat
- Local search care
- from $250/month
- Directory cleanup, 12+ sites
- $250
- Reviews asked for automatically
- $199
- Google Ads, managed
- $300 setup, then from $250/month
What the money buys
Where it goes, in order.
- The listing first. Hours, phone, category, services and photos made right on your Google listing. You stay the owner and add me as a manager.
- Your name the same everywhere. Directory cleanup puts the same name, address and phone on 12 or more sites, so nothing Google reads disagrees.
- Reviews. After each visit, a short message asks the customer for a Google review. Real customers only. $199 to set up.
- Every month. Local search care is weekly Google posts, every review answered, a new page on your site each month, and one page that shows what moved.
- Ads, if you need calls this month. $300 setup, then from $250 a month. The ad spend goes to Google on your own card.
“Google says we’re permanently closed. We are not. I found out from my mother-in-law.”A caller · The Premature Obituary
Questions.
Can you guarantee the first page of Google?
No, and nobody honest can. I promise the work, and one page a month that shows what moved against where we started.
How long does local SEO take?
Fixes to your Google listing usually show within days. Search care builds month over month, which is why I report every month against where we started.
Is there a contract?
No. Search care and ads are month to month. Stop any month.
Do I need a new website to show up on Google?
Often not. For a local business the Google listing and reviews usually matter more. If your site is the problem, edits start at $150.
Free visit
Tell me what eats your week.
30 minutes at your place or on the phone, anywhere in the Ohio Valley. You leave with the first three things I’d fix.
Blake Porterfield The person who shows up. St. Clairsville, Ohio.