The standard local SEO retainer for single-location service businesses. GBP optimization, citation management, review acquisition workflow, rankings tracking, monthly reporting, and content cadence — all delivered by me personally, every month.
This is the retainer most single-location service businesses end up on. The work is unglamorous and it compounds: your Google Business Profile gets managed like a channel instead of a listing, your citations get built and then kept accurate, reviews arrive on a schedule instead of by accident, and a few pages a month get properly optimized. Nothing here is a growth hack. It is the set of things that actually determine whether you show up in the map pack for the searches that turn into phone calls.
The honest expectation on timing: map pack position moves in months, not weeks. Foundation work lands in month one, the first measurable movement usually shows up somewhere in months two and three, and the compounding gets obvious around month six. That is why there is a three-month minimum — not to lock you in, but because anything shorter cannot tell you whether it worked. After that it is month-to-month with thirty days notice.
You are hiring one person. I do the GBP posts, I write the on-page copy, I respond to the reviews, I run the reports, and I am the one on the monthly call. There is no account manager relaying questions to a specialist, which means when you ask why a ranking moved you get the actual answer from the person who did the work.
Two-week audit identifying gaps, opportunities, and priority areas. Sets the 90-day roadmap.
GBP optimization, citation cleanup, initial on-page improvements, review workflow setup.
Monthly content, ongoing GBP posts, review acquisition, rankings monitoring, iterative improvement.
Monthly reporting call, quarterly strategic review, adjustments based on results.
None of this is heavy, but the engagement stalls without it. Worth knowing before you commit rather than in week three.
Foundation work lands in month one. The first measurable map pack movement typically shows up in months two to three, and it compounds from there — month six looks materially different from month three. Anyone promising faster than that in a competitive Phoenix metro category is either working a market with no competition or is not being straight with you.
You leave with thirty days notice after the three-month minimum, no termination fee. But before that: if the numbers are flat at month three, the monthly call is where we say so plainly and either change the approach or agree it is not a fit. I would rather end an engagement honestly than keep billing one that is not earning.
Almost always, yes — and it credits fully toward the first month if you engage within 90 days, so it costs nothing extra. The audit is how I find out whether this retainer is even the right shape for your situation. Occasionally someone has done this before, knows exactly what they need, and we scope it on a call instead.
Yes, and it is common. I handle the SEO work and hand your developer a specific, prioritized list for anything that needs to happen in the codebase. Most developers prefer this to receiving a 40-page audit and being told to figure it out.
Up to three locations can work inside this retainer with some scope adjustment. Beyond that the coordination genuinely changes — separate GBPs, per-location review workflows, location landing pages — and Full Stack or a custom scope fits better. Worth a call rather than forcing it.
The audit tells us whether this engagement shape matches your situation — or whether something else would be better.