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Local SEO puts your business in front of customers searching near you — in Google Maps, the local pack, and local organic results. We track rankings by neighborhood, optimize your Google Business Profile, and build the citations that make Google trust you.
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Local SEO is the process of optimizing your online presence to attract customers from local searches. When someone searches "dentist near me" or "best tacos in Austin," local SEO determines whether your business shows up in the map pack and local results. It's Google Business Profile optimization, citation building, review management, and localized keyword tracking — working together to get you into the map pack and keep you there.
THE STAKES
The local pack — the 3 businesses shown on a map — captures 44% of all clicks2. If you're not in it, your competitors are. And they're getting your customers.
of every click on a local search goes to just three businesses. Local SEO is the fight to be one of them.2
Each figure is numbered — see Sources & notes at the foot of the page.
Live market data for every metro we track — search demand, click prices, the businesses winning the map pack, and where the openings are. A new edition prints every week.5
For the national picture across every metro at once, see the Google Business Profile benchmarks report — median reviews, ratings, website presence and weekly map-pack movement.
See all metros → — or run a free audit to see where you stand in yours.
We serve businesses across the US — locally targeted, nationally managed. Six moving parts, one map-pack ranking.
Your GBP is the most important local asset you have — it shows in Maps, the local pack, and Search panels. An unoptimized profile is a billboard with the wrong phone number.
National tools show rank in aggregate. But your map position 2 miles north may differ completely from 5 miles south. The free Local Rank checker searches Google Maps from a grid of points across your service area, and the rank tracker follows your organic positions, with keyword caps set by your plan.
Local SEO done for you is one package, Agentic Local, at $249/month for one location. AI-guided setup and AI search work are included. Agents do the recurring work: the audits, the tracking and the recommendations. You approve every change before anything on your site or your Business Profile moves.
Start with the free audit: it shows what your market needs before you pay anything. The package is month-to-month, cancel anytime. No contracts.
Get your free local SEO auditDone for you, monthly
$249/month for one location
Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
Monthly local SEO for one location, run by agents. AI-guided setup and AI search work are included, and nothing changes until you approve it.
QUESTIONS BUYERS ASK
Local SEO done for you is $249/month for one location here, month-to-month, cancel anytime. The audit comes first and costs nothing.
That buys Agentic Local: agents run the audits and the tracking, watch your Business Profile and your listings, and recommend what to change. AI-guided setup and AI search work are included, and you approve every change before it happens.
What you should not pay for is a promise. Nobody can guarantee a map-pack position, so pay for the work and ask to see what moved. Several locations are an Enterprise quote, on the pricing page.
Local SEO is SEO for searches with a place in them, like "plumber near me": it aims at Google Maps and the map pack, where SEO aims at the regular results.
Much of the local work happens off your website: a complete Google Business Profile, the same name, address and phone across directories (we build citations on 36), and reviews. The rest is ordinary SEO, on pages about the places you serve.
Yes. Google charges nothing to create, verify or keep a Business Profile, the listing your business shows on Search and Maps.
What costs something is the upkeep: accurate hours and categories, photos, posts, and replies to reviews. That is the part Agentic Local takes on, and nothing is written to your profile until you allow it.
Google Business Profile. Google announced on November 4, 2021, that Google My Business was being renamed, and said it would retire the Google My Business app in 2022.
The listing itself carried over: it is still the free profile that puts your business on Google Maps and in the map pack, and claiming it is the first job in local SEO.
Straight answers, so you can rule us out before you spend anything.
The free audit shows exactly what's between you and the local pack in your city. No credit card.
Industry benchmarks reflect the most recent published figures from third-party research and can vary by study and year. Market metrics are drawn from SEO Bandwagon's live data and refreshed weekly. Figures are provided for reference, not as a guarantee of results.