# SEO Agency for Small Business: Prices Published

Roughly nine in ten US local SEO agencies publish no price at all; SEO
Bandwagon checked 654 of them in August 2026. Ours are on the page. Agentic
Local is the monthly package: $249/month for one location. AI-guided setup and
AI search work are included, then agents run audits, rank tracking, keyword
mapping, and recommendations — the customer approves every change (Google
Business Profile writes only once allowed). Prefer to run the software
yourself? Pro is the self-serve plan. Prefer a person doing the work? The SEO
Services retainer is $995/month. Month-to-month, no contracts.

## What SEO agencies charge

Of the 654 agencies checked, 33 published an SEO-only monthly rate,
with a median of $1,199 a month; 27 published a full ladder, and the top
tier's median was $3,000.

Source: SEO Bandwagon's agency pricing study, the pricing pages of 654 US local SEO agencies, collected August 2026 and verified by hand on 2026-09-02. Medians are nearest-rank.

## Service lines

- **Local SEO** — https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo
- **Technical SEO audits** — https://seobandwagon.com/technical-seo
- **Rank tracking software** — https://seobandwagon.com/rank-tracker
- **AI Search Optimization (GEO)** — https://seobandwagon.com/ai-seo
- **SEO consulting** — one-on-one strategy sessions

## Plans

Agentic Local ($249/month for one location, done for you) · SEO Services retainer
($995/month, a person does the work) · Free (10 keywords, no credit
card) · Pro (self-serve software, unlimited keywords) · Enterprise (multi-location).
Month-to-month, cancel anytime. Every plan and price: https://seobandwagon.com/pricing · Contact: https://seobandwagon.com/contact

## How much should SEO cost for a small business?

For one location, plan on $249/month for one location if agents do the monthly work and you approve it, or $995/month if a person does the work. Both are month-to-month, cancel anytime.

Pro is the cheaper route if you would rather run the software yourself, and the audit is free either way, so you see what your site needs before you pay for anything.

Whatever you pay, the invoice should say what was done. A price that comes with a promised ranking, or a date for one, is built on nothing: nobody controls Google's results.

## How much do SEO agencies charge?

Most will not tell you until you ask: roughly nine in ten US local SEO agencies publish no price at all. Among those that do, the entry rate has a median of $1,199 a month and the top published tier a median of $3,000.

The figures are our own count. We checked the pricing pages of 654 US local SEO agencies in August 2026 and read every figure by hand on 2026-09-02: 33 published an SEO-only monthly rate, and 27 published a full ladder from entry tier to top tier.

Read the price with what it buys. In the study, the cheapest tiers covered Business Profile and citation work with a monthly report; the common agency entry package added technical fixes, a few pieces of content and a few links a month; the top tiers were multi-location or competitive-market programs.

## What does an SEO agency do?

It finds what keeps your site from ranking, fixes it, and keeps checking whether the fixes worked.

In the package here that means a technical audit, keyword research sorted by intent, fixes to titles, descriptions and headings, Google Business Profile and citation work, rank checks every 7 days, and a monthly report on what moved.

What we do not sell is link building. Done right it is slow, manual outreach; done cheaply it is the fastest way to a penalty.

## Is it worth hiring an SEO company?

It is when your time is worth more running the business than learning SEO, and the company shows you what it changed and why.

It is not worth it if the company guarantees a #1 ranking, locks you into an annual contract, reports only impressions, or will not quote a price until you have booked a call. Those are the red flags on this page for a reason.

Everything here is month-to-month, cancel anytime, and with Agentic Local nothing on your site or your Business Profile changes until you approve it.

## Is SEO still worth it in 2026?

Yes. People still search when they need a plumber, a dentist or a lawyer, and the map pack and the AI answer above the results are both built from what Google already knows about your business and your site.

What changed is where the answer appears. Google's AI Overview now answers questions on the results page itself, so a page has to be worth citing as well as worth ranking. Google's own guidance calls optimizing for its AI features "still SEO", and that work is included in Agentic Local rather than sold as a separate package.

What has not changed is the work: a current Business Profile, a site Google can crawl, and pages that answer the customer's question. That is what the free audit checks and what the monthly package keeps doing.

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