Local SEO audit.
A Screaming Frog crawl, a competitor teardown in Ahrefs and Semrush, and a fix list ordered by impact.
Local SEO agency that guarantees the outcome, not the activity
Most local SEO agency contracts sell motion: citations built, posts published, reports emailed. We sell the result, in writing before kickoff. Miss the targets we agreed and you get your money back.
The stakes
What it costs to be invisible in local search
Someone a mile away opens Google and types what you sell. They get a map and three listings, and for most of them that is the whole decision.
Miss those three slots and the job goes to a competitor you never see.
It usually comes down to unglamorous things. A duplicate listing on a suite you left in 2021. The wrong primary category. Three versions of your phone number across directories. Nine reviews against two hundred down the road.
The calendar
What a local SEO agency actually does, month by month
Google Business Profile optimization.
Categories, services, attributes, hours, products, photos, posts, Q&A, and duplicate listing removal.
Location and service pages.
One page per city and per service, with click to call, directions, and local proof. Service area businesses get service area pages, not a rented address.
Citations and NAP consistency.
Cleanup first, building second, through Data Axle, Neustar Localeze, Foursquare, Apple Business Connect, Bing Places, Yelp, and Nextdoor.
Reviews.
Request flows that fit how you already invoice, reply templates for your front desk, steady velocity, no gating.
Local links and digital PR.
Coverage in the city and trade press, which is the part almost nobody does properly.
Technical SEO.
Indexation, canonicals, internal linking, LocalBusiness, Service, Review and FAQPage schema, and Core Web Vitals at LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds, CLS under 0.1, the technical SEO desk.
Reporting you can argue with.
Rank grids by geography, GBP calls, direction requests, and CallRail tracking tied to GA4, reported the way the SEO desk reports everything.
AI answers
How AI search picks a local business to recommend
Buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews before they see a map. Those systems do not rank you the way Search does. They retrieve entities they can verify: a name identical everywhere, a phone and address with no conflicting versions, structured data that states what you do, enough reviews to summarize, and mentions in publications the model trusts. All of that is local SEO work, which is why generative engine optimization is not billed separately here.
Near me
If you searched for an SEO agency near you
Proximity is a ranking factor for your business, not for your agency. Nobody at Google checks where your strategist lives. If you typed "seo agency near me" to get here, judge us the way your customers judge you: results and speed. We work across the US from Austin, Texas, and reply in 1 to 2 hours.
The number
What local SEO services cost
Small businesses typically pay $300 to $2,000 a month for local SEO services. Agency retainers run $500 to $2,500, averaging near $1,557, and multiple locations are priced per location. Benchmarks put the return at $3 to $5 for every $1 inside twelve months. Under $150 a month buys automation that costs more to clean up than it produced.
Our numbers are published on the pricing page, down to the price of each placement before you approve it.
Why AceIt
Why AceIt is the local SEO agency to hand this to
The real fear is not the monthly fee. It is twelve invoices, a folder of PDFs nobody opened, and the same three competitors still taking every call.
The contractthe outcome goes in it
Agreed results or your money back- Qualified organic traffic
- Share of local search in the areas we target
- Tracked calls and booked jobs
- Citations in AI answers
A specific ranking positionnot ours to sell
You paid for effort and got a summary of it.
So the outcome goes in the contract. Deliverables, targets, and timelines are agreed before kickoff, and if we do not deliver what we committed to, on the timeline we committed to, you get your money back. Ask the other shortlisted agencies to put their version of that in writing and watch what happens.
We never promise a specific ranking position, because those are not ours to sell. We commit to qualified organic traffic, share of local search in the areas we target, tracked calls and booked jobs, and citations in AI answers, with the refund behind each one. The strategist who scopes your account is the one who runs it, and replies land in 1 to 2 hours, from the team in Austin.
Proof
Proof before you sign
1M+Brand impressions our PR work drove for Vezbi, a community super app, during its U.S. expansion, all of it organic
50+Placements our Forbes campaign has secured across 12+ industries
4,200+Visits one anonymized feature returned, with a 38% lift in branded search
DA 94Authority of the backlink that same feature earned
Consistent everywhere · clients have been featured in
Our PR work drove over 1 million brand impressions for Vezbi, a community super app, during its U.S. expansion, all of it organic, the Vezbi case study. Our Forbes campaign has secured 50+ placements across 12+ industries, and one anonymized feature returned 4,200+ visits, a 38% lift in branded search, and a DA 94 backlink, on the Forbes program. More at case studies.
The service area
Who this fits, and who it does not
Inside the service areait fits
It fits storefronts and service area businesses that need the phone ringing, practices and firms fighting for one metro, home services companies, and brands running ten or a hundred locations. See dental SEO, law firm SEO, HVAC SEO, or small business SEO, and model the return in the ROAS calculator.
Outside the service areait does not
It does not fit anyone wanting a guaranteed number one pin next month, anyone listing an address they do not operate from, or anyone buying on price alone. If your customers are not geographic, try ecommerce SEO or B2B SEO.
Questions
Asked before every local SEO engagement
Anything else, email [email protected] and it comes back in 1 to 2 hours.
A local SEO agency makes your business appear when nearby customers search. That means a local audit, Google Business Profile optimization, location and service pages, citation cleanup, review generation, local links and press, technical fixes, then reporting tied to calls. Anyone selling only directory listings is doing one eighth of the job.
Most small businesses pay $300 to $2,000 a month, and agency retainers for local work run $500 to $2,500, averaging close to $1,557. Multiple locations are priced per location. Benchmarks put the return at $3 to $5 per $1 inside a year. Our pricing is published, and every agreed target is backed by a refund.
Profile and listing fixes usually move within 30 to 90 days. Ranking movement on realistic terms lands around 90 to 180 days, and gains compound between 6 and 12 months. Anyone promising the map pack in three weeks is guessing. Miss the timeline we agreed and you get your money back.
Google Business Profile optimization turns your free Google listing into a ranking asset: correct primary and secondary categories, complete services and attributes, accurate hours, real photos, products, regular posts, an answered Q&A section, and steady reviews with replies. It also covers removing duplicates and reporting competitor listings run from fake addresses.
No. Service area businesses such as plumbers, roofers, and mobile clinics can hide the address on a Google Business Profile and set service areas instead. You do need a real address Google can verify at signup, even if that is your home, plus service area pages for the towns you cover.
Regular SEO competes for a national list of links. Local SEO competes for a map with three slots, scored on how close you are to the searcher, how relevant your Google Business Profile categories are, and how prominent you look across reviews, citations, and press. A flawless site with a neglected profile stays invisible.
Next step
Find out what is keeping you out of the map pack
Send your business name, your city, and the three competitors beating you. You get a reply in 1 to 2 hours with what your profile is missing, where your citations conflict, and what we would fix first. Targets go in writing, backed by a 100% guarantee: you get the agreed results or your money back.
Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: you get the agreed results or your money back