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Rank Higher on Google Maps in Your City

Local SEO for small business owners: Google Business Profile management, citations, and local search optimization so customers searching nearby find you first, not the competitor three doors down.

  • 70+

    Profiles managed at a time

  • 1,000+

    Local businesses worked on

  • US, UK, CA, UAE +

    Markets we serve

What's Included

Your local SEO checklist, handled

Everything that moves a local business up the map pack and into local search results, run by the same team every month.

  • Google Business Profile Setup & Optimization

    Categories, service areas, photos and posts kept current so your profile earns clicks and calls.

  • Citations & NAP Cleanup

    Your name, address and phone number corrected and matched across the directories Google checks.

  • Local SEO Audit

    A scored audit of your profile, website and listings, with the fixes ranked by impact.

  • On-Page Local SEO

    Location pages and content built around what people actually search for near you.

  • Review Management

    Responses to every review, and a simple system for asking happy customers for one.

  • Rank Tracking & Reporting

    A plain-language report each month showing where you rank and what moved.

How It Works

From audit to ranking, five steps

The same sequence we run for agencies, applied directly to your business.

  1. 01

    Free Call

    We look at where you rank today and where your customers are actually searching.

  2. 02

    Local SEO Audit

    Full profile, citation and ranking check, with fixes ranked by what moves the needle first.

  3. 03

    Written Scope

    Services, cadence and pricing in writing within 48 hours, no jargon.

  4. 04

    Execution

    Monthly management and cleanup, handled by a named operator you can reach directly.

  5. 05

    Reporting

    A monthly report in plain language, on a fixed date, showing what changed.

Pricing

Scoped to your business, not a price list

A one-location shop and a five-location chain need different work. We quote after the audit call, in writing, within 48 hours.

  • MOST COMMON

    SINGLE LOCATION

    Starter

    Google Maps (GBP) optimization, website content and foundational backlinks, including Google and cloud stacking.

    $899/mo

    PR available as an add-on

  • GBP ONLY

    GBP Management

    Just your Google Business Profile: posts, Q&A, review responses and citations, no website work.

    Custom quote

  • MULTI-LOCATION

    Full-Service

    Everything in Starter across every branch, rolled up into one report per group.

    Custom quote

Starter is our most common package at $899/month for a single location: Google Maps, website content and foundational backlinks. PR, GBP-only and multi-location work are quoted individually.

Run an online store too? Ask us about ecommerce SEO for Shopify and WooCommerce on your call.

Track Record

Results for businesses like yours

One location or fifty, the same team and process runs either way.

GEOGRID RANK TRACKING

Before and after, same business

95-pin grid · 5 mi radius · 3 months

18 FEB 2026

19.24

Average rank

  • 1% High
  • 1% Med
  • 22% Low
  • 76% Out

15 MAY 2026

1.28

Average rank

  • 98% High
  • 2% Med
  • 0% Low
  • 0% Out

Illustrative GeoGrid scan for a single-location business. Your own scan is included with the Local SEO Audit.

Who We Work With

Local businesses of any kind

  • Restaurants & Cafes
  • Salons & Spas
  • Auto Repair
  • Dentists & Med Spas
  • Plumbing & HVAC
  • Retail Shops
  • Fitness Studios
  • Real Estate
  • Legal & Professional Services
  • Home Services

Team

Four founders, one operations team

No account managers relaying messages. Your business is handled by the same people who built the process.

  • Orrnob Mahmud

    CO-FOUNDER

    Orrnob Mahmud

    Head of Strategy & Partnerships

    Working in SEO since 2016. Owns strategy and client relationships.

  • Sakib Quraishe

    CO-FOUNDER

    Sakib Quraishe

    SEO Operations Manager

    Runs the delivery schedule and QA across every active account.

  • Akif Sikder

    CO-FOUNDER

    Akif Sikder

    Outreach & Link Building Lead

    Owns citation builds, directory coverage and local outreach.

  • Mo Shahed

    CO-FOUNDER

    MO Shahed

    Local SEO Operations Specialist

    Handles Google Business Profile execution and rank monitoring.

What Business Owners Say

Real businesses, real rankings

  • Google
    "We went from not showing up at all to the top three results for our main service in about four months."
    Owner, single-location business
  • Trustpilot
    "I don't have to think about my Google profile anymore. It just gets handled and I see the report every month."
    Owner, home services business
  • Facebook
    "Phone calls from the map listing roughly doubled once the citations were cleaned up. That was the surprise for us."
    Owner, multi-location retail business
  • Google
    "We're a small restaurant, not a marketing department. They set everything up, explained it in plain English, and now we show up when people search for food near the stadium."
    Owner, independent restaurant
  • Trustpilot
    "I'd tried a cheaper freelancer before and got nowhere. The audit alone told me more about why we weren't ranking than a year of guessing."
    Owner, hair salon
  • Google
    "Every listing across our three offices used to show a different phone number. They fixed all of it and our lead volume from Maps is up noticeably."
    Owner, real estate brokerage

FAQ

Local SEO questions, answered

Book a Call

Ready to Rank Higher Locally?

Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Pick a slot and we will come prepared.

  • We review your current listings Where you rank now, and what's holding you back.
  • We audit your Google Business Profile live You see how we work before any agreement exists.
  • You get a written scope Services, cadence and pricing in writing within 48 hours.
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