Controllable
Relevance
How well your Google Business Profile matches what someone typed. Categories, services, description, the pages on your site. All of it can be fixed, and most profiles we scan have it half done.
Local search for home-service businesses
You’re #1 next door.
A few miles out, you’re invisible.
Google Maps ranks you differently at every point on the map, and most owners only ever see the view from their own desk. We run a real geo-grid scan across your service area, show you exactly where the pack drops you, and fix the signals you can actually control. The first scan is free.
HVAC / Roofing / Plumbing / Electrical / Pest control / Landscaping. Serving the Charleston metro and South Carolina.
The reality
Google ranks the map on three factors. You control two of them.
Most local SEO pitches skip this part because it caps what they can promise. We lead with it, because the two factors you control are usually the ones nobody has worked properly.
Controllable
Prominence
How much Google trusts that you are a real, established business. Reviews and review velocity, consistent citations, local links. It compounds when you work it and decays when you don't.
Fixed
Distance
How close you are to the person searching. No agency can move your shop. Anyone who promises you the top pin across the whole metro is selling around this fact, not through it.
Our whole method fits in one sentence: we make you the obvious answer everywhere your distance already qualifies you, and we tell you plainly where it doesn’t.
What we fix
Six levers move the map. We work all six.
Every one of these maps to a documented local ranking signal. If a tactic isn’t on this list, we don’t sell it.
GBP category and completeness
Your primary category is the single strongest input you control. We set it right, fill every field Google gives you, and keep the profile active.
Reviews, count and velocity
Not a one-time push. A simple, repeatable ask built into your job flow, so fresh reviews keep arriving month after month.
NAP citations
Your name, address, and phone, consistent across the directories that matter. Quality submissions through a real provider, never $5 bulk gigs.
On-site local relevance
Service pages and city pages that actually describe what you do and where, written for a customer, not stuffed for a crawler.
Local links
Mentions from suppliers, associations, sponsorships, and local press. A handful of real ones beat a hundred junk ones.
Spam removal
Competitors with keyword-stuffed names and fake listings crowd the pack. We report what violates the guidelines and often free up a spot.
How it works
You see the same map we do, before and after.
A real geo-grid scan
We check your ranking for your money keyword at dozens of points across your actual service area, not just from one spot. The result is a heatmap like the one here: green where you win, red where you vanish.
An honest one-page report
What the grid shows, which of the six levers are underworked, what is fixable and what is just distance. One page, plain language, real numbers from your market. No 40-page PDF padding.
Monthly re-scans
If you hire us, we re-run the same grid every month. You watch the colors change on the same map we started with. If they don't move, you see that too, and we talk about why.
The offer
A two-stage engine. The audit finds it, the retainer fixes it.
Stage one
The audit
From $500. The free grid scan is the preview, this is the full picture.
- Full geo-grid scan of your service area
- GBP teardown against the six levers
- Citation and review-profile check
- Spam scan of the listings crowding your pack
- A one-page plan, priced and prioritized
Yours to keep either way. Hand it to another agency if you want, the findings don’t change.
Stage two
The retainer
From $750/mo. Month to month, no long contract.
- The six levers worked every month, in priority order
- Review-ask system installed in your job flow
- Citation cleanup through a quality provider
- Spam reporting on guideline violators
- Monthly re-scan and a plain-language progress note
This work compounds over 60 to 120 days. If you want overnight, we are the wrong hire.
Realistic horizons, stated before you pay
- 2 to 6 weeks
- GBP category and completeness fixes usually show visible movement first.
- 60 to 120 days
- Review velocity and citation cleanup compound. This is where the grid colors shift.
- 90 to 180 days
- Competitive metros and crowded categories take the full runway. We say so up front.
Start with the free scan
No pitch on the scan. You get the map either way.
Read this before you hire anyone
What we will not promise
If a local SEO pitch skips this section, that tells you something.
Guarantee you a specific pin position. Rank at any point on the map is dominated by how close you are to the searcher, and nobody can move your building.
Promise you will “show up everywhere.” If a neighborhood is twenty minutes past your competitors, the honest play is winning the areas your distance already qualifies you for.
Sell landmark-stuffed filler pages, bulk citation gigs, or anything else that reads like a shortcut and works like a liability.
Show you a competitor's numbers we didn't actually pull, or invent proof we don't have. Every figure in your report comes from your market, this week.
What we promise instead
Work the controllable signals, all six levers, in priority order.
Tie every task to a stated horizon: GBP fixes in 2 to 6 weeks, reviews and citations compounding over 60 to 120 days.
Re-scan your grid monthly so progress, or the lack of it, is visible on the same map we started with.
Get your free audit
Find out where the map drops you.
Send the four fields below, or book a call. Either way you get a real grid scan of your service area and a straight answer about what is fixable. No charge, no obligation.
Request the free grid scan
Four fields, thirty seconds. We reply within two business days.
Prefer to talk it through?
Twenty minutes with Charles Ashe. We look at your market live and you keep whatever we find.