What Local SEO Costs
Local SEO at Upward Bound Media costs $297 to $3,497 a month across three packages. Website Only costs $297 a month. Performance Maintenance costs $697 a month. High-Performance Local SEO costs $1,497 to $3,497 a month. Market size, competition, and current website condition decide which package a business needs.
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Website Only
A business that needs a search ready website before anything else.
Website Only covers the build and the ongoing management of a Mirror Strategy website. Lease-to-own runs $297 a month. Management drops to $97 a month once the build is paid off. An outright build costs $500 for the homepage and $200 for each additional page. Most sites land between 20 and 40 pages. The business owns the site under either arrangement.
- Mirror Strategy website built from your verified Google Business Profile
- On-page SEO, schema, and business information matched to the profile
- Service pages built around the searches customers actually run
- $297 a month lease-to-own, dropping to $97 a month once the build is paid off
Performance Maintenance
A business whose profile and website already exist and need holding.
Performance Maintenance is the baseline package. Upward Bound Media maintains the Google Business Profile, the citations, the review process, indexing, and the monthly readings. The annual plan runs $6,970 and includes the base Mirror Strategy website build. Month to month billing is available with a paid or leased build added.
- Google Business Profile optimization
- Review and reputation management
- Citation and NAP consistency
- Site indexing and technical monitoring
- AI search visibility checks
- Monthly readings against the baseline
- Base 20 to 40 page Mirror Strategy website on the annual plan
High-Performance Local SEO
A business competing in a larger or more crowded market.
High-Performance Local SEO adds market research, continuing page and structure work, and monthly grid readings to the baseline package. Pricing runs $1,497 to $3,497 a month, set by market size and competition. A qualifying 6 or 12 month plan includes the base Mirror Strategy website build.
- Everything in Performance Maintenance
- Market strategy and site expansion
- Review process setup and monitoring
- Monthly grid readings against the baseline, reviewed together
Which package does my business need?
Package selection follows observable conditions, not a sales conversation. A business owner can check each condition below against the business today and land on the right starting point before any call happens.
No website, or a website that does not match the Google Business Profile
Website Only
A business with no indexed service pages has nothing for Google to rank. Website Only fixes the foundation before any monthly work is worth buying.
Already visible in the map results, holding steady, few direct competitors
Performance Maintenance
A business that already appears for its main searches usually needs the readings watched, the profile maintained, and the citations kept aligned. Performance Maintenance does that work.
Market population above 100,000, or five or more active competitors in the map results
High-Performance Local SEO
A crowded market rewards continuous page building and repeated measurement. High-Performance Local SEO covers that ongoing expansion.
Rankings slipped after a Google Business Profile edit, a move, or a name change
Performance Maintenance
A sudden drop usually traces to inconsistent business information across directories. Citation and NAP work is inside Performance Maintenance.
What does each package actually deliver?
Website Only delivers a Mirror Strategy website. The Mirror Strategy builds site structure from verified Google Business Profile data, so the pages, the categories, and the business information on the site match the profile Google already trusts.
Performance Maintenance delivers ongoing upkeep of the things that decide local ranking. Upward Bound Media keeps the Google Business Profile accurate, keeps the business information identical across directories, watches indexing and technical errors, checks visibility inside AI search answers, and records a reading every month against the starting baseline.
High-Performance Local SEO delivers everything above plus continuing expansion. Upward Bound Media researches the market, builds additional pages against real searches, and runs a grid reading each month that is reviewed together with the owner.
Review generation is not a done-for-you service in any package. Most customer management software already sends review requests. Upward Bound Media configures that flow, supplies an NFC review card for the in-person ask, and monitors the result. The business and its staff run the ask.
How do billing and terms work?
Upward Bound Media bills monthly in advance. Month to month plans carry no long term contract and can be cancelled at any time. Annual plans are paid yearly and include the base Mirror Strategy website build. A leased website transfers to the business either way, because the business owns the site.
Month six is the first honest review point. Local SEO usually produces measurable map movement in four to six months, so the six month reading is where the baseline comparison becomes meaningful. Upward Bound Media reviews the readings with the owner at month six and recommends staying, stepping down, or stopping.
Month twelve is the plan decision point. A business holding its positions at month twelve usually steps down from High-Performance Local SEO to Performance Maintenance, because holding earned ground costs less than winning it. A business still climbing usually keeps the larger plan for another cycle.
Can two competing businesses in one market both hire Upward Bound Media?
No. Upward Bound Media works with one business per service category per market. A dentist and a roofer in the same town can both be clients, because the two businesses never compete for the same search. Two roofers in the same town cannot, because ranking one directly costs the other.
The rule applies to the monthly plans, not to Website Only. A market seat is claimed first come, first served, and the boundary is confirmed on the strategy session before any agreement is signed.
What should I expect in the first ninety days?
Local SEO pays off slowly and then steadily. The first ninety days build the foundation and produce early readings. The honest version includes what will not have happened yet.
Days 1 to 30
Upward Bound Media records the starting baseline, audits the Google Business Profile, and begins the website or the citation cleanup.
Ranking positions will not have moved yet.
Days 31 to 60
New pages get indexed, duplicate and wrong listings get corrected, and the review process gets configured inside the existing customer software.
Call volume will not have changed in a measurable way yet.
Days 61 to 90
The second grid reading is compared against the baseline, and early movement usually shows on lower competition searches first.
Top three map placement on the most competitive search is unlikely this early.
What this means for you
- Budget between $297 and $3,497 a month, and expect the readings to decide the number rather than a quote given over the phone.
- Fix the website first if your site does not match your Google Business Profile, because monthly work on a broken foundation wastes money.
- Plan on four to six months before the readings move, and judge the work at month six against your recorded baseline.
- Check the seat for your service category early, because Upward Bound Media takes one business per category per market.
- Keep running the review ask yourself, because your own software and your own staff produce the reviews that count.