Local SEO
You do better work than the outfit sitting at the top of Google Maps. You know it, your customers know it, and it doesn't matter, because nobody scrolls past the top 3. I get you into that top 3, or the meter stops and I keep working until I do.
Here's why those three spots are the whole game.
Because almost every click on Google Maps goes to the first three listings.
Because almost every click on Google Maps goes to the first three listings. Position four is the second page as far as customers are concerned. Getting from twelfth to fourth changes nothing. Getting into the top 3 changes your phone.
"I've taken a local business from buried in the listings up to the top 3 with this exact process, a jewelry store that now sits at number 3 in her area. I'd rather show you the listing than talk about it, so ask me and I'll walk you through what I did."
You can also go click on sites I've built and ranked for on the web design page. Real businesses, live right now, no mockups.
So here's what it costs to get you there, itemized.
Two options — Rank & Release at $2,750 one time, or Rank & Maintain at $500 to start plus $1,500/mo.
Two options. Rank & Release is $2,750, one time, a 90-day push to Top 3 and then it's yours to hold. Rank & Maintain is $500 to start plus $1,500/mo, and it drops to $1,250/mo permanently the day you hit Top 3.
| How it works | Rank & Release $2,750 flat Rank it, then it's yours Start here | Most chosen Rank & Maintain $1,500/mo $500 onboarding · month to month Choose Maintain |
|---|---|---|
| The goal | Get to Top 3, then hand it back to you | Get to Top 3, then keep you there |
| The guarantee | Top 3 in 90 days, or I keep working at no additional cost | Top 3 in 90 days, or your monthly charge pauses until you rank |
| Onboarding fee | None | $500 (waived if you switch from Release) |
| Maintenance Playbook at handoff | Not needed, I'm still holding it for you | |
| Ongoing weekly GBP posts | – | |
| AI answer optimization (AEO / GEO) | – | |
| Loyalty drop | – | Rate drops to $1,250/mo once you're ranked, permanently |
| Commitment | One-time engagement, then done | Month to month, cancel anytime |
| Best for | Businesses confident they can hold a ranking once it's won | Businesses that want it handled for good |
Scroll the table sideways on mobile to compare both options.
Now let me show you line by line what $2,750 actually buys.
Everything below, done by me, inside 90 days, with no mystery line items.
Everything below, done by me, inside 90 days. No mystery line items and no "strategy" you never see. If you want to check my work at any point, you can, because you keep access to all of it the whole time.
The guarantee, word for word
This offer is for 90 days to Top 3. If you are not ranking Top 3 within the 90 days, I keep working at no additional cost to you until I get you there.
One honest note that I'd rather say now than later: in highly competitive markets, Top 3 can take up to 4 months instead of 90 days. If yours is one of those, I'll tell you before you pay a dollar. The guarantee still stands either way. I just won't promise you a date I can't keep to close a sale.
And when the 90 days are up, here's exactly what I hand you.
It's the handoff document that comes with Rank & Release — everything I did, the system for holding it, and every login, in one file.
It's the handoff document that comes with Rank & Release. Everything I did, the system for holding it, and every login, in one branded file. Twenty minutes a month is all it takes to keep the spot I won you.
Clean access handoff. Ownership of every account is transferred to you and my access is removed. Your Google Business Profile, your citations, your logins, your rankings. When we are done, you own everything and I keep nothing. No hostage accounts, no "let me just keep admin," no reason you ever have to come back except that you want to.
If you'd rather not hold it yourself, that's what Rank & Maintain is for.
Everything in Rank & Release, then it keeps going — $500 to start, $1,500 a month, month to month.
Everything in Rank & Release, then it keeps going. $500 to start, $1,500 a month, and $1,250 a month permanently once you hit Top 3. Month to month, so I have to earn it again every thirty days.
In a standard market you should be Top 3 by day 90. If your market is highly competitive, I'll tell you up front that it may take up to 4 months, before you pay anything.
Miss the line and your monthly charge pauses automatically. I keep working, you keep your money, until you're in the Top 3.
The day you hit Top 3, your monthly permanently drops to $1,250/mo as a loyalty thank-you. It never goes back up.
You move to Rank & Maintain and I waive the $500 onboarding fee.
Easy. You move to Rank & Maintain and I waive the $500 onboarding fee. You already paid for the setup once, so there's no reason to pay for it twice.
It happens a lot. People see the rankings land, watch the calls start coming in, and decide they'd rather I just keep it locked down than do the checklist themselves. You slide into the monthly with no restart cost, and once you're holding Top 3 you're on the $1,250/mo rate for good.
Whichever one you pick, the first 90 days look like this.
Three phases — foundation in days 1 to 30, authority in days 31 to 60, and the push into the top 3 in days 61 to 90.
Three phases, and you always know which one you're in. Days 1 to 30 are foundation, days 31 to 60 are authority, days 61 to 90 are the push into the top 3. Weekly posts and weekly progress run the whole time.
Full GBP overhaul, keyword and heading fixes on your site, image compression, schema, and a Google Maps embed. Then I let Google index it all and watch for the first movement. The quiet stretch in here is on purpose, not me sitting on my hands.
Citations built and cleaned across the directories Google checks, backlink outreach to real sites, your review count climbing, and competitors watched. This is usually the month you stop asking me if it's working, because the phone tells you.
I close the gap on whoever is still sitting above you, expand your schema, and set you up to get named in AI answers. By day 90 you're in the top 3. If you're not, the meter stops and I keep working until you are.
That's the work. Here's who's doing it.
Me — not a team and not a subcontractor in another time zone.
Me. Not a team, not a subcontractor in another time zone. I take a small number of clients on purpose so I can put my name on a guarantee and actually keep it.
Ian Mendoza · Founder
Most SEO guys send a confusing report every month and hope you don't ask questions. I sold cars and jewelry before this, so I know what it feels like to be on the other side of a pitch you can't verify. I hated it then and I won't do it to you.
So you get the receipts every week, you keep access to everything the whole time, and if I don't get you into the top 3, I don't get to stop. That's the deal, and I put it in writing because my name is the only thing I've got.
Ian
A few things people add on once the rankings start moving.
Three things come up most, all flat-priced: Local Services Ads setup, a Tune-Up, and one-off fixes.
Three things come up most, all flat-priced. Local Services Ads setup, a Tune-Up on the site you already have, and one-off fixes. None of them are required and none of them change your SEO price.
Not included: your ad budget, ongoing management, or the background check fees Google charges directly. This is setup, done once, so you can run it.
Not included: new pages, a redesign, or new photography. You do not need to rebuild your site to rank with me.
Straight talk: if you keep needing fixes, the $125/mo Care Plan is the better deal.
Integrations, a logo and brand kit, e-commerce, and a Spanish version of your site are all on the full add-ons menu. If your site needs more than a tune-up, the web design page has the three build tiers, and the packages page shows what a build plus this SEO costs together, which is less than buying them apart.
Here are the questions I get before people sign.
Straight answers
Rank & Release is $2,750 one time. I get you to Top 3, hand you the Maintenance Playbook, and you hold it yourself. Rank & Maintain is $500 to start plus $1,500 a month. I get you to Top 3 and then keep you there, and your rate drops to $1,250 a month for good once you rank.
On Rank & Release I keep working at no additional cost to you until you get there. On Rank & Maintain your monthly charge pauses on day 91 and I keep working for free until you rank. Either way the bill stops moving and the work does not.
It's the branded handoff document you get at the end of Rank & Release. Final ranking report, a posting cadence with 5 fill-in templates, a review request script, your full citation list with logins, a 20-minute monthly checklist, and a do-not-touch list so you don't undo the work.
Because holding a ranking is less work than winning one. The heavy lifting is the first 90 days. Once you're there, I'm maintaining instead of climbing, so your rate drops to $1,250 a month permanently. It never goes back up as long as we're working together.
Yes, all of it. Every account I touch or create is transferred to you and my access is removed at handoff. Your Google Business Profile, your citations, your logins. When we are done, you own everything and I keep nothing.
No. While I'm actively working to rank your business in the Top 3, I will not take on a direct competitor in your service area. That lane stays yours for as long as we work together, and I'll tell you straight if someone near you got there first.
That's a separate piece of work and it's built into Rank & Maintain. I structure your pages and data so answer engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews can pull and cite you when somebody asks for a business like yours. More people search that way every month.
I do all the work. Your job is to approve changes and read one report, which takes about 10 minutes a month. I'll need photos and access to your Google Business Profile at the start, and after that you mostly answer the phone.
Totally fine. I build custom sites starting at $750, flat priced, and nothing about the build requires you to buy SEO. Whenever you're ready to get found on Google, this page will still be here.
If your question isn't here, ask me. The form is right below.
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No pitch. No pressure.
I'll record a free video audit of your Google listing showing exactly what's missing and what I'd fix first. No cost, no obligation. I just want you to see what's possible, and if your market is a tough one, I'll tell you that on the video.
founder@stoughtonmedia.com