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How much does SEO cost in Boston?
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Our plans for Google Maps and the main Google results (local and organic SEO) run $1,497 to $5,000 a month, and $5,000+ a month when you have several websites. Every plan is month to month and includes AI SEO. Where you land depends on your service, how many neighborhoods and Greater Boston towns you want to win and how strong the businesses above you are. You get your exact number on the free strategy call, and the prices are published on our website before you ever talk to us.
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How long does SEO take in Boston?
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You should see the first improvements within 20 days. If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
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Is Boston too competitive for SEO?
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Some searches are crowded and others are wide open, and the only way to know is to look. Competition is set search by search and neighborhood by neighborhood, not for the whole city. “Plumber boston” and “plumber south boston” are different fights with different winners. On the call we search yours live, show you who holds each spot and agree the qualifying keywords our 60-day guarantee covers, in writing.
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Is SEO worth it for a small business in Boston?
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Yes, if you’re already doing $20,000 a month or more and want more of the same work. Ads charge you for every click, and in Boston a car accident lawyer click costs around $168, an emergency plumber click around $77 and a roofer click around $59. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click, and our guarantees put dates on it: visible improvement in 20 days, qualifying keywords on page one in 60.
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What does a Boston SEO company actually do?
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Eight jobs, all done for you: we set up and run your Google Business Profile, grow your Google reviews, fix your local listings, fix your website so Google can read it, build a page for each service, neighborhood and town you serve, earn mentions on trusted websites, get you into AI answers, and show you every ranking each month so you can check it on Google yourself.
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Why hire an SEO company that guarantees results in Boston?
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Because most don’t put a date on anything, and some say no honest agency can. We do it in writing: if you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics in the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period, and if your qualifying keywords aren’t on page one of Google in 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Our prices are published, every plan is month to month, and every ranking we report is one you can search yourself.
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Do you need an office in Boston to rank my business here?
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No. Google ranks your business, its listing, its reviews and its website, not your agency’s address. We check your rankings from Boston itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see. Our clients rank #1 in cities we have never had an office in: Ranallo on Google Maps in Canton, Massachusetts, Angkorscape for “luxury landscape design” in Seattle, and Sanjay Grover MD on Google Maps in Newport Beach. What matters is results you can search yourself, with dates in writing.
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Have you ranked businesses in Massachusetts?
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Yes. The Law Offices of Jason M. Ranallo in Canton, Massachusetts went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps for “car accident attorneys near me” in 20 days, and all eight of the firm’s tracked searches finished in the top three. Canton is in Norfolk County, south of Boston. On the call, we show you results in your own industry.
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Can you rank my business across all of Boston?
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Yes, one step at a time. Google Maps favors businesses close to the person searching, so you win the neighborhoods around your address first. Then we build a page for each neighborhood you serve, check your ranking from a grid of points across them, and point your listings and mentions at the areas where you aren’t in the top three yet. A second location gets its own Google Business Profile, which is how Candace and Basil won two cities at once: their Mississauga store went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps while their Toronto store went from #18 to #2.
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My business is in the South End. Can I rank in Dorchester or Jamaica Plain too?
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Yes, for the searches where Google looks past distance. On the map, people searching in Dorchester mostly see businesses near Dorchester, so we win your own area first and then build pages, links and mentions aimed at the areas you want next. In the main Google results below the map, where location counts for less, a strong page can rank across the whole city.
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Can you rank me in Cambridge, Somerville and the rest of Greater Boston?
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Yes. Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, Quincy, Waltham, Medford, Chelsea and Revere are their own markets to Google, even though most of them are a short ride from downtown. Each one you serve gets its own page and search targets, your listings carry every town you cover, and we track your ranking in every one of them each month.
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When should movers and storage companies start SEO in Boston?
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By the spring. Most Boston leases turn over at the beginning of September, the city issued more than 3,000 moving truck permits in August 2026, and moving company boston peaks at 4,400 searches a month in August. Rankings take weeks to build, so the companies that start early are the ones in the Google Maps top three when the calls come. A moving company click costs around $27 on Google Ads in Boston, and a storage units click around $22.
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Do you work with roofers, snow removal and heating companies?
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Yes. Boston’s winters bring the work: in the winter of 2015, 94.4 inches of snow fell in 30 days and Massachusetts counted 128 roof failures in two weeks. Ice dam climbs to 3,600 searches a month in February, snow removal boston to 1,600 in January and furnace repair to 1,000. A roofer boston click costs around $59. We build a page for each service and each neighborhood you cover, and get you into the Google Maps top three before the first storm.
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Do you work with law firms in Boston?
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Yes. Law has some of the most expensive clicks we measured here: around $168 for car accident lawyer, $75 for personal injury lawyer, $60 for criminal defense attorney and $43 for employment lawyer on Google Ads in Boston. Personal injury lawyer boston averages 880 searches a month and immigration lawyer boston 480. Ranallo in Canton went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps for “car accident attorneys near me” in 20 days, and Florida Probate Law Group is #1 for “Florida probate lawyer” statewide.
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Do you work with plumbers, electricians and HVAC companies in Boston?
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Yes. Plumber near me averages 1,000 searches a month in Boston at around $32 a click, plumber boston costs around $36, and an emergency plumber click costs around $77 on Google Ads. AC repair climbs to 1,600 searches in July and furnace repair to 1,000 in January, so heating and cooling companies get two busy seasons. Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating in Cape Coral has all 8 of its tracked searches in the Google Maps top three, and we’d run the same plan for a Boston trade.
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Do you work with dentists, clinics and therapists?
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Yes. Dentist near me averages 5,400 searches a month in Boston and dentist boston 3,600, dermatologist boston averages 1,600, and a therapist boston click costs around $42. Clinics fight over the same few spots on the map in every neighborhood. Sanjay Grover MD went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days, and Burloak Centre Dentistry is #1 for both emergency and cosmetic dental searches in Oakville.
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Do you work with restaurants and food businesses in Boston?
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Yes, when they’re doing $20,000 a month or more. Food is some of the busiest searching in Boston: north end restaurants averages 8,100 searches a month, italian restaurant boston peaks at 12,100, brunch boston averages 5,400 and lobster roll reaches 8,100 every summer month. The restaurants in the Google Maps top three, with recent photos and a steady flow of reviews, take most of the walk-ins.
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Do you work with salons, gyms and personal services?
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Yes. Hair salon boston and nail salon boston each average 1,900 searches a month, pilates boston 1,300, tailor boston 880 and barber boston 590. Every September brings thousands of new residents looking for all of them, and the businesses with the most recent reviews in the Google Maps top three get the first call.
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Do you work with biotech, tech and B2B companies in Boston?
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Our guarantees and plans are built for businesses that serve customers in a place: the searches people make when they need a service near them, on Google Maps and in the main results. If your customers find you by searching for a local service, we’re a fit. If you sell nationally or to other businesses, our B2B SEO work may be the better match. Ask us on the call and we’ll tell you honestly whether our plans fit.
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Do you work with real estate agents and property managers in Boston?
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Yes. In a city where 64% of households rent, property search never stops: apartments for rent boston averages 3,600 searches a month and peaks at 5,400 in March, condo for sale boston averages 720 and property management boston 320. Real estate agents, property managers and landlords compete with the big listing sites on Google, so we win the neighborhood searches those sites can’t own and put your Google Business Profile in the map results.
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Do you work with auto repair, towing and car detailing?
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Yes. Auto repair averages 480 searches a month in Boston, auto body shop 390 at around $9 a click, tow truck 390 and car detailing up to 1,000. A breakdown or a fender bender sends people straight to Google Maps, and the shops in the top three with the most recent reviews take the call.
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How do I choose an SEO company in Boston?
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Ask every agency four things: what will move in 20 days, what will be on page one in 60, what happens if it isn’t, and which named clients you can search for yourself. Then ask for the price and how long the contract runs. We answer all of it in writing, with published prices, month-to-month plans and a 4.8 rating on Google from 197 reviews.
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How do you optimize a Google Business Profile in Boston?
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We choose the categories that match what your customers search, list every service, add real photos and post regular updates, and keep new reviews coming in with a reply to each one. Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs. Then we make sure your name, address and phone number match on every directory Google checks, so it trusts your Boston location.
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I don’t have a storefront. Can I still show up on Google Maps in Boston?
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Yes. Plumbers, movers, cleaners, roofers, snow crews and mobile services can run their Google Business Profile as a service-area business, with the address hidden and the areas they cover listed. Google still uses your business location when it decides who to show, so we build pages and mentions for every area you serve to carry you further.
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Do you build backlinks for Boston businesses?
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Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from Boston news, neighborhood and community sites, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.
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Should I use SEO or Google Ads in Boston?
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Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying, and some Boston clicks are very expensive: around $168 for a car accident lawyer, $115 for an insurance agent and $77 for an emergency plumber. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many Boston businesses run ads while SEO builds. Local SEO gets you onto the map, regular SEO gets your website into the results below it, and every plan covers both.
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Can you get my business into Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT?
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AI SEO is included in every plan, and it works to get your business named when people ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire in Boston. EquityRich is cited in Google’s AI answers for “commercial mortgage Toronto”, and Angkorscape is named in Google’s AI answers for Seattle.
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What will I see from you each month?
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Every keyword we work on, where it stood the day we started and where it stands now, a ranking grid across the parts of Boston you serve, and what we did that month and what comes next. Every ranking is one you can search on Google yourself, measured against our 20-day and 60-day guarantees.
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How do I reach you from Boston?
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Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is Boston time, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from Boston itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see.
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What happens on the free strategy call?
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Thirty minutes on Google Meet. We search your service in Boston live, in the neighborhoods you serve, and show you who holds page one and the top three spots on Google Maps, why they’re there and what it would take to pass them. You keep the plan either way. The call is for businesses doing $20,000 a month or more.
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Am I locked into a long contract?
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No. Every plan is month to month, and results keep you here, not paperwork. We work with established businesses already doing $20,000 a month or more, and we take on 15 new clients a month so we can keep the ranking promises we make to the clients we already have.