--- title: "SEO Services for Small Business | MPower Global" canonical: "https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/" source: "/seo/" generated: "2026-11-12T01:14:15.868Z" fingerprint: 49028a1f556d454e09719d86db271d5801afcdf688caec4f40b97fcd43b9ca9c fingerprint_algo: mpg-main-text-v1 --- # SEO services for small business that end with your phone ringing. Not a PDF. Getting found on Google isn't magic and it isn't instant. It's a sequence, done in the right order, measured out loud. Our prices are public, our timelines are honest, and the climb you're watching is the honest speed. [See Plans & Prices](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/#pricing) [Read the Straight Answers](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/#straight) Demo, a model search for "plumber near me" over six months, compressed: a model business starts buried at #9, then its profile is rebuilt, posts are published, citations are fixed and links are earned as it climbs to #6, #3, #1 and into the map pack. Every market sets its own pace; this is the shape, not a promise. ## What small business SEO actually is. Small business SEO is the work of making your business show up when local customers search for what you do: in Google's map pack, the organic results, and now AI answers. It covers your website's technical health, your Google Business Profile, the content you publish, and the citations and links that prove you're the real thing. Done right, it turns searches into phone calls, with measurable movement typically starting in 60 to 90 days. ## The last guy promised page one. You got a PDF. > Guys with worse work keep showing up above me. > I paid a marketing guy once. I got a PDF and an invoice. > I don't care about rankings. I just want my phone to ring with real jobs. SEO has a snake-oil problem. You know it, and so do we. Every shop says they're different, which is exactly what the last shop said. So we're not going to ask you to trust us yet. What's next are the terms no snake-oil shop will put in writing. ## The straight answers. 1. ### The honest timeline. Measurable movement in 60 to 90 days. Real, compounding lead flow builds over 6 to 12 months, sometimes sooner. Anyone promising page one in 30 days is lying to you. 2. ### What we won't promise. No number-one guarantees. No vanity numbers dressed up as results. Month one maps every search worth winning in your market, ranked by what it pays and how hard it is, and we go after the hard ones too, in the order that pays you back fastest. 3. ### The prices are public. They're on this page, one scroll down: $497, $997, or $1,397 a month, and no setup fee. Nobody sizes you up on a call first. 4. ### The terms, out loud. SEO starts with a 3-month foundation term, then month to month, cancel with 30 days' written notice. We say it here instead of in the fine print, because month one is real foundation work, and because judging SEO at day 30 burns everyone. 5. ### You see the work. A report lands every month in plain English: what we did, what moved. A strategy call every quarter walks you through it. Not sure SEO is even your biggest problem? The $97 Growth Audit reads your whole business, grades where you stand, and tells you which rung to climb first. It's a report, not a pitch. [Get the $97 Growth Audit](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/marketing-audit/) ## The map pack is where local customers actually call from. Search "plumber near me" and look at the page: a couple of ads, then a map with three businesses under it. That box is the map pack, and for a local business it's the whole game. Most local calls come from those three listings, not from page two, not even from most of page one. Getting in the pack isn't luck. It's a Google Business Profile that's complete, active, and consistent everywhere your business is named on the internet. Google watches whether your profile is alive: new posts, fresh photos, answered questions, matching details across the web. Dead profiles sink. Managed ones climb. ### What we do, every month - Profile optimization - GBP posts on the same clock as your blog - Photo updates - Questions asked and answered - Citations: your name, address, and phone matching everywhere If we built your website, your profile was set up right at launch. The plans below are the monthly work that wins the pack and keeps you in it. Example, a model business: a managed profile (4.9 stars from 87 reviews, updated this week, in the map pack) with a post published, 12 new job photos this month and a customer question answered in 2 hours, next to an unmanaged competitor (4.1 stars from 23 reviews, last post 14 months ago, on page 2). ## SEO isn't a checklist. It's a sequence. Do these out of order and you're paying for work that can't stick. This is the order, and it's the same order we'll run for you. 1. ### Fix the ground first. Slow sites don't rank. Broken sites don't rank. Before anything else, your site has to load fast, read clean to Google, and work on the phone your customer is holding. Covers: Speed, Structure, Mobile. Site beyond saving? That's a rebuild, not an SEO plan. [See Website Design](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/website-design/) 2. ### Win the map. The Google Business Profile overhaul, then the monthly work that keeps it alive: posts, photos, questions answered, and citations that match everywhere your business is named. Covers: GBP, Citations, Local pages. 3. ### Publish like you mean it. Blog posts and GBP posts on the same clock, answering the questions your customers actually type. Plus a new SEO page every month, straight off your keyword roadmap. Covers: Blog posts, GBP posts, Roadmap pages. 4. ### Earn the trust signals. Backlinks from real sites, earned through outreach and digital PR. Never bought. Bought links are how businesses get penalized. Covers: Earned backlinks, Never bought. 5. ### Measure, then adjust. A plain-English report every month, a strategy call every quarter, and a roadmap that updates as your market moves. When the roadmap's pages are all built, the slot flips to refreshing what's already winning. Covers: Monthly report, Quarterly call, Refresh cycle. ## The words SEO guys throw around, translated. You shouldn't need a glossary to buy a service. Every term on the plans below is here, in plain words. If a shop can't explain a deliverable this simply, make them. **Keyword** The exact words someone types into a search: "water heater repair las vegas." Every page on your site should be built to win one. **SERP** Search Engine Results Page: the page you see after you search. Ads up top, then the map pack, then the organic results. Where you sit on it is your ranking. **The map pack** The three businesses under the map on a local search. Where most local customers call from. The first thing we go win. **Organic results** The unpaid listings under the map pack. Clicks there are free, and unlike ads they don't stop the day you stop paying. **Google Business Profile** Your business's listing on Google: the panel with the map pin, reviews, photos, and hours. It's free, it's what the map pack is built from, and most businesses leave it half-finished. **GBP post** A short update on your Google Business Profile. An active profile tells Google you're open, busy, and real. Dead profiles sink. **Citation** Your business name, address, and phone number listed on directories around the web. When they all match, Google trusts you're real. When they don't, it hedges its bets on you. **Backlink** Another website linking to yours. Google counts it like a vote of confidence: businesses real sites vouch for outrank businesses nobody vouches for. Ours are earned through real outreach, never bought. Bought links are how businesses get penalized. **Domain authority** A third-party score guessing how much search engines trust your site. Useful as a direction, not gospel: Google doesn't use the number, and anyone selling you a guaranteed score is selling smoke. **Technical SEO** The plumbing behind your website: speed, structure, and the code that tells Google what each page is. Invisible when it works. Fatal when it doesn't. **Crawling and indexing** Crawling is Google's software visiting your pages. Indexing is Google filing them so they can appear in results. A page that isn't indexed can't rank, no matter how good it is. It's the first thing we check. **Schema** Labels in your site's code that tell search engines exactly what's on the page: your services, prices, reviews, hours. Machines don't guess well. Schema means they don't have to. **Blog post** A page on your site answering a question your customers actually type, like "why is my water heater leaking?" Every post is one more way to get found, and one more thing AI tools can quote you on. It's not a diary. It's how they find you. **Keyword roadmap** The researched list of exact searches worth winning in your market, ranked by what each is worth and how hard it is. Every new page we build targets one. No guessing. **Impressions and clicks** The two numbers in every report. An impression is your business appearing in front of a searcher. A click is them choosing you. Watching both tells you what's working and what to fix next. **AI visibility** Whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and Google's AI answers name your business when someone asks for what you do. Your customers are already asking, on all of them. We track who gets named, and we work to make it you. **AI Overview** The AI-written answer Google shows above the regular results, with sources cited. Being one of those sources is the new top of the page. It's a big part of what we build content for. **AEO** Answer Engine Optimization: building your site and content so AI tools can read it, quote it, and cite it. Every site we build ships this way. Baked in, not bolted on. That's the whole vocabulary. The prices below will read like English. ## Pick the plan your business is ready for. Two answers set your exact price SEO only works when we can change your site the day it needs changing, so every plan runs on our stack. Tell us where your site lives now and the cards below show your real total, migration included if you need one. **What is your website built on?** - MPower Global built it, or already hosts it - WordPress or Webflow - Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, or GoHighLevel - I don't have a site yet, or I want a new one **Roughly how many pages does it have?** - Under 10 - 10 to 15 - 16 to 50 - More than 50 A rough count is fine. We only need it to work out your hosting and whether the move is a straight convert. Answer both and every card below unlocks with your exact line items and total. Getting on the map? ### SEO: Starter $497 /month Covers one metro area The foundation plan: get found locally and let the work start compounding. - Technical SEO, monitored and fixed: your site stays fast and rankable - Google Business Profile managed: optimization, photos, Q&A, citations - 2 blog posts a month, one every 2 weeks - 2 Google Business Profile posts a month, on the same clock - 1 new SEO page a month, straight off your keyword roadmap - Local SEO + citation building: your name matching everywhere - AI-ready site and content, baked in (that's the AEO) - AI visibility spot check every quarter: who AI names, in your report - Automated monthly report + a quarterly strategy call [Start SEO: Starter](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/#site-check) Ready to grow? ### SEO: Business $997 /month Covers one metro area Everything in Starter at growth speed, plus the trust signals and the AI program. - Everything in Starter - 6 blog posts a month, one every 5 days - 6 Google Business Profile posts a month, on the same clock - 2 new SEO pages a month from the roadmap - Backlink earning (outreach + digital PR): every link earned, never bought - Full AI visibility tracking, monthly, and we act on it: content aimed at the answers AI already trusts - Competitor tracking: what they rank for and where they're beatable - Schedule a call anytime, on top of the quarterly [Start SEO: Business](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/#site-check) Want your reputation handled too? ### SEO: Complete $1,397 /month Covers one metro area Everything in Business, plus the full Reviews & Reputation service. - Everything in Business - Review requests after a job, automatically - Professional follow-ups until the review lands: never nagging, never a bother - After the Google review, links to the other sites your customers check - Every Google review answered fast, in your voice. Anything negative waits for your OK. - Google review alerts and monthly reporting: volume, pace, and what customers keep saying [Start SEO: Complete](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/#site-check) No contracts, cancel anytime with 30 days' written notice. Two exceptions, stated plainly: hosted websites, funnels, and landing pages carry a 12-month hosting term, and SEO starts with a 3-month foundation term. No setup fee on any plan. Month one is the foundation work: your keyword research, your roadmap, the competitor baseline, the profile overhaul. The 3-month term exists so that work never gets orphaned, and so you never judge SEO by day 30. If we built your website, your foundation's already done. Your first month starts producing instead of studying. Need pages faster? Extra SEO pages are $250 each, the same published price as the website add-on. Agencies charge **$6,400 to $15,600 a month** for the Business plan's scope. We charge $997. We're not cutting corners; we run this work on AI and automation we built ourselves, and the savings are the point. ### Just want the study? The Site Evaluation & Strategy is the full SEO deep-dive: technical audit, competitor analysis, content gaps, keyword assessment, Google Business Profile audit, backlink profile, and a custom strategy roadmap. $197, one-time, yours to keep even if you never hire us. A study like this runs four figures at a manual shop; ours is $197 because the machines we built do the heavy lifting. Not sure you need the deep-dive? The $97 Growth Audit is the whole-business checkup. This is the SEO specialist. And if you start a plan later, month one starts producing instead of studying, because your study's already done. $197 one-time [Get the Evaluation](https://buy.stripe.com/dRmbJ30L2889ggxfpo3ZK0j) ## Every deliverable, every plan, one look. | Deliverable | Starter $497/mo | Business $997/mo | Complete $1,397/mo | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Technical SEO monitoring + fixes | Included | Included | Included | | Google Business Profile: optimization, photos, Q&A | Included | Included | Included | | Citation building + monitoring | Included | Included | Included | | Blog posts | 2 /mo | 6 /mo | 6 /mo | | Google Business Profile posts | 2 /mo | 6 /mo | 6 /mo | | New SEO pages from your roadmap | 1 /mo | 2 /mo | 2 /mo | | Backlink earning (outreach + digital PR): every link earned, never bought | Not included | Included | Included | | AI-ready site + content (AEO) | Included | Included | Included | | AI visibility check | Quarterly | Monthly | Monthly | | We act on the AI data (the targeting loop) | Not included | Included | Included | | Competitor tracking | Not included | Included | Included | | Automated monthly report | Included | Included | Included | | Quarterly strategy call | Included | Included | Included | | Schedule a call anytime | Not included | Included | Included | | Review requests + follow-ups, automatic | Not included | Not included | Included | | Google first, then links to other review sites | Not included | Not included | Included | | Google review replies + alerts | Not included | Not included | Included | | Add-ons ยท per additional metro | | Additional metro, no additional office | +$125/mo | +$250/mo | +$350/mo | | Additional metro with additional office | +$250/mo | +$500/mo | +$700/mo | Every plan covers one metro area. Serve more? Add as many as you do: same flat price for each one you add, no per-city math. An added metro gets its own local pages, its local search presence, and AI-citation tracking for that market; with an office there, we also set up and manage that location's Google Business Profile. ### Why we don't promise you a number of backlinks. Plenty of agencies guarantee "10 backlinks a month." There is only one way to keep that promise: buy them, from link farms and pay-to-post sites. Those are exactly the links Google penalizes. Every link we build is earned: real coverage, real citations, real mentions your competitors can't order from a menu. Earned links can't be put on a schedule, so we won't pretend they can. What we do instead: your monthly report shows every link we earned, where it lives, and why it matters. ## Reviews are a ranking signal. And your first impression. Google counts your reviews when it decides who's in the map pack: how many, how fresh, how steadily they arrive. And your customers count them too. Stars are the first thing they read about you, before your website ever loads. Here's the part most owners miss: a 4.9 from 12 reviews loses to a 4.7 from 200. Volume and momentum win. Which means asking can't be a favor you remember once a month. It has to be a system. 1. ### Ask at the right moment, automatically. The request goes out while the good work is still fresh. No sticky notes, no 'we should really ask more.' 2. ### Follow up until the review lands. One email is not a system. We follow up professionally until the review comes in: never nagging, never a bother. The ask protects your brand, it doesn't spend it. 3. ### Then point them further. Google first, because that's where local rank lives. Once their Google review is in, your customer gets links to the other sites your customers check, if they'd like to share it there too. All of it is inside SEO: Complete. The full story gets its own page: Reputation Management. ## Every plan runs on a site we control. Here's the trade. These prices only work because your site runs on our stack: custom code we can improve any day of the week without fighting a page builder. That's the deal in plain terms. You get agency-scope SEO at these numbers; we get a site we can actually work on. Three ways in: ### We built your site You're in. Your foundation work happened during the build, because we build sites SEO-first. Month one starts producing instead of studying. Need the site too? [Websites start at $1,500](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/websites/) ### Move it as-is $497 one-time Your current site has a clean export. WordPress, Webflow, and most self-hosted platforms do. We convert it to our stack exactly as it is: no redesign, up to 50 pages, and your whole blog archive comes along. Bigger than that? Rare, and we'll quote it flat before you pay. ### Remake it pixel-true $997 one-time No clean export, which is how Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy's builder, GoHighLevel, and most drag-and-drop builders work. We rebuild your site on our stack, pixel for pixel, up to 15 pages. And honestly? A brand-new site is $1,500, about $500 more. If you're not attached to your current design, that's usually the smarter buy. Migrated sites carry the same maintenance and hosting as every site we build: $199 a month up to 9 pages, $249 for 10 and up, capped there no matter how big the site grows. Never waived, and unlimited edits are covered. Full details on the [Websites page](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/websites/). Any migration quote that reaches $1,500 becomes a rebuild quote. A migration never costs more than a fresh site. And one quality guard, from the founder's mouth to your ears: if your site is carrying piles of thin, near-duplicate pages, the kind Google penalizes, we'll tell you which ones should be cut before they come over. We don't move penalized sites onto our stack as-is, because SEO work on a bad site fights itself. We'd rather say that up front. ## Found is half the game. Named is the other half. Included in your plan ### When they ask AI instead of Google. Your customers are starting to ask AI instead of Google: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok. The answer always names somebody. That work is already in the plans above, not a separate bill. This page explains how it's done. [AI Search Optimization](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/ai-search-optimization/) Rung four: stay ahead ### Reviews power local rank. They're also the first thing a customer reads about you. It's inside SEO: Complete, or it stands on its own if you just want reviews handled. ## Questions, answered. ### How long does SEO take to work? Measurable movement typically starts in 60 to 90 days: rankings improving, your profile showing up more, early calls. Real, compounding lead flow builds over 6 to 12 months, sometimes sooner, and sometimes longer in fiercely competitive markets. Anyone promising page one in 30 days is lying to you, and it's usually the same people who lock you into a long contract before saying it. ### How much does SEO cost for a small business? Our prices are public: SEO plans are $497, $997, or $1,397 a month, with no setup fee. If your site isn't on our stack yet, moving it is a one-time $497 or $997 depending on your current platform, or we build you a new website starting at $1,500. For comparison, agencies charge $6,400 to $15,600 a month for our Business plan's scope. We can charge $997 because we run the work on AI and automation we built ourselves. ### How do I know you're not like the last guy? You don't have to take our word for anything, and that's the design. The prices are published. The timelines are published. There's no long-term contract: a 3-month foundation term, then month to month with 30 days' written notice. And a report lands every month showing what we did and what moved, in plain English. If it isn't moving, you'll see that too. ### What is local SEO, and what's the map pack? Local SEO is getting found by customers near you. The map pack is the box with three businesses under the map when you search something like "roofer near me" or "family dentist near me," and it's where most local customers call from. Getting in it comes down to your Google Business Profile: complete, active, and consistent everywhere your business is named online. That's the first thing we go win. ### What's the difference between SEO and AI search optimization? SEO gets you found in Google's results and map pack. AI search optimization gets you named when customers ask an AI who to call: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google's AI answers, whichever one they use. One visibility system, two halves. Every plan we sell builds your site and content AI-ready, and from the Business plan up we run the full program: monthly tracking of who AI names in your market, and work aimed at making it you. ### Do I need SEO if I already run ads? Ads work, and they stop the second you stop paying. SEO compounds: the page that ranks this month still ranks next month, and it doesn't bill you per click. There's also a real slice of customers who skip the ads on principle and click the map pack or the organic results instead. The businesses that own their market usually run both. ### Is it worth hiring an SEO agency for a small business? Honest math: it's worth it when one new customer is worth more to you than the monthly cost, and your market is winnable. If your average job or client is worth $400, about one extra a month covers the Starter plan. What you shouldn't do is guess. The $97 Growth Audit grades where your whole business stands today, and the $197 Site Evaluation is the deep SEO study of exactly what's winnable in your market, before you ever commit to a plan. ### Do I have to sign a contract? No long-term contract. SEO starts with a 3-month foundation term, because month one is heavy foundation work: your keyword research, your roadmap, the competitor baseline, the profile overhaul. The term keeps that work from being wasted, and it keeps you from judging SEO at day 30, which burns everyone. After that it's month to month, cancel with 30 days' written notice. We'll say all of this to your face before you pay, too. ### What counts as a metro area? A metro area is the region around a city, not individual cities or counties. Greater Baltimore, the city plus its surrounding counties, is one metro area. Las Vegas and the areas around it is one metro area. Every plan covers one, and you're never charged per county or per ZIP code, just per metro area you actually serve. ### What is the difference between the two additional-metro options? Whether you have a physical office in the metro you're adding. No additional office: we build your local pages, grow your local search presence, and run your AI-citation tracking in that market. With an additional office: everything above, plus we set up and manage that office's Google Business Profile, which is real extra work, so it's the higher number. Either way it's the same flat price for every metro you add, on top of your plan. ### What do I actually get when I add a metro? Your plan's whole local playbook, extended to that market: its own local pages, its local search presence, and AI-citation tracking for that market. Adding a metro costs a fraction of a new engagement because we already know your business, your voice, and your strategy; we're extending it to another market, not starting over. The flat per-metro prices are published in the comparison table above, $125 to $700 a month depending on your plan and whether you have an office there. ## Let's get your phone ringing. Pick a plan and get started, or call and ask us anything. An AI answers. Really. [Get Started, from $497 a month](https://www.mpowerglobal.ai/seo/#pricing) [Call 725-425-MY-AI](tel:+17254256924) No contracts, cancel anytime with 30 days' written notice. Two exceptions, stated plainly: hosted websites, funnels, and landing pages carry a 12-month hosting term, and SEO starts with a 3-month foundation term.