02 / Portland, Maine / Local and organic search
Help the right customers find your business.
Local search support for Portland and Greater Portland businesses, with an agreed market and clear scope: setup from $350 once; a local strategy and two optimization hours at $149/month; or Growth from $399/month, adding one new page or substantial rewrite, original copy, monthly opportunity research, and a planning call. Growth scope is approved before checkout.
See scope & pricingScope & pricing
A starting point for your budget.
SEO foundation
A practical starting point for an existing website.
From$350/ project
- Search health review and priority list
- Search Console setup or review
- Google Business Profile review, when applicable
- An agreed set of initial on-page fixes
The written quote defines which pages and fixes are included. Basic SEO foundations are already included in new Ledgeworks website builds.
Discuss this packageSEO maintenance
A customized local SEO plan informed by competitor research, with ongoing monitoring and targeted improvements.
$149/ month
- Initial local competitor research and a prioritized SEO plan
- Monthly search visibility and indexing checks
- Up to two hours of targeted SEO improvements each month
- Optimization of existing pages, internal links, and eligible Google Business Profiles
- A short progress summary and next steps
For one existing website and an agreed local market. Initial research is refreshed as needed. Monitoring and reporting are separate from your two-hour improvement allowance. Unused time does not roll over. New pages, substantial writing, and larger projects are quoted separately. Rankings and leads cannot be guaranteed.
Choose this planSEO growth
Expand the searches your business can appear for, with original content and a monthly plan to put it to work.
From$399/ month
- Everything in SEO Maintenance, including its two monthly optimization hours
- One new service/location page or substantial page rewrite each month
- Original copy drafting, publishing, and one revision round for that page
- Monthly keyword and competitor opportunity review
- A 30-minute monthly planning call with Sam
- Progress report covering completed work, search performance, and next priorities
Starting scope: one website and an agreed local market. The monthly page uses your existing layout, up to 800 words, and facts/assets you supply and approve. Page work and the planning call are additional to the two optimization hours. Unused monthly allowances do not roll over. Larger content programs, extra markets, custom design/development, and paid tools are quoted separately. Scope and final monthly price are approved before a tailored Stripe checkout link is sent. Rankings and leads cannot be guaranteed.
Plan your Growth scopeAll prices are in USD. Starting prices cover the scope listed; your written proposal confirms the final price, payment schedule, and any third-party costs before work begins.
What the higher price adds
A monthly content deliverable, with a plan behind it.
At the starting price, Growth is $250 more per month. That adds original page production, monthly keyword and competitor research, and a planning call to the strategy, monitoring, and two optimization hours already included in Maintenance.
| Monthly coverage | Maintenance · $149/month | Growth · from $399/month |
|---|---|---|
| Local SEO strategy & monitoring | Included | Included, with monthly opportunity research |
| Existing-page optimization | Up to 2 hours/month | Up to 2 hours/month |
| New page or substantial rewrite | Quoted separately | 1 per month, additional to optimization time |
| Copy drafting & publishing | Substantial writing quoted separately | Up to 800 words + publishing + 1 revision round |
| Planning with Sam | Written summary & next steps | Written report + 30-minute monthly call |
Growth covers one website and an agreed local market. Page work uses your current layout and customer-approved facts and assets. Scope and final monthly price are agreed before a tailored Stripe checkout link is sent. Growth includes SEO Maintenance; a separate Maintenance subscription is unnecessary.
Plan your SEO Growth scopeThe outcome
Understand how people discover your business, keep your search foundations healthy, and choose improvements with a clear purpose.
What the work can include
What goes into the work.
Search opportunity map
Research that connects customer intent, service economics, geography, and the gaps competitors have left open.
Technical foundation
Crawl, indexation, metadata, internal linking, structured data, redirects, performance, and search-platform setup.
Local presence
A sound relationship between the website, service area, business profiles, citations, reviews, and locally relevant proof.
Content system
High-intent service resources, case studies, original research, and practical guidance built around what the business truly knows.
A strong fit when
Does this sound like your business?
- Referrals are strong, but non-branded search visibility is weak.
- The site ranks for the company name but not the problems it solves.
- Past SEO activity produced reports without durable business assets.
- The team can contribute real experience, data, or expertise worth publishing.
How we work
Know what happens next.
- 01
Audit
Establish what search engines can access, what customers find, and where authority already exists.
- 02
Prioritize
Choose opportunities by intent, value, feasibility, and the quality of proof the business can support.
- 03
Build
Improve the technical system and publish pages that answer meaningful questions completely.
- 04
Measure
Track discovery, qualified actions, and commercial outcomes—not rankings in isolation.
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