SEO for contractors,with honest timelines.
Google rankings and AI search visibility for local businesses. Three to six months to real movement, and anyone who promises faster is selling you something.
Two searches now decide who gets the call.
Half your future customers still type "plumber near me" into Google. The other half now ask ChatGPT or Siri and take whatever name comes back. We work both: classic local SEO for the map pack and rankings, and the newer work of getting your business into the sources AI engines actually read and cite.
The monthly grind looks like this: your Google Business Profile managed and posted to, citations built and cleaned, content written for your trade and your towns, reviews flowing, and a report you can read in two minutes. That's Growth, $600 a month. Radar is separate, and most shops selling you SEO have nothing like it at any price.
We rank our own clients. Go check.
Studio 27 sits at the top of the San Marcos map pack for piercing. Their site and ours score perfect on Google's own quality tests, and you can run those tests yourself from the work page. When a review count grows, AI engines start naming the business in answers. We measured that across our own portfolio before we ever sold it as a service.
What SEO costs and how long it takes.
Growth
$600/moSite Care + all the Google work + content + reviews + a monthly report. The whole engine.
Local Foundation
$750One time. Profile claimed, citations built, listings cleaned, schema, review flow. Charged once, yours forever.
Weeks 1-2: foundation. 60-90 days: AI citations start. 3-6 months: rankings move. Nobody here promises page one in 30 days.
Fair questions.
How much does SEO cost for a contractor?
With us, $600 a month flat, which includes site care, all Google Business Profile work, content, review flow and reporting. Industry surveys put typical local SEO retainers between $500 and $1,500 a month, so we sit at the low end on purpose.
How long until SEO actually works?
Foundation work lands in the first two weeks. AI engines usually start citing a clean, well-reviewed business inside 60 to 90 days. Google rankings take three to six months to move for real. Anyone quoting faster is guessing or lying.
What is AI search optimization?
Making sure ChatGPT, Perplexity, Siri and Google’s AI answers actually name your business when someone asks for your trade in your town. It runs on different signals than classic SEO: reviews, consistent listings, and being on the platforms those engines read.
Do I have to sign a contract?
No. Month to month. If we stop earning the retainer, fire us and keep everything: site, profile, logins, content.
Want this handled?
Call and Aria puts you through to Kallisti, usually inside a minute. Or ask for the free audit.