Local SEO & AEO
Services & Pricing
Local SEO & AI Answer Engine Optimization

Become the business your customers find first — and the one AI recommends by name.

When someone nearby searches for what you do, we make sure your business is at the top of the map, your site answers before your competitor’s loads, and the AI assistants people now ask name you. You stop chasing leads and start fielding them.

Google + AI Search (ChatGPT · Perplexity · AI Overviews) From $500/mo · month-to-month One client per market
2
Search surfaces optimized — classic Google and AI answers
2–6
Locally-targeted content pieces written and published for you every month
Month–to–month
No long-term contract — cancel anytime
740+
Local business websites Thomas Digital manages
What you actually want

A phone that rings with people ready to hire you

Not rankings for their own sake. Not traffic you can’t bank. The goal is more booked work from people in your area who were going to spend the money anyway — and who choose you because you were everywhere they looked.

More booked work

Revenue, not vanity metrics. Customers who were already searching for what you do in your area — pointed to you instead of the business down the street.

A lead engine that runs itself

You do the work you’re good at; the customers keep coming — whether or not you ever think about your website.

The obvious name in your market

The one everyone’s heard of for what you do — the choice the map, the search results, and the AI all point to.

The math that matters

Work out what one new customer is worth to you over the life of the relationship, then ask how many extra ones a month it would take to cover the fee. For most local businesses the answer is one — sometimes less. The question isn’t whether you can afford this; it’s whether you can afford to let a competitor own those searches instead.

Where most local businesses stand

The opportunity is usually sitting in plain sight

When we run the real searches your future customers run, the same three gaps show up again and again. None of them are about the quality of your work — they’re specific signals competitors have and you don’t yet. Every one is fixable, and fixing them is the whole plan.

Google’s Map Pack

The top-3 map results take the majority of the clicks for any local search. If you’re below them, you’re effectively invisible for the searches that produce customers. The gap is almost always review count and profile signals — not your address, and not how good you are.

AI answers

Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity who’s the best option in your area and it will name somebody. The engines name whichever business’s site most clearly says what it does, where, and for whom — not the best operator. That’s a structural problem, which means it’s a structural fix.

What your site tells machines

Most local sites have no structured data, no answer-style content, and thin metadata. Google and AI can’t cleanly parse what you do or where you serve — so they hand the customer to someone they can read.

Every engagement opens with a live audit of your actual standings — your map-pack position, whether AI names you today, and what your site is telling the machines. AI answer engines change frequently, so visibility is a moving target: that’s exactly why we manage it every month rather than treating it as a one-time fix.

How we win

We were built around AI — most agencies are bolting it on

That structural difference gives you two things a traditional SEO shop cannot, on top of the local-search fundamentals everyone should do well.

Be the answer, not just a result (AEO)

While other agencies optimize for blue links, we optimize the AI layer on top of search — structuring your content and data, and claiming the profiles those engines actually read (your Google profile, Bing Places, Foursquare), not just your website — so ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity cite your business by name when customers ask who’s best in your area. That’s where buyers increasingly look first, and almost no one is doing it yet. Being early is the entire advantage.

Content velocity others can’t match

Content writing is included on both plans — we write it, you don’t. Because our content engine is AI-native, we publish 2–6 high-quality, locally-targeted pieces a month depending on your plan — at a price that would buy you a fraction of it elsewhere. Every page is mapped to a real search and written to convert, so you rank for more of what your customers actually type. It’s a compounding asset: each page keeps earning long after it ships.

The fundamentals, done right underneath it all

Structured data and clean page structure so Google and AI understand you · an optimized, actively-managed Google Business Profile · consistent business information everywhere it appears · a steady review engine · location pages built to convert. The AI layer compounds on a foundation we get right first.

An honest word on backlinks

You may have been pitched “X backlinks a month.” We don’t sell that. For a local business, your Google profile, your reviews, and content that answers what customers ask move the needle far more — and bought links from marketplaces put a real business’s site at risk for little gain. We build the citations that matter and earn authority the white-hat way. It’s the honest call, and it protects the site your business depends on.

What we need from you: about two minutes

One quick authorization at the start connects your Google accounts, and we handle everything from there — no logins to learn, no dashboards to babysit, no homework. The only standing ask is a short monthly call so you always know what’s working.

Your investment vs. what you get
Up to $5,200 of value in month one — from $500/mo.
Two ways to own search in your market. Both are loaded far past their price; one is guaranteed. Here’s every piece, itemized at what it would cost you to buy separately.
Pick your altitude

Local Visibility gets you found. Market Dominator makes you the answer.

Market Dominator adds the entire AI-search layer, more content, and a written results guarantee. For most businesses, it pays for the difference with a single extra customer a month.

Local SEO

Local Visibility

$500/mo
Get found first in your market. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
  • 2 new SEO content pieces / month — written for you, each built to rank for a real buyer search$400/mo
  • Google Business Profile fully optimized & actively managed$300/mo
  • Citation & NAP cleanup + monitoring across key directories$200/mo
  • Local schema + on-page optimization for your core terms$200/mo
  • Live reporting dashboard + monthly ranking report & strategy call$150/mo
  • Review-generation system + response workflow$150/mo
Monthly value$1,400$500
And on top of all that, you also get — free
  • Deep SEO audit + competitor teardown (month 1)$600
  • Schema + AEO setup (month 1)$500
  • 12-month content calendar (week 1)$400
  • Live reporting dashboard (ongoing)incl.
First-month value: ≈ $2,900
for $500. One new customer from Google likely covers it — the rest is profit.
★ Most Chosen

Market Dominator

$1,000/mo
Own search and AI search in your market — guaranteed. Month-to-month.
  • 6 locally-targeted content pages / month — 4 local + 2 built for AI citation$1,200/mo
  • Local AEO — cited by name inside ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews & Perplexity$600/mo
  • Advanced entity & schema graph so AI recognizes your business$300/mo
  • Google Business Profile fully optimized & actively managed$300/mo
  • Managed citation / NAP integrity (Google, Apple, Bing Places, Foursquare, Yelp +)$250/mo
  • Competitor + AI-citation monitoring — who names you vs. them$300/mo
  • Live dashboard + monthly ranking & AI-visibility report$200/mo
  • Review-generation system + response workflow$150/mo
Monthly value$3,300$1,000
And on top of all that, you also get — free
  • Deep SEO audit + competitor teardown (month 1)$600
  • Schema + AEO setup (month 1)$500
  • 12-month content calendar (week 1)$400
  • Quarterly strategy call (every quarter)$500
  • Market Exclusivity Lock — we won’t take your competitor1 slot
First-month value: ≈ $5,200
for $1,000 — about $33/day to own local and AI search in your market, guaranteed.
Which one?

The $500 plan builds your local search presence. The $1,000 plan builds it and guarantees it moves — or we work free until it does. For about $16 more a day, you add the entire AI-search layer, more content, the results guarantee, and AI-citation monitoring. The $500 plan works; the $1,000 plan compounds. The real question isn’t whether $1,000 is worth it — it’s whether one new customer a month from Google is worth more than $1,000 to you.

What’s included, side by side

Included each month Local Visibility
$500/mo
Market Dominator
$1,000/mo
Content writing — done for you
Locally-targeted content pieces / month26 incl. 2 AEO
Onboarding, audit & competitor teardown
Keyword research & competitor baseline+ AI-prompt research
Google Business Profile optimization & management
On-page optimization & schemaCore / basic✓ Advanced graph
Citation / NAP consistencyKey directories✓ Managed
Review generation + response workflow
Live reporting dashboard
AEO — cited by name inside AI answers
Competitor + AI-citation monitoring
Quarterly strategy call
Milestone delivery guarantee (work done on schedule)
90-Day Work-Until-Done Guarantee
One client per market — your competitor locked out✓ emphasized
CommitmentMonth-to-monthMonth-to-month

Values shown are defensible standalone rates for each item purchased separately from an agency or freelancer — this is what the work is worth, itemized, not a discount gimmick. Content counts are deliverable: our AI-native engine genuinely produces this volume of quality, intent-matched pages. We bill month-to-month and guarantee delivery of the work; the visibility guarantee on Market Dominator is defined in writing before we start (below).

How it runs

A repeating monthly engine, front-loaded in month one

We run your SEO as a five-phase cycle. Month one lays the technical and local foundation; every month after compounds content, reviews, and authority on top of it.

1 · Onboarding & Audit

Align on goals and set honest expectations, then baseline your site, profile, reviews, and where you stand against your local competitors — including whether AI names you today. You get the audit + competitor teardown in week one.

2 · Technical Foundation

Make your site legible to Google and to AI: structured data, page titles & descriptions, clean page structure, and indexation fixes. The highest-leverage first move.

3 · Local & Google Profile

Optimize and actively manage your Google Business Profile — the biggest controllable local factor — keep your details consistent everywhere, and grow reviews steadily.

4 · Content & Authority

Every month we write and publish 2–6 location-focused pieces built around what your customers actually search — written to convert, and (on Market Dominator) engineered to be quoted by AI. Everything is yours to review before it’s published, against brand guardrails we set with you up front — nothing hits your site that you haven’t seen. Plus white-hat authority building.

5 · Reporting & Iteration

A clear monthly report — rankings, profile performance, review growth, AI visibility (Market Dominator), and exactly what we did — plus a strategy call.

What we promise — and what we don’t

We guarantee the work. We don’t guarantee specific rankings, traffic, or leads — those sit with Google’s and AI systems’ algorithms, not any agency. We promise to do what demonstrably moves the needle and to tell you the truth about what’s working.

What to expect, and when

SEO is non-linear. For a while it can feel quiet — then a page reaches the front of search and the traffic arrives, and it compounds from there. Here’s the honest shape of it.

1

Foundation

Audit + teardown delivered, technical fixes, profile optimization, review engine on, content calendar in hand. The plumbing everything depends on — no ranking jumps yet.

Month 1
2

Momentum

Content ships, reviews accumulate, your profile gets more active. Early leading indicators begin to show.

Month 2
3

First movement

Pages start climbing — often real movement on less-competitive terms, and first AI-citation appearances (Market Dominator).

Month 3
4

Traction

Where consistent work starts converting into rankings, calls, and form fills on core terms. Competitive head terms take longer — we’ll be clear which is which.

Months 4–6

Two honest caveats. Proximity matters — for “near me” searches, how close you physically are to the searcher is the single biggest factor, and we can’t move your building; we win every other signal. And timelines vary with competition and your starting point. We’d rather under-promise and show you the truth in the monthly report than sell you a date we can’t hit.

Why you can trust this

This isn’t a startup experiment

You don’t have to take the AI-native part on faith. Thomas Digital pairs an established book of business with methods most agencies haven’t built yet — the steadiness of a proven firm and the edge of the newest playbook.

740+
Local business websites Thomas Digital builds and manages
In business — with only positive reviews to show for it
70+
Five-star Google reviews across our own clients
The proof of concept is how you found us

You found Thomas Digital because our own SEO works. That’s not a coincidence — it’s the product, demonstrated on ourselves before we ever ran it for you.

Your risk, removed

We make the downside of yes smaller than the downside of no

The Milestone Guarantee covers both plans — it guarantees the work gets done on schedule. The 90-Day Work-Until-Done Guarantee, on Market Dominator, also guarantees it moves — on metrics we agree to in writing before we start.

Layer 1 — The Milestone Guarantee  Both plans

By Week 2: Google Business Profile optimized, citations audited, baseline rankings tracked. By Day 45: first content live and schema deployed (advanced entity graph + AEO on Market Dominator). By Day 90: a written visibility report vs. your baseline. If we miss any milestone, that month is on us — no questions. This is entirely in our hands, so on either plan you carry zero risk that the work simply doesn’t happen.

Layer 2 — The 90-Day Work-Until-Done Guarantee  Market Dominator

Before we start, we define three metrics together, in writing, and you sign off — for example, tracked keyword-position changes, your Google Business Profile ranking for your primary service, and your local search-visibility score. At day 90 we show you the comparison against your baseline. If none of the three has moved, we keep working at no additional charge until they do. You never pay us to stall.

A money-back guarantee just gives you your money back — and you still don’t have customers. Ours gives you results, or we keep working until you do. We don’t want your money back. We want your case study.

No long-term contract

We earn your business every month. Month-to-month, cancel anytime with 30 days’ notice. The only reason to stay is that it’s working — and we offer it this way because we’re confident it will.

Why now

Waiting has a real cost — here’s the honest version

1

One business per market

We take only one business per category per city. While you’re a client, we won’t take your direct competitor — working both sides is a real conflict of interest. If that slot in your market is open today, once it’s filled your competitor can’t buy this program there at all.

2

Local search compounds

Every month a competitor invests and you don’t, they bank rankings, reviews, and authority that get harder to overtake later. The gap is closeable now in a way it may not be in six months. Early-mover advantage in local search is real — and perishable.

3

The AI-search land grab

AI search is being rewritten right now. The businesses structuring their content for ChatGPT, Google’s AI, and Perplexity today are becoming the default answers — and defaults are sticky. The companies that claim their spot this year are the ones AI keeps recommending next year.

Your next step is one short call

On it, we’ll walk through exactly where you stand in your market today — in search and in AI — and which package gets you to the top fastest. No pressure, no obligation. Just the plan.

Get your free visibility audit →
If one new customer from Google is worth more than the fee to your business, this pays for itself the first month it works — and we put that in writing.