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Local SEO Agency

Own the
Google map
in your city.

When someone nearby searches for what you do, Google shows a map and three businesses. ChatGPT and Gemini do the same thing in a sentence. We put your name in both, with a press-backed local system that compounds every month.

Founder-led · 1,000+ features placed
The three-pack problem

Three spots on the map. Everyone else is invisible.

Local buyers don't scroll. They tap one of the three businesses Google puts on the map, call, and book. If you're fourth, you're not in the conversation, no matter how good your work is.

And it isn't one ranking. Your position changes block by block across your city. Most owners search from their own office, see themselves near the top, and never find out they disappear two miles away.

3
Businesses Google shows in the local map pack. Everyone else sits behind a click most people never make.
Map pack rank across your service area
One search term, 25 points across town. Each dot is where you rank from that spot.
BeforeMonth 1
20+18151720+16968191451413188591620+17121520+
AfterMonth 6
4323531113211123112363234
Top 3 (in the pack) 4 to 10 11+
Illustrative example. Your free audit shows your real grid.
How Google picks the three

Three signals decide who shows up.

Google says it plainly: local results come down to relevance, distance, and prominence. You can't move your building. You can win the other two.

01

Relevance

How well your profile and site match what someone searched. Categories, services, city pages, and the words your customers use in their reviews all feed it.

02

Distance

How close you are to the person searching. We make sure Google knows every city and neighborhood you serve, so you compete wherever your customers actually are.

03

Prominence

How well known you are. Reviews, citations, links, press, and mentions across the web. It's the lever most local competitors ignore, and the one we pull hardest.

The retainer, piece by piece

Eight systems. One local engine.

Everything in our AEO and SEO program, plus a full local layer on top. Reviews feed relevance. Citations confirm distance. Press and links build prominence. Geo-grid tracking tells us which neighborhood to push next.

Local
Compounding System
Business Profile
Citations
Reviews
City Pages
Local Press
Geo-Grid
AI Answers
Local Schema
01

Google Business Profile

Categories, services, products, photos, Q&A, and weekly posts, managed for you. Your profile is your storefront on the map, so we treat it like one.

02

Citations & NAP cleanup

Your name, address, and phone matched across the directories and data aggregators Google cross-checks. Duplicates merged, dead listings fixed, Apple and Bing covered.

03

Review engine

A simple request flow by text, email, and QR card that turns happy customers into fresh reviews, plus a reply to every review you get.

04

City & service pages

A page for every city and service you want to rank for, written to convert and structured so Google and AI models read it cleanly.

05

Local schema

LocalBusiness markup, service areas, hours, reviews, and FAQ structured data across the site, so your entity is unambiguous.

06

Local links & press

Articles across our news network, local “best of” listicles, and community links that build the prominence the map pack rewards.

07

Geo-grid tracking

Your map pack position measured point by point across your service area, so you see exactly where you win and where you don't.

08

AI answers

Monthly blogs, entity work, and prompt tracking so ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude name you when someone asks for the best in town.

Where other options fall short.

Most local SEO is a listings dashboard and a monthly PDF. Here's what you actually get, side by side.

  Instant Press Local Typical Local SEO Agency Listings Software DIY
Google Business Profile managementWeekly, done for youMonthly check-inBasic syncTime cost
Citations & NAP cleanupIncludedOften extraSync onlyManual
Review generation & responsesIncludedSometimesNoManual
City & service-area pagesIncludedExtra costNoManual
Monthly articles & backlinks from a news networkIncluded monthlyRarelyNoNo
AI answer tracking (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude)IncludedNoNoNo
Geo-grid map rank trackingIncludedSometimesNoPaid tool
Forbes and USA Today level pressMarket DominanceNoNoNo
Setup fee$0CommonVaries$0
ContractMonth-to-monthOften 6 to 12 monthsUsually annualNone

Pick your tier.

Every local plan includes our full AEO and SEO program, plus a local layer built for the map pack. Three programs to grow into, and one for businesses that want to own their market outright.

Local Lite
$1,990
per month
One location getting its foundation right.
  • Competitor analysis
  • Keyword research and targeting
  • Full website optimization (headings, titles, canonicals, schema, FAQ, meta titles, llms.txt, robots.txt)
  • 30 targeted blogs/month
  • Backlink building
  • Monthly reporting
  • Local layer
  • Full Google Business Profile management (categories, services, products, photos, weekly posts)
  • NAP audit and cleanup across major directories
  • 50 local citations built and verified
  • Apple Business Connect and Bing Places setup
  • LocalBusiness schema and service-area markup
  • Review request system (text, email, and QR card)
  • Monthly geo-grid map rank report
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Local Ultimate
$4,990
per month
Up to three locations, built to own the map.
  • Everything in Local Lite and Pro
  • 90 targeted blogs/month
  • Weekly reporting
  • Placement in Wikipedia’s data sources
  • Free tool creation (1/month)
  • Parasite SEO and listicles in 200+ blogs
  • Community seeding and mentions in Reddit and Quora
  • Local layer
  • Up to 3 locations, each with its own profile, pages, and citations
  • Placements in local “best of” listicles for your city
  • Local subreddit and community mentions
  • Review velocity campaigns
  • Competitor monitoring and fake listing reporting
  • Weekly geo-grid tracking
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Flagship · By application
Market Dominance
$25,000
per month

For the business that doesn't want to be one of three. National press every month, every location, every city page, and a direct line to the founder. Your competitors buy listings. You become the name the whole market knows.

Apply for Dominance
Scoped on a call. Limited spots.
Forbes and USA Today level articles, every single month.
  • Everything in Local Ultimate
  • Forbes and USA Today level feature articles published every month
  • Regional and local news features in every market you serve
  • Google Knowledge Panel for your business and founder
  • Every location, every market, no cap
  • City and service pages for every area you cover
  • Daily geo-grid tracking with a live dashboard
  • Dedicated strategist plus a weekly call with Joey
  • Quarterly market takeover plan for each city
  • Priority turnaround on everything

Local Lite, Pro, and Ultimate are month-to-month. No setup fee. Pause or cancel anytime.

Not ready to book a call?

Get a free local visibility audit first.

Drop your site and we'll check your Google Business Profile, citations, reviews, and map pack position against your top competitors, plus whether ChatGPT and Gemini recommend you. Full report, no sales call.

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We’ll get that ready for you.

Book a call below. We’ll walk you through your map pack position and the two things worth fixing first.

Your audit lands in your inbox either way.

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Questions we get on every call.

What's the difference between local SEO and regular SEO?
Regular SEO competes for the blue links, usually nationally. Local SEO competes for the map pack, the “near me” results, and the businesses AI assistants recommend in a specific city. The signals are different: your Google Business Profile, how close you are to the searcher, your reviews, your citations, and how well known you are locally.
How long before I move in the map pack?
It depends on your market and how far behind the starting point is. Profile fixes and citation cleanup are usually the first things to move. Reviews, city pages, and press compound from there. You see it month by month in your geo-grid reports, not in promises.
Do you work with service-area businesses that don't have a storefront?
Yes. Plumbers, roofers, cleaners, mobile detailers, and anyone else who goes to the customer can rank in the map pack with a hidden address and a defined service area. We build the service-area pages and citations around the cities you actually cover.
Can you handle multiple locations?
Yes. Local Ultimate covers up to three locations. Market Dominance covers every market you serve. If you have more than one location on Lite or Pro, we'll scope it on the call.
What does a geo-grid report show?
A grid of points laid over your service area. Each point shows where you rank in the map pack when someone searches from that exact spot. It shows where you win, where you vanish, and which neighborhoods to push next.
Will you get us fake reviews?
No. We build a system that makes it easy for real customers to leave real reviews, and we reply to every review you get. Buying reviews or filtering who gets asked breaks Google's policies and can get a profile suspended. Not worth it.
What are the Forbes and USA Today level articles in Market Dominance?
Tier-one national press, every month. The same caliber of coverage we place for founders on our press side, put to work for a local business. National features build the kind of prominence that local competitors can't match with directory listings.
Why does local SEO cost more than your AEO program?
Because it is the AEO program plus a full local layer on top: Google Business Profile management, citations, reviews, city pages, local press, and map tracking. Same engine, a lot more surface area. If you don't need the map pack, our AEO + SEO program is the better fit.
Is there a contract?
Local Lite, Pro, and Ultimate are month-to-month with no setup fee. Market Dominance is scoped on a call.
JS Joey Sendz, founder of Instant Press Co.

Joey Sendz

Founder, Instant Press Co.
Featured in: Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Inc., Bloomberg
Background: Built three press and AI-visibility brands. Placed 1,000+ features for founders.
Why this: Local businesses were paying for listings dashboards while their competitors got the press. Built the stack that gives them both.
Who you're actually working with

Real operator. Not a listings dashboard.

Most local SEO shops sell you software and a monthly PDF, then route you to a junior account manager. Here, you work directly with me. I run the strategy, I review the content before it publishes, and I look at your map rankings every month.

We own the publishing network, so the articles and links that build local prominence come straight from us, not a reseller. That's the part most local agencies can't offer at any price.

Own the map.
Not just the listing.

Thirty minutes. We pull up your map pack position live, show you who's beating you and why, and tell you whether this is worth your money. If it's not, we'll say so.

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