Found on the map,
found in the answer,
hired.
For photographers, contractors, clinics, studios, and other local service businesses. We review your Google Business Profile, customer reviews, directory listings, and website, then track where you appear in local search and selected AI answers.
Local Audit Scorecard48 hrs
The AI AnswerSeptember 2026
The LadderRanking on Google
and missing from the answer.
We compare your profile, listings, and site with the businesses appearing for your target queries. That gives the audit a concrete starting point; it does not reveal every factor behind a ranking or AI answer.
Your Google Business Profile
We review categories, services, hours, contact details, photos, and customer questions. Accurate and complete profile information helps Google understand the business and helps customers decide whether it fits their needs.
Reviews customers can evaluate
Customer reviews can support trust and local visibility without review markup on your website. Google says more reviews and positive ratings can help local ranking. See its local ranking guidance.
One name, everywhere
We check the business name, address, phone, and description across relevant profiles and directories. Outdated contact details, duplicate listings, and broken pages get a specific correction plan.
Audit both halves.
Fix the site. Program the rest.
Local visibility is half on-site and half off-site. The ladder scores both, ships the on-site work as a sprint, and scopes the off-site work as the ongoing program it is.
Score on-site and off-site
The Boost audit scores your site (LocalBusiness details and applicable structured data, FAQ markup, metadata, crawler access, extractable text) and your off-site standing (Google Business Profile, review volume, directory consistency, and whether the AI engines name you for your two or three core buyer prompts).
Ship the on-site fixes
Boost implements the plan on your existing site in about two weeks: accurate LocalBusiness and service structured data, FAQ markup, metadata, crawler access, and the agreed page fixes. Done by us in your platform (WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix) or by pull request. Never with your passwords.
Run the off-site program and track
Review requests, directory cleanup and new listings, and citations are scoped separately because they run for months. Manage tracks local rankings and AI-answer presence monthly against the baseline, so you can see which change produced what.
Everything a buyer
and an engine check.
The same items, in the order they are usually broken.
Google Business Profile
Categories, services, attributes, photos, posts, Q&A, and the description, aligned with the site and the directories.
Customer reviews and review eligibility
We assess your review-request process and how reviews appear on the site. Self-serving LocalBusiness and Organization reviews are ineligible for Google review stars, even when embedded from a third party. See Google's review requirements.
Directories and citations
Name, address, phone, and description made identical across every listing, dead listings removed, missing category directories added.
On-site structure
Business and service details, metadata, crawler access, and content that answers local buyer questions. Google requires no special AI schema or machine-readable file for its AI features. See Google's AI-search guidance.
AI-answer baseline
Your core buyer prompts run through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, logged by rung, with the sources the answers were built from.
Monthly tracking
Local rankings, AI citations and mentions, and regressions, reported monthly under Manage.
A clean site, five stars,
and absent from the answer.
One audit from September 2026, with the numbers the scorecard above is drawn from.
A New York event photographer, audited September 2026
Her site was clean: proper redirects, real 404s, every AI crawler allowed, public pricing on a crawlable page. Her Google Business Profile was rated 5.0 with 23 reviews. Her business name appeared in four variants across Yelp, Nextdoor, Thumbtack, and a local directory, one listing returned an error page, and she appeared in none of the 14 businesses the AI engines named for her two core buyer prompts, while two vendor directories ranked for them and she was listed on neither.
What the audit recommended
Accurate business details on the site and consistent names and descriptions across listings, followed by fixing the broken listing and evaluating the directories observed in those answers. Those audit observations do not establish that missing review markup caused the absence. Monthly checks measure what changes.
Flat fees.
The call credits into Boost.
Local SEO runs on Growthr's SEO and GEO ladder. A $99 strategy call is a live teardown of your site, your profile, and how you show up in the map pack and in AI answers; it credits toward Boost. Boost, $1,499, opens with the audit, which scores on-site and off-site and delivers the fix plan within 48 hours of access, then ships the on-site fixes in about two weeks for sites up to roughly 25 indexable pages, which covers almost every local service business. It is $1,400 more after the call credit. Manage, $199 a month, tracks rankings and AI citations monthly and is optional.
The off-site program (review requests, directory cleanup and listings, citations) is scoped separately because it is ongoing work, and the audit tells you exactly what it needs to contain. Full detail is on the Search Boost page and the pricing page. To check yourself first, the 20-minute AI visibility check works for any local business, and the free llms.txt generator drafts the file in 30 seconds.
Local SEO, explained.
What does a local SEO agency do in 2026?
A local SEO agency gets a business found and chosen by people searching in its service area. In 2026 that means two surfaces: Google's map pack and organic results, and the AI answers to prompts like "who should I hire for X near me." The work covers the Google Business Profile, customer reviews, consistent listings across directories, on-site structure (LocalBusiness and service schema, FAQ markup, metadata, crawler access), and monthly tracking of both rankings and AI-answer presence. Growthr runs it on a flat-fee ladder from a $99 strategy call.
Do Google reviews help SEO?
Google says more reviews and positive ratings can help local ranking. Reviews do not need markup on your own site to count. Your own LocalBusiness or Organization review markup is not eligible for Google review stars. See local ranking factors and review-snippet eligibility.
How many Google reviews do I need?
There is no fixed number that guarantees a ranking or an AI recommendation. We compare the relevant businesses and queries in your market, review the accuracy of your profile and listings, and track changes over time.
What is Google Business Profile optimization?
Setting up the profile so it says the same thing as your site and your directories, and says it completely: the right primary and secondary categories, every service listed, attributes, hours, photos, posts, the description, and answers to the questions people ask on the profile. Most profiles are created once and never maintained, which is why optimizing one is usually the fastest local win.
How much does local SEO cost at Growthr?
The flat-fee ladder: $99 strategy call, then $1,499 Boost on sites up to roughly 25 indexable pages (larger sites custom-quoted after the strategy call), which opens with the audit within 48 hours of access and then implements the fixes, and an optional $199 per month Manage plan. The call credits into Boost. The off-site program (review requests, directory cleanup, citations) is scoped separately because it is ongoing, and the audit specifies exactly what it should include.
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See where you stand
on the map and in the answer.
The $99 strategy call runs your buyers' prompts live and reviews your profile, your reviews, and your site with you on the screen. It credits toward Boost.
