Get Found on Google. Get More Customers.
Local + on-page + technical SEO that actually moves rankings. Real Toronto results: Floka Salon ranked #2–3 for 'hair salon Bayview/Leaside' in 90 days. Rabbit Gallery on page 1 for 'picture framing Toronto'. Free SEO audit included.
If your business does not show up when someone searches for what you do in your area, they find your competitor instead. SEO is how you fix that.
What's actually included.
Six pillars. No vague "we do SEO" packages. Every retainer combines these, scaled to your tier.
Google Business Profile (GBP)
- Full profile audit + rebuild
- Categories, services, attributes, hours
- Geotagged photos optimized for the map pack
- Q&A seeding (questions Google's algorithm rewards)
- Weekly Posts to keep your profile active
- Service-area / hours conflict resolution
Citations + NAP consistency
- High-authority Canadian/US directory citations
- Yelp, Yellow Pages, BBB, Apple Maps, Bing Places
- Industry-specific directories (Houzz, Avvo, Healthgrades)
- Audit + cleanup of inconsistent existing listings
- Quarterly NAP (Name/Address/Phone) sync check
Review acquisition + management
- Branded review request page (e.g. /reviews)
- QR code + SMS templates your team can send same-day
- Response templates for 5★ and 1★ reviews
- Schema-marked reviews on your homepage
- Quarterly review velocity reporting
On-page + technical SEO
- Title, meta, heading + content optimization
- LocalBusiness + Service schema with areaServed
- Site speed, mobile, Core Web Vitals
- XML sitemap, robots.txt, indexability checks
- Internal linking from city → industry → contact
Content + local link earning
- Blog posts, service-page rewrites, FAQs (human-edited)
- City-relevant content (e.g. 'Best café neighbourhoods in Toronto')
- Local sponsorship + event link opportunities
- Chamber of Commerce + BIA listings
- Local PR pitches when you have something newsworthy
Reporting that's actually readable
- Map pack ranking tracker for your top keywords
- GBP insights (calls, direction requests, profile views)
- Organic + local traffic from Google Analytics 4
- Competitor performance comparison
- Monthly 1-page summary, no 40-page agency PDFs
SEO retainer pricing.
Three honest tiers. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice.
Local Starter
Solo operators and one-location businesses just starting local SEO.
- GBP management (weekly posts, photos, Q&A monitoring)
- Citation health management (major local directories)
- 1 on-page optimization per month
- 1 piece of content per month (blog post, service page, or FAQ)
- Local link outreach (ongoing, no guaranteed results)
- Map pack rank tracking (top 10 keywords)
- 3-competitor performance comparison
- Monthly performance report
Local Growth
Established small businesses competing in mid-sized cities (Mississauga, Ottawa, Calgary).
- Everything in Local Starter
- 2 on-page optimizations per month
- 2 pieces of content per month
- Increased link outreach efforts
- Map pack rank tracking (top 30 keywords)
- 5-competitor performance comparison
- Quarterly competitive deep-dive
- Schema markup audit and improvement
Local Authority
Multi-location businesses or single-location businesses in saturated metros (Toronto, Vancouver).
- Everything in Local Growth
- Multi-location GBP (up to 5 locations)
- 4 pieces of content per month
- Active local PR + sponsorship outreach
- Map pack rank tracking (top 75 keywords)
- 10-competitor performance comparison
- Monthly competitive analysis
- Monthly 30-min strategy call
What SEO looks like when it works.
Floka Salon
Rabbit Gallery
Take My Hand
How a typical 90-day engagement runs.
Week 1: Audit
Full GBP audit, citation audit, competitor map pack analysis, baseline rank report.
Week 2: Foundation
GBP rebuild + initial citation push + on-page schema fixes.
Weeks 3–8: Build
Citations, photos, reviews, on-page work, content. Most clients see first map pack movement here.
Month 3 onwards: Compound
Monthly content, GBP posts, link outreach. Rankings stabilize and stack.
A great website + a real SEO retainer = compounding leads.
SEO retainers work fastest when your website is technically sound, schema, speed, mobile. If your current site is a Squarespace template or a WordPress site you haven't touched in three years, the retainer ROI drops 60–80%. Pair it with a redesign and most clients break even on the entire investment in 3–5 months.
SEO explained in plain English.
Google's job is to send people to the most relevant, trustworthy answer for their search. To rank, your site needs to load fast, work on phones, contain the words people actually search for, be clearly about a topic, and be linked to by other sites in your niche or area.
SEO takes time because trust takes time. Expect 60–90 days for initial movement and 6–12 months for significant, sustainable growth. The compounding payoff is why it's worth doing right.
Beware cheap SEO. Sketchy backlinks and keyword stuffing can get your site penalized or de-indexed entirely. Recovering from a Google penalty is harder, slower, and more expensive than doing SEO properly the first time.
What you get from us: a clear plan, transparent monthly reports, real keyword movement, and SEO work that holds up to algorithm updates.
SEO FAQ.
How we work
Elevate builds websites from scratch on our Lovable + Cloudflare stack. Ongoing services like maintenance, SEO, and booking integrations are available only for sites built by Elevate. If you have an existing site elsewhere, we rebuild from scratch, often faster and cheaper than patching a site we don't own. GBP, Google Ads, and audit services are available to any business regardless of where your site is hosted.
Stop being invisible on Google.
Free SEO audit covers map pack visibility, on-page health, and the 3 things keeping you out. 60-second turnaround.
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