# Local SEO

> Local SEO at ellul.ai: £295 a month, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A business that serves a town or region.

- Price: £295 a month (monthly)
- Time: Monthly, rolling
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/local-seo

## What is included
- Google Business Profile managed
- Local pages and citations
- Reviews strategy
- Monthly map-ranking report

## What other providers charge
Other agencies publish a median of £449.50 a month for SEO (338 prices, middle half £297.50 to £800). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/prices/seo/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
218 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for local SEO between November 2025 and November 2026, 154 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/localseo, r/GoogleMyBusiness, r/SEO.

## Paid separately, at cost
- Any paid directory or citation listing you choose, paid to that directory

## What the buyer supplies
- Owner or manager access to your Google Business Profile
- Your business name, address, phone number and the areas you serve
- A way to reach past customers with review requests

## What the price does not cover
- Google decides map and search positions; the fee covers the work, not a ranking
- Reviews come from real customers; none are written, bought or filtered

## Rules that apply
- Since 6 April 2025 UK law (DMCC Act 2024, Schedule 20) bans submitting or commissioning fake consumer reviews and publishing reviews in a misleading way, such as removing negative ones while publishing positive ones. Source: [Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Schedule 20 paragraph 13 (legislation.gov.uk)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/20)
- Google Maps does not allow reviews paid for directly or in kind, and bars businesses from discouraging negative reviews or selectively asking for positive ones. Source: [Google Maps User Generated Content Policy: Prohibited and restricted content](https://support.google.com/contributionpolicy/answer/7400114)
- Google says a Business Profile name should reflect the business's real-world name with no unnecessary information added, and a service-area business should hide its address from customers. Source: [Google Business Profile Help: Guidelines for representing your business on Google](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177)

## A cheaper way to do it
- Google says creating a Business Profile and listing a business on Google is free. Source: [Google Business Profile: Get Listed on Google](https://business.google.com/en-all/business-profile/)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/local-seo#quote