Wrong category, invisible listing
One wrong primary category can bury a profile. Most owners never find out; the phone just stays quiet.
Web and Marketing · Google Business Profile
The map pack is where the calls live.
The box of three local results gets the lion’s share of clicks and calls. Getting your business into it, and keeping it there, is the whole job of this service.
Google Business Profile and local SEO from NorthFork Digital gets your listing correct, complete, and active, then works it monthly so your business shows up when neighbors search. Setup or cleanup runs $300 to $750. Monthly care starts at $399 for Local Visibility Care, with the SEO Growth Plan from $749 for businesses chasing tougher markets across Cowlitz and Clark counties.
Why this matters
The problem this solves
Where it costs you today:
Profiles decay untended
Hours change, photos age, competitors post weekly. A listing nobody touches slides down while you work.
One edit from trouble
Profiles get suspended over honest mistakes. Getting reinstated without help can take weeks of silence.
Google Business Profile and Local SEO
What is included
The services, priced in the open:
Setup or cleanup
A profile built or repaired correctly: categories, services, photos, hours, and the mess untangled.
- Duplicates and bad data fixed
- Right categories for your trade
- Suspension recovery when needed
Local Visibility Care
The monthly engine: profile activity, citations, review flow, minor site edits, and a plain report.
- Weekly profile activity
- Citations built and corrected
- Monthly plain-English report
SEO Growth Plan
Everything above plus on-site local SEO: service and city pages, keyword tracking, content that ranks.
- On-site SEO included
- Service and city pages built out
- Keyword movement tracked and reported
Honest expectations
What local SEO actually looks like, month by month
Local search compounds. Anyone promising page one in two weeks is selling something else.
Month 0 to 1: foundation
Profile set up or cleaned, categories corrected, duplicates killed, citations fixed, review requests turned on. The mess ends here.
Months 2 to 3: movement
First ranking movement on easier searches, review count climbing, listing activity steady. The report shows which keywords moved and which have not yet.
Months 4 to 6: compounding
The harder, higher-value searches respond. Calls from the listing become a pattern, not an event. This is why the growth plan has a six-month minimum.
Fit check
Is this a fit?
Honest filter. Saves us both a call.
Good fit
- Local service businesses and trades in Southwest Washington
- You want calls and booked jobs, not vanity metrics
- You can handle more work if the phone rings
- You will stick with local search long enough for it to compound
Not a fit
- You want guaranteed page-one rankings. Nobody honest sells those.
- E-commerce or product businesses
- You need results in two weeks or you are out
- Month-to-month from day one with no commitment
How it works
How it goes in
Same arc as everything NorthFork builds:
01
Free audit
A short video naming what this would fix in your business and what it costs. No 47-page PDF.
02
Plan and price
Written scope, published pricing, your approval before anything starts.
03
Cleanup done in 1 to 2 weeks; care compounds monthly
Built, tested on your real business, and reviewed with you before it touches a customer. Then the monthly numbers keep score.
Straight talk
Proof, honestly
NorthFork is new and no fake logos will appear here. What I put in writing instead:
The guarantee on this one
The work in your plan happens every month and the report proves it. No ranking guarantees, because nobody honest sells those; visible work and real numbers instead.
Questions
Google Business Profile and Local SEO questions
How much does local SEO cost per month?
Local Visibility Care is $399 a month; the SEO Growth Plan runs $749 to $995 with a six-month minimum because local SEO compounds and month-to-month proves nothing. Setup or cleanup is a one-time $300 to $750.
What exactly is the map pack?
The box of three local businesses Google shows with a map above the regular results. Most local clicks and calls concentrate there, which is why this service exists.
My profile got suspended. Can you get it back?
Usually, yes. Reinstatements are paperwork plus knowing what Google actually wants. It is part of the cleanup service, and the audit will tell you what likely triggered it.
Why does my competitor outrank me on Google Maps?
Usually some mix of categories, reviews, proximity, and activity. The audit shows the specific gaps for your listing rather than a generic list, so you know if closing them takes $300 or a six-month plan.
Next step
See how your listing actually looks to Google
The free audit grades your profile the way the ranking systems do: categories, completeness, activity, reviews. Findings in a short video, prices attached.
Book a Free Audit