Portland, Maine SEO that competes with the directories on the results page.

Two things: how many trades and towns you want covered, and what one new customer is worth. If you sell one trade in one city, the retainer can sit near $1,300 a month. If you want every service line you sell covered across Cumberland County and the site is thin, expect the top of the range near $3,000, because the pages and the profile work get built before anything moves.

The first technical fixes usually show inside 30 days. Local and long-tail rankings typically need 60 to 90 days, and the revenue compounds from month four. The monthly report starts counting calls and leads in week one, so you can watch the trend in the meantime.

The listing order is Google’s to set, and Lithium will not pretend otherwise. What we do is the work that earns a look: the profile filled out, a page per service and town, the same details on every listing, and a review request after each finished job. If the order moves, your report shows it.

It is, and the directories are the reason. Angi, Facebook, Reddit and Yelp show up because they answer questions in plain words, and a trade page can answer better once it carries the detail. A customer who sees your business in the listings and then your page underneath has two chances at the same call.

The retainer covers it. We write passages an AI tool can lift and quote, add schema, keep your business details identical everywhere, and publish the crawler file that tells AI tools what they may read. A mention or a citation is not something anyone can promise, so the report stays on calls and leads.