South Portland SEO that helps a nearby-town search find you.

The retainer runs $1,300–$3,000 a month. Where you land depends on the services and towns you want pages for, the work the profile needs and how hard the trade searches are to win. A single-location trades business usually starts near the low end; a company covering the whole metro sits higher.

The first fixes usually land inside a month. Local rankings and longer searches take 60 to 90 days to settle, and the fourth month is where the trend starts to bend. Calls and leads are counted from the first report, so the business sees movement before the rankings catch up.

Google decides who appears in the map, and no one can promise a spot. What Lithium does is complete the profile, match the categories and services to the work you sell, keep the listings consistent and build pages that give Google a reason to trust the business. The report shows whether calls moved.

Only for the towns where you take work. A town page needs its own jobs, its own photos and a reason to exist; a page that swaps the name and changes nothing else gives Google and the customer the same thin result. Start with the towns that produce the most calls and add from there.

The retainer already covers AI search work, with no separate audit to buy. On the pages, that means short answer blocks near the top, schema behind them and the same business facts wherever Google or an AI tool looks. An AI answer can still skip your company; no one controls that, so the monthly report keeps counting calls.