What the numbers say about getting found.
Recent research on how people pick a local business from Google, and what each of our packages works on. Every number links to its source.
What each package works on.
The bars show how many searchers click each Google result. Pick a package to see which of those clicks it works on. It shows what the work aims at, not a promise of where you'll rank.
Source: First Page Sage, Google click-through rates by ranking position (published Sep 2026). An SEO agency's data from 1,184 websites, 3.67 billion Google impressions, March to August 2026. Phones and computers combined, all types of searches; local searches may differ. The 35% figure for AI answers is from Seer Interactive (3,119 searches across 42 businesses, June 2024 to September 2025).
Check your Google reviews.
Enter what your Google profile shows today. We compare it with what customers said they look for in a 2026 survey. Nothing you enter leaves this page.
Example numbers are filled in to start.
97% of people in the same survey read reviews for local businesses, and 45% now use ChatGPT or other AI tools for local recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier. Plus and up include a link that asks happy customers for reviews.
Source: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (published Feb 2026). An online survey of 1,002 US adults about what they say they do. No Canadian survey like it exists yet.
How long SEO really takes.
Slide through the first two years after launch to see what the research found at each point. This is why Plus and up have a 6-month minimum.
Sources: Google's John Mueller, July 2025 (via Search Engine Journal); Google's Maile Ohye, "How to hire an SEO", February 2017 (via Bruce Clay); Semrush, 28,000 new US websites tracked 2021 to 2022; Ahrefs, 1 million new pages first seen September 2023. Semrush and Ahrefs sell SEO tools and measured national US searches, not local ones.
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