Local SEO, Google Business Profile and Google Ads for Portsmouth businesses, from a team 20 minutes away in Exeter. We'll meet you in person.
Month-to-month, no contracts · A senior strategist on every account · In-person meetings in Portsmouth
Local businesses and professional practices that want more calls, bookings and form leads from people searching nearby.
We also work with businesses in neighboring Rye, New Castle, Greenland and Newington, and across the bridge in Kittery and York, Maine.
Portsmouth search
A tight map radius
Downtown packs a lot of businesses into a few blocks, so Google's map results can change from one street to the next. A practice on Islington Street and one at Pease may show up for different searchers. We map where you appear across the city, not one ranking for all of Portsmouth.
Visitors and year-round residents
Summer brings people searching on their phones from hotels and downtown streets. The rest of the year, it's mostly residents and nearby towns. Your profile and pages need to work for both.
Customers on both sides of the river
Kittery, Eliot and York are a bridge away. If you serve Maine customers, your profile and pages need to say so, or Google may not show you there.
Google Business Profile management
Categories, services, photos and weekly posts, kept current.
Service and neighborhood pages
Written around what Portsmouth customers search for.
Technical and on-page SEO
Site speed, page structure and schema markup.
Citation cleanup
Your name, address and phone matching everywhere they appear.
Review requests
Sent after every job or appointment.
Monthly reporting
Rankings, calls and form leads, explained plainly.
See: Local SEO in New Hampshire →
See: Local SEO for contractors →
SEO builds leads that keep coming without paying per click, but it takes time. Google and Meta ads bring in calls from the top of Google in the meantime, and a website built for calls gets more out of the traffic you already have.
A boutique inn in a restored 1809 Federal-style house on The Hill. We built the website and handled its on-site SEO: page structure, titles and descriptions, and copy written around how guests search for places to stay downtown.
How we work
1. Find the problem
We look at where you show up across Portsmouth, compare your profile and site with whoever ranks first, and show you what's holding you back.
2. Do only what you need
Some businesses need their profile fixed. Others need new pages or ads. We build a plan around your business, not a package.
3. Report and meet
One senior strategist plans your work, sends a monthly report on rankings, calls and leads, and meets with you in person or by video.
People are now typing full questions, like “who’s a good SEO company in Portsmouth” or “best med spa downtown,” into Google’s AI features and ChatGPT. We track Portsmouth-specific questions each month, so you can see whether you’re being mentioned and who is getting named instead. See our AEO services →
Plans start at $500 a month. Month-to-month, no long-term contracts. Ad spend is billed to you directly by Google or Meta.
Our plans start at $500 a month. The price depends on how many services and areas you want to show up for and how many competitors are working on the same searches. If you run ads, that spend is billed to you directly by Google or Meta. There are no long-term contracts.
Google Business Profile fixes and new reviews can start to make a difference within weeks. New pages usually take a few months to rank, depending on the competition. After the first review, we’ll tell you what’s realistic for your business.
Yes. We’re 20 minutes away in Exeter and glad to meet at your office or downtown. Video calls work too.
We’re confident we can help. No one controls every factor, including Google’s algorithm, what your competitors do and how far each searcher is from you, so no honest agency can guarantee a spot. We follow Google’s guidelines and focus on what moves map rankings: your profile, reviews, website pages and listings.
Yes. We work with businesses from Boston to Portland, Maine, including Kittery, York and the rest of southern Maine. See marketing for southern Maine businesses.
Send us your business name and the services you want to show up for. We’ll look at where you rank across Portsmouth, compare you with whoever shows up first, and walk you through what we’d fix.