Local SEO for Kingston businesses, explained in plain English

You need the people already looking for what you sell to find you first. Three sizes, one price each, and everything you get is yours to keep.

What this is

I help small businesses in and around Kingston show up when someone nearby searches for what they do. That's the whole job. A plumber in Kingscourt, a dentist off Princess Street, a shop in the limestone blocks downtown: when a customer pulls out a phone and types four words, you want to be one of the results they actually see.

Most of the work is less exotic than it sounds. Your Google Business Profile is the modern version of the hours sign taped inside your front door. When that sign says one thing and reality says another, people show up at the wrong time and quietly decide you're unreliable. A lot of local SEO is walking the block, checking every sign anyone can see, and fixing the ones that are wrong.

Three ways to do this

Pick the size that matches what's actually broken. All three are one price, paid once, and if your situation needs more than a tier covers, you hear the number before anything starts.

Good

$750

Claim and verify your Google Business Profile
Fix your name, address, phone and hours everywhere they're wrong
Merge duplicate listings into one clean profile
Correct your category and service area
Answer the review backlog with you
Regular updates while the work is underway, so you always know where things stand
A one-page report: what was broken, what changed, what to watch yourself

Better

$1,500

Everything in Good
Citations built and corrected across the directories that actually carry weight
Photos organized and uploaded properly, instead of whatever got pulled in automatically
A review-request system that's yours to keep: a link, a QR code, a script that sounds like a real conversation
Service-area pages checked against what people actually type into their phone
Weekly check-ins while the work is underway, so we can steer together as we go
A 90-day follow-up look, included

Best

$2,800

Everything in Better
One or two new pages, written for your top services, built straight into your own site, yours to keep
Local schema done properly, on the site itself, so the technical side matches what customers see
An honest look at who's actually beating you in the results, and why
Weekly check-ins for as long as the project runs, so we can steer together toward what's working
A 6-month check-in, included
First call if you ever want the site itself rebuilt, same person, already up to speed on your business

If Good turns out to be the right first step, whatever you paid counts toward Better or Best within the next year. It's a top-up, building on the work already done.

You own the Google Business Profile login. You own the pages. You own the content. All of it stays yours and keeps working, on its own, long after the job is finished.

Start with the size that's right today, and grow into the next one whenever the business is ready for it.

You get a report you can actually read: what I did, what changed, and what's next. A report that needs me on the phone to explain it is a report I wrote badly.

I'll tell you plainly when the size you already have is enough. Some businesses need the full build. Some do well with the cleanup and a nudge every spring. I'd rather say that out loud than sell you the big one.

Who I am

I'm Christopher Ross. I've been building for the web since 1996 and working in WordPress since 2007. I also run thisismyurl.com, where I do higher-end work for larger organizations, universities and government teams among them. A bakery's Google listing matters to that bakery exactly as much as a university's search visibility matters to the university, so KingstonSEO.com exists as its own practice, built specifically for local businesses, in three real sizes.

I work from the Niagara region, at the other end of Lake Ontario. Kingston is a new market for me, and I'm doing the homework properly to earn that. More on that on the Kingston page.

Start with a phone call

Call 613.480.1345, or email [email protected]. Tell me what you sell and who you want walking through the door, and within one business day you'll hear back from me directly with which of the three sizes fits, in writing. If I'm the wrong fit for what you need, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

Call 613.480.1345, or email [email protected].