Pricing plans

SEO pricing for North Bay businesses

Plans run $300, $500 or $700 CAD monthly, and you can quit whenever it stops paying. Plenty of owners begin on Starter, and we are glad when that is enough.

  • From $300 CAD a month
  • Leave any month
  • Monthly reporting
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Pricing plans

Starter

Groundwork for a business starting out on Google

$300 CAD/month

  • Basic SEO setup
  • Keyword research
  • On-page optimization
  • Google Analytics setup
  • Monthly performance report
Get started

Suits: young businesses, one-person operations and trades without many competitors nearby

Pro

Organic search and paid Google Ads, handled together

$700 CAD/month

  • SEO strategy & execution
  • Content optimization
  • Google Ads management
  • Conversion optimization
  • Priority support & reporting
Get started

Suits: businesses wanting enquiries this season while rankings build; ad spend is paid to Google

The numbers, up front

What does SEO cost a business in North Bay?

Owners on Lakeshore and Main Street ask this before anything else, so here it is without a sales call: the usual monthly spend for a one-location business in North Bay, Ontario, in Canadian dollars, and where our three plans land.

Under $300

Software, mostly

Expect an automated dashboard and little more. Nobody rewrites a page, sorts out your Maps listing or picks up when you email a question.

$300 – $1,500

Where most single shops sit

Someone working on your listing, pages and directory entries every month, then explaining it in plain words. Ours run $300, $500 and $700.

Over $1,500

Branches and province-wide reach

Groups with several locations, or firms courting clients right across the province. One storefront in Nipissing rarely has a reason to spend this.

All of these amounts, ours included, are Canadian dollars.

Signs that point you toward Starter, Growth or Pro

Most weighty first, lightest last.

  1. 01 How crowded your trade is A well driller or a fabrication shop may face a handful of local rivals. A dentist or family lawyer is up against several practices that have collected reviews for years.
  2. 02 How far your trucks go Working one corner of the city is simple. Reaching Callander, Powassan, Sturgeon Falls and Mattawa as well means extra town pages and more listing upkeep.
  3. 03 One language or two French pages are a second set to look after. We build the structure; the wording comes from you or a translator you hire.
  4. 04 Where your site is starting from A dated or slow-loading site sometimes needs fixing before search work pays off. Any such repair is a separate, one-off price.
  5. 05 Whether ads are part of it Pro includes the hands-on management of Google Ads. Google bills the clicks to you directly, and we never mark them up.

The fee should pay for this, at minimum

A yardstick for any agency in Nipissing, us among them.

  • Hands-on edits to your Google Business Profile, not only a glance
  • Reports counting calls, messages and bookings alongside positions
  • New pages shaped by what people across Nipissing actually search
  • Technical repairs that keep the site quick and readable for Google
  • Logins and listings kept under your business, never under ours
  • Routine website upkeep, and a person who writes back
Owner and advisor at a shop counter, reading through a printed report together

When the money starts coming back

Early corrections first, then slower, building gains.

  1. The first month

    Fixing what is plainly wrong

    An unverified listing, the wrong category, summer hours still showing in January, an old phone number on a directory. Sorting these can help almost right away.

  2. Around month four

    A direction you can read

    New pages are indexed and reviews are arriving. The report should now show whether calls and messages are climbing.

  3. A year in

    The fair test

    Line up a year of fees against the jobs search brought in. That tally answers whether to keep going.

Will SEO pay its way for you?

Some businesses would be wasting their money, and it is kinder to say so early.

Likely worth it if

  • People around the district look on Google for what you sell
  • A single extra customer covers one month of fees
  • You can wait out a season before passing judgement
  • Your calendar has room for more jobs

Likely not yet if

  • You are booked solid for most of the year
  • Nearly all your work flows from one contract or referrer
  • Calls are needed by Friday; paid ads get there first
  • Customers reach you through word of mouth and never search

Three things we hold to

Month to month

Walk away at the end of any month that it stops earning its keep.

No ranking promises

Google sets the order. A guarantee of first place is a sales line, not a forecast.

Straight reporting

If rankings climb but the phone stays quiet, our report says so in its first paragraph.

How does North Bay see you on Google?

A free check of your rankings from downtown out to Callander, the listings sitting above yours and the fixes worth doing first.

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