A field guide to getting found — est. in Los Angeles County
Local SEO for Home-Service Businesses
More calls and booked jobs for home-service pros
We get local trades found in Google and the Map Pack, from our home base in Los Angeles County to anywhere in the US — so when a customer, or AI, looks for the best pro nearby, the answer is you.
Every plan includes a free custom website, new or rebuilt from yours.
Built for local trades, established in Los Angeles County
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The short version
What CityBoost does, in forty-five seconds.
A homeowner searches, three names show up, and the call goes to whoever is on that list. The video is how a trade gets onto it: the Google profile done right, a website built for the trade, pages for every city served, and answers AI can cite.
Sound stays off until you turn it on. The words are on screen.
Read the video as text
- You're great at your trade.
- Someone needs you. Right now.
- She searches. Three names show up.
- Or she asks AI. Same three names.
- You're down here.
- The call goes to whoever shows up.
- CityBoost SEO gets trades found. Local SEO for the trades.
- Your Google profile, done right.
- A website built for your trade. Included with every plan.
- Pages for every city you serve.
- Answers AI can cite.
- Now the call comes to you.
- Trades across the U.S.
- See what we do. cityboostseo.com
Before the audit
See how far your Google listing actually reaches.
Google ranks you differently from every street corner. Our free Map Pack Grid runs one of the searches that books jobs from 25 points around your listing and shows where you're in the top 3, and where you vanish.
One scan per business, about a minute, delivered to your inbox. No phone number, and nobody calls unless you ask.
Chapter I
AI didn't kill SEO for local trades. It raised the stakes.
When someone asks Google — or AI — for the best pro nearby, the answer is built from your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your site, and other websites that recommend your business. We make sure it points to you.
AI didn’t kill SEO for the trades. It just made the answer shorter — and being in it, or out of it, is now binary.
01
AI answers are built from your presence
Ask an assistant for the "best HVAC near me" and the reply is assembled from your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your site, and mentions of your business across the internet. Weak signals leave you out of the answer entirely.
02
The goal moved from ranking to being recommended
It's no longer just about page one. It's about being the business the AI actually names. Same fundamentals — higher stakes.
03
The trades that feed the right signals win the calls
Accurate listings, real reviews, and locally relevant content are what make Google and AI confidently send customers to you. That's what we build.
Chapter I½ — The page itself
Where local customers actually find you on Google now
A search result used to be a list. Now it’s a stack, and the order shifts with intent — ads lead on the searches that book jobs, the AI answer leads on the ones that don’t. The map pack still drives a huge share of calls; it just isn’t always the first thing on the screen anymore.
The work is the same work. It now has to satisfy four readers instead of one.
What feeds all four
Google Business Profile
Reviews — volume & recency
Local pages on your site
Mentions & citations
Paid results
Local Services Ads and Google Ads. On a job-booking search these outrank even the AI answer — you can buy this spot, and for emergency work it is often worth buying.
AI Overview
A written answer assembled from profiles, reviews, sites and mentions — sometimes with sponsored listings inside it. On a question with no ads on it, this is the first thing on the page.
The map pack
Still three slots, still a huge share of the calls — just no longer the first thing on the screen for every search.
Organic listings
Your city and service pages. They also feed the two things above, which is why they still matter.
Chapter II — The work
Everything that makes you the business customers — and AI — choose
One month-to-month plan covers the ongoing local search work, and every plan includes a custom website we design, host and run for you, free. Ad management and lead automation are quoted separately, so you’re never paying a retainer for a job that finished.
Starting points. Your exact quote depends on how competitive your market is, and is set after the free audit — not before. Every plan includes a free custom website, with no setup fee.
Website Design & Development
A fast, conversion-built site that turns visitors into calls, designed for your business, then hosted, watched and renewed by us. Free on every plan, or buy one on its own.
Free on every plan · from $1,500 on its ownLocal Services & Google Ads
Managed Local Services Ads and Google Ads for ready-to-book customers. Bolt onto any plan, or run on their own.
Management fee + ad spendLead Management & Automation
For shops already getting found but losing the calls. Missed-call text-back, CRM, estimates, invoices and payments, AI receptionist optional. No SEO retainer required.
$197/mo + $497 setupExtra content & service areas
Scale content up or expand into more cities as you grow.
Add to any planChapter III
How our Local SEO process works
Nothing about this is mysterious. Here is the order it happens in.
Free Audit
We review your current local presence — Google Business Profile, reviews, website, and rankings — and show you exactly where you're losing calls.
Local Game Plan
We build a focused plan around your services and your service-area cities, prioritized by what drives calls fastest.
Build & Optimize
We improve your site, optimize your Google Business Profile, strengthen reviews and citations, and run ads where it makes sense — so Google and AI surface you as the answer.
Grow & Report
We track rankings, calls, and leads, refine month over month, and keep you in the loop with clear, no-jargon reporting.
Free tools
Not ready to talk? Check it yourself first.
Run a free check on your own business: where your listing shows up, whether AI names you, what Google Ads would cost in your trade. Every one is free.
Chapter IV — Who we work with
We do one thing: local search for the trades
No e-commerce, no SaaS, no national campaigns. Every hour goes into getting home-service businesses found where their customers actually look — the map pack, local search, and AI answers.
Chapter V — Service area
Established across Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County is home base. Knowing the housing stock, the weather and the street-level demand in each city is the difference between generic SEO and a page that ranks, and it’s the same work we do in any new market. Find your city below, or ask about yours.
Why CityBoost SEO
A local specialist, not a generalist agency
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Established in LA County
Based in Montebello, with our clients concentrated in Los Angeles County. We work with trades anywhere in the US, and every engagement starts by mapping the cities your customers search from.
02
Trades are all we do
No restaurants, no e-commerce. Just home-service businesses — so the playbook is tuned to how your customers actually find and choose a pro.
03
Clear reporting, no lock-in
You see what's working in plain terms — calls, leads, and rankings — without long contracts or jargon-filled dashboards.
04
One shop per trade, per city
Once we take on a business in your trade and city, that spot is closed. We'll never be quietly working for the competitor down the street.
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Ready to own local search in your city?
Get a free audit and we'll show you exactly where the calls are slipping away — and how to win them back.