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Get found on Google. Get a website that earns its keep.

Most local businesses are missing calls and jobs they don't even know about. The fix is usually small, and it starts with a 5-minute look at your Google profile.

Text me for a free profile check

No sales call. Just an honest look at what's there and what to fix.

Rob, the person behind Local AI Forge
What I do

Two services, plain pricing

Google Business Profile

Three ways to work together, depending on where you're at: get set up, keep it active, or clear a backlog of reviews. Same service, different stage.

Get Found

For businesses not on Google, or never set up properly. Get on the map, show up when your town searches, and turn the profile into something that brings calls.

starting at $400 one-time

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Stay Active

Respond to new reviews, post a couple times a month, and keep your hours and info current so the profile keeps working.

starting at $200 /mo

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Review catch-up

Sitting on months of unanswered reviews? Clear the backlog, then optionally roll into monthly management. Priced by how many reviews need answering, and always at or above the monthly rate.

starting at $300 one-time

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Websites

A website that earns its keep

Most local business sites are either overbuilt, overpriced, or held hostage by a monthly platform. Mine are simple, fast, and yours.

Built to bring in work

Your services, your towns, your phone number, and a reason to call, all findable in one glance. No slideshow of stock photos pretending to be your crew.

Fast on purpose

No page builder bloat. Speed matters to Google, and it matters more to the customer standing in a parking lot on their phone.

You own everything

The site, the domain, the content. No monthly platform you can't leave. If we part ways, everything stays with you.

Findable by AI too

Services and prices written so Google and AI search tools can actually read and quote them. It's how more and more people pick a local business now.

A couple of sites I've built

I'm early in offering websites commercially, so I'm keeping the process simple and the pricing clear. Here's the kind of direct, practical build I use for my own projects.

Local AI Forge localaiforge.com

A service-business site built to explain the offer fast, show pricing, and get people to text. This is the site you're on right now.

Rebooting Rob rebootingrob.com

A personal brand site, built around video and story rather than local search. This one shows range, not a preview of a client build - your site would follow the Local AI Forge template above, not this one.

If your Google profile is where people find you, your website is where they decide whether to trust you.

How it works

  1. Text me what your business does and whether you have a current site.
  2. I send back a plain-English plan: what pages, what it says, what it costs. No meeting required.
  3. First version ready in about two weeks. You point at anything you want changed.
  4. We launch it, hooked up to your Google Business Profile so the two work together.

Starting at $1,500 one-time for a site of up to 5 pages. Bigger builds quoted up front before any work starts. No surprise line items, no monthly fee to keep your own site.

Text me about a website
Why it matters

A few things quietly costing local businesses work

No photos uploaded

Google ranks profiles with photos higher in local results, and customers skip profiles that look empty. A profile with no photos reads as abandoned, even if you're actively taking jobs.

Service area set too broad

Bigger isn't better here. When your service area covers your whole state, Google's algorithm doesn't know where to rank you. Setting specific towns tells Google exactly where to show your profile, and it works.

Reviews left unanswered

Someone took time out of their day to review your business. When no one replies, it tells them, and everyone else reading, that nobody's paying attention. A short, genuine reply makes that customer feel noticed and shows future customers you actually show up.

Stale reviews

Recent reviews are one of the biggest local ranking factors. A review from years ago signals to Google that your business may not be active, and it stops sending you customers.

Who's behind this

One person, no agency runaround

Rob

I'm Rob. I look at local business Google profiles every day and I keep seeing the same problems. They're easy to miss, but they're quietly costing people real work.

I'm not an agency. I'm one person who got into local SEO because I watched good local businesses lose jobs to businesses with worse work but better Google profiles. That's a fixable problem.

Text me and I'll take a look at yours for free. No pitch, no funnel, no upsell. Just a straight read on what's there and what to do about it.

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask

How much does Google Business Profile setup cost?

Setup starts at $400 one-time. That covers getting your business on the map, filling out the profile properly, setting the right service area, and turning it into something that brings calls instead of just existing. If your situation is simple, it stays at $400.

What does monthly Google Business Profile management include?

Starting at $200 a month: I respond to your new reviews, post a couple of times a month, and keep your hours, services, and info current. Google favors profiles with recent activity, so a maintained profile keeps its edge over ones that go quiet.

I have months of unanswered Google reviews. Can that be fixed?

Yes. Review catch-up starts at $300 one-time, priced by how many reviews need answering. Every reply is written to sound like you, not a bot. Old unanswered reviews tell customers and Google that nobody is paying attention, and that is usually fixable in about a week.

How much does a small business website cost?

My websites start at $1,500 one-time. Simple, fast sites built to bring in work: clear services, your towns, your phone number, and pages that load quick. No page builder bloat and no monthly platform fee you can never escape. You own the site outright.

Do I need a website if I have a Google Business Profile?

Not always, and I will tell you if you don't. A well-set-up profile alone can carry a lot of local businesses. A website starts to matter when customers want to compare you, see your work, or find you through searches your profile can't catch. Text me and I'll give you a straight answer for your situation.

What areas do you serve?

Home turf is upstate New York and Vermont, and I work with local businesses anywhere in the US. Google Business Profile work and websites are both done remotely, so location is never a blocker.

What happens when I text for the free profile check?

You text me, I look at your Google Business Profile, and within a day you get a plain-English rundown of what's working, what's not, and exactly what to fix. Takes you five minutes. No sales call, no funnel, and you can take the list and do it yourself if you want.

Am I locked into a contract?

No. One-time work is one-time. Monthly management is month to month, and you can stop anytime. Everything I set up belongs to you, including your website and your Google profile.

Ready to see what your profile is actually doing?

Takes 5 minutes. I'll tell you what's working, what's not, and exactly what to fix.

Text for a free profile check