Google Business Profile
Set up and kept current: categories, hours, services and photos, so Google Maps shows the right picture of you.
Local SEO and AI search
Get found on Google, Maps and the AI apps.
Stellaris Ridge does local SEO and AI search visibility work for owner-run businesses: your Google profile, listings, website content and a plain monthly report. We never promise rankings or AI citations. Based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; serving Alabama, the Southeast and the Midwest.
The problem
People ask Google and AI apps who to call.
Someone searches your trade and your town. They see a map with three names, maybe an AI answer that names a few more, and a list of websites. If you are not in those places, you are not in the running for that job.
More searches now end at the answer without a click. That makes the basics matter more: a complete Google profile, listings that agree with each other, a website that says clearly what you do and where, and real reviews.
We do that work, we measure it, and we tell you plainly what moved and what did not.
What we do
The work that holds up.
Listings that agree
A claimed Yelp, Bing Places and Apple Business listing, with your name, address and phone matching your Google profile exactly.
Local search for your service area
A website and content that say what you do and where you do it. Pages that are useful to a customer, not a page for every town name.
AI search visibility
We check what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers say about your trade and your town, and work on being a source worth quoting.
A competitor check
We show you who comes up instead of you, and what they have that you do not.
A plain monthly report
What we checked, how we checked it, what moved. No jargon and no padded numbers.
How it works
Start with a look, then build.
Step 1 · Free
15-minute check
We look at where you show up today, including your Google Maps position against the shop down the road, and tell you what we see.
Step 2 · Quoted
Fix the basics
Your profile, listings and website basics, fixed first. Every build is quoted before any work starts.
Step 3
Content and reviews
Useful pages and posts about your real work, written with your input and approved by you before they go out. Reviews feed in through review requests.
Step 4
Measure and adjust
A monthly report. We keep what works and drop what does not.
What it costs
Local search plans start at $500/mo.
The AI Recommendation Audit is free. Local Visibility is $500/mo after a $750 one-time setup. Local AI Presence is $750/mo and Local Authority is $1,000/mo. Blog articles are $75 each, or 4 a month for $250.
Every plan and the fine print are on the pricing page.
What we will not say
No promises about rankings or AI answers.
Nobody outside Google controls where you rank, and nobody outside an AI company decides what its answers quote. Anyone who promises a spot is selling you something else.
We also do not sell tricks. A special text file for AI, extra markup or reformatting your pages does not get a business into AI answers, and Google's own guidance says so. We keep your site technically clean because that is good housekeeping, not because it buys a citation.
A citation in an AI answer is also not the same as a customer. We track both, and we keep them separate in the report.
For the website side, see websites. For the bigger picture of being found, see be seen.
Questions
Fair questions.
What is GEO, and how is it different from SEO?
SEO is about showing up in search results like Google and Bing. GEO is about being a source that AI apps such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity draw on when they answer. Much of the work overlaps: a clear website, a complete Google profile, listings that agree and real reviews.
Can you get me to number one or into AI answers?
No. Nobody can promise that, and we do not. We do the work that helps and we report honestly on what moved.
Does adding schema or an llms.txt file get me into AI answers?
No. Google's own guidance says those do not work for that. We keep the technical basics right, but we do not sell them as a way into AI answers.
How long does it take?
It builds over time rather than switching on. We set expectations on the call and report monthly, so you see what is moving.
Do I have to write the content myself?
No. We draft it from your real work and you approve it before anything goes out.
What does it cost?
Local Visibility is $500/mo after a $750 one-time setup. Local AI Presence is $750/mo and Local Authority is $1,000/mo. The AI Recommendation Audit is free.
Start with a free 15-minute check.
A short call with Carl or Jarod. We look at one part of your week and tell you one thing we would fix.