Houston and the Gulf Coast
A Houston SEO company that has to earn its keep, priced before we start. Houston is an energy city first — oil and gas headquarters, upstream and downstream services, engineering and equipment — and it is also the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, which is why dental, medical and specialist practices are a real market here. Add the Port of Houston, aerospace at Johnson Space Center and one of the largest bilingual business communities in the country, and you have several different buyers who do not search the same way. Month one is $750.
The questions that cost you money
Houston buyers build a shortlist before they call. Energy services, engineering and equipment suppliers, freight brokers, clinics and practices are all compared online first, and the business with the credible page gets the enquiry that never reached you. A site that looks like it was built in 2016 costs you work you never hear about.
The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical complex in the world, and the dental, medical and specialist practices around it compete for the same nearby searches. If the profile is thin, the reviews are stale and the service areas are wrong, the map pack sends those patients to the practice down the road.
A dental practice cannot stop mid-treatment to take a call, and a new-patient enquiry rarely waits. An AI receptionist answers every one in 13 languages, handles the questions a front desk handles, books into your practice calendar and texts you the summary.
The local question
Downtown, Uptown, The Heights, Montrose, Katy, Sugar Land and The Woodlands are separate searches with separate competitors, not one metro. Profile management, reviews and a page per area — $750 a month for three locations.
What we would actually do here
A dental practice runs on the phone, and the phone rings while both hands are in a patient. Our AI receptionist answers every new-patient call, handles the questions a front desk handles, books the appointment into your practice calendar and texts you the summary. It copes with the bilingual callers who make up a real share of Houston enquiries, works in 13 languages, never puts anyone on hold and never closes for lunch.
See what it costsNearby search is where dental, medical and service businesses in Houston are won. We fix the profile, the categories and the service areas, build the review flow, clean up the citations behind it, and pair it with pages for the districts you actually serve. Reporting shows where you appear in the map pack and what that produced.
See what it costsThe rest of what we sell
Nothing here is bundled to make the invoice look bigger. Pick the one costing you money.
Enquiries this month rather than next year.
See what it costsAuthority that holds its value.
See what it costsPages that answer the search and close the sale.
See what it costsGet found by people already searching for what you sell.
See what it costsTurn the traffic you already have into enquiries.
See what it costsGet named in AI answers, not just ranked in links.
See what it costsThe Houston market
Houston is an energy capital before it is anything else: the headquarters of ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, Halliburton, SLB, Baker Hughes and Occidental, along with the upstream and downstream services, engineering firms and equipment suppliers that sell to each other and to the world. The Port of Houston carries the freight that follows, Johnson Space Center anchors aerospace and engineering talent, and the Texas Medical Center — the largest medical complex in the world, and home to MD Anderson, Texas Children's and Houston Methodist — supports a dense ring of dental, medical and specialist practices that live or die on nearby search.
It is also one of the largest bilingual business markets in the country, and a Houston buyer may search in English, in Spanish or in both. Downtown, Uptown and the Galleria, The Heights, Montrose and Midtown, and the suburbs out through Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Cypress and Pearland are separate searches with separate competitors. A page written for one does not win the others.
We do not guess at any of it. The first month goes into your site, your competitors and your enquiry data, and the ongoing quote follows what that actually showed.
Where your customers are
Downtown and Uptown are not the same market as Katy or The Woodlands, and a Sugar Land homeowner is not shopping in Montrose. We build for the districts and suburbs you actually cover.
How it runs
Tell us the district, the trade and what a customer is worth. We quote before any work starts.
$750, spent on the site and the evidence rather than on publishing volume.
At the end of month one we show you what we found and what the ongoing work costs. You decide.
Technical fixes, content and links. Reported every month, no minimum term.
What this normally costs
Most Houston businesses pay $1,500–$3,500 a month for a full SEO retainer. Budget local menus start around $500–$1,200 and rarely move rankings at all, mid-market programs run $2,500–$5,000, and competitive or multi-location work reaches $5,000–$20,000+. Houston runs slightly below the national mid.
Websites from $1,000, single-channel SEO from $1,500/month and the full program at $2,500/month. Month one is $750 so you can judge the work first. Google Maps and profile management from $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location. That is roughly what most people pay, minus ten percent.
We are fluent English speakers, and we work the way you do — WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or a plain phone call, whichever suits you. Most South African SEO and digital marketing specialists already work inside US agencies, so there is a fair chance you have been served by one without knowing it. We cut out the middle man: you pay for the work, not for the agency layer sitting on top of it.
Market figures are prices published by agencies serving Houston, gathered September 2026. They are ranges from public rate cards, not one company’s quote, and they move.
Straight answers
No proposal document and no discovery call to get a number. Ask directly and you will get a straight answer.
Ask about HoustonSingle-channel SEO starts at $1,500 a month and the full program is $2,500, with month one at $750 so you can judge the work before committing to it. Google Business Profile and Maps management is $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location. Websites start at $1,000.
Yes, and Houston is one of the strongest markets in the country for it. The Texas Medical Center and the practices around it compete on nearby search, so the profile, the reviews and the district pages matter more than a blog. Our AI receptionist for dentists covers the calls that arrive while the front desk is with a patient.
Yes, and in most trades that is the easier win. Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Cypress and Pearland are substantial markets with distinctly less competition than Houston proper. We build for the areas you actually serve.
Where it earns its place. Houston has one of the largest bilingual business communities in the country, and for some businesses a Spanish-language page or profile content is the difference between being found and being skipped. The AI receptionist handles calls in 13 languages.
If the site is costing you enquiries, the website. If nobody can find you, SEO or local search. If you need work this month, Google Ads or the AI receptionist. We will say which, including when the cheapest one is right.
There is no minimum term. You stop whenever you like and you keep the site, the content, the profiles and the accounts.
Get a price
One reply, with the package, the price and exactly what it covers. If we are not the right answer, we will say that too.
