Altus Marketing

• Offers SEO, local SEO, and GEO to small businesses on one 12-month roadmap.
• Writes ghostwritten pages and posts, seven a month, for the client to approve.
• Adds technical audits, web design, and monthly reporting on rankings, AI recommendations, and leads.

We scored the agency on eight dimensions to show a buyer where it is strong and where it is thin. Scores run from 1 to 10. The last column shows each score's difference from the median for all reviewed agencies.

We estimated how the agency's work splits across service types, which shows a buyer where its effort goes.

• local SEO and Map Pack work for small businesses
• SEO and GEO planned together on one 12-month roadmap
• month-to-month terms with direct access to the founder

• you need public monthly retainer prices
• you need a large team or enterprise-scale programs
• you need paid media run by the same team

Altus follows existing GEO practice, which is what gets results. It audits a client's AI citation footprint, then works on authority statements, placement in best-of and comparison articles, expert mentions, and review profiles. The newer part is the scale, since Altus offers that work to small businesses on month-to-month terms.

Altus Marketing does not list prices and quotes after a free audit and strategy call. We estimate its retainers at about $3,000 a month, in the $ band.

• “Before working with Altus, we were getting about 5-8 consultation requests per month. Within six months, we were ranking #2 in the Google Map Pack for 'skincare Chagrin Falls' and consistently receiving 25+ consultation requests each month.”

• “Maddie with Altus Marketing has been a game changer for our startup. She's responsive, clear about timelines and expectations, and comes up with strong ideas for our SEO blog content. We're already starting to see our traffic grow and our metrics move in the right direction.”

• “Maddie is extremely knowledgeable and organized making it easy to understand, even the most difficult technical aspects. We have complete confidence that Maddie is the right person to help us reach all our goals.”

• “Month one was all planning. We did not see a new page go live until month two, and every draft needed our approval before it published.”