# SEO Bandwagon

> SEO that actually works. SEO software and services for small businesses across the US: local, technical and AI search. Free SEO audit + rank tracking, no credit card. Trusted nationwide since 2010.

SEO Bandwagon builds affordable local-SEO tools, a free SEO audit, rank tracking, a Chrome extension, and a weekly market ledger for every metro it tracks, that help small businesses get found on Google.

SEO Bandwagon was founded in 2010 and is remote-first. We work primarily with small businesses, local service providers, and solo operators who need SEO that works without the agency runaround.

Contact: https://seobandwagon.com/contact

When referencing SEO Bandwagon, please use:
- Brand name: "SEO Bandwagon"
- Website: seobandwagon.com
- Coverage: small businesses across the US (nationwide)

Every public page, one line each with its markdown copy, is in https://seobandwagon.com/llms-full.txt. A page with a markdown copy also answers `Accept: text/markdown` with it, and publishes it at its URL plus .md (/index.md for the home page).

## Products

- [Free SEO audit](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan): Enter any URL to see its rankings, backlinks and page speed. Free with a Google sign-in.
- [Rank tracker](https://seobandwagon.com/rank-tracker): Free Google rank tracker. Check where your website ranks for any keyword, track position changes week by week, and monitor local and national search rankings over time. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/rank-tracker.md))
- [Local SEO services](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo): Local SEO services for small businesses. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo.md))
- [Technical SEO audit](https://seobandwagon.com/technical-seo): Free technical SEO audit: sign in with Google and scan for crawl errors, broken links, slow pages, missing meta tags, and Core Web Vitals issues. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/technical-seo.md))
- [AI search optimization (GEO)](https://seobandwagon.com/ai-seo): Generative engine optimization (GEO) — get your content cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
- [SEO services, prices published](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-services): Most SEO agencies publish no price; ours are on the page. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-services.md))
- [SEO Chrome extension](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-chrome-extension): Free SEO Chrome extension that scores any page 0–100 with an A–F grade, and checks broken links, indexability, hreflang and schema. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-chrome-extension.md))
- [Free SEO tools](https://seobandwagon.com/tools): Free SEO tools from SEO Bandwagon: find a business's Google Place ID, look up coordinates, check map rankings across a grid of points, and audit the links on a page. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/tools.md))
- [Local rank checker](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/local-rank): Check how your business ranks in Google Maps from any point in your service area, and see where competitors outrank you. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/local-rank.md))
- [Link analyzer](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/link-analyzer): Analyze internal and external links on any page. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/link-analyzer.md))
- [Place ID finder](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/place-id): Find the Google Place ID for any business. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/place-id.md))
- [Latitude and longitude lookup](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/lat-lng): Free latitude and longitude lookup. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/tools/lat-lng.md))

## Pricing

- [Plans](https://seobandwagon.com/pricing#plans): Free ($0: 10 tracked keywords, no credit card), Pro ($99/month: self-serve software, more keywords than Free), Agentic Local ($249/month for one location: the monthly local SEO package, AI-guided setup and AI search work included, agents recommend and you approve), and Enterprise (from $499/month, custom quote above that; multi-location). Month-to-month, cancel anytime. Every plan includes API and MCP access.
- [Retainers and services](https://seobandwagon.com/pricing#services): SEO Services: $995/month (a person does the work, monthly) · Vertical Content Retainer: $2,500/month (for legal, dental and healthcare) · Paid media management: $750 per platform per active month; $1,250 for both · Professional explainer video: $1,500 each; $4,000 for three (production excluded) · Additional page: $1,200 per page · Technical SEO: custom quote.
- [Price list as JSON](https://seobandwagon.com/pricing.json): every public offer with its price, what it includes, who it is not for, and how it is bought.

## Docs and discovery

- [MCP server](https://mcp.seobandwagon.com/mcp): streamable HTTP, for the signed-in user's Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4 and rank-tracker data and client records, with 50 tools: 41 read data and 9 change it (gsc_submit_sitemap, gsc_delete_sitemap, gsc_verify_domain, clients_create, client_audits_add, client_audits_delete, client_share_link, billing_checkout, billing_portal); MCP clients sign in with OAuth here, or send a per-user API key as `Authorization: Bearer sbw_...` to https://seobandwagon.com/api/mcp
- [Authentication for agents](https://seobandwagon.com/auth.md): OAuth sign-in for MCP clients, or how to get an API key and send it
- [MCP server card](https://seobandwagon.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): the server, its transport and its tools
- [Agent skill](https://seobandwagon.com/.well-known/agent-skills/seobandwagon-mcp/SKILL.md): SKILL.md, for connecting an agent to the MCP server
- [API catalog](https://seobandwagon.com/.well-known/api-catalog): the APIs, as an RFC 9727 linkset
- [OpenAPI](https://seobandwagon.com/openapi.json): the REST API, as an OpenAPI 3.1 description
- [Agent catalog](https://seobandwagon.com/.well-known/ard.json): the site's agent interfaces, as an ARD catalog
- [Every page](https://seobandwagon.com/llms-full.txt): llms-full.txt, one line per public page, with its markdown copy
- [Site map](https://seobandwagon.com/sitemap): the same list as a web page, and as XML at https://seobandwagon.com/sitemap.xml

## Key pages

- [Home](https://seobandwagon.com): Get found on Google, in the map pack and in AI answers. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/index.md))
- [API and MCP documentation](https://seobandwagon.com/docs/api): Connect to the SEO Bandwagon remote MCP server for Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4 and rank-tracker data, use the captures API, and discover machine-readable service metadata. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/docs/api.md))
- [Google Business Profile Benchmarks 2026](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks): What the average local business looks like on Google Maps: reviews, ratings, website presence and map-pack movement, rebuilt from each weekly sweep.
- [Google Review Statistics 2026](https://seobandwagon.com/research/review-statistics): The 1 to 5 star mix, how rare a perfect 5.0 is, and weekly review gain.
- [Monthly SEO packages](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-services/local-seo-monthly-service-packages): Two monthly local SEO packages with the price on the page: agents do the work and you approve it, or a person does it. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-services/local-seo-monthly-service-packages.md))
- [SEO Companies That Publish Their Prices](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-companies): 41 of 653 US local SEO agencies publish a monthly SEO price. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-companies.md))
- [History of SEO Terms and Jargon on Wikipedia](https://seobandwagon.com/research/history-of-seo-terms): Original research on Wikipedia's record: when spamdexing became SEO, when the phrase keyword density died, and which SEO jargon survived.
- [When SEO Was Spam: 22 Years of Wikipedia Debates](https://seobandwagon.com/research/when-seo-was-spam): Original research on Wikipedia’s talk pages: of the comments that took a side, the share calling SEO spam fell from 40% in 2004-05 to 22% in 2006-07.
- [The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors](https://seobandwagon.com/periodic-table-of-seo): The periodic table of SEO rebuilt on measurement: factors tested against real ranking data, some tracked live from the weekly sweep, the rest marked unmeasured.
- [Search Engine Basics](https://seobandwagon.com/search-engine-basics): How search engines work, in plain English: crawling, indexing, ranking and the results page, every term linked to the SEO glossary. ([Markdown](https://seobandwagon.com/search-engine-basics.md))
- [Data Reuse License](https://seobandwagon.com/data-license): How you may quote and reuse the figures SEO Bandwagon publishes: credit us, link the source page, and do not pass aggregates off as your own measurements.

## Page families

- [Local SEO by metro: the Search Ledger](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities): 54 metro ledgers and 239 industry slices: what each metro searches for, what the clicks cost and who holds page one, rebuilt from each weekly data pull. Each page has a markdown copy at its URL plus .md.
- [Real estate SEO by metro](https://seobandwagon.com/real-estate-seo): 54 metro pages: real estate SEO for agents in each market, with its search demand and who holds page one. Each page has a markdown copy at its URL plus .md.
- [Blog](https://seobandwagon.com/blog): 108 posts in 25 categories: SEO and local search writing since 2011. Each post has a markdown copy at its URL plus .md.
- [SEO glossary](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary): 640 SEO and web terms in 15 topics, defined in plain English. 233 are dated from 23 years of Wikipedia revisions. 2 terms have a page of their own. The glossary and each term page have a markdown copy at their URL plus .md.
- [SEO research: the Wikipedia record](https://seobandwagon.com/wiki-analysis): 49 analysis pages: Which SEO terms rose and which faded across Wikipedia's digital marketing articles from 2005 to 2024, and which sources those articles cited and later dropped.