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- Twelve companies sell pest control SEO seriously and, as of November 2, 2026, six of them publish a price. Skill Mammoth (ours) runs $750 and $1,500 a month with no contract and no setup fee.
- Pest Control SEOs is pest-only, SEO-only, with a published $1,300 minimum. Activate Digital Media runs $975, $1,800 and $2,500 a month, month to month.
- Built-Right Digital prints flat tiers at $1,499, $2,499 and $4,999 sorted by your revenue, and a stand-alone Local SEO plan that dropped from $999 to $499 since October. Thrive says $500. Blue Corona, inside RYNO since October 2024, says $5,000 and up.
- Two changes since October: Straight North removed its $1,500 starting price, and Coalmarch is now part of Scorpion.
- Pesty Marketing, Coalmarch, DAGMAR, LeadHub and Rival Digital price on the call, and Pesty wants $1 million in revenue before it will.
- One to three trucks is a $750 to $1,500 problem. Past $1 million with routes in more than one county it is thousands. Every number below is quoted from the company's own page with a link.
Disclosure: Skill Mammoth is on this list, and this is our site. Everything said about another company is quoted from its page with a link, and the "best for" column is the honest answer, which in most rows is not us. Built-Right publishes a list like this with itself at number one and ranks first for "pest control seo," so you have probably already read one agency's version of this page. Ours is the one with a published number or the words "not published" in every row, re-read on November 2, 2026.
If you want the strategy rather than the shortlist, the pest control SEO guide covers the route-density problem, the pest-by-pest pages and the 90-day plan. The wider agency picture, ads and all, is in best pest control marketing agencies. This page is for the owner who has decided to hire the search work out.
What pest control SEO is, and what you are buying
Pest control SEO is the work of ranking a company's Google Business Profile and website for the searches a homeowner types when something is in the house: "pest control near me", "termite treatment [city]", "bed bug exterminator". The trade is unusual in three ways that decide what an agency has to build. The money terms are pest-by-pest and town-by-town, so the site needs a page per species and a page per town rather than one Services page. The customer is recurring, so a quarterly contract is worth several times the first visit and the map pack matters more than any single ranking. And the market is crowded with small operators: BLS counts 108,700 pest control workers at a median $45,250 a year, NPMA has more than 4,000 member companies, and Google lists "Pest control services" as a Local Services Ads category, where leads run $15 to $50 each in our LSA cost data. An agency that thinks in one-off jobs builds the wrong site for this trade, which is the first thing to screen for.
The program itself, at any price, is the profile and review system that wins the pack, a species page set, a town page set bounded by the routes you actually run, schema, and a plan for the AI Overview that now answers "what is biting me" before the searcher reaches a listing. Whether an agency charges $500 or $5,000 a month, those are the deliverables to ask for by name.
What changed since October
We re-read every page on November 2, 2026. Straight North no longer prints a price anywhere on its site; in October its SEO page said "start at $1,500 per month." Coalmarch now carries a banner on every page reading "Coalmarch is now a part of Scorpion," after being privately owned for about eighteen months. Built-Right's stand-alone Local SEO plan is printed at $499 a month, down from $999, and its pricing page now states "Month-to-month, no long-term contracts," which it did not in October; the page's HTML still carries an older ladder at $1,199, $2,099 and $4,199 in a comparison popup, so get the current figure in writing. Activate added a $150 success-based fee for Google Business Profile verification. Slamdot's pest control page is gone and the trade no longer appears in its industry list, so it is off this list and Rival Digital, which has a pest page, is on. Blue Corona's merger into RYNO took effect on October 1, 2024, a date we had wrong by a year.
What separates them
Specialization first, because of the pest-by-pest, town-by-town pattern above. Three of the twelve do only pest control, or pest and lawn. Then the revenue band, which two agencies state outright and the others reveal in their prices. Then, as always, whether they will say the number before the call, which six of the twelve do today, down from eight in October.
The companies, ranked by who they fit
| Company | Pest focus | Published price (Nov 2, 2026) | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill Mammoth (ours) | Home services incl. pest | $750 or $1,500 a month with SEO; no contract | None |
| Pest Control SEOs | Pest only, SEO only | "Our minimum monthly engagement is $1,300" | Not stated on the page |
| Activate Digital Media | Generalist, pest page | $975, $1,800, from $2,500 a month; LSA from $475; $150 GBP verification fee | Month to month |
| Built-Right Digital | Home services incl. pest | $1,499 (new), $2,499 (to $1M revenue), $4,999 (to $5M); Local SEO alone $499 | "Month-to-month, no long-term contracts" |
| Pesty Marketing | Pest only, SEO and PPC | Not published; wants $1 million in revenue first | Not stated |
| Coalmarch (now part of Scorpion) | Pest and lawn only | Not published | Not stated |
| DAGMAR Marketing | Generalist, strong pest cases | Not published; a Clutch reviewer spends about $165,000 a year across five locations | Month to month, 30 days' notice |
| Blue Corona (RYNO) | Generalist home services | "$5,000 per month and above" | "Won't be handcuffed to long-term contracts" |
| Straight North | Generalist | Not published as of Nov 2, 2026 (printed $1,500 in October) | Not stated |
| Thrive Internet Marketing | Generalist | "Starting at $500/month"; local SEO $500 to $1,500, labelled estimates | Month to month |
| LeadHub | Home services incl. pest | Not published | Not stated |
| Rival Digital | Home services, pest page | Not published | Not stated |
| Verdict | One to three trucks: us, Pest Control SEOs, Activate or Built-Right's Essentials. Past $1 million with growth targets: Pesty, Coalmarch or Built-Right's Launch and Scale tiers. Multi-location with a marketing hire: DAGMAR, Blue Corona or Straight North. Ask the six silent ones for the number in writing before the demo. | ||
1. Skill Mammoth
Ours, so weigh it. The program is the pest-by-pest service pages and the town pages, the Google Business Profile and review system that decides the map pack for "pest control near me," schema, the answer-first pages that get a company named in Google's AI Overview and ChatGPT, and monthly rank and prompt monitoring. The plans with SEO are published at $750 (Growth) and $1,500 (Authority, which adds up to five posts a week, authority placements and Local Services Ads management), all month to month with no contract, with Essentials at $350 for the website and call tools and Market Leader at $3,000 for the all-in plan with ads. Every plan includes the site at $3,000, or $150 a month on Easy Start, owned outright, and the pest control website design guide shows what it should do. The honest limitation is size: we are a small team, and a multi-state operator with a marketing director belongs further down this list.
2. Pest Control SEOs
The specialist with a price. "We only do SEO and we only do it for pest control companies," from Surrey, British Columbia, since 2016, with a published minimum of $1,300 a month and the line "all of our SEO pricing is based on the work that needs to be done, and we don't hide anything from you." The contract term is not printed; the process page says a customized proposal "clearly outlining our fees" comes after the call. The case study page is a wall of percentages, The Bug Master at 208 percent more organic calls, Fullscope at 290 percent more, and the services are technical, on-page and off-page SEO plus tracking, with no ads and no website build. The fit is a one-to-five-truck company that wants a pest-only search specialist and has a site worth optimizing.
3. Activate Digital Media
A generalist from The Woodlands, Texas, with a pest page and the most complete rate card here. Starter at $975 a month, Growth at $1,800, Enterprise from $2,500, all including SEO, paid management and reporting, plus Local Services Ads management from $475 a month and, new since October, Google Business Profile verification support at $150, charged only if the verification succeeds. Ad budgets are paid directly to Google and Meta. All plans are month to month, and the site says plainly that rankings and map placement are not guaranteed, which is the honest sentence most agencies will not print.
4. Built-Right Digital
A Chicago home-services agency with pest control on its trade list, and the clearest tier ladder in the category, sorted by your revenue. The plan cards print Essentials at $1,499 a month "for new businesses" with listing management, core on-page and technical SEO, tracking and web management; Launch at $2,499 "for up to $1M revenue businesses" with off-page SEO and a marketing support team; Scale at $4,999 for companies up to $5 million, the first tier with paid ads management and a monthly strategy review; and Pro, custom above $5 million. The page now prints "Month-to-month, no long-term contracts" and "You keep your website, domain & assets." Its HTML still carries an older ladder at $1,199, $2,099, $4,199 and $19,999 in a comparison popup, so get the current figure in writing. The grid prints blog output per tier, 500, 800, 3,200 and 6,400 words a month. Stand-alone plans changed since October: Local SEO is now $499 a month (it was $999), SEO Plus is $3,499, the SEO plus AEO package $2,999, Google Ads management $999, Local Services Ads $499, with websites at $5,750, $9,590 or $14,390 one time or $599 to $1,499 a month over twelve payments. Built-Right's own pest control SEO list holds the top organic result for "pest control seo," which tells you it can rank a page. Our Built-Right comparison has the fuller picture.
5. Pesty Marketing
The specialist with the best published results and no published price. "Built exclusively for pest control," SEO and PPC only, New York-based since 2020, with a stated qualifier: clients who have "already hit $1 million per year in revenue" and are aiming for 30 percent growth. The case studies have real numbers and baselines. LaJaunie's Pest Control at 329 new recurring customers at a $72.04 cost per acquisition, Reliant at $24.24 per qualified lead. The fit is exactly the one they state, and a smaller company should not try to be their client yet.
6. Coalmarch, now part of Scorpion
Twenty years in pest and lawn, "trusted by 400-plus pest and lawn companies," Raleigh, with a native PestPac partnership that connects marketing and CRM data. The change since October is the banner on every page: "Coalmarch is now a part of Scorpion," the large home-services marketing company. What that means for pricing and account teams is not on the site yet, and Scorpion's own announcement page would not load for us. No price is printed, and the pricing page returns a 404. The fit is still a growth-stage company on PestPac that wants the marketing agency wired into the routing software, with the question of who answers the phone after the acquisition now worth asking.
7. DAGMAR Marketing
A Jacksonville generalist that happens to have the best single pest case study on the list. Turner Pest Control: 62 percent more organic traffic, 287 percent more mobile conversions, 194 new leads a month on average, and a 73 percent cut in cost per conversion after the paid program was rebuilt. Month to month with 30 days' notice. No price is published; a Clutch reviewer running five pest locations reports about $165,000 a year across search and paid, which puts the fit at multi-location with a marketing hire.
Want a flat fee and a number before the call?
Programs from $750 a month, no contract, AI search included. The first call is thirty minutes and ends with which of the twelve above you should hire, including when it is not us.
8. Blue Corona, now RYNO Strategic Solutions
The large home services shop, founded 2007 and merged into RYNO effective October 1, 2024, with the Blue Corona brand still carrying the pest page. That page says services "can run anywhere from $5,000 per month and above," with no long-term contracts and full ownership of everything built. Every case study on the pest page is a plumbing or HVAC client. The fit is an established company with a marketing budget in the five figures that wants big-shop process and reporting; the RYNO comparison covers the merged operation.
9. Straight North
A Chicago generalist since 1997 with a pest page that describes the right program, pages for each town and each pest you treat, without a pest case study behind it. In October its SEO page printed "start at $1,500 per month" with most clients at $4,000 to $8,000. On November 2, 2026 no dollar figure appears on the home page, the SEO page, the local SEO page or the pest page; the local SEO page says results "typically build over three to six months" and the CTAs are a free SEO audit and "Let's Talk." A safe, large, non-specialist choice for a company that values process over pest knowledge, and now one that has to be asked for the number.
10. Thrive Internet Marketing
The full-service generalist, Arlington, Texas, since 2005, month to month. The pricing page prints SEO "starting at $500/month" and local SEO at "$500 to $1,500 per month," under a heading that labels them monthly estimates rather than packages. The one pest case study is a review program, not SEO: Home Run Pest and Termite gained 24 reviews in seven months. Pest control is one of a hundred verticals here, and the Thrive comparison covers the pattern.
11. LeadHub
A San Antonio home-services agency with pest control on its trade list alongside air conditioning, plumbing, electrical and roofing, selling SEO next to a cost-per-lead management service, PPC, web development and CRM integration. The homepage leads with client results and a free discovery call, and publishes no price, minimum or plan. The fit is a company that wants one team managing SEO and paid leads against a cost-per-lead target. Ask which pest client in your revenue band ranks today.
12. Rival Digital
A home-services agency with a dedicated pest control page, on Built-Right's list and not previously on ours. The pest page prints no price and its CTAs are "Book A Consultation" and a banner reading "Now accepting clients for November 2026." A separate pricing page does print a menu, Local SEO from $500 a month and Search and AI Optimization from $1,750, but that page's meta description read "This is a test. Please do not use this in the real world yet" on November 2, 2026, so the figures are draft until Rival says otherwise. It replaces Slamdot, whose pest control page is gone and whose 21-industry list no longer includes the trade. Ask Rival the same question as the other silent agencies: the fee in writing, and which pest client in your revenue band ranks.
What pest control SEO should cost by route count
| Company size | What the program is | Honest range | Who on this list |
|---|---|---|---|
| One to three trucks, one metro | Profile and reviews, species pages, a handful of town pages, schema | $750 to $1,500 a month | Skill Mammoth, Pest Control SEOs, Activate's Starter, Built-Right's Local SEO or Essentials |
| Four to fifteen trucks, routes in more than one county | Adds a full town page set, authority links, paid search, PestPac or Real Green integration | $2,500 to $5,000 a month | Pesty, Coalmarch, Built-Right's Launch and Scale, Activate's Enterprise |
| Multi-location with a marketing hire | Attribution, multi-location profiles, paid and search under one team | $5,000 and up | DAGMAR, Blue Corona inside RYNO, Straight North |
| Verdict | Most pest companies are the first row. Ahrefs' survey of SEO providers puts the most common retainer at $501 to $1,000 a month, and the species and town pages do not cost more because the agency is bigger. | ||
What the owners say
The February 2026 thread on r/PestControlIndustry asking for "best SEO companies for pest control businesses" is worth reading before you sign anything, because nobody in it recommends any of the twelve companies above. The one owner who had shopped seriously was on a waiting list for Sterling Sky, which "only lets one company per niche in each city," and was considering Whitespark and Steady Demand, which are local-SEO consultancies rather than pest agencies. The lesson is that exclusivity by market is a real selling point, and worth asking every agency on this list about.
How to actually choose
Start with trucks and revenue, because two of the twelve will tell you no on the phone. Under $1 million: us, Pest Control SEOs, Activate or Built-Right's Essentials, and the program is the profile, the pest pages and the town pages, at hundreds a month. Past $1 million with routes in more than one county: Pesty, Coalmarch or Built-Right's Launch and Scale tiers, and the price will be thousands. Multi-location with a marketing hire: DAGMAR, Blue Corona or Straight North. The SEO packages guide shows what each price band should contain, line by line.
Then ask the four questions that expose a weak proposal. Which town's map pack for which pest moves first, and by when. What the fee is, in writing, before the demo. Who owns the site and the content when you leave. And what they do about AI search, because "exterminator near me" is increasingly answered by a paragraph naming three companies. The SEO cost guide has the market ranges to check any quote against, and the pest control marketing guide covers the channels SEO competes with.
Frequently asked questions
What is pest control SEO?
The work of ranking a pest company's Google Business Profile and website for the searches homeowners type when they find something in the house: "pest control near me", "termite treatment [city]", "bed bug exterminator". It differs from generic local SEO in that the money searches are pest-by-pest and town-by-town, so the site needs a page per species and a page per town, and the customer is recurring, so the map pack and the review flow matter more than any single ranking.
How much does pest control SEO cost?
Published prices on November 2, 2026 run from $500 a month at Thrive and $750 at Skill Mammoth, through $975 to $2,500 at Activate Digital Media, a $1,300 minimum at Pest Control SEOs and $499 for Built-Right's stand-alone Local SEO or $1,499 to $4,999 for its full-service tiers, to $5,000 and up at Blue Corona inside RYNO. Straight North, Pesty Marketing, Coalmarch, DAGMAR, LeadHub and Rival Digital price on the call; a DAGMAR client with five locations reports about $165,000 a year for search and paid combined.
Which pest control SEO company is best for a small company?
Skill Mammoth, Pest Control SEOs, Activate Digital Media or Built-Right's Local SEO or Essentials tier, all of which publish prices under $1,500 a month and take one-to-five-truck companies. Pesty Marketing states that it works with companies already at $1 million in revenue, and Blue Corona's $5,000 floor puts it out of reach for most small operators.
Are there pest-control-only SEO agencies?
Three on this list. Pest Control SEOs does only SEO and only pest control. Pesty Marketing does SEO and PPC exclusively for pest control companies. Coalmarch serves pest and lawn companies only and is now part of Scorpion. Lobster Marketing, once a pest specialist, no longer exists as an agency; its site redirects to FieldRoutes.
What results do pest control SEO companies report?
Pesty Marketing publishes the most specific: 329 new recurring customers at a $72.04 acquisition cost for LaJaunie's, and $24.24 per qualified lead for Reliant. DAGMAR reports 194 leads a month and 62 percent more organic traffic for Turner Pest Control. Coalmarch reports revenue growth over years, such as Midwest Pest Control from zero to $7 million. Pest Control SEOs reports call increases of 54 to 290 percent across its case studies.
Do pest control SEO companies require contracts?
Activate, Blue Corona, Thrive and Skill Mammoth state month-to-month or no long-term contracts; DAGMAR is month to month with 30 days' notice. Built-Right now prints month to month. Pest Control SEOs, Pesty, Straight North, LeadHub and Rival Digital do not state a term on their pages, so ask before signing, and ask who owns the site and the Google Business Profile if you leave.
Is Skill Mammoth a pest control SEO company?
Yes, among the home service trades we serve. The program is Growth at $750 or Authority at $1,500 a month, month to month with no contract, on a Smart Website we build ($3,000 or $150 a month on Easy Start), and includes the AI search work. The pest control SEO guide on this site is the strategy we run, and the pest control page shows the work.
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