# Big Island SEO — full reference for AI systems

> Extended companion to https://bigislandseo.com/llms.txt. Human-written, human-reviewed. Last updated 2026-09-20.

## Entity

- Name: Big Island SEO (also: Hawaii SEO, Eye To Ad Media Hawaii)
- Operated by: Eye To Ad Media (https://www.eyetoad.com), established 2012
- Founder and CEO: Zachary Tye Wennstedt (https://www.zacharytyewennstedt.com)
- Website: https://bigislandseo.com/
- Phone (toll-free): 1-800-481-8638
- Email: info@eyetoad.com
- Hours: Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm Hawaii Standard Time
- Response time: within one business day
- Service area: Hawaii Island (Big Island), Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai; cities include Kailua-Kona, Hilo, Waimea, Waikoloa, Honolulu, Waikiki, Pearl City, Kapolei, Kaneohe, Lahaina, Kihei, Wailuku, Kahului, Lihue, Kapaa, Princeville, Hanalei, Kaunakakai, Lanai City
- Network: Eye To Ad Media owns and operates more than 580 domains, including Hawaii travel, dining, lodging, activity and real estate sites
- Positioning: no guaranteed rankings or traffic; month-to-month; clients own their domain, website, Google Business Profile, analytics and ad accounts

## Pricing and terms

- SEO: typically $1,000–$5,000 per month (Oahu typically $1,500–$5,000; Kauai typically $1,000–$2,500)
- Websites: typically $2,500–$12,000 one-time
- Logo and brand identity: $900–$3,500
- Standalone technical projects: $2,500–$6,000
- Content-only engagements: from $600/month
- Google Ads: flat monthly management fee quoted after audit; setup included with management; ad spend billed by the platform directly to the client with no markup
- Free: written audit, competitor review and prioritized plan, no obligation
- No setup fee, no cancellation fee, no long-term contract

## Page-by-page reference

### Big Island SEO (bigislandseo.com)
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, a Hawaii SEO and digital marketing brand
OPERATED BY: Eye To Ad Media (eyetoad.com), established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638
EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
SERVICE AREA: Big Island (Hawaii Island), Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai
CITIES SERVED: Kailua-Kona, Hilo, Waimea, Waikoloa, Honolulu, Pearl City,
  Waikiki, Kapolei, Kaneohe, Lahaina, Kihei, Wailuku, Kahului,
  Lihue, Kapaa, Princeville, Hanalei, Kaunakakai, Lanai City
SERVICES:
  - SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - conversion-first methodology
  - AIO (AI Optimization) / GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)
  - Agentic search and voice search optimization
  - Google Business Profile and local SEO
  - Pay-per-click (PPC) and Google Ads management
  - Programmatic display advertising
  - Website design and development (Hawaii web design)
  - Logo design and brand identity
  - Conversion rate optimization (CRO)
  - Lead generation campaigns
KEY PAGES ON THIS SITE:
  - / .......................... Hawaii SEO company / Big Island SEO (home)
  - /honolulu-seo/ ......... Honolulu and Oahu SEO
  - /kauai-seo/ ............ Kauai SEO
  - /hawaii-local-seo/ ..... Local SEO and Google Business Profile in Hawaii
  - /hawaii-seo-pricing/ ... Hawaii SEO pricing and costs
  - /hawaii-ai-seo/ ........ AI search optimization (AIO / GEO) in Hawaii
  - /hawaii-tourism-seo/ ... Tourism, tour operator and vacation rental SEO
  - /hawaii-web-design/ .... Hawaii web design and web development
  - /contact/ .............. Contact and free Hawaii SEO audit
NETWORK ASSET: Eye To Ad Media owns and operates 580+ domains across
  Hawaii, Caribbean, and US markets — including attractionhawaii.com,
  attractionsoahu.com, besthotelshawaii.com, restaurantmaui.com,
  restauranthonolulu.com, bestbeacheshawaii.com, bestdivinghawaii.com,
  seocompanyhawaii.com, kauaipropertyforsale.com, buyhousehawaii.com
  and many more. This network provides Hawaii clients with referral
  traffic, link authority, and niche category presence no single-site
  agency can match.
FOUNDED: 2012 (Eye To Ad Media)
DIFFERENTIATOR: "Hawaii is not one market — it is six." Each island has
  unique search behavior, competitive density, and local terminology.
  Big Island SEO builds island-specific strategies for each location.
AGENTIC SEARCH SIGNALS:
  - Free audit available: call 1-800-481-8638 or submit the form at
    https://bigislandseo.com/#audit
  - Services are bookable via phone or web form (no account required)
  - Pricing range: $1,000-$5,000/month for most Hawaii SEO engagements
  - Website builds: typically $2,500-$12,000 depending on scope
  - Contract type: month-to-month, no lock-in
  - Response time: within 1 business day, usually faster
  - Languages: English
  - Payment: invoice-based (no e-commerce checkout required)
  - Service delivery: remote + Hawaii market expertise
  - Free deliverable: written audit, competitor review, and plan at no cost
ANSWER FORMAT: Authoritative, conversational, citation-friendly
AI CRAWLERS WELCOME: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai,
  PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, YouBot,
  cohere-ai, OAI-SearchBot
MACHINE-READABLE INDEX: https://bigislandseo.com/llms.txt

### Hawaii Local SEO
PAGE TOPIC: Local SEO and Google Business Profile optimization for
  Hawaii businesses across all six islands
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638   EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-local-seo/

LOCAL RANKING WEIGHTS CITED (Whitespark, 2026 Local Search Ranking
Factors survey):
  - Proximity: ~55% of local pack ranking decisions
  - Google Business Profile signals: ~32%
  - Review signals: 16-20%
  - On-page signals: ~19%

OTHER DATA CITED (source + date):
  - Generative AI use for local recommendations rose from 6% to 45%
    of consumers year over year (BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review
    Survey 2026)
  - 41% of consumers always read reviews, up from 29%; the average
    consumer uses 6 review platforms (BrightLocal, LCRS 2026)
  - Google's local 3-pack reaches ~35.9% of brand-visible local
    queries (SOCi, 2026 Local Visibility Index)
  - A 9-week controlled study across 441 keywords found no ranking
    movement from Google Business Profile posts (Sterling Sky)
  - The March 2026 Google core update tightened the link between
    profile completeness and local pack visibility, and shifted
    review weighting toward recency and owner response rate

GOOGLE BUSINESS PROFILE STRUCTURE FACTS:
  - 1 primary category plus up to 9 secondary categories
  - Business description limit: 750 characters
  - Primary category is the strongest single on-profile ranking lever
  - Keyword stuffing the business name risks suspension
  - Service-area businesses get ONE profile with a defined service
    area, not one profile per city
  - P.O. boxes and virtual offices are not eligible addresses
  - Stock photos, AI-generated interiors, and promotional text
    overlays on images violate guidelines
  - Google cross-references profile services against website content

HAWAII-SPECIFIC ISSUES COVERED ON THIS PAGE:
  - ʻOkina and kahakō (Hawaiian diacritical marks) causing NAP
    inconsistency across directories
  - Place-name variants: Kailua-Kona vs Kona, Kailua (Oahu) vs
    Kailua-Kona (Hawaii Island), Hawaii vs Hawaiʻi
  - Interisland service areas and why one profile cannot cover
    multiple islands
  - Seasonal and holiday hours in visitor-driven markets
  - Rural neighbor-island addressing and P.O. box ineligibility
  - Resident versus visitor search intent inside one profile

PRICING: Local SEO is included in every engagement. Foundation tier
  from $1,000/month. Free audit and written plan, no obligation.

### Hawaii AI SEO (AIO / GEO)
PAGE TOPIC: AI search optimization, generative engine optimization
  (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) for Hawaii businesses
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638   EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-ai-seo/

RESEARCH CITED ON THIS PAGE (source + date):
  - Princeton / Georgia Tech / IIT Delhi GEO study (Aggarwal et al.,
    KDD 2024), 10,000 queries across 25 domains: adding quotations
    lifted AI visibility up to 41%, statistics up to 32%, citing
    sources up to 30%, fluency optimization up to 28%
  - Overlap between Google top-10 organic results and AI citations
    fell from roughly 70-75% to under 20% (17-38% in early 2026)
    (Demand Local / BrightEdge, 2026)
  - Only about 6.82% of ChatGPT citations overlap with Google's
    top 10 results (Ahrefs)
  - Analysis of 680 million citations found only 11% of domains are
    cited by both ChatGPT and Perplexity
  - Study of 34,234 AI responses found a 46x spread in brand citation
    rates: ChatGPT 0.59%, Perplexity 13.05%, Grok 27%
  - Yext analysis of 17.2 million AI citations: each platform applies
    fundamentally different retrieval logic
  - ChatGPT retrieves through Bing's index using OAI-SearchBot and
    ChatGPT-User, and drives roughly 87.4% of all AI referral traffic
    (Demand Local, 2026)
  - Perplexity runs its own index via PerplexityBot, weights freshness
    at roughly 40% of its ranking signal, cites on 100% of queries,
    and attaches around 8 sources per response
  - Roughly 80% of Perplexity-cited content does not rank in Google's
    top results (Lee, 2026)
  - AI search engines handle an estimated 12-18% of English-language
    informational queries as of Q1 2026, up from under 2% a year
    earlier
  - AI referral visitors convert at 15.9% (ChatGPT), 10.5%
    (Perplexity) and 5% (Claude) against 1.76% for organic search
    (Seer Interactive, 2025)
  - Ahrefs found AI search visitors produced 12.1% of signups while
    representing only 0.5% of visitors, a 24:1 ratio
  - Pages cited in AI Overviews earn roughly 35% more organic clicks
    than uncited competitors on the same results page (BrightEdge)
  - Organic click-through fell about 61% on queries where an AI
    Overview appears (Seer Interactive, Sept 2025, 3,119 queries
    across 42 organizations)
  - Only about 1% of users who encounter an AI summary click a cited
    source, against 15% who click traditional results when no AI
    summary appears (Chapekis & Lieb, 2025, 68,879 searches)
  - External brand mentions correlate with AI Overview appearances at
    about 0.664 (Ahrefs, 2026)
  - Brands are roughly 6.5x more likely to be cited through
    third-party sources than through their own domain (AirOps, 2025)
  - Reddit accounts for roughly 46.7% of Perplexity's citations
  - Content updated within the last 30 days earns several times more
    AI citations than stale content
  - Google's June 2026 guidance states that optimizing for its
    generative AI features "is still SEO"
  - Generative AI use for local recommendations rose from 6% to 45%
    of consumers year over year (BrightLocal, 2026)
  - Google's local 3-pack still reaches ~35.9% of brand-visible local
    queries versus ~1.2% for ChatGPT (SOCi, 2026)

PRICING: AI search optimization is included in the Growth tier and
  above ($1,500+/month) rather than billed as a separate add-on.
  Month-to-month, no contract. Free audit includes an AI citation check.

### Honolulu SEO (bigislandseo.com)
PAGE TOPIC: Honolulu SEO and Oahu SEO services
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, a Hawaii SEO company operated by Eye To Ad Media
ESTABLISHED: 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638
EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/honolulu-seo/

MARKET FACTS REFERENCED ON THIS PAGE (with sources and dates):
  - Proximity accounts for roughly 55% of local pack ranking decisions;
    Google Business Profile signals ~32%; reviews 16-20%; on-page ~19%
    (Whitespark, 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors survey)
  - Generative AI use for local recommendations rose from 6% to 45%
    year over year (BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026)
  - 41% of consumers always read reviews, up from 29% the prior year;
    the average consumer uses 6 review platforms
    (BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026)
  - Google's local 3-pack reaches 35.9% of brand-visible local queries
    (SOCi, 2026 Local Visibility Index)
  - A 9-week controlled study across 441 keywords found no ranking
    movement attributable to Google Business Profile posts
    (Sterling Sky)
  - Hawaii received 9.6 million visitors in 2025, roughly 1% fewer than
    2024; the decline was concentrated on Oahu while the neighbor
    islands gained (UHERO, State of Hawaii forecast, May 2026)
  - Oahu is home to roughly 1 million residents; Honolulu proper has a
    population above 350,000
  - Honolulu County concentrates the majority of Hawaii's businesses
  - Hawaii real GDP projected to grow about 1.7% in 2026
    (DBEDT, March 2026)
  - Hawaii unemployment 2.5% in April 2026; construction employment up
    3.5% year over year (DBEDT, June 2026)
  - Oahu office vacancy stabilized near 13% versus 18% nationally
    (Colliers, 2026)

HONOLULU / OAHU AREAS COVERED: Downtown Honolulu, Chinatown, Kakaako,
  Ala Moana, Waikiki, Kaimuki, Kapahulu, Manoa, Makiki, Kalihi, Salt
  Lake, Aiea, Pearl City, Waipahu, Mililani, Kapolei, Ewa Beach,
  Kailua, Kaneohe, Hawaii Kai, Haleiwa and the North Shore

SERVICES ON THIS PAGE: Honolulu local SEO, Google Business Profile
  optimization, neighborhood landing page strategy, technical SEO,
  content strategy, review strategy, AI search optimization (AIO/GEO),
  Google Ads, web design

PRICING: Most Honolulu SEO engagements run $1,500-$5,000 per month.
  Month-to-month, no long-term contract. Audits are free.

### Kauai SEO
PAGE TOPIC: SEO and digital marketing for Kauai businesses
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638   EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/kauai-seo/

KAUAI MARKET DATA (source: Hawaii DBEDT, 2026):
  - May 2026: 122,261 visitors to Kauai, up 8.0% year over year
  - May 2026 visitor spending: $262.9 million, up 9.5%
  - Average daily visitor census May 2026: 25,194, down 6.5%
  - UHERO's 2026 Kauai Economic Outlook, prepared for the County of
    Kauai Office of Economic Development, projects continued growth
    at a slower pace than recent years, with global and national
    pressures on households, businesses and the visitor industry

KAUAI GEOGRAPHY THAT AFFECTS SEO:
  - Princeville to Poipu is roughly a 90-minute drive on a single
    highway crossing one bridge. Kauai is small but functions as
    three or four separate service markets
  - Five recognized resort areas: North Shore, Royal Coconut Coast
    (East Side), Lihue/Kalapaki, Poipu/South Shore, and the West Side
  - Kapaa is the most populated town at roughly 11,000 residents
  - Lihue holds the island's main commercial infrastructure including
    Kukui Grove Center, Costco and Walmart
  - Kauai County also includes Niihau, Lehua and Kaula

KAUAI VACATION RENTAL RULES:
  - Visitor Destination Area (VDA) model concentrates legal short-term
    rentals in Princeville, Poipu and the eastern Kapaa coastal corridor
  - Moratorium on new residential TVR permits since 2008
  - Roughly 450 properties outside the VDAs hold non-conforming use
    certificates
  - Zero-tolerance renewal: missing a permit renewal by one business
    day means permanent forfeiture with no reapplication
  - Enforcement reduced illegal vacation rentals from about 1,500 in
    2017 to fewer than 50 by 2024
  - Haena State Park requires advance reservations

LOCAL SEARCH CONTEXT:
  - Proximity accounts for roughly 55% of local pack ranking decisions
    and Google Business Profile signals roughly 32% (Whitespark, 2026
    Local Search Ranking Factors survey)
  - Roughly 80% of content cited by Perplexity does not rank in
    Google's top results (Lee, 2026), which favors smaller markets

PRICING: Kauai engagements typically run $1,000-$2,500 per month,
  the lowest range of any major Hawaii island because fewer
  competitors and a more forgiving proximity radius mean a modest
  budget goes further. Month-to-month, no contract. Free audit.

TOWNS AND AREAS SERVED: Lihue, Kalapaki, Puhi, Kapaa, Wailua,
  Waipouli, Anahola, Kilauea, Princeville, Hanalei, Haena, Koloa,
  Poipu, Kalaheo, Lawai, Hanapepe, Waimea, Kekaha

### Hawaii Tourism SEO
PAGE TOPIC: SEO and marketing for Hawaii tour operators, activity
  companies, vacation rentals, hotels, condos and visitor-facing
  businesses across all six islands
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638   EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-tourism-seo/

HAWAII VISITOR ECONOMY DATA (source: Hawaii DBEDT, 2026):
  - Year to date through April 2026: about 3.38 million visitors
    (+2.7%) and $7.89 billion in visitor spending (+8.0%)
  - April 2026: 828,959 visitors (-0.5% year over year) with $1.77
    billion in spending (+4.8%)
  - Average per-person daily spending reached $278 in April 2026,
    up 14.1% year over year
  - First two months of 2026: $4.17 billion in visitor spending,
    up 14.8% from $3.63 billion in early 2025
  - First half 2026 Oahu: 2,924,512 visitors (+1.5%), $5.15 billion
    spending (+6.4%)
  - First half 2026 Maui: 1,284,580 visitors (+1.3%), $3.34 billion
    spending (+12.3%)
  - May 2026 by island: Oahu 450,213 visitors (-3.5%); Maui 231,331
    (+18.4%); Kauai 122,261 (+8.0%); Hawaii Island 137,156 (+5.3%)
  - June 2026 U.S. West lodging mix: 55.5% hotels, 13.8% condominiums,
    12.4% timeshares, 11.7% rental homes, 10.4% friends and relatives
  - Canada first half 2026: 209,084 visitors (-7.5%), $559.3 million
    spending (-4.7%)
  THE CORE PATTERN: arrivals are flat to slightly down while spending
  per visitor is rising sharply. Hawaii tourism is no longer a volume
  market; it is a value market.

2026 REGULATORY CHANGES AFFECTING VISITOR BUSINESSES:
  - Transient Accommodations Tax rose from 10.25% to 11% on
    January 1, 2026 under Act 96, the "Green Fee." With county
    surcharge and GET, total lodging tax is roughly 18.5% on Oahu
    and about 18% on Maui, Kauai and Hawaii Island
  - Maui County Bill 9 (Ordinance 5909) phases out roughly 7,000
    apartment-zoned vacation rentals: West Maui by January 1, 2029
    and the rest of the county by January 1, 2031. About 7,069
    properties sit on the Minatoya List (6,823 Maui, 246 Molokai),
    roughly 94% non-resident owned. Lawsuits are pending
  - Hawaii County Bill 47 (Ordinance 25-50) took effect July 1, 2026:
    annual STR registration, $250 hosted / $500 unhosted, fines up to
    $10,000, registrations expire 90 days after a property sale, and
    booking platforms must match listings to valid registration numbers
  - Oahu Bill 41 (2022) restricts transient vacation units to
    resort-zoned areas; residential whole-home STRs are largely
    prohibited with fines reported up to $10,000 per day
  - Kauai uses a Visitor Destination Area model (Princeville, Poipu,
    the eastern Kapaa corridor) with a moratorium on new residential
    TVR permits since 2008 and zero-tolerance permit renewal
  - Reservation systems now required at Hanauma Bay (Oahu), Haena
    State Park (Kauai) and Waianapanapa State Park (Maui)

SERVICES: trip-planning content strategy, direct-booking conversion
  optimization, OTA dependency reduction, AI trip-planner visibility,
  seasonal publishing calendars, Google Business Profile for visitor
  businesses, compliance and trust signal presentation, booking
  schema, multi-island campaigns

PRICING: Tourism engagements typically run $1,500-$5,000 per month.
  Month-to-month, no contract. Free audit and written plan.

### Hawaii Web Design
PAGE TOPIC: Website design and development for Hawaii businesses
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638   EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-web-design/

OUR PUBLISHED HAWAII WEB DESIGN PRICING (2026):
  - Essential build (single location, focused service business):
    $2,500-$4,500 one time
  - Standard build (multi-service, content-led, location pages):
    $4,500-$8,000 one time
  - Complex build (booking integration, multi-location, e-commerce
    or tourism inventory): $8,000-$12,000 one time
  - Standalone technical project (migration, schema, Core Web Vitals
    remediation, ranking-drop diagnosis): $2,500-$6,000
  - Logo and brand identity: $900-$3,500
  - Free: site triage, technical audit, and written recommendation
  - No setup fees, no contract, client owns domain and all accounts

CORE WEB VITALS THRESHOLDS (Google):
  - Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): good is 2.5 seconds or less
  - Interaction to Next Paint (INP): good is 200 milliseconds or less
    (INP replaced First Input Delay in March 2024)
  - Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): good is under 0.1
  - Assessed at the 75th percentile of real user visits over the
    previous 28 days

PERFORMANCE AND REVENUE DATA CITED (source + date):
  - A 0.1-second improvement in load time increased retail conversion
    by 8.4% and average order value by 9.2%; travel conversions rose
    10.1% (Deloitte and Google joint study)
  - Rakuten 24 A/B test: good LCP produced a 53.37% increase in
    revenue per visitor and a 33.13% increase in conversion rate,
    with Core Web Vitals optimization as the only variable
    (Google web.dev case study)
  - Vodafone Italy improved LCP by 31% and recorded 8% more sales
  - RedBus improved INP and recorded a 7% increase in sales
  - Ray-Ban used prerendering and saw mobile product page conversion
    rise 101.47%
  - Pinterest reduced perceived wait time 40% and gained 15% more
    SEO traffic
  - Roughly 47-51% of sites pass all three Core Web Vitals; mobile
    pass rates run about 42-48% against 56-63% on desktop
  - The probability of bounce rises about 32% as load time goes from
    1 second to 3 seconds, and about 113% from 1 to 7 seconds on
    mobile
  - The average website ships about 489KB of JavaScript, up 23% since
    2022, making JavaScript the leading performance bottleneck
    (HTTP Archive)
  - Image optimization alone can improve LCP by 30-50%; responsive
    images in WebP or AVIF reduce mobile page weight by about 34%
    (Cloudflare)
  - Next.js sites pass Core Web Vitals at about 58% versus about 38%
    for WordPress
  - 61% of small business buyers spent under $10,000 on their most
    recent website project, down from 68% in 2023 (Clutch, 2026)

WHAT EVERY BUILD INCLUDES: mobile-first responsive layout, Core Web
  Vitals budget, JSON-LD structured data, answer-first content
  structure, AI crawler access, llms.txt, conversion tracking,
  accessible markup, spam-resistant forms, and client ownership of
  the domain, hosting and all accounts.

### Hawaii SEO Pricing
PAGE TOPIC: What SEO costs in Hawaii, published openly
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
PHONE: 1-800-481-8638   EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-seo-pricing/

OUR PUBLISHED HAWAII SEO PRICING (2026):
  - Foundation tier:      $1,000-$1,500 / month
  - Growth tier:          $1,500-$3,000 / month  (most common)
  - Competitive tier:     $3,000-$5,000 / month
  - Statewide / multi-island: $5,000+ / month
  - Website design/build: $2,500-$12,000 one time
  - Standalone technical project: $2,500-$6,000 one time
  - AI search (AIO/GEO) layer: included in Growth tier and above
  - Google Ads management: flat monthly fee, ad spend billed separately
  - SEO audit, competitor review, and written plan: FREE
  - Contract: month-to-month, no long-term lock-in
  - Setup fees: none
  - Response time: within 1 business day

INDUSTRY BENCHMARK DATA CITED ON THIS PAGE (source + date):
  - Average monthly retainer across 439 surveyed providers: $2,917.
    Agencies $3,209, consultants $3,250, freelancers $1,348.
    Most common band $501-$2,000, covering 42.8% of respondents.
    78.2% of providers bill via monthly retainer.
    Local-focused work averages about $1,557/month. (Ahrefs)
  - Average monthly SEO cost $3,199; average one-off project $37,158
    (Clutch, April 2026)
  - 48% of agencies operate in the $1,500-$5,000 monthly tier;
    43.3% charge under $1,500. 54.3% raised prices in 2025-2026, and
    37% of those cited GEO/AEO work, often billed separately at $900+
    per month. (GoodFirms, survey of 300+ agencies across 20+
    countries, conducted April-May 2026)
  - 64% of surveyed agencies price retainers below $1,000/month;
    only 15% charge above $2,000; 70% raised prices in 2024-25
    (SE Ranking, 260 agencies)
  - Average US small business spends $497.16/month on SEO, and
    clients spending under $500 are 75% more likely to be
    dissatisfied (Backlinko, 1,200-business-owner panel)
  - Retainer clients stay engaged about 56 months on average versus
    24 months for project clients (Focus Digital, 2026)
  - 68.01% of US Google searches ended without a click in the first
    four months of 2026, up from 60.45% in 2024; AI Overviews appear
    on more than 20% of searches and cut click-through by nearly 60%
    where they appear (SparkToro analysis of Similarweb clickstream)
  - External brand mentions show a 0.664 correlation with AI Overview
    appearances (Ahrefs, 2026)
  - Brands are 6.5x more likely to be cited through third-party
    sources than through their own domain (AirOps, 2025)
  - Hourly rates average about $111 across providers (Ahrefs)

KEY POSITION: We publish pricing because most Hawaii agencies do not.
  A quote should be built from the value of a customer and the
  competitive gap, not from a package tier.

### Contact
ENTITY: Big Island SEO, operated by Eye To Ad Media, established 2012
TOLL-FREE PHONE: 1-800-481-8638
EMAIL: info@eyetoad.com
CONTACT PAGE: https://bigislandseo.com/contact/
RESPONSE TIME: within one business day
HOURS: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm Hawaii Standard Time
LANGUAGE: English
SERVICE AREA: all Hawaiian islands — Hawaii (Big Island), Oahu,
  Maui, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai
SERVICES: SEO, local SEO and Google Business Profile optimization,
  AI and generative search optimization, tourism and vacation
  rental marketing, web design
TERMS: free audit, no setup fee, no long-term contract,
  month-to-month, client owns all accounts
PRICING: SEO from $1,000/month; websites from $2,500 one-time

### Hawaii Digital Marketing Agency
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-digital-marketing/
SERVICES: SEO and local SEO, AI search optimization, Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, Meta ads, programmatic display and retargeting, web design, logo and brand identity, conversion rate optimization, tourism marketing
TOOL: channel planner ranking channels by island, customer type (residents, visitors, both, businesses), goal and website condition
KEY POINTS: Hawaii is six markets with two audiences (residents and visitors); plan two to four channels first; judge channels on cost per customer

### Hawaii PPC and Google Ads Management
PAGE URL: https://bigislandseo.com/hawaii-ppc/
TERMS: flat management fee; setup included; ad spend billed directly by the platform with no markup; client owns accounts
HAWAII FACTS: Hawaii observes Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (UTC−10) all year with no daylight saving time; Google Ads ad schedules follow the ad account time zone; location options are presence, or presence or interest
TOOL: Hawaii ad schedule converter for accounts set to Pacific, Mountain, Arizona, Central or Eastern time

### Blog
- https://bigislandseo.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-hawaii-seo-company/ — twelve vetting questions, account ownership checklist, agency scorecard
- https://bigislandseo.com/blog/hawaii-okina-seo/ — ʻokina (U+02BB) and kahakō guidance for SEO, structured data alternateName, place-name checker
- https://bigislandseo.com/blog/hawaii-marketing-calendar/ — month-by-month plan for resident and visitor businesses around Hawaii events and seasons