Turn more trip searches into booked charters.

Our pricing is public and simple. Google Ads management is 10% of your ad budget with a $600-a-month minimum — and no markup on ad spend, so your full budget goes to Google. SEO is $50 per page, starting at 10 pages a month. Custom websites are eight one-time packages from $1,500 to $20,000+ (see /websites). $0 setup, month to month, no contract. Tell us about your charter and exact numbers land in a free proposal within one business day.

If peak season books itself but shoulder season and weekdays sit empty, if booking marketplaces are taking a cut of trips you could book direct, or if a missed call while you're on the water keeps costing you trips, an agency earns its keep quickly. We build the site, ads, SEO, and review engine that drive direct bookings — so your time stays on the water instead of on marketing. Booked solid every trip with a waitlist? You may not need us yet.

It fills your boat through every channel anglers use to plan a trip: your website and booking calendar, Google Ads, local SEO and your Google Business Profile, AI-search visibility, email, and review generation. SearchPod runs all of it as one system — pointed at direct bookings on your own site instead of marketplace commissions.

Look for an agency that talks about booked trips, not clicks: do they drive direct bookings instead of feeding third-party marketplaces, can they show which campaign booked each trip, and do you keep your website, ad accounts, and customer list? A vague answer to any of those is your cue to move on.

Google Ads can put trips on the calendar within the first few weeks. SEO, AI search, and reviews compound over 3–6 months into bookings you don't pay per click for. Running paid and organic together from day one is the fastest stable path — and the engagement stays month to month the whole way.

One team runs your website, ads, SEO, AI search, email, and reviews together, and nothing is generic — every campaign is built around how anglers actually pick a trip. Pricing is public, ad management is 10% of your budget with no markup on ad spend, you own your site, ad accounts, and customer data, and it's month to month with a 30-day guarantee: not satisfied in your first 30 days, you don't pay.

Yes — that's a core focus. We build real-time booking into your own site, then point ads, SEO, and email there, so the commission third-party marketplaces would take stays in your pocket and the angler's info stays with you for next season.

That's where marketing earns its keep. We aim ads at your open dates, send off-peak offers to past anglers, and build pages for the trip types that run well outside peak season — so weekdays and shoulder season stop depending on walk-ups and luck.

Yes. Calls, forms, and online bookings are tracked from day one, so you can see which ad, search, or email booked each trip — and which trip type, half-day, full-day, inshore, or offshore, each channel actually fills.

Yes. Return trips and word-of-mouth are a big part of this business. We build email and follow-up flows that remind past anglers when the season opens and make it easy to bring friends and family along — so a full boat doesn't depend only on new tourists finding you.

All of it stays yours — website, brand assets, ad accounts, and every customer record. There's no proprietary platform and no lock-in, so if we ever part ways, the whole system keeps working for your charter.

Custom websites are eight one-time packages from $1,500 to $20,000+ depending on size and features — real-time booking, trip-type pages, photo galleries, captain bios. Every package is listed at /websites, there's $0 setup on ongoing services, and your proposal spells out exactly which package fits your charter.