Be The Business People Find On Google Maps.
When someone nearby searches for what you do, Google shows three businesses on a map before anything else. Local SEO puts you in those three. More calls, more visits, more local customers.
Local Searches. Local Customers. Ready To Call.
“Plumber near me”, “accountant in Preston”, “restaurants Chester”. For searches like these, Google mixes in a map with three businesses, called the map pack, and favours businesses close to the person searching.
Local SEO makes sure Google knows exactly what you do, where you are and that people trust you, so you appear in the map pack and the local results underneath it. For businesses that serve a local area, it’s often the fastest way to more calls.
Everything Google Looks At When It Ranks Local Businesses.
Google Business Profile
Your categories, services, description, photos, opening hours and posts, set up and kept up to date. This is the single biggest factor in the map pack. More on Google Business Profile →
Reviews
A simple way to ask happy customers for Google reviews, and help replying to them. More good reviews means more clicks and better rankings.
Local Citations
Your business name, address and phone number listed consistently across the directories that matter, like Yell, Bing, Apple Maps and industry sites.
Local Pages On Your Website
Pages for the towns and areas you serve, written properly for each place, not copy and paste.
Local Schema Markup
The behind-the-scenes code that tells Google your location, service area and opening hours.
Rank Tracking By Area
We track where you appear across your area, not just from one spot, so you see the real picture.
Made For Businesses That Serve A Local Area.
Trades, restaurants, salons, estate agents, accountants, clinics, garages, venues. If your customers come from within a drive of you, or you travel to them, local SEO is usually the best place to start.
See how it works for restaurants, plumbers, builders, dentists, accountants and estate agents.
Local SEO Questions, Answered
Anything else, just ask. You’ll get a straight answer from one of us.
Local SEO is improving your visibility in Google for searches with local intent, like “near me” searches or searches that include a town. It focuses on your Google Business Profile, reviews, local listings and local pages on your website.
SEO aims to rank your website for searches in general, often nationally. Local SEO focuses on a specific area and includes the Google Maps results, which work differently to normal search results.
Create and verify a free Google Business Profile, fill in every section, and keep it active with photos, posts and reviews. We can set this up for you as part of local SEO or the done-for-you website plan.
No. Service businesses that travel to customers can hide their address and set a service area instead. You do need a real, legitimate address to verify the profile.
Profile and listing fixes can show results within weeks. Building reviews and local authority takes a few months of steady work.
From £250 a month, on a 6-month minimum and then month to month. We’ll give you an exact price once we’ve looked at your area and competition.
Let’s Talk About Your Place On The Map.
No hard sell. Just an honest look at your Google Business Profile and local rankings, what’s stopping nearby customers finding you and what we’d do about it.