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Local SEO, so you show up where your customers are actually searching.

Google Business Profile, local landing pages, citations and review signals, built for businesses that serve specific towns, boroughs or regions rather than the whole country.

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Four areas that decide whether you show up locally.

Local search results work differently to normal organic results, and these four areas are what Google actually weighs up.

Google Business Profile

Set up and optimised properly

Your Business Profile is what shows up in the map pack and local search results. Getting categories, service areas, opening hours and photos right has a bigger effect on local visibility than most businesses realise.

Local landing pages

Pages built for each area you serve, not duplicates

A page for every town or region you cover, each one genuinely different rather than the same content with the place name swapped out, which is what actually gets these pages to rank.

Citations and directories

Your business name, address and number, consistent everywhere

Inconsistent details across directories and listings quietly undermine how much Google trusts your business. Getting these consistent is unglamorous work, but it matters.

Reviews

A strategy for getting and responding to reviews

Review volume, recency and how you respond all feed into local rankings, on top of the obvious effect on whether people choose to call you over a competitor.

How to tell if local SEO is the gap.

These are the most common reasons a business ends up looking for local SEO help.

01
Competitors show up in the map pack and you don't
The map pack is prime real estate for local searches, and missing from it means missing a large share of nearby customers before they even reach the full results list.
02
You serve several areas but only have one generic page
A single page trying to rank for multiple towns rarely ranks well for any of them. Each area usually needs its own properly built page.
03
Your business details are different across different listings
An old address on one directory, a different phone number on another. Small inconsistencies like this add up and quietly hurt local trust signals.
04
You have good reviews but nobody sees them
Reviews scattered across the wrong platforms, or a profile that isn't optimised to surface them, means the social proof you've earned isn't doing its job.
05
Google Ads is working, but organic local visibility isn't
Paid and organic local visibility reinforce each other. Being visible in both usually converts better than relying on ads alone.

From review to results.

A clear process, so you know what's happening and why at each stage.

First

A review of your current local presence

Business Profile, citations, existing local pages and how you currently rank against competitors in each area you serve.

Then

A plan for each area you cover

What needs building, what needs fixing, and in what order, based on where the biggest gaps actually are.

Next

Pages built, profile optimised, citations fixed

The practical work of getting everything consistent, complete and genuinely useful, not just technically correct.

Finally

Rank tracking by area

Tracking results separately for each area you serve, since a business covering five towns needs to know how each one is performing, not just an overall average.

Running Google Ads across several areas too? Local SEO and location based Google Ads campaigns work well together, since they reinforce visibility in the same places from two different directions.

Any business tied to specific areas.

Local SEO matters most for businesses that serve, sell to, or operate from particular locations. Recent work has covered:

Healthcare Financial services Higher education Professional services Ecommerce SaaS

Questions about local SEO.

Answers to what comes up most often before a local SEO project begins.

How much does local SEO cost?

Pricing depends on how many areas you serve and the state of your current local presence, so it's a fixed fee agreed before any work starts. Get in touch for a quote specific to your business.

How long does it take to see results?

Local SEO tends to move faster than general organic SEO, with some changes to Business Profile visibility noticeable within weeks, though building genuine authority in the map pack usually takes a few months.

Do I need a separate page for every area I serve?

Usually yes, if you genuinely want to rank in each of those areas. A well built page for each location tends to significantly outperform one generic page trying to cover everywhere at once.

Can you help with getting more reviews, not just managing existing ones?

Yes, that's usually part of the strategy, alongside making sure the reviews you already have are visible and being responded to properly.

Does local SEO work alongside Google Ads?

Very well, in fact. Showing up in both paid and organic local results in the same search builds more trust than either one on its own, and the two channels typically share useful data with each other.

Get a review of your local search visibility.

Scoped and quoted after a look at your current Business Profile and local rankings, with a fixed fee agreed before anything starts.

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