Local SEO that puts you on the map

Yes, and that surprises people. Ordinary SEO ranks pages. Local SEO ranks your business in the map, and the map is decided mostly by things that are not on your website: your profile, your reviews, your listings and how close you are to the searcher.

Faster than ordinary SEO. Profile and listing fixes often move the map results within four to eight weeks, because you are competing against businesses that have never done the basics properly.

That is a service area business, and Google treats it differently. You can rank across a region without a shopfront in each town, but it needs the profile set up as a service area and a real page for each place, not a list of names.

Local SEO is the work that gets your business into the map results and the nearby searches. It covers your Google Business Profile, the directories that list you, your reviews, and pages on your site for the areas you serve. It matters most for businesses where the customer has to be able to reach you.

Ordinary SEO competes for the blue links, and it is won mostly on your website. Local SEO competes for the map, and it is won mostly off your website. A business can rank well in one and be invisible in the other, which is why the two are quoted separately.

It depends on how many locations you have and how much repair the listings need. A single location with a clean profile is a small monthly job. A business with six branches and conflicting directory entries is a bigger one. We audit it first and quote from what we find.

Yes, more than almost anything else you control. Review count, review recency and whether you reply all feed the map results, and they decide whether someone calls you rather than the business above you. A steady trickle beats twenty reviews collected in one week.

Sometimes, and it is harder. Distance from the searcher is a real ranking factor in the map, so the further you are the more the rest has to work. A page for that area plus reviews mentioning it helps, and we will tell you honestly when an area is not winnable.

Not necessarily. A service area business can hide its address and still rank, which suits trades and mobile services. What you cannot do is invent an address you do not operate from, and profiles get suspended for it.

Calls, direction requests, website clicks from the profile, and where you sit in the map for the searches that matter. Position alone is not the point. Being second in the map with a good review score beats being first with none.