Local SEO

Local SEO: the map is the front page.

For most local businesses the three map results take the calls and the rest of page one takes the browsing. $220 a month, on its own — the profile, the citations and the reviews, without buying a whole SEO retainer.

The problem

Optimising the site, ignoring the listing.

Plenty of businesses pay for SEO on a website for a year while the profile that is actually shown to somebody searching nearby sits exactly as it was on day one.

What the listing is missing
Categories
One generic category doing the work of four specific ones.
Services
Empty, so Google guesses what you do — badly.
Photos
Three, from the year you opened.
Reviews
Nobody asks, so the competitor with twelve wins the pack.
What gets done

One version of the truth, everywhere.

Name, address and phone identical across the site, the profile and every directory that already has you. It is unglamorous, it is boring, and it is most of the win.

Service areas named honestly, not stuffed with towns
A review flow so asking stops being awkward
Reporting on calls and directions taps, not impressions
The order the work happens in
03
Pages on your site for the searches the pack does not answer
02
Directories and citations corrected, one at a time
01
Business Profile: categories, services, photos, reviews
Honesty

Nobody can guarantee the top three.

The map pack moves for reasons nobody outside Google fully controls, and proximity is one of them — which no amount of work changes.

What you are actually buying
Guaranteed
The work, the reporting, and a straight answer.
Not guaranteed
A position. Proximity alone can outrank effort.
Measured
Rankings, calls and directions taps, every month.
Told to you
Including when a month went badly.
What it costs

$220 a month. No retainer needed.

This is the piece, not the package. If you also want the website ranking, the SEO Standard plan carries both — and costs less than buying them apart.

The map, on its own
Local SEO, on its own
$220 / mo
SEO Starter, the website side
$390 / mo
Both, bought separately
$610 / mo
SEO Standard, which carries both
$590 / mo
You save
$20 / mo
What clients say

The map result is the result.

“Our local SEO improved — we are now top 3 on Google Maps. Members book through the website, and support is always available.”

Vern · O-Zone Fitness, Malaysia

“Our old website was years behind the business. Daniel rebuilt it from scratch and now runs our SEO — one point of contact, and things move without chasing.”

Yoon Phey · AZEO, Malaysia
Before you ask

What local businesses ask first.

Yes, and often that is the right first move. A corrected profile can move you in the pack while the website question is still open.

Profile fixes can show in weeks. Getting into the top three where somebody else is established takes longer, and depends on reviews you have to earn.

No — and nobody honest will. Buying or writing reviews gets the listing suspended. What I do is set up the asking so it is easy and it actually happens.

No. Month to month, like everything else here. If the profile is fixed and you would rather run it yourself from there, that is a perfectly good outcome and I will show you how.

Yes, with a service-area profile set up properly. Listing thirty towns you do not really serve is the fastest way to rank for none of them.

Also on this site

Around the map pack.

Local search is one piece. This is what it usually comes with.

Pages
The monthly work, of which local is one part.
One look at what is wrong, before committing monthly.
Businesses found on the map, with what changed.
From the blog
Which one to start with when the budget is one.
Start here

Send me your Google listing.

Just the link. One call and I will tell you what is missing from it and what I would fix in the first week.

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