Local SEO services for the customers two miles out, not just the ones at your door
See where you show on the map from points across your service area, free, with a written list of what to fix first.
- Your Google Business Profile set up field by field: category, services, hours and photos
- Your name, address and phone matched character for character across the directories
- A review request after every job, and a reply to every review in your voice
- An honest evaluation, with no obligation to hire us
- You own every account, domain, profile and CRM
- One team since 2015, nothing subcontracted
- 4,700+ businesses served
For businesses whose customers come from a few miles around. Agencies run this same work under their own brand: see the partner model.
Where you rank depends on where the customer is standing.
Google says its map results rest mainly on three things: relevance, distance and prominence. Distance is fixed by where you are. The other two come down to your profile, your listings, your reviews and your service pages, which is the part a local SEO company can actually change.
Search for your own trade from your own shop and you will usually look fine, because you are standing on top of your own address. Two miles out, a customer can see three different businesses. So we start by checking the map from points across the whole area you serve, which shows where you appear, where you drop out and who takes your place. A position earned that way keeps showing up after the work is done, which an ad stops doing the day its budget ends.
Relevance: matching the words in the search
Google matches the words someone types against your profile and pages. Here we work on the primary category, the services list and one page per service, so a search for "water heater replacement" finds a listing that says exactly that.
Distance: measured from the searcher or the town
Google counts it from the town named in the search, or from where the searcher is when no town is named. No agency can move your address. What we can do is show you, point by point, where distance is beating you.
Prominence: reviews, rankings and reputation
Google names two signals outright: your review count and score, and where your website ranks in ordinary search results. That is why review requests after every job and pages that rank on their own both count toward the map.
Six parts, kept in step by one team.
Google Business Profile
The primary category, the services list, hours including holidays, photos and posts, each checked against the work you actually do. It is the listing Google reads first for the map, so it has its own page: Google Business Profile management. Profile suspended or asking to be verified again? Start with how to fix a suspended profile or the free suspension checker.
Citations & listings
Your name, address and phone written the same way, character for character, on the directories search engines check you against. "Ste 305" on one and "Suite 305" on another is enough to split one business into two records.
On-page local SEO
A page for each service and each area you want to be found for, with the town in the title and your business details in plain text, so every search has one clear page to match.
Reviews & reputation
A review request to every customer after the job, on the platform that counts for your trade, and a reply to every review, good or bad. The detail is on review management.
Local content & posts
Profile posts about recent jobs, offers and seasonal hours, plus pages that answer what people in your area ask before they pick up the phone.
Tracking & reporting
Map positions checked across your service area, set beside the calls, direction requests and website clicks your profile's own performance report records, once a month.
Weighing a listings tool before you hire anyone? We compared the common ones on what each does and who it suits: Whitespark vs BrightLocal, Yext vs BrightLocal, Moz Local vs BrightLocal, Yext vs Moz Local and, for rank tracking, Semrush vs BrightLocal.
What you get each month, and whose name it sits in.
Google's third-party policies say end customers "must retain ownership or co-ownership of their Business Profile at all times." We go further than the profile: the domain, the website and the CRM are set up in your business's name too, so nothing needs untangling if you leave.
| The work | What you get | Whose name it is in |
|---|---|---|
| Google Business Profile | Primary category, services, hours including holidays, photos and posts kept in step with the work you do | Your business is the owner. We are added as a manager, and you can remove us yourself at any time |
| Service and area pages | One page for each service and each area you want to be found for, with the town in the title | Your website, on a domain registered in your name |
| Listings and citations | Name, address and phone written the same way across the directories, with each correction listed in the monthly note | Your business details, pointing to your website and your phone number |
| Review requests and replies | A request after every job and a reply to every review, good or bad | Requests go out from a CRM set up in your name; replies post on your own profile |
| The monthly note | Map positions from points across your area, the calls and direction requests your profile recorded, and what we changed | Every number comes from an account in your name, so you can look it up yourself |
Not sure who holds yours today? The free account ownership check runs in your browser and sends nothing to us.
Look first, fix the foundations, then keep it current.
Check the map and the listings
We check where you show from across your service area, read your profile and listings against each other, and note which competitors hold the spots you want. The free visibility check is the first part of this.
Correct and build
We correct the profile, merge or remove duplicate listings, fix the ones that disagree, set up review requests and build the service and area pages that are missing.
Keep it current
Hours change, competitors post, new reviews arrive. Each month we post, answer reviews, fix anything that has drifted and report where you moved on the map.
Is your local SEO set up to work, and is it yours?
Five yes-or-no questions. Your answers stay on this page.
Answer all five to see where you stand. Your answers stay on this page.
Doing part of this yourself? Start with these three guides.
Missing from the map
How to check your own rank by hand from a signed-out private window, why a profile can vanish from Maps entirely, and how to report fake listings sitting above you: how to rank higher on Google Maps.
A suspended profile
Read the reason in Google's appeals tool, fix that and anything else that breaks the rules, then appeal with a registration or license and a utility bill that match the profile: how to fix a suspended profile.
Leaving an agency
Get admin access before you give notice. Google's policy gives an agency 7 business days from your notice to hand back exclusive control of the profile. The order of steps is in how to leave your marketing agency.
A local SEO agency that has worked the map since 2015.
The 4,700+ businesses we have served across all our services are mostly ones that live on nearby customers, and agencies run our work under their own brand. The trades vary: med spas, salons, electricians, landscapers, medical clinics, home services, restaurants and wellness centers.
The rules have held
The map has changed shape plenty since we started, from the move to Google Business Profile to AI Overviews sitting above some local searches. What decides it has not: relevance, distance and prominence.
No handoffs between vendors
The same people do the profile, the listings, the reviews and the pages. When your hours or services change, all four change in the same week.
Reporting you can check
Where you show on the map across your area, what your profile recorded in calls and direction requests, and what we changed that month. Every number comes from an account in your name, so you can look it up yourself.
More calls from the map only help if someone picks up. When everyone is busy with a customer and the phone rings out, the AI receptionist answers on the same number and books the caller in.
What owners ask before hiring for local SEO.
What does a local SEO agency actually do each month?
After the first round of fixes, the monthly work is upkeep that slips when nobody owns it: profile posts about recent jobs, a reply to every new review, holiday hours entered ahead of the holiday, listings corrected when a directory changes your details, and a fresh check of where you show on the map. You get one note a month saying what changed and where you moved.
Can you get us into the top three on the map?
Nobody can promise a position, because Google decides the map results and distance is part of it: a customer standing next to a competitor will often see the competitor first. What we can do is find what is holding you back from the spots you are close to, fix it, and show you each month whether it worked, checked from points across your area rather than from your own office.
Who owns the Business Profile and the listings?
You do. The Business Profile, the website and the domain stay in your business's name, and we are added to the profile as a manager. If you stop working with us, nothing has to be handed back or untangled.
We serve customers at their homes and have no storefront. Does local SEO still work?
Yes. Google lets a business that travels to its customers hide its address and show a service area instead, and plenty of plumbers, cleaners and landscapers rank in the map that way. The profile has to be set up as a service-area business from the start, since listing a virtual office or a home address you do not serve from is one of the quickest ways to get a profile suspended.
How much do local SEO services cost?
We do not publish prices, because the work depends on how many locations and services you have and how much is wrong when we start. It is affordable for an owner-run business, and the free visibility check tells you what needs doing before you are asked to pay for any of it.
See the map the way your customers see it.
Tell us your business and the area you serve. We will check where you appear in the map from several points across that area, compare your profile and listings with the businesses that outrank you, and send the short list of what to fix first, at no cost.
- A free consult. A real conversation about your business, your area and what is not working yet.
- An honest evaluation. Where you stand in search, ads and follow-up next to the businesses you lose customers to.
- A plan you keep. What we would fix first and why. It is yours whether or not you work with us.
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