Local SEO
Local SEO determines whether your business appears when someone nearby searches for what you offer. The map pack — the three business listings that appear at the top of local search results — is where the majority of local search clicks go. Earning and holding a position there requires consistent, well-structured signals across your Google Business Profile, your website, and your business citations.
Capabilities
What local SEO includes
The map pack foundation
Google Business Profile Optimization
Fully optimizing the Google Business Profile: correct category selection, complete services and attributes, photo coverage, Q&A management, and posting cadence. The GBP is the primary signal source for map pack rankings and most local businesses have significant optimization gaps.
NAP consistency
Citation Building and Cleanup
Building consistent business listings (Name, Address, Phone) across the primary citation sources — Yelp, BBB, Bing Places, Apple Maps, and industry-specific directories — and auditing existing citations for inconsistencies that confuse search engine confidence in your business information.
City-specific landing pages
Location Page Development
Creating or improving location-specific pages on your website that target city and service area searches. These pages are structured for local search intent, include local schema markup, and are designed to convert local traffic rather than serve as generic service descriptions with a city name added.
Volume and response
Review Management
Building a systematic process for generating reviews from satisfied customers and responding to existing reviews — positive and negative. Review count, recency, and response rate are all factors in map pack ranking and in the click-through decision when a visitor sees multiple listings.
Consistent at scale
Multi-location SEO
For businesses with multiple locations, managing GBP profiles, citation networks, and location pages across each location while maintaining consistent NAP information and distinct, relevant content for each city. Multi-location SEO requires a documented system rather than ad-hoc management.
Where you can win
Competitor Gap Analysis
Reviewing the citation profiles, review volume, and content depth of the businesses currently ranking in your target map pack positions, and identifying the specific gaps between their signals and yours. This tells you what work will most directly affect your relative ranking position.
Our approach
The map pack has specific ranking factors
Local pack rankings are driven by relevance, distance, and prominence. Relevance comes from category selection and business description. Distance is outside your control. Prominence comes from citation consistency, review volume, and website authority. Understanding which factor is limiting your position tells you where to focus effort.
NAP inconsistency undermines ranking confidence
When your business name, address, or phone number appears differently across citation sources — even minor variations like 'Street' vs. 'St.' — it reduces search engine confidence in your business information. A citation audit and cleanup is often one of the highest-value activities for a business that has been operating for several years without systematic local SEO attention.
Location pages are not duplicate content if done correctly
A location page for each city you serve is a legitimate and effective local SEO tactic when the pages contain distinct, locally relevant content — specific service areas, local staff, locally relevant examples — rather than identical pages with the city name swapped. We build location pages that are genuinely distinct, not templated duplicates.
Reviews affect ranking and conversion simultaneously
A higher review count and rating improves both your map pack position and the click-through rate of visitors who see your listing. They are not just a trust signal for the end customer; they are a ranking signal for Google. Building a consistent review generation process is one of the highest-leverage local SEO activities available to most businesses.
All engineering work is done by US-based engineers. We do not offshore any development or architecture work.
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FAQ
Common questions
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Not appearing in local search results?
If your business should be ranking locally but is not, reach out and we will audit your current local signals and identify the gaps.