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Local SEO

Show Up When Someone Searches Near You

Google Business Profile, citations, reviews and location pages handled properly, so you appear in the map pack for the searches that end in a phone call.

  • Map pack visibility
  • Citation consistency
  • Review strategy
  • Multi-location support
Why Local Is Different

The Map Pack Is a Separate Competition

Local results run on a different set of signals from organic ones. Proximity, profile completeness, category accuracy, citation consistency and review activity decide the map pack, and a strong organic site can still lose it.

For businesses that sell in a place, those three map results are usually worth more than anything below them.

  • Google Business Profile fully built and categorised
  • Name, address and phone identical across every citation
  • Reviews earned steadily and responded to
  • Location pages with genuine local content, not templates

What we manage

  • Google Business Profile
  • Citation building and cleanup
  • Review generation and response
  • Location landing pages
  • Local keyword targeting
  • Map pack rank tracking
Local SEO work in progress at Links Boots
What We Do

Everything the Map Pack Actually Rewards

Single location or fifty, the mechanics are the same and the consistency requirement gets harder.

Google Business Profile

Categories, services, attributes, hours, photos and posts, set up correctly and kept current.

Citation Management

Directory listings built and cleaned so your details are identical everywhere, including the ones you have forgotten about.

Review Strategy

A process for earning reviews steadily and responding to all of them, including the difficult ones.

Location Pages

Pages with genuinely local content that rank, rather than one template with the city name swapped out.

Local Keyword Targeting

The service-plus-place queries that convert, mapped to the right page for each location.

Map Pack Tracking

Grid-based rank tracking that shows how visibility changes with distance from your location.

How It Runs

From brief to measurable result

Four stages, run in order, each with something you can review before the next one starts.

  1. 01
    Audit

    Find the Inconsistencies

    • Profile completeness reviewed
    • Every citation found and checked
    • Duplicate listings identified
    • Review profile assessed
  2. 02
    Clean

    Make Everything Match

    • NAP standardised across all sources
    • Duplicates merged or removed
    • Profile fully completed
    • Categories corrected
  3. 03
    Build

    Add What Is Missing

    • New citations on relevant directories
    • Location pages written
    • Review request process set up
    • Posts and photos scheduled
  4. 04
    Sustain

    Keep It Current

    • Grid rank tracking per location
    • Reviews monitored and answered
    • Profile updated as things change
    • Monthly reporting per location
How We Work

Consistency Is The Whole Game

Local SEO fails on small contradictions: an old suite number, a legacy phone line, a duplicate listing nobody claimed.

  • Full citation cleanup
  • Profile optimisation
  • Review generation process
  • Real location pages
  • Grid rank tracking
  • Multi-location support
  • Duplicate listing removal
  • Ongoing profile updates
  • Per-location reporting
FAQ

Local SEO questions

Something not covered here? Ask us directly and a strategist will reply within one working day.

Profile and citation fixes often show within four to eight weeks. Competitive urban categories take longer, and proximity will always cap how far your reach extends.
Yes. Multi-location work is mostly a consistency problem at scale, plus location pages that are genuinely different rather than templated.
Only ones that breach Google policy, and we will flag those. Otherwise the strategy is earning enough genuine recent reviews that individual bad ones stop mattering, and responding to them well.
Consistency matters more than volume now. Cleaning up contradictory listings usually produces more movement than adding new ones.
For most businesses, yes. The profile wins the map pack; the location page wins the organic result underneath it, and they support each other.
Service-area businesses are handled differently, with the profile configured accordingly. The rest of the work is broadly the same.

Let's Figure Out What Growth Actually Looks Like

We look closely at your website, your industry, and where you currently stand. Then we walk you through exactly what we do, and how much it would cost.