Local SEO
Win the local pack and Google Maps for your area. Local SEO services for UK businesses, sole traders to multi-site groups.
Local search is where most UK SMEs win or lose. Eight in ten people who run a “near me” search go on to act within twenty-four hours, and Google now prioritises the local pack and Google Maps over the traditional ten blue links for any query with local intent. If you’re not on the first map page, you don’t exist for that customer. Local SEO is not a quick win you can get in a fortnight, but the gains are durable and they compound.
What we work on
- Google Business Profile setup, optimisation and ongoing maintenance. Categories, services, hours, photos, posts, reviews.
- Local citations across the directories that still matter, with consistency checks across name, address and phone.
- Local content. Pages for the services you offer in each town or postcode you serve.
- Reviews strategy. Asking, responding, recovering, and using them on your site.
- Schema mark-up for local business and service area business.
- Backlink work from genuinely local sources.
Multi-site or single-site
We work with single-location businesses where the brief is simply to dominate one town, and with multi-site groups where the brief is to win twenty postcodes simultaneously without cannibalising each other’s rankings.
What you can expect
A clear three-month plan, monthly reports in plain English, and the rankings, traffic and enquiry numbers tracked from day one.
Not sure where the problem is?
Get a free written review of your site. We’ll tell you what’s holding it back and what we’d do first. No obligation, no follow-up sales sequence.
Three things that kill local search performance, and we fix them first
- An incomplete or unverified Google Business Profile. Most underperforming local businesses lose half their potential map traffic to a profile that hasn’t been touched since it was set up.
- Inconsistent name, address and phone across the directories Google still trusts. This is the silent killer for local rankings and it takes a couple of weeks to clean up.
- A “service areas” page on the website that lists thirty towns in a sentence, with no individual page per town. Google won’t rank a single sentence against a competitor with a proper page.
Common questions about local SEO
How quickly will I see local ranking improvements?
Most clients see profile and map traction inside thirty days, with stronger movement at sixty to ninety days.
Will you write the per-town pages?
Yes. We write each one as a proper page, not spun text. Volume discounts on packs of ten or more.
Can you help with reviews?
Yes. We set up a request flow, respond to existing reviews, and help you recover from bad ones.
Do you do this for service-area businesses without a fixed shopfront?
Yes. The strategy is slightly different but the results are at least as strong.
