Getting your business to show up when someone nearby searches for what you sell. Mostly that means Google Maps and the three results sitting at the top of it. Your website matters here, just less than people expect.

Regular SEO is about your website. Local SEO is mostly about your Google Business Profile, which isn't on your website at all. That catches people out. You can have a genuinely nice site and still be nowhere in the map results because your profile is half empty and you've got four reviews.

Profile changes can show within a couple of weeks. Everything else is slower. City pages and citation cleanup usually need three to six months before you see much, longer if you're in a busy metro. If someone quotes you thirty days, ask which market they've actually done that in.

It's monthly, not a one-off. What you pay depends mostly on how many cities you want to rank in, because one location is a completely different job from twelve. Our tiers start at [entry tier] and they're listed on the pricing page, so you don't need to fill in a form to find out.

Yes. If you travel to customers, Google calls you a service area business. You hide your address and list the areas you cover instead. It's a bit harder, because proximity is a ranking factor and you can't be near everyone at once. City pages end up doing most of the lifting.

Some of it. Fill in your Business Profile properly, add real photos, ask happy customers for reviews. That's free, and most businesses still haven't bothered. Citation cleanup is where people quit. It's forty-odd directories, half of them carrying a phone number you stopped using years ago, and it is genuinely boring work.

Proximity, your Business Profile, and reviews. Proximity you can't do anything about. So the work goes into the other two, plus making sure your name, address and phone number are identical everywhere they appear. That last one sounds trivial. It isn't.

Yes. Each location needs its own profile and its own page. Don't put all your branches on one page.

There's overlap, but it's not the same job. AI tools pull from your Business Profile, your reviews and what other sites say about you far more than from your own pages. Consistency across the web matters more here than anywhere else. We've folded it into local work because it's started sending real enquiries, not just curious clicks.