LOCAL SEO

The Major Challenge with Local SEO

Achieving strong rankings in map searches near your business location is typically manageable. However, as the distance between your physical location and the searcher increases, your visibility drops significantly.

For example, if you’re a landscaping company based in Oak Park, Illinois, but want to attract clients in Chicago, Evanston, and Elmhurst, the physical distance from those areas can make it difficult for your business to appear in relevant local search results.

Proximity remains the top-ranking factor for local searches, even for service-based businesses where clients don’t visit your physical location.

Fortunately, our Local SEO services provide a proven way to overcome this challenge.

Step 1: Make a Comprehensive List of All Your Services

We start by documenting every service your business offers. This essential step lays the foundation for your local SEO strategy and helps us optimize your website for relevant keywords.

Example for a Landscaping Company:

  • Lawn mowing
  • Garden design
  • Tree trimming
  • Patio installation

Example for a Doggy Daycare Company:

  • Walk the dogs
  • Wash the dogs
  • Feed the dogs
  • Check for illness 

Step 2: Pinpoint Your Target Cities/Areas

Next, we help you pinpoint the cities, neighborhoods, and surrounding areas where you want your business to rank. Our focus is on locations where you can provide your services effectively, balancing proximity and demand.

We also analyze untapped areas with growth potential to broaden your reach and maximize opportunities.

Step 3: Focus on High-Demand Areas Based on Search Volume

Using advanced tools like SEMrush, we conduct a comprehensive local keyword analysis to determine which areas have the highest search volume for your services. This data allows us to prioritize high-demand locations in your SEO strategy, ensuring that your business gets maximum visibility where it matters most.

Step 4: Create Service Location Pages

We’ll create a dedicated page on your website for each combination of service and city you want to target. These pages will follow your homepage layout and will be optimized for local searches.

We’ll start with the highest-priority pages based on search volume and customer demand, building them one at a time. From there, we’ll work through the remaining pages in order of importance, ensuring every target location and service is covered effectively.

Some strategies we will implement include

  • We’ll use your homepage as a template for each service location page to maintain a consistent look and feel across your website.
  • We’ll title each page with the specific service and location to optimize for local searches (e.g., “Lawn Mowing Services in Bucharest Romania”).
  • We’ll include these service location pages in your site’s footer navigation to leverage the internal linking ranking factor.

Step 5: Customize Content with AI

To make each page unique and highly relevant to its specific location we use advanced AI techniques to: Lightly rewrite and customize the content for each page to ensure originality and relevance. Include your keyword phrase (e.g., “service in location”) in the H1 heading. 

Incorporate the keyword into several subheadings and multiple times throughout the body text. Use closely related phrases to enhance SEO and improve keyword diversity.

step 6: Updating Your Google Business Profile (GBP)

Now it’s time to connect your Google Business Profile (GBP) to your new service/location pages. This step helps link your GBP listing to your localized content for better SEO results.

You do NOT need to create a new location or listing within your GBP. Instead, we’ll strategically link your GBP to these pages, ensuring that search engines and potential customers can easily find relevant information about your services in each location.

Top Local SEO Tools

Local Dominator

Local Dominator

Local Dominator Features

Local Dominator is a Google Maps rank-tracking platform designed for SEO agencies. It offers tools for managing Google Business Profiles (GBP), such as

  • bulk scans
  • scheduling posts,
  • white-label reporting,
  • dynamic shareable URLs.

It emphasizes affordability, accuracy, and user-friendly features, including rolling credits for unused resources. The platform also integrates an AI-powered tool, Local Wiz App, to optimize WordPress sites with automated content, geotagging, and SEO enhancements. Learn more at Local Dominator.

Bright Local

Bright Local Features

BrightLocal is a Web tool that helps businesses improve their local Seo. Its features include:

  • White-labelling
  • Agency Lead Generator
  • Location Summary
  • Advanced GBP Insights
  • Google Analytics Integration
  • Extra daily free tools usage
  • Local Rank Tracker
  • Local Search Grid
  • Citation Tracker
  • GBP Audit
  • Local Search Audit

BrightLocal is widely known as one of the best and most cost-effective Local Seo tools. For more info visit BrightLocal.

SEMRUSH Local

SEMRUSH Local Features

Semrush Local is a comprehensive local SEO solution to help businesses optimize their online presence for local searches. It offers tools for managing and improving:

  • Google Business Profiles
  • Tracking local rankings
  • Generating customer reviews
  • Rating geo-optimized content

The platform supports data-driven decision-making with analytics and reporting features. Learn more at Semrush Local SEO.

AHREFS Local

AHREFS Local Features

AHrefs Local is a comprehensive local SEO tool providing its users with in-depth information on local rankings and trends.

  • Dashboard
  • Site Explorer
  • Keywords Explorer
  • Site Audit
  • Rank Tracker
  • Competitive Analysis
  • SERP history
  • Page inspect
  • Ahrefs Web Analytics
  • Local SEO

MOZ Local

MOZ Local Features

Moz local is one of the cheapest Seo tools out there, and has a surprising amount of features.

  • Directory Management
  • GeoRank
  • Listing AI
  • Review Monitoring
  • Data Health
  • Owner Google Q&A

Perfect for the average Seo beginner that isn’t keen on risking too much just yet. For more info Moz Local.

Local Falcon

Local Falcon Features

Local Falcon offers a bird’s-eye view of local search rankings from anywhere in the world, in an intuitive geo-grid map format then uses that information to provide unique AI analysis and recommendations.

  • Multi-Location Tracking
  • Fast Scans
  • View Trends Over Time
  • AI Review Analysis
  • Organize and Group Locations
  • Falcon Guard
  • Geo-Grid Visuals
  • Falcon Assist
  • AI Analysis and Recommendations

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Local SEO Tools

SEMRUSH Local
Bright Local
Local Dominator
Moz Local
Ahrefs Local
Local Falcon

Content for Location Pages

CITATIONS

NAPW

Google Business Profile

Bing Places

Location Pages

Location pages build further relevancy, especially if you are in a larger city.

This page was last updated on 25 January 2025 by Christiaan Gouws.

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