Local SEO
Local SEO
Show up when people nearby search for what you do: your Google listing, service pages and local search, fixed in order.
In detail
Who it’s for
Businesses whose customers search nearby: trades covering a set of towns, restaurants and breweries people look up before they visit, and clinics, studios and firms people find on a map.
In your industry
- Home & Trade: A plumber shows up for “emergency plumber” in every town the van covers, not just the home town.
- Food & Beverage: A restaurant’s hours and menu match on Google, its website and the directories.
- Health & Wellness: A dental office’s Google listing shows the right hours, the services it offers and a booking link.
- Professional Services: A CPA firm has a clear page for each service it offers in the city it serves.
A plumber shows up for “emergency plumber” in every town the van covers, not just the home town.
A dental office’s Google listing shows the right hours, the services it offers and a booking link.
A CPA firm has a clear page for each service it offers in the city it serves.
A restaurant’s hours and menu match on Google, its website and the directories.
It’s likely a fit if
- Your Google listing is missing services, photos or the right hours.
- Your address, phone or hours differ between Google, your site and the directories.
- Directories or bigger competitors show up first for work in the towns you cover.
- Your site says what you do, but not where you do it.
When it isn’t the place to start: If people already find you and the trouble is that calls don’t turn into work, the problem is further down. Start with your website or your follow-up instead.
The problem
Your Google listing is half filled in, your business details disagree across directories, and your pages say what you do without saying where. Directories and bigger competitors show up first for work right down the road.
How we fix it
We fix the listing and the directory details first, because they are quick and everything else depends on them. Then we build pages that answer what people nearby actually search for, and post to your Google listing regularly. You approve the wording of every message before anything sends.
What’s included.
Show up where nearby customers search. Scoped to your business, so the plan says which of these you need.
- Your Google Business Profile filled in and kept current
- Your details matching across the main directories
- A page for each service and each area you serve
- Google Business Profilecategories, services, hours, photos and questions, kept current
- Listingsyour details sent to the main directories and kept matching, with corrections filed and tracked
- Google postsregular posts on your listing about your work, offers and news, each one approved by you
- Local pagesone page per service and area you serve, written for the search, not stuffed with keywords
- Technical SEOcrawlability, canonical tags, structured data and page speed
- Trackingwhere you show up, by area, reported next to the calls and bookings it brings
- What you get
- A monthly report: where you show up by area, the calls and inquiries that came from search, and the work done that month.
- Measured on
- Calls, bookings and inquiries from local search
- Pricing
- Pricing after your free audit.
How it works, step by step.
Inside the same four stages as every engagement: free audit, plan, build and check, run and report. A person checks each one. How we work
What we need from you
- Manager access to your Google Business Profile, or your OK to set one up in your name
- The services you want more of, and the towns or areas you cover
- Your correct hours, phone number and address or service area
- Photos of your work, your place or your people, if you have them
- Access to your website, or to the person who edits it
What stays yours
- Your Google Business Profile, in your name
- Every page we write for your site, and its content
- Your analytics account, in your name
How it connects.
Services that work alongside Local SEO. The free audit tells you which, if any, would make a difference.
Questions, answered.
Can you get us to the top of Google?
Nobody can honestly promise a position on Google. What we control is the work: a complete listing, matching details, a page for each service and area, and regular posts. The monthly report shows where you show up by area, so you can see whether it’s moving.
How will I know it’s working?
Each engagement is judged on one number, agreed in the plan before work starts, with regular reporting against it. If we don’t think we can move it, we say so in the plan.
We don’t have a Google Business Profile yet. Can you set one up?
Yes, in your name. Google asks the business itself to verify it, and how depends on the business, so we walk you through that step.
Will you post on our Google listing without asking?
No. Every post on your Google listing is approved by you first.
Will I have to change my website platform or software?
Not unless it’s holding you back. We start with the platform you already use and keep it where it’s healthy, and we keep the tools you already pay for and fix what’s around them.
Who owns the website, the accounts and the data?
You do. Your website and its content, your domain, your Google Business Profile, and your ad and analytics accounts are set up in your name. Your customer records are yours too. Whenever you leave, you get an exit kit: your domain and your logins and accounts (Google Business Profile, analytics and ad accounts), in your name; your website and its files; and an export of your records (customers, leads, quotes, jobs and invoices) in standard files you can open anywhere, which we prepare for you. SaifHaven OS itself stays with us.
Do you work in my area?
We work remotely with businesses across the US. The areas we serve
How much does it cost?
Pricing after your free audit. Each engagement is scoped to your business, not sold as a package, so we price it once we’ve seen what you have and what you need. You see a written plan before any work starts. Every client is month to month after the first 90 days. The audit itself commits you to nothing.
Your next step
Not sure Local SEO is what you need?
Start with the free audit. We look at your website, how you show up on Google and whether AI assistants mention you, and tell you which service, if any, would make a difference. Real people review every report before it’s sent.