Your competitor ranks above you. You can't tell why.
Same business, same neighbourhood, sometimes worse reviews. They show up first on the map and you don't. The fixes you've tried so far didn't move the ranking, because most of what's weighting that map sits outside your website.
Local SEO is the work of ranking on Google's map results and the local 3-pack for searches in your service area. Most of what moves local rankings sits outside your website: Google Business Profile completeness, citation consistency, and review velocity.
- Our competitor ranks above us. They have fewer reviews than we do
- I added more pages and more keywords. Nothing moved
- We have a beautiful website. Nobody finds it on Google
- I don't know if our SEO agency did anything for the money
- We pay for ads because the organic ranking won't budge
- I don't even know how Google decides who shows up first
Strong reputation, but hard to find online: searches surfaced competitors first. We are rebuilding the organic presence so the firm shows up for the searches worth winning.
See the work →A lean get-found site, with the Google Business Profile and social presence being set up so it shows up on the map, not just on its own site.
See the work →Local SEO is mostly off-page.
What's holding your map ranking down is rarely your website. It's profile completeness, citation consistency, review velocity, and the keywords that don't get used on the right pages. The Health Check looks at the things Google actually weights, and you walk out with a punch list ranked by impact.
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Free 13-minute assessment. The report shows the local-SEO signals you're getting wrong, ranked by impact.
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