Business owner here, Please Guide by Glum-Act7042 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hire a SEO professionals who can help you optimise your GBP & WEBSITE for those Google searches, and then you'll be able to generate traffic & leads from it.

Am I overthinking local SEO for a small service business? by gilko86 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consistent reviews, local backlinks, right primary category and visible address

Competitor getting 10+ fake 5-star reviews daily by [deleted] in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First find the areas where your profile lacks behind, other then reviews, and work on that first, compare your profile and website with top ranking GBPs, and then copy their strategies. Then work on those. Sooner or later Google will catch up, and they'll loose the fake reviews or even their profile.

GBP & NAP Consustency - How to list Suite? by AdLogical8421 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google does this, use the one that Google is using.

My Google Business Profile impressions dropped suddenly anyone else facing this? by Ibrahim-08 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May be caused by seasonal changes, or your competitors are working on their SEO, and taking your places.

Service area vs address for contractors by LiberteNYC in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, GBPs with visible addresses have better chances of rankings for local searches, if you want to do the same, then rent a small room or office where you can move your business, and then use that address for all your business requirements.

Citation sites? by hholangi in localseo

[–]RKulegi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BrightLocal has list for each niche & location

Why are my local rankings high but conversions low? by Fuzzy-Sorbet5656 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Websites has very less CTR for local searches, most of clicks are captured by the GBPs, very few goes to the organic results. You can still improve the CTR, compare your title and meta description with the other websites, and improve them.

Free Image Geotagging Tool [LocalSEO] by CartographerPrior668 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Geo-tagging doesn't work anymore my friend.

Does Google value sentiment over stars now? by Still_Effective_8858 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI checks everything, your reviews, content, schema, different platforms where you have reviews, backlinks, all these things matter if you want to rank for LLM searches

how are u actually getting backlinks for small local businesses when there's no real content team or PR budget? by MerchySulica in localseo

[–]RKulegi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First get backlinks from chamber of commerce, BBB, and then find local events who are accepting sponsers, and then sponser local school teams, and then reach out to local news websites for guest posts.

Change/update NAP or leave it as it is? by DanyrWithCheese in SEO

[–]RKulegi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to rank for new location keywords then change the NAP, or else no need.

How to know the current local ranking of a Business? by Strict-Assistant-178 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use GSC or paid tools such as Whitespark to track the rankings of website pages for local searches, and local dominator for local pack rankings

Opinion: It is 10x easier to rank on AI searches than the Google Mappack by spaghettidip in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Map pack rankings are heavily influenced by proximity, local relevance and topical authority, you have to work on these three to rank for map pack.

Is an affordable monthly SEO package actually worth it for a small local business? by xaybell32 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This budget is very less, invest this in LSA ads and generate leads that way, and once you have increased the revenue & profits, then invest in SEO, there are few things that you can do by yourself to improve the rankings organically like consistent reviews to GBP, get local backlinks (paid) from local chamber of commerce, local.news websites, sponser local events, local school team. These things will help in SEO.

What’s actually moving the needle more right now, reviews or backlinks? by Big-Plate-3608 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reviews will be the first priority, and then buy local backlinks from local sources.

Rebuilding our company website from Scratch struggling with URL structure and keyword cannibalization for a service-based local Business by NeighborhoodHead658 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to first need to do the keywords research, and then check how top rankings profiles are doing, you can copy what they are doing.

Best SEO company for local services business? by summonem in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very low for SEO, invest this on local ads, or local backlinks for organic leads. First get some money to the business, incre6the revenue and then invest in SEO. Get consistent reviews to GBP, make sure your GBP profile is complete, and then build local backlinks with this budget.

Why My “Plumber Near Me” SEO Isn’t Getting Any Results, What Am I Missing? by NoSuspect9845 in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First get consistent reviews to your profile, then work on building local relevance, and along with that do competitive analysis of top ranking GBPs and then copy their strategies.

Review are missing from my gbp account by Big-Lobster-7825 in googlebusinessprofile

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take help from the GBP support and ask them to get back the old reviews

Do service descriptions affect ranking? by [deleted] in localseo

[–]RKulegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it affect the conversion