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Step-by-step guides.
Get your first 50 Google reviews
A 30-day system: who to ask, when, and what to say.
Fix your Google Business Profile in an afternoon
Categories, services, photos and the settings most people miss.
Service pages that convert calls
Structure, proof and calls to action for trade service pages.
Track every lead source for under $20
UTMs, GA4 key events and simple call tracking.
Your first local Google Ads campaign
Budget, keywords, negatives and a landing page that works.
Local link building that’s safe in 2026
Suppliers, associations, sponsorships and local press, without link schemes.
What’s different where you are.
United States
Directories, review rules, local terms and the tools preset for United States.
United Kingdom
Directories, review rules, local terms and the tools preset for United Kingdom.
Canada
Directories, review rules, local terms and the tools preset for Canada.
Australia
Directories, review rules, local terms and the tools preset for Australia.
New Zealand
Directories, review rules, local terms and the tools preset for New Zealand.
Copy, adapt, use.
Local SEO terms, explained.
- Citation
- Any online mention of your business name, address and phone number, usually on a directory.
- Doorway page
- A thin page built to rank for a place or keyword that funnels visitors elsewhere. Against Google’s spam policies.
- E-E-A-T
- Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trust: the qualities Google’s quality raters look for in content.
- Google Business Profile (GBP)
- Your free business listing that appears in Google Maps and the local pack.
- hreflang
- A tag that tells Google which language and country a page is for, such as en-AU or en-GB.
- Local pack
- The map and three business listings Google shows for local searches.
- NAP
- Name, Address, Phone. It should match exactly everywhere your business is listed.
- Place ID
- Google’s unique identifier for a business location, used to build direct review links.
- Review gating
- Asking only happy customers for reviews. Discouraged by Google and treated as misleading by regulators.
- Service area business (SAB)
- A business that visits customers, like a plumber, and can hide its address on Google.
- UTM parameters
- Tags added to a link so analytics tools can show where a visit came from.
- Zero-click search
- A search where the person gets their answer on Google and doesn’t visit any website.
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