Free Local SEO audit · Orange County, CA
No obligation and no contract. We tell you what's wrong whether or not you hire us, because a specific finding is worth more than a sales pitch.
There are two competitions happening on a local search results page, and most businesses are only playing one of them. The Map Pack — the block of three businesses with a map, ratings and a call button — sits above the organic results and answers the question the searcher actually has: who near me does this, and can I trust them?
Ranking tenth organically and nowhere in the Map Pack means a searcher on a phone will never see you. That is the whole problem, and it is why local SEO is a different discipline from ordinary SEO rather than a subset of it.
We don't guess at what Google wants. Three things move local rankings, and we run them as one connected system rather than three disconnected tactics.
Exact-match category selection, service and area definitions, geo-tagged imagery, and update posts on a schedule. Categories alone are the single most under-used lever we find — most profiles sit in a plausible category rather than the right one. Beyond the initial build we run it as a live asset: photos added on a schedule, Q&A seeded with the questions you actually get on the phone and then monitored, every review answered including the difficult ones, and the profile watched for unauthorized edits, duplicate listings and the suggested changes Google applies without asking you.
We publish your exact NAP — name, address, phone — across high-authority directories and reconcile the ones already carrying wrong data. Conflicting citations are the most common invisible cause of a stalled local ranking, and cleaning them up usually matters more than adding new ones.
Systems that ask your happiest customers at the right moment, plus professional responses to the reviews you'd rather not have received. Review velocity and recency both count, so a steady trickle beats a burst — and a burst can itself look like manipulation.
Aggressive local SEO gets profiles suspended. Keyword-stuffed business names, addresses that cannot be verified, categories stretched past what the business actually does — these produce a short-lived ranking bump followed by a listing that vanishes from Maps, sometimes months later, taking its reviews with it.
We recover suspended Google Business Profiles as a standalone service, which means we see the wreckage of other agencies’ shortcuts every week. That sets the rule we work by: every change we make to your profile is one we could justify to a Google reviewer. Slower in month one, still standing in year two. If you have already been suspended that is a different job — start with reinstatement and we will pick up the ranking work once your listing is back.
What actually gets changed, in two very different situations.
Restructured their Google Business Profile categories, resolved conflicting citations across the major directories, and built localized citation coverage for the loan queries they cared about — moving them out of the organic-only bracket and into local visibility for high-intent searches.
Rebuilt the local footprint around a service-area model and implemented a review generation campaign timed to the end of each stay, in a coastal market where the competing listings were long-established.
Profile and category corrections can move things within weeks. Citation cleanup and review velocity compound over months. Any agency quoting you a guaranteed ranking date is quoting you something they don't control — Google's local algorithm updates continuously and nobody outside Google gets advance notice.
No, but you need the right listing type. Service-area businesses can rank without displaying an address — what gets profiles suspended is showing an address Google can't verify as staffed, like a virtual office or a co-working desk. We set this up correctly from the start.
Then ranking work is pointless until it's back, because there's nothing to rank. Start with Google Business Profile reinstatement — a $495 flat fee with a 45-day money-back guarantee — and we'll move to visibility work once your listing is restored.
Ongoing, if you want it. Setup is a project; keeping a profile ranked is a routine — posts, photos, Q&A, review responses, and watching for unauthorized edits. Plenty of businesses only ever need that part, and it is included in the local SEO engagement rather than sold separately.
We work as a manager on your profile, not an owner. You keep ownership and can remove our access at any time. Any agency asking to become the owner of your listing is asking for something you should not give.
The free audit names the specific gaps — profile, citations, or reviews — and what your competitors are doing that you aren't.