Local SEO Services That Put You on the Google Map

Local SEO services get your business onto the map at the top of Google, in the towns where you want customers. Search for what you do in your own town today, and that map might show three other businesses. One of them is twenty minutes away. One opened last year. Neither does better work than you.

We set up and look after your Google listing, ask every customer for a review, and build the pages that tell Google exactly what you do and where.

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Why the map matters more than anything under it

When someone needs a plumber, a dentist or a cleaning crew, they search on their phone and look at the map first. Three businesses, with stars, photos and a Call button. A lot of people tap one of those three and never scroll any further.

Google picks those three by asking, in its own words, about relevance, distance and prominence. In plain words:

What you do
Does your listing, and your website, clearly say you do the thing they searched for?
How close you are
Where is the person searching, and where is your business?
How well known you are
How many reviews, how recent, how good, and how often other sites mention you.

You can't move your shop. You can make the other two answers so strong that you show up across more of your area. That's the work.

Two kinds of local business, two ways to get on the map

If customers come to you (a dental office, a clinic, a shop), your address does a lot of the work. We make sure everything around it is complete and trusted, so you win the searches within a reasonable drive.

If you go to your customers (plumbers, fence builders, cleaners, guard companies), you list the towns you serve and can keep your home address off the map. Here the pages on your website and your reviews carry more weight, because Google has no storefront to point at.

Running more than one location? Each one needs its own listing, its own phone number and its own pages, so each gets the calls from its own area.

What our Google Business Profile optimization covers

Your Google Business Profile is the listing that shows on the map. It's free, it's yours, and most businesses fill in about half of it.

  • Your listing, complete

    The right main category and the extras, every service you sell, your hours, the towns you cover, real photos, and answers to the questions people ask on it.

  • Fresh activity

    New photos and short updates, so the listing looks like a business that's open and busy.

  • Reviews, steadily

    A text after every job or visit asking for a Google review, with a one-tap link. We help you answer every review too, good or bad. More on that in review management.

  • Your details, the same everywhere

    Google checks your name, address and phone on directories and other sites. When they don't match, it trusts you less. We find the mismatches and fix them.

  • A page for each town and service

    Your website backs up the listing: a page for each service in each town you want, so Google can match you to the search.

  • A plain monthly report

    Calls from the map, which towns they came from, and what we'll do next month.

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Part of getting found

Local SEO is one piece of how we make you the business people find when they need you. The map covers people nearby. For everyone else:

Local SEO by trade and business

The map works the same way for everyone, but each trade fights for it differently.

Where we work

We work with businesses across Canada and the US.

Somewhere else? Here are all the cities we serve.

A local SEO result, named

The DoMyLaundry website on a desktop, laptop, tablet and phone. DoMyLaundry runs laundry pickup and delivery services in Toronto, and we do its local SEO

DoMyLaundryLaundry pickup and delivery · Toronto

More than 5,000 inquiries over 36 months, at $8.78 each.

Read the DoMyLaundry story

Results depend on your market, your budget and how fast you answer the phone.

What local SEO costs with us

Your Google listing and local search are part of every plan: $1,500, $3,000 or $5,000 a month, month to month. The bigger plans add more towns, more locations and ads. The listing is in your name, and it stays yours if you leave.

See what each plan includes

Local SEO questions

Something else on your mind? Call (647) 254-0850 and ask.

Usually months, not weeks. A complete listing can start helping fairly soon, but reviews and pages build up over time. The upside is that it keeps paying off the longer it runs.

Sometimes, and it's harder. Distance counts for a lot on the map. Strong reviews and a good page for each town widen your reach, and for the towns that stay out of reach, the regular search results and ads can fill the gap.

Yes. List the towns you serve and keep your home address hidden. Just never use a fake address or a mailbox. Google suspends listings for that, and getting back is slow.

Local SEO gets you onto the map for people nearby. SEO gets your website into the regular results underneath, which can reach a whole city. Most businesses need both, and we run them together.

You can do a lot yourself: fill in every part of your listing and ask every customer for a review. What a local SEO company adds is time, the website pages and someone who keeps at it every month while you run the business.

Book a call about your Google listing

Thirty minutes. We'll search for what you do in your towns, show you who's on the map and why, and tell you what we'd fix first. If your listing just needs a tidy-up you can do yourself, we'll say so.

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Everything is required unless it says optional.

Add your name so we know who to ask for.
Add your business name.
Choose the closest match.
Add a number we can call you back on.
Add an email like name@yourbusiness.ca.

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