Local SEO that wins the map pack.
Three slots sit above almost everything on a phone, and getting into them has little to do with how your website looks. It is categories, service areas, reviews and the pages behind the profile, in that order.
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What this fixes.
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The profile is set wrong and nobody checked
Primary category does most of the work in local results and it is the field most often wrong. A company listed as Contractor instead of HVAC Contractor is competing in the wrong race and wondering why.
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One page is trying to rank for six towns
A services page that lists every town you cover ranks for none of them. Google connects a profile to a place through a page about that place, and most contractor sites do not have one.
- 03
Reviews arrive in bursts
Twenty in a week and none for eight months reads exactly like what it is. A steady flow with replies is worth more than a higher count collected badly.
What is included.
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Profile audit and rebuild
Categories, service areas, hours you actually answer, services with descriptions, and photos that are yours. This is the part that moves first and it happens in week one.
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A page per service, per town
Written for the job in that place, not spun from a template with the town name swapped. That is the difference between local content and a doorway page Google will ignore.
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Review engine
Asking at the right moment, systematically, with replies written. Reviews that name the service and the town do double duty: they rank and they answer the next person's fear.
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Citations and consistency
Name, address and phone identical across every directory, character for character. Unglamorous and it quietly costs you when it is wrong.
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Answer and AI engines
The same structured content that wins the map pack is what gets quoted by AI answers and voice results. Clear questions, direct answers, schema that says what you do and where.
What to expect, and when.
- Weeks 1 to 3
Profile rebuilt, categories fixed, citations cleaned and the first service-area pages live. This is where the fastest movement happens, and it happens once.
- Months 2 to 3
Pages for the rest of your services and towns, reviews arriving steadily, early ranking movement in the smaller towns first.
- Months 3 to 6
Competitive towns start to move. This is the honest window in most markets, longer where the competition has a decade of head start.
Questions.
How long does local SEO take for a contractor?
Three to six months for meaningful map pack movement in most markets, and longer where the profile needs real cleanup first. The profile work itself shows up faster, sometimes in weeks. Anyone promising the map pack in thirty days is either working in a market with no competition or telling you what you want to hear.
What is AEO and GEO, and does it matter yet?
Answer engines and AI generated results quote sources that are clearly structured and specific. In practice the work overlaps almost entirely with good local SEO: say what you do, where you do it, answer real questions directly. We build for both because it is the same content.
Do you guarantee rankings?
No, and neither can anyone else. Position depends on proximity to the searcher, which nobody controls. What we report is what you can act on: calls, booked jobs and where you rank in the towns that matter to you.
Where we run it.
- Phoenix, AZ
- Dallas, TX
- Houston, TX
- Atlanta, GA
- Tampa, FL
- Orlando, FL
- Jacksonville, FL
- Miami, FL
- Sarasota, FL
- Charlotte, NC
- Raleigh, NC
- Nashville, TN
- Denver, CO
- Grand Junction, CO
- Las Vegas, NV
- San Antonio, TX
- Austin, TX
- Columbus, OH
- Indianapolis, IN
- Kansas City, MO
- Oklahoma City, OK
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Boise, ID
- Fairfield, CA
- Petaluma, CA