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Nobody nearby can find us.

Someone nearby is searching for exactly what you do, and a competitor comes up instead of you.

  • A Google profile that's complete and matches your site
  • Pages that name what you do and the towns you serve
  • Plain reports: what changed, and what it means
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What Google Needs to See

Local search rewards the business a search engine can read: a consistent name, address and phone number, pages that name the places you serve, and a Google Business Profile that agrees with your website.

Most small sites fail on the basics rather than on words. The address is an image, the town names appear nowhere, the profile says one thing and the footer says another, and the site quietly asks to be skipped over.

All of it can be checked and fixed.

What a Search Engine Reads First

When someone nearby searches, Google shows a short local pack above the ordinary results. Getting into it comes down to a profile that's filled in and a site that agrees with it.

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  1. One name, address and phone The same wording everywhere Google finds you, so it never has to guess which business is which.
  2. A complete Business Profile The right category, real photos, current hours, and a description that matches your site.
  3. The towns named on the page The places you serve, written once and properly, where a search engine can find them.

This is what the work aims at. Google decides the order.

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Why the Business Google Can Read Gets the Call

The businesses that win local search are the ones a search engine can read without guessing, and most of that comes down to the basics.

Fix the basics and you show up for the searches that were already looking for you, in the towns you already serve.

  • A page for each town you serve

    The places you work, each named once and properly, where they can be found. No thin pages with a town name swapped in.

  • A profile that agrees

    The Google Business Profile is usually the fastest thing to fix, and the one most often left half filled in.

  • Checked the way Google checks

    The structured data, the address, the profile and the pages, checked side by side for where they disagree.

  • Reported every month

    What changed, what moved and what is next, with the searches and pages named. If nothing moved, it says so.

Want to know why you aren't showing up nearby?

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What Comes With the Monthly Work

  • A page-by-page pass

    Titles, descriptions, headings, and the towns you serve, written for people first and search engines second.

  • Your Business Profile, fixed

    Set up or cleaned up, with categories, photos and hours that match your site.

  • Local pages for real searches

    For the services and towns with real demand, written one at a time rather than find-and-replace.

  • The technical basics in order

    Speed, a clean sitemap, and one version of your name and address everywhere it appears.

What Happens Month to Month

The work runs on a schedule, and the findings come to you in writing.

First, we audit the site

What you rank for now, what your competitors hold, and what is broken. You get the findings in writing.

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Why Work With GeekThangs

We show our work

Every change is one you can open and read for yourself.

Readable to a search engine

Most of local search comes down to basics, and all of it can be checked.

A page for each town that earns one

A page for a town with real demand, written for the people searching there.

Reports an owner can read

What moved, what it means, and what is next, with the searches and pages named.

Common Questions

Can you guarantee first page?

No, and nobody can. Google decides the order. We do the work that search rewards and report what moved.

How fast does SEO work?

The profile fixes can show up quickly. The pages and the technical work build over months, which is why the report says what moved and what is next.

Do I need SEO or a new website?

Sometimes the site itself is the problem. SEO points people at a page, and if the page can't convince them, we would rather fix that first and say so.

Will you make a page for every town?

Only the towns with real demand, written one at a time. Twenty-five thin pages with a name swapped is the thing that gets a site ignored.

What do I get each month?

A page-by-page pass, profile work, local pages, the technical basics, and a written report naming the searches and pages we touched.

Before You Pay for SEO

What we would want to know before hiring anyone to get us found.

Tell us what you want to be found for.

The service you sell and the towns you serve are enough to start. We come back with what we found and what we would fix first.