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Local SEO: helping people nearby find your shop, office or service.

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Updated 9 Oct 2026

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Definition

Local SEO means helping your business appear when people search for something nearby, such as "tailor near me" or "tile shop in Salt Lake". SEO stands for search engine optimisation.

If your customers walk in, or if you serve one city or a few areas, most of your searches are local. Local SEO is the work of being easy to find for exactly those searches.

How Google picks local results

Google's Business Profile help says local results are mainly based on three things. We read the page on 9 October 2026.

  • Relevance: how well your Business Profile matches what the person searched for. Complete and detailed information helps Google match your listing.
  • Distance: how far your business is from the person searching. If the person does not share a location, Google uses what it knows about it.
  • Prominence: how well known your business is. Links from other websites, and the number and rating of reviews, can affect it.

Google also says there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking. It says businesses with complete and accurate information are more likely to show up in local results.

What you can do

  • Fill your Google Business Profile. Google asks for a full address if customers visit you, correct opening hours, your business category, and extras such as parking or Wi-Fi.
  • Keep it true. Update hours before a holiday, not after.
  • Ask real customers for reviews and reply to them. Never buy or write fake ones.
  • Write pages about what you do and where you serve, in plain words. Each area page must say something real about that area.
  • Add business markup. Google says local business structured data can tell it about hours and more. See schema markup.
  • Keep your name, address and phone number the same on every site that lists you.

A made-up example

A tile shop in a mid-sized city has a Business Profile with no category and old opening hours. People searching for "tile shop near me" nearby find rivals with full profiles.

The owner picks the right category, corrects the hours and adds the full address. The shop's own website gets a page for each type of tile it sells. The owner asks happy customers to leave an honest review. Google decides the ranking, so none of this is a promise. But the shop is now easier to match, and easier to trust.

Local SEO and normal SEO

Normal SEO tries to rank a page for a topic anywhere. Local SEO tries to rank a business for a place. A shop with a counter, a service firm that covers a few areas, or a school with a campus all need the second kind.

Common mistakes

  • Leaving the profile half empty.
  • Having a different address or phone number on different sites.
  • Buying or faking reviews.
  • Writing many near-identical area pages with only the place name changed.
  • Never checking how the profile and the site look on a phone.

Related terms

  • Schema markup: code that labels what a page is about, such as a local business.
  • SEO (search engine optimisation): helping pages appear in search results.
  • ORM (online reputation management): watching and shaping what people say about you online.
  • Search intent: what the person wants when they type a search.
  • Backlink: a link to your site from another website.
  • Technical SEO: the setup work that lets search engines read your site.

Read our Google Business Profile guide and how to boost local SEO rankings. For help, see our SEO work.

Sources

  • Google Business Profile Help, "Improve your local ranking on Google" (support.google.com/business/answer/7091), read 9 October 2026.
  • Google Search Central, "Local business structured data" (developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/local-business), read 9 October 2026.

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Straight answers.

  • It is the work of helping a business appear in searches for places and services near the searcher.

  • Google's Business Profile help says local results are mainly based on relevance, distance and prominence. Relevance is how well your profile matches the search. Distance is how far you are from the person. Prominence is how well known you are, which links from other websites and your reviews can affect.

  • No. Google's Business Profile help says there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking. It says businesses with complete and accurate information are more likely to show up in local results. So fill your profile fully, keep it true, and ask real customers for honest reviews.

  • Fill your Google Business Profile fully, with the full address, correct opening hours, the right category and extras. Update hours before a holiday. Ask real customers for reviews and reply to them. Keep your name, address and phone number the same on every site. Google decides the ranking, so none of this is a promise.