Local SEO services

Local SEO for Bay Area businesses

Local SEO is the work of getting your business into Google’s map results and “near me” searches in the cities you serve. It centers on your Google Business Profile, consistent business details across the web, location pages, and reviews.

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Who is local SEO for?

Local SEO is for any business whose customers search by city or “near me,” whether you have a storefront or serve clients on site.

Professional services

Law, accounting, IT support, and consulting firms competing for Bay Area clients.

Multi-location businesses

Clinics, studios, and franchises that need every location visible in its own area.

Service-area businesses

Contractors and mobile services without a public address but with a defined service area.

What’s included in local SEO?

Every local SEO engagement includes these six deliverables.

  1. Google Business Profile optimization

    Categories, services, photos, hours, and posts set up and maintained correctly.

  2. NAP consistency cleanup

    Your name, address, and phone matched across directories, maps, and data aggregators.

  3. Location pages

    A unique page for each city you serve, with real local detail, not a swapped-in city name.

  4. LocalBusiness schema

    Structured data that ties your website to your Google Business Profile.

  5. Review system

    An FTC-compliant process to ask every customer for honest reviews, with no incentives or filtering.

  6. Local rank tracking

    Map-pack position tracked across a grid of points in each city, reported monthly.

Which areas do you serve?

We serve Silicon Valley and the wider Bay Area in person, and clients across the US remotely.

San JosePalo AltoMountain ViewSanta ClaraSunnyvaleSan Francisco

What is the local SEO process?

Most local SEO wins come in the first 90 days, then hold through steady reviews and profile activity.

  1. Week 1Baseline. Map-pack rank grid, profile audit, and a citation scan.
  2. Weeks 2–4Fix. Profile optimization, NAP cleanup, and schema.
  3. Weeks 4–10Build. Location pages and the review request process.
  4. MonthlyMaintain. Profile posts, review responses, and rank reporting.

How much does local SEO cost?

Local SEO is included in our monthly packages, from $1,500 per month. A standalone audit costs $2,500–$5,000.

SEO Audit

$2,500–$5,000

One-time project

Foundation

From $1,500/mo

Technical review, keyword mapping, priority-page optimization

Growth

From $2,500/mo

Adds content planning, internal linking, conversion fixes

Final pricing depends on site size and scope. Every proposal lists deliverables and timing before work begins. Compare all packages →

Local SEO questions, answered

Do I need a physical address for local SEO?

No. Service-area businesses can hide their address on Google and list the cities they serve instead.

Can you get us more Google reviews?

We set up a system to ask every customer for an honest review. We never buy reviews, offer incentives, or filter out unhappy customers, because that breaks FTC rules and Google’s policies.

Why aren’t we in the map pack?

The usual causes are wrong categories, inconsistent business details, too few reviews, or distance from the searcher. Our audit shows which apply to you.

Do AI assistants use local data?

Yes. Assistants answering “best X near me” often draw on Google Business Profile data, reviews, and local directories, so local SEO feeds AEO too.

How long does local SEO take?

Profile fixes can move rankings within weeks. Reviews and location pages build results over three to six months.

See where you show up on the map.

Free audit, no obligation. Includes a map-pack rank snapshot for your main city.

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Related: SEO · AEO · SEO in San Jose

Areas we serve

San Francisco

San Francisco

Peninsula

Burlingame · Daly City · Foster City · Menlo Park · Palo Alto · Redwood City · San Mateo · South San Francisco

South Bay

Campbell · Cupertino · Los Gatos · Milpitas · Mountain View · San Jose · Santa Clara · Sunnyvale

Marin

Mill Valley · Novato · San Rafael · Sausalito