# Local SEO & Google Business Profile

> Local SEO helps a business appear in Google Maps and local search results. ORAVOL optimises your Google Business Profile, keeps your business details consistent across the web, builds local landing pages and helps you earn and respond to reviews.

Web page: https://oravol.com/services/local-seo

## Part of

[SEO & AI Search](https://oravol.com/services/seo-ai-search)

## What we do

We set up or optimise your Google Business Profile — categories, services, photos, posts and Q&A — and make sure your name, address and phone number match everywhere they appear online.

We also build location pages on your website and set up a simple system for requesting and replying to reviews.

## Who it is for

- **Local service businesses**: Trades, clinics, salons, restaurants and shops.
- **Multi-location businesses**: Need each location to rank on its own.
- **Service-area businesses**: Serve customers across a city or region.

## Problems it solves

- Your business doesn't appear in map results
- Your profile shows wrong hours or details
- Competitors have more and better reviews
- Calls and direction requests are low

## Our approach

- **Audit**: Profile, citations, reviews and local competitors.
- **Optimise**: Complete and optimise the Google Business Profile.
- **Consistency**: Fix business details across directories.
- **Local content**: Location and service-area pages on your site.
- **Reviews**: A process to request and respond to reviews.

## What you get

- Google Business Profile optimisation
- Citation and directory clean-up
- Local landing pages
- Review request templates
- Monthly local visibility report

## Questions

### What is a Google Business Profile?

It's the free business listing that appears in Google Maps and local search results, showing your hours, reviews, photos and contact details.

### Can you help if my profile is suspended?

We can review the reason and help you prepare a reinstatement request that follows Google's guidelines.

### Do reviews affect local rankings?

Yes. The number, quality and recency of reviews, and how you respond to them, are part of local ranking and influence customers directly.

## Next step

[Start a project](https://oravol.com/start-project) or [contact ORAVOL](https://oravol.com/contact).