I have been working with local businesses to help them rank their businesses organically for local google search and on Google Maps for almost 7 years. While I do have a good amount of experience with non-local Search Engine Optimization techniques, I specialize in Local SEO research and tactics.
I have been a Grow with Google Partner for 2 years and have been performing Grow with Google workshops for local businesses in the Mesa and Gilbert, AZ area. If you are unfamiliar with the Grow with Google program, you should look into it's resources for your clients! The training is really good. The program was developed to help local businesses get in front of more client online through free Google tools training, help job seekers become more efficient and successful at finding a job or getting better jobs, and to help educators use Google's tools in the classroom. I will admit that I have quite a few ethical issues with the way Google runs parts of it's business, but this has been a great program and I have seen a ton of people benefit from it.... Okay, I'll get off of my soap box now. lol
To give you some insight into my background, I started building websites and doing SEO in 2014 when my business partner at the time and I decided we didn't want to pay someone a bunch of money to do it. (We were the guys who were pretty tight with the checkbook. lol) I realized shortly after that, that I liked doing the online stuff a lot more than what I was doing. So We split ways as far as business was concerned, he went to law school and became a pretty good attorney and I started playing chess in Google.
I have owned and run a couple of local businesses and a multi-national product development, manufacturing, and distribution company. So I have been on the other side of the SEO world, which puts me in a unique place of having been on both sides of the SEO Equation. I also studied History in College at University of South Florida. I was going to go into teaching... well, I guess we see how well that worked. But as a historian, I love doing research. Comparative research is actually one of my favorite parts of doing SEO. Give me a spreadsheet with a bunch of data and I'll be like a kid in a candy store.
Okay, so here is what you really came her for! As a side note, I have created this service to hopefully be helpful to a lot of people. I would love to hear your feedback! If you have suggestions on how to make this service better, please send me a message and let me know. I can't promise that I will be able to enact all of the suggestions I get, but I will consider any suggestions sent my way! (I will be adding more information in the future, I want to get the basics down and get this out and make it available as quickly as possible.)
30 minute Q&A over the phone or on video call. Ask questions, take a look at website/and or GMB listing. Discuss free and/or paid tools available that will help with local ranking. Find out what Legiit services I use when ranking my local clients. (Follow up on facebook messenger or Legiit messenger for 2 days after consultations. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to answer right away, but I will make myself available for follow-up questions for 2 days. This is considered the revision.) If a GMB Listing has not been created I will assist you with the creation of the listing if needed.
Everything included in the basic Service plus an indepth look at industry and regional compatition for your local business or a specific client's local business. This should be done on a video call so you can see the process I use to analyze your local competition. (Follow up on facebook messenger or Legiit messenger for 2 days after consultations. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to answer right away, but I will make myself available for follow-up questions for 2 days. This is considered the revision.)
Everything included in the Standard Service, plus I will do an indepth analysis of website and GMB Listing for a specific local business and it's competition for 5 keyword terms. If you are in the process of creating the website and/or GMB listing you will want to wait until those are completed before this service is used. (Follow up on facebook messenger or Legiit messenger for 2 days after consultations. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to answer right away, but I will make myself available for follow-up questions for 2 days. This is considered the revision.) If you have already used one of the previous services and would like me to record a video of the analysis as opposed to a video call, let me know in the service requirements. (Please realize that this service includes more than just the consultation call, it also involves a good amount of time in research prepping for the call)