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If you only fix one thing on your Google Business Profile this week, make it your primary category. It is the single setting that most decides which searches you show up for, and it is the one businesses get wrong most often. Pick the right one and you become visible for the jobs you want….

“How much does local SEO cost?” is one of the first questions any sensible business owner asks, and the honest answer is that it varies hugely. Prices in the UK run from under a hundred pounds for a one-off audit to well over a thousand a month for a full agency retainer. The trouble is…

If your phone has gone quiet, you do not always need a new website or a monthly agency retainer to fix it. A lot of local ranking problems come down to a handful of basics that are quick to check and quicker to put right. This is a practical local SEO checklist any UK trade…

If your trade business is missing from Google Maps, you have probably already tried a few things, searched your own name, refreshed your profile, maybe asked a mate who “does a bit of websites”. This page is different. It is not another long technical walkthrough. It is a short decision guide for a busy tradesperson,…

It is the time of year the phone should be red hot. Boilers packing in, no heating, no hot water, cold houses and worried customers. This is your season. So why has the phone gone quiet? You are still Gas Safe registered, still reliable, still the engineer people recommend, but the boiler breakdown calls that…

You build extensions, lofts, garden rooms and full renovations, and your finished work speaks for itself. Yet the local Google enquiries that used to feed your diary have gone quiet. Homeowners in your town are still searching for a builder, but they are not finding yours. You have not got worse at the job, so…

You are a good sparky. Your work is safe, tidy and signed off properly, your regulars trust you, and yet the flow of new enquiries from Google has slowed to a trickle. The rewires, consumer unit swaps and EV charger installs that used to come in from people searching “electrician near me” have thinned out….

Six months ago your phone rang three or four times a day. Boiler jobs, leaks, bathroom fits, the odd emergency call at teatime. Now it is quiet. You have not changed anything, you are still the same reliable plumber you always were, but the work that used to find you has dried up. If that…

Most tradespeople know their website should bring in work, but few know why it does not. You built it, you paid for it, and yet the phone stays quiet while a competitor two towns over seems to get every call. A local SEO audit is how you find out exactly what is going wrong, before…

If you have typed your own trade into Google and your business is nowhere to be seen, you are not imagining it. A Google Business Profile not showing up is one of the most common problems we hear from electricians, plumbers, builders and roofers across the UK. The good news is that it is almost…