A local SEO audit of how you show up where your customers are searching
A local SEO audit checks whether people near you can find you: your Google Business Profile, your presence in the map pack, and whether the places you serve match the places you show up. Apex UK reports each gap with evidence and a geography plan.
Request an SEO auditThe Google Business Profile check
Your profile is often the first thing a local customer sees, before your website. The audit checks whether its category is the one your customers search for, whether it is complete (hours, services, photos, description), and whether it agrees with your website on your name, address and phone number.
It then compares your profile with the profiles that appear instead of yours for the same searches, so the difference is specific rather than a feeling.
Map-pack presence
For each service phrase, the audit records whether you appear in the map pack at each geographic level checked: your town, the wider area, and nationally where that is relevant to the service. Where you do not appear, it records who does.
Geography plan
The places you serve, set against the places you actually show up. The plan says which profile changes and which pages would close that gap, and, just as importantly, which places do not justify a page because nobody there is searching. We do not manufacture location pages.
Who it is for, scope and exclusions
Who it is for
Businesses with a premises customers visit, or a defined area they travel to. A fully remote business is served by the other stages instead.
What it covers
Your Google Business Profile, your map-pack presence for each service, and the match between your service area and your visibility.
What it does not include
Managing your profile, requesting reviews, or posting on your behalf. The audit reports; it does not take over your profile.
See what you get
Before you get in touch, look at the illustrative example of the report and plan a client receives.
Find out who local customers find instead of you.
The local stage is part of every SEO audit for a business with a premises or service area.
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