Relevance
Does your profile and your website clearly say what you do, in the words your customers actually search?
Local SEO in New Jersey
When someone nearby searches for what you do, three businesses show up in the map before anything else. Local SEO is the work of making sure one of them is yours.
I'm a local SEO consultant based in Mount Laurel, NJ. I work on the things that actually move the map: your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your website's local pages, and the listings that tell Google where you are.
How Google Decides Who Shows Up in the Map
Google says it ranks local results on three things: relevance, distance, and prominence. You can't move your office closer to every customer, but the other two are work that can be done.
Distance
How close you are to the person searching. This one is fixed, so everything else has to work harder.
Prominence
Reviews, links, and mentions around the web that tell Google you're the established choice.
What My Local SEO Service Includes
Google Business Profile optimization
Categories, services, description, hours, photos, and the details most profiles leave blank.
A review plan that works
A simple way to ask every happy customer for a review, and help replying to the ones you get. More reviews and good replies are among the signals Google names.
Local landing pages
Pages for the towns and services you want to win, written for people, not stuffed with keywords.
Consistent listings
Your name, address, and phone number the same everywhere Google looks.
Local schema and on-site signals
Structured data that tells search engines exactly who you are and where you work.
Map rank tracking
I track where you show up in the map, so you can see what's moving and what isn't.
How It Works
Audit
Where you show up today, in the map and in the regular results, and why.
Fix
Your profile, your site, and your listings, in priority order.
Build
Reviews and local pages, steadily, month over month.
Measure
Map and ranking tracking you can check yourself.
Why Work With a Local SEO Consultant
I'm based in Mount Laurel, and I've been building and optimizing websites for New Jersey businesses since 2012. I do the work myself, on your profile and directly on your site, so recommendations don't sit in a report waiting for someone else's developer.
- 2012building websites since
- 5.0from 33 Google reviews
- 15 minutesbilling increments
- Nolong-term contracts
What Local Businesses Say
Spencer Taylor was a huge help in marketing my local business. […] Many more people now contact me through the site. […] The traffic to my website has increased by 67% and my end of year revenue has never looked so good.
Having found him on a google search for nearby wordpress developers I was nervous. But his knowledge and approach on helping us expand site pages to an existing yet outdated wordpress powered site was so helpful. He is experienced, has fair pricing and always available to jump on calls as needed throughout project.
He was able to provide great value through his web development expertise, website tools, and SEO skills, to get me an updated website that now looks more modern and feels way faster. I highly recommend.
Pricing
Local SEO is billed the same way as all my work: prepaid blocks of hours from $100 an hour down to $85 an hour, tracked in 15-minute increments, with no contract. Most businesses start with an audit and a focused block of fixes.
5 Hours
$500
- $100 an hour
- Billed in 15-minute increments
- Hours never expire
10 Hours
$900
- $90 an hour
- Billed in 15-minute increments
- Hours never expire
20 Hours
$1,700
- $85 an hour
- Billed in 15-minute increments
- Hours never expire
Frequently Asked Questions
What is local SEO?
Local SEO is the work of showing up when people search for a business near them, especially in the map results at the top of Google and on Google Maps.
How long does local SEO take?
Profile fixes can show movement within weeks, and most businesses see steady improvement over one to three months.
Do I need a website for local SEO?
A Business Profile can appear without one, but a website with clear local pages gives Google more reasons to trust your profile, and gives customers somewhere to go.
Can you guarantee I'll be first in the map?
No. Nobody can guarantee Google results, and Google says there's no way to pay for a better local ranking. What I can promise is honest work you can see and tracking you can check.
Do you work outside South Jersey?
Yes. I work with businesses across New Jersey and the Philadelphia area, and the same work applies anywhere.
How is this different from your SEO services?
Local SEO is the part of SEO focused on the map and nearby searches. My SEO services page covers the broader work: audits, content, and technical SEO.
Ready to Show Up on the Map?
Tell me what you sell and where you want to be found. I'll look at your Google Business Profile and your website, then tell you plainly what would move you up on the map and what it would take.
The first conversation is free, and there's no contract. If you decide to go ahead, you'll get an estimate of the hours before any work starts.
Spencer Taylor
Web designer & developer
Mount Laurel, New Jersey
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