Local SEO Services
SEO & Local Search in Rhode Island
If you run a business in Rhode Island and you're not showing up when people search Google, you're handing those calls to the shop down the road. SEO isn't complicated, but it's specific work, and most of it never gets done. I handle the local SEO that puts you in front of the person searching for what you do, right now, in the town you serve. That's the whole job: get found, get the call.
Where the calls come from
The Google map pack, and why it's where the calls are
When someone searches for a plumber, a dentist, or a roofer near them, Google shows a small map with three businesses above everything else. Those three take about a third of the clicks on the page. Fourth place isn't one spot lower, it's below the map, where most people never scroll. Getting you into that box of three is the point of local SEO. It's the difference between a phone that rings and a website nobody finds.
The actual work
What local SEO actually moves the needle
Google decides the map pack on three things: relevance, distance, and prominence. Distance you can't change. The other two you can, and that's where a real local SEO company earns its keep.
Whether Google can tell you do the exact thing that was typed. A listing that says "Contractor" isn't relevant to "roof leak repair," even if that's most of your work.
How far you are from whoever is searching. This is the factor everyone wastes energy fighting.
How well known and well regarded Google thinks you are. Reviews, how recently they arrived, profile activity, and consistent listings all feed this.
Consistency Google checks
Consistent business listings: your name, address, and phone
Google checks your name, address, and phone number against every place they appear online before it will trust you. That's your website, your Google listing, and the older directories you forgot you were in. When those don't match, even by an abbreviation, Google can read it as a different business, and your ranking suffers for it.
The listings that carry that information are called local citations, and keeping them identical everywhere is what people mean by NAP consistency. I get you listed in the places that matter, fix the ones that are wrong, and keep them matching, so Google sees one clear business instead of three blurry ones. It's unglamorous work, and it's one of the most common reasons a good business stays invisible.
Proof, not promises
How I measure it: the rank map
You shouldn't have to take my word for whether this is working. I run a rank map, a grid of points across the towns you serve, and check where you land in the map pack from each one. Red means you're not showing. Green means you are. Over time the goal is simple: turn the map green across your area.
Every four weeks you get a plain report showing what moved, in plain English, no jargon. If a number went the wrong way, you'll see that too, and you'll know what I'm doing about it.
See where you rank right now
Want to know where you stand? I'll run a free website audit and show you exactly where you're ranking across Rhode Island, plus the few things holding you back. No cost, no obligation, and you keep the findings whether we work together or not.
Pricing, if we're a fit: $997 to start, then $597 every 4 weeks. The website is included in the plan.
