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SEO & local search

Being found by people who are already looking for what you sell. The technical groundwork, the on-page work and the local listings that decide who shows up in the map pack for Port Elizabeth and Gqeberha searches alike.

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Search in Port Elizabeth and Gqeberha

One city, two names. Both have to be covered, because your customers do not agree on which one to type.

The city officially became Gqeberha in 2021, and search behaviour never fully followed. Some people search “plumber Port Elizabeth”, some search “plumber Gqeberha”, and plenty of businesses are optimised for exactly one of them. That is a gap you can take, and it costs nothing extra to cover both properly: the page titles, the headings, the Google Business Profile and the local citations can all carry both names without the page reading like it was written for a machine.

The same logic applies further afield. If you also want work out of Johannesburg, that is a separate set of search terms and a separate set of local signals, and it is worth deciding up front whether you are chasing it or not, rather than half-covering it.

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What the work actually is

Search results move over months, not days. Anyone promising you page one by next week is either guessing or buying it with ads and not telling you.

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What you get

  • Keyword and competitor research for your area
  • On-page SEO: titles, headings, structure, internal links
  • Technical fixes — speed, indexing, mobile, schema
  • Google Business Profile set up and optimised
  • Local citations and directory listings kept consistent
  • A monthly report in plain English, not a data dump

Good fit if

You serve a city or region, competitors outrank you, or you get traffic that never turns into calls.

How it runs

A one-off foundation sprint, then optional monthly work. The foundation is the part that has to happen first: there is no point chasing rankings on a site search engines struggle to read.

What it does not include

Bought links, private blog networks, or anything else that works until it is caught. If that is the plan you are after, I am the wrong person for it.

Why local SEO is different

Ranking nationally and ranking in your own city are two different jobs with two different levers.

  • Proximity

    Where the searcher is standing

    The map pack weighs how close you are to the person searching. You cannot move your business, but you can make sure Google knows exactly where it is, which service areas you cover, and that the answer is the same everywhere it is listed.

  • Consistency

    The same details everywhere

    Name, address and phone number, identical across your site, your Google Business Profile and every directory that carries you. Old addresses and dead numbers on forgotten listings quietly undercut the ones you maintain.

  • Intent

    Pages that match the search

    Someone searching for one service should land on a page about that service, not a homepage that mentions six. That is the reason this site now gives each discipline its own page, and it is the same structure I would build for you.

What it costs, and how long it takes

SEO is quoted as a fixed price for a fixed scope after a short call, because the honest number depends on how many pages you have, what shape they are in, and how competitive your terms are. What I will not do is quote you a monthly retainer before anyone has looked at the site.

On timing: expect movement over months. The technical and on-page work lands immediately, the local listings settle within weeks, and competitive search terms take longer than that. You will get a monthly report either way, so you can see what moved instead of taking my word for it.

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