Local SEO
When someone nearby searches for what you do, you want to be the result they tap—not the one on page two. Local SEO puts you in the map pack and keeps you there.
The Real Problem
Most of the people you're trying to reach—customers, congregation, the families you serve—are searching from a phone, within a few miles of your front door. They type “near me,” they glance at the map, and they tap one of the top three results. If that's not you, you don't exist to them.
Local SEO is the work of becoming one of those three. It's your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your citations across the web, and the local signals that tell Google you're real, active, and right here.
It's not the same as regular SEO. The map pack plays by its own rules—and most small businesses, churches, and nonprofits have never had anyone actually work them.
What I Help With
One discipline. Many angles. Pick the work that matches where you are.
Your most underused asset. We fill it out completely, categorize it right, and keep it fresh—the single biggest lever most local organizations have and never pull.
The three results on the map are where local intent converts. We work the signals that decide who lands there for the searches that matter to you.
Your name, address, and phone, consistent everywhere Google looks. Inconsistent listings quietly bleed trust—we find them and fix them.
A workable process for earning reviews and responding to them—the social proof that moves both your rankings and the person deciding whether to call.
Location and service pages built to rank for the searches your neighbors actually run—without the thin, spammy “city + keyword” pages Google now punishes.
Where you show up, for which searches, and whether it's moving—in plain English, every month. No vanity charts.
If you see yourself here, we're probably a fit.
Brick-and-mortar businesses whose customers search from nearby
Churches and ministries trying to reach their own community
Nonprofits that serve a specific city or region
Service-area businesses that show up at the customer, not a storefront
Multi-location organizations that need each location found locally
How We Work Together
Pick the door that fits where you are right now.
Start Here · Free
30-minute call to scope your needs, share an honest read, and decide together if we're a fit. No pitch.
Book a CallCoaching · Monthly
You do the work. We bring the strategy, the playbook, and the accountability. Monthly engagement.
Book a CallDone For You
Long-term partnership. We own the work, the results, and the roadmap. Custom-scoped to your goals.
Get a ProposalWhat It Costs
Local SEO management runs $395/mo, with a one-time setup for the Google Business Profile foundation. No percentage-of-spend games, no long-term contract.
The one-time groundwork—your Google Business Profile built or rebuilt right, so the ongoing work has something to stand on.
What's included
Show up in the map pack where your people actually search, and stay there.
What's included
Multi-location? Every location worked and reported on its own—so they never compete with each other.
What's included
Every plan includes Findable Pro—it's the data we work from.
Real Work, Real Results
Savior Guitar
Guitar repair in Goldsboro, NC—found by the people searching locally.
The Ancient Way
Nonprofit visibility grown through organic and local search.
NewSpring Church
Multi-location local presence done right.
Your Expert
I'm Jon — founder of NewCulture, based in Clayton, NC. For 20+ years I've helped organizations build the digital presence they need: from a guitar shop in Goldsboro to ministries reaching 100+ countries.
I've worked with Red Hat, NewSpring Church, BibleProject, and Holy Language Institute — and with local Raleigh-area nonprofits like The Ancient Way and Kid Lab. The framework I bring to your business is the same one I've built NewCulture on.
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Local SEO is the work of making your business show up when nearby people search—in the Google map pack, on Google Maps, and for “near me” queries. It covers your Google Business Profile, reviews, citations (your listing across the web), and the on-page and local signals that tell Google you're a real, active business in a specific place.
Regular SEO is about ranking your website in the standard blue-link results. Local SEO is about ranking in the map pack—the three business results with the map—which Google decides using different signals: your Google Business Profile, proximity, reviews, and citation consistency. Most local businesses need both, but the map pack is where nearby, high-intent searches convert.
Google Business Profile improvements often show results in weeks—more calls, more direction requests, more profile views. Ranking movement in competitive map packs usually takes two to three months of consistent work. The encouraging part: most local businesses are starting from so little that the early fixes produce visible movement fast.
Yes—a lot of my local work is with churches and nonprofits trying to reach their own community. The Google Business Profile, reviews, and local signals matter just as much for a ministry as for a shop, and pairing local SEO with the Google Ad Grant can cover the whole search page.
Each location gets its own profile, its own local signals, and its own monthly reporting—additional locations are $195/mo each. Multi-location local SEO is its own discipline, and doing it right keeps your locations from competing with each other.
You can, and some of it you should—claiming and filling out your Google Business Profile is the first step and it's free. When you want the map-pack strategy, the citation cleanup, and someone accountable for whether it's actually moving, that's what the $395/mo management is for. Prefer to learn it yourself with a guide in your corner? Coaching is $295/mo.
Tell me about your business and the area you serve, and I'll give you an honest read on what it'll take to get you into the map pack.
