Local Intelligence · Local SEO Audit

Find the gaps. Fix the leaks.

A 100-point audit of your local SEO foundation — website, GBP, citations, schema, reviews, content, authority signals, and ranking position. Every gap documented, scored, and prioritized by impact.

What un-audited Local SEO costs you

You're optimizing what you can't see.

Local SEO has a hundred moving parts — and most agencies optimize three or four of them. The rest decay quietly: citations go stale, schema breaks during a redesign, reviews stop being indexed, content drifts away from your service terms. The decay shows up as a ranking drop you can't explain.

You don't know what you're ranking for.

The keywords driving traffic aren't the same as the ones you're optimizing for. The gap between assumed and actual is where the budget gets wasted.

Your citations decayed and nobody noticed.

Old citations get sold, archived, or scraped wrong. NAP drift across 50+ directories quietly compresses your local pack position.

Your schema is broken or missing.

The redesign your agency did six months ago dropped half the schema markup. Google sees less context. Rankings adjust.

Your reviews aren't being indexed.

Review schema misconfigured, review embed lazy-loading wrong, third-party review widget JavaScript-rendered — Google can't read the signal.

Inside the Audit

Six areas. 100 checkpoints.

The audit covers every signal that affects local visibility — across your website, your GBP, your citation footprint, your authority profile, your AI-search readiness, and your ranking position. Every checkpoint documented, scored, and prioritized by impact.

Area 01

Website Technical SEO

The foundation Google reads first.

Crawlability, indexation, site speed, mobile rendering, Core Web Vitals, and the structural signals that determine whether Google can even see your pages.

  • Crawlability & indexation audit
  • Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed
  • Mobile-first rendering
  • HTTPS, canonicalization, redirects
  • XML sitemap & robots.txt
Area 02

On-Page SEO

What every page says to Google.

Titles, metas, headings, content depth, internal linking, and the on-page signals that align your pages with the search queries that matter.

  • Title tag & meta description quality
  • H1/H2 hierarchy & keyword alignment
  • Content depth & topical coverage
  • Internal linking structure
  • Image alt text & media SEO
Area 03

Local Foundation

GBP, NAP, citations, schema.

The local-specific signals that determine map-pack position — Google Business Profile completeness, NAP consistency, citation coverage, and local schema markup.

  • GBP 100-point checklist
  • NAP consistency across 50+ directories
  • Citation footprint & accuracy
  • Local Business schema markup
  • Service area & category mapping
Area 04

Authority & Trust

Why Google trusts your domain.

Backlink profile, citation authority, brand mentions, review velocity — the trust signals that compound over time and separate you from less-established competitors.

  • Backlink profile & toxicity check
  • Citation authority score
  • Brand mention coverage
  • Review velocity & response rate
  • Domain authority benchmarks
Area 05

AI-Search Readiness

ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews.

AI engines have become the third search surface. We audit your entity profile, content structure, and citation economy for visibility in generative engines.

  • Entity optimization signals
  • AI-readable content structure
  • Knowledge-graph presence
  • Citation & mention strategy
  • GEO / AEO benchmarking
Area 06

Visibility & Ranking

Where you actually stand.

Geo-grid scan across your full service area, map-pack and organic ranking position for your top keywords, and AI-engine presence — the documented starting line.

  • Geo-grid baseline (full service area)
  • Map-pack position, top 20 keywords
  • Organic local rank
  • AI-engine visibility check
  • Competitor visibility comparison
How the Audit Runs

Six phases. Two to three weeks.

The audit runs the same six phases every time — no improvising. Multi-location audits scale with location count but follow the same sequence.

Phase 01

Intake & Access

Kickoff call, account access confirmation, top-20 keyword list, top-5 competitor list captured in writing.

Phase 02

Technical Crawl

Full-site crawl, indexation audit, Core Web Vitals scan, mobile rendering check. The technical baseline.

Phase 03

Foundation Audit

GBP, NAP, citations, schema markup, on-page SEO. Every local-foundation signal documented and scored.

Phase 04

Authority & Content

Backlink profile, citation authority, brand mentions, content depth, internal linking. The authority signals.

Phase 05

Visibility Scan

Geo-grid baseline, map-pack ranking, organic local position, AI-engine presence. The documented starting line.

Phase 06

Documented Report

90-minute delivery call with the scored report, prioritized gap list, and the realistic timeline projection. Documents handed over.

Multi-Location & Franchises

Audit at scale.

Multi-location audits run in parallel across all locations, with location-level scoring plus a brand-level rollup. Franchise audits add the franchisor / franchisee scoring split and the brand-standard compliance check.

  • Parallel audit across all locations
  • Location-level scoring + brand rollup
  • Brand-standard compliance check
  • Franchisor / franchisee split reporting
  • Cross-location citation consistency
  • Centralized geo-grid scan
Common Questions

What you're probably asking.

2–3 weeks from kickoff to delivery on a standard single-location audit. Multi-location and franchise audits scale with the location count. The schedule is committed at kickoff.

The six audit areas — Website Technical SEO, On-Page SEO, Local Foundation, Authority & Trust, AI-Search Readiness, and Visibility & Ranking — each broken into roughly 15–20 specific checkpoints. The full checklist is shared at kickoff.

Almost always. Most in-house and agency SEO teams optimize 3–4 areas well and ignore the rest. The audit's value is the systematic coverage — every signal scored, every gap documented, nothing skipped because it's not someone's specialty.

Yes. Every raw export — the technical crawl, the geo-grid scan, the citation footprint, the backlink data — is yours to keep. Re-run the geo-grid any time to track movement.

The audit will say so plainly. We don't recommend rebuilds lightly — they often introduce more SEO risk than they fix. When a rebuild is the right call, the audit documents what must be preserved, what must change, and the migration risk to mitigate.

Yes — multi-location SEO is the founder's specialty. Pricing scales by location count; the audit methodology runs the same checkpoints per location, with a brand-level rollup at the end.

Yes. Local SEO Audit is one of four audits in the Local Intelligence engagement — the others being Local SEO Competitor Analysis, PPC Audit, and PPC Competitor Analysis. Run them individually or bundled.

Reinstatement is documented in the audit findings. We've handled suspensions across dozens of categories and the playbook is included with the report. Reinstatement support extends into engagement onboarding if you decide to engage.

Engagement Options

Audits ship with every engagement.

Local SEO Audit can run standalone (as part of Local Intelligence) or as the foundation phase of any engagement below.
Entry — required before any engagement
Local Intelligence Audit
Competitor authority map, entity weakness audit, realistic timeline projection. A one-time fee. Yours to keep whether or not you engage us.

Organic SEO visibility

Local Authority

SEO across every organic surface — the compounding asset that widens the lead on its own.

  • Website foundation, GBP, citations, reviews
  • Entity-based optimization & content
  • AI-search visibility (GEO / AEO)
Starting at
$3,000/mo
Claim Your Market

Paid search visibility

Paid Surge

Immediate visibility — the fast strike across every paid surface while the asset builds.

  • Google Ads / PPC management
  • Google Local Services Ads
  • Facebook & Instagram advertising
Starting at
$1,500/mo
+ ad spend
Claim Your Market
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The complete growth marketing stack

Total Takeover

Organic and paid visibility, fully integrated and run by one specialist team. The fast start and the compounding moat, together.

  • Everything in Local Authority
  • Everything in Paid Surge
  • One coordinated operation — no fragmentation
Starting at
$4,500/mo
Start The Takeover
The Next Step

Run the audit.

A 30-minute strategy call to scope the audit. We'll quote the fee, project the schedule, and outline what the deliverables will cover for your market.