You know your business. You know the quality of what you offer. But when potential customers search Google for the services you provide, your competitors keep showing up first.
Maybe your Google Business Profile isn't getting the attention you expected. Maybe you don't know which keywords to use, where to put them, or which directories are actually worth your time. Maybe you're struggling to get consistent reviews, your website isn't bringing in local traffic, or you're simply overwhelmed by all the different advice about "SEO."
Local SEO Made Simple was created to help you fix those gaps — without the confusing tech speak, expensive tools, or feeling like you need to become a marketing expert.
This 70-page, step-by-step guide breaks local SEO down into practical actions you can understand, implement, and maintain yourself.
✓ Build and optimize your Google Business Profile
Learn how to claim and verify your profile, choose the right business categories, write a description that gets attention, add the right photos, complete your services and attributes, and avoid common mistakes that can hurt your visibility.
✓ Find the right local keywords
Learn how your customers actually search, how to find keywords using Google itself, how to choose terms you can realistically compete for, and where those keywords should — and shouldn't — appear.
✓ Get your website working with your local SEO
Understand how your homepage, service pages, page titles, headlines, and calls-to-action can work together to make it clearer to both search engines and potential customers what you do and where you serve.
✓ Reach customers in multiple cities or service areas
Learn how location-focused pages can help businesses that serve more than one area increase their local visibility — without trying to cram every location onto one page.
✓ Build a stronger directory presence
Discover which foundational directories are worth starting with, how to keep your business information consistent across the web, and where to look for industry-specific directories for different types of businesses.
✓ Create a review system that actually gets used
Learn when and how to ask customers for reviews, make the process easier, respond professionally to negative feedback, and turn your best reviews into additional marketing content.
✓ Create a simple weekly and monthly SEO routine
Instead of spending hours trying to "do SEO," you'll have a realistic maintenance system — including a 15-minute weekly routine, monthly growth checklist, and the key metrics you should actually pay attention to.
✓ Identify and fix the mistakes keeping your business invisible
Learn about inconsistent business information, incorrect categories, keyword stuffing, weak websites, neglected photos, ignoring reviews, "set it and forget it" SEO, and unrealistic expectations about how quickly results should happen.
✓ Understand how to scale your local SEO as your business grows
Learn when it may make sense to get additional help, what tasks you can delegate first, which tools can actually save you time, and how to turn your local SEO foundation into a stronger lead-generation system.
✓ Turn everything you've learned into an action plan
You won't finish the guide wondering, "Okay... now what?" This guide includes a 7-Day Local SEO Sprint, long-term success map, recurring routines, and final checklist to help you put everything into practice.
There is plenty of SEO information online.
The problem is that much of it is either overly technical, focused on tactics without explaining what to actually do, or designed to convince you that you need an expensive agency or a long list of paid tools.
This guide takes a different approach.
It's written in plain English, designed around real-world businesses, and focused on action instead of overwhelm.
You don't need to know how SEO works before you start. You don't need expensive software. And you don't have to tackle everything at once.
You'll learn what matters, why it matters, and what you can actually do about it.
✓ A stronger, more complete Google Business Profile
✓ A core local keyword strategy
✓ A clearer website and service-page SEO foundation
✓ A plan for building consistent directory listings
✓ A repeatable review-request system
✓ A realistic weekly and monthly SEO routine
✓ A way to track whether your efforts are working
✓ A checklist for identifying and fixing common visibility problems
✓ A 7-day plan to get your foundation moving
✓ A long-term roadmap for continued improvement
No guessing. No overwhelm. No starting over.
Just a practical system you can use to make your business easier to find — and easier for potential customers to choose.
Stop wondering why other businesses keep appearing ahead of you.
Start building a local SEO foundation that works for your business — one simple step at a time.
Local SEO Made Simple
By Corri Gidden LLC
You know your business. You know the quality of what you offer. But when potential customers search Google for the services you provide, your competitors keep showing up first.
Maybe your Google Business Profile isn't getting the attention you expected. Maybe you don't know which keywords to use, where to put them, or which directories are actually worth your time. Maybe you're struggling to get consistent reviews, your website isn't bringing in local traffic, or you're simply overwhelmed by all the different advice about "SEO."
Local SEO Made Simple was created to help you fix those gaps — without the confusing tech speak, expensive tools, or feeling like you need to become a marketing expert.
This 70-page, step-by-step guide breaks local SEO down into practical actions you can understand, implement, and maintain yourself.
✓ Build and optimize your Google Business Profile
Learn how to claim and verify your profile, choose the right business categories, write a description that gets attention, add the right photos, complete your services and attributes, and avoid common mistakes that can hurt your visibility.
✓ Find the right local keywords
Learn how your customers actually search, how to find keywords using Google itself, how to choose terms you can realistically compete for, and where those keywords should — and shouldn't — appear.
✓ Get your website working with your local SEO
Understand how your homepage, service pages, page titles, headlines, and calls-to-action can work together to make it clearer to both search engines and potential customers what you do and where you serve.
✓ Reach customers in multiple cities or service areas
Learn how location-focused pages can help businesses that serve more than one area increase their local visibility — without trying to cram every location onto one page.
✓ Build a stronger directory presence
Discover which foundational directories are worth starting with, how to keep your business information consistent across the web, and where to look for industry-specific directories for different types of businesses.
✓ Create a review system that actually gets used
Learn when and how to ask customers for reviews, make the process easier, respond professionally to negative feedback, and turn your best reviews into additional marketing content.
✓ Create a simple weekly and monthly SEO routine
Instead of spending hours trying to "do SEO," you'll have a realistic maintenance system — including a 15-minute weekly routine, monthly growth checklist, and the key metrics you should actually pay attention to.
✓ Identify and fix the mistakes keeping your business invisible
Learn about inconsistent business information, incorrect categories, keyword stuffing, weak websites, neglected photos, ignoring reviews, "set it and forget it" SEO, and unrealistic expectations about how quickly results should happen.
✓ Understand how to scale your local SEO as your business grows
Learn when it may make sense to get additional help, what tasks you can delegate first, which tools can actually save you time, and how to turn your local SEO foundation into a stronger lead-generation system.
✓ Turn everything you've learned into an action plan
You won't finish the guide wondering, "Okay... now what?" This guide includes a 7-Day Local SEO Sprint, long-term success map, recurring routines, and final checklist to help you put everything into practice.
There is plenty of SEO information online.
The problem is that much of it is either overly technical, focused on tactics without explaining what to actually do, or designed to convince you that you need an expensive agency or a long list of paid tools.
This guide takes a different approach.
It's written in plain English, designed around real-world businesses, and focused on action instead of overwhelm.
You don't need to know how SEO works before you start. You don't need expensive software. And you don't have to tackle everything at once.
You'll learn what matters, why it matters, and what you can actually do about it.
✓ A stronger, more complete Google Business Profile
✓ A core local keyword strategy
✓ A clearer website and service-page SEO foundation
✓ A plan for building consistent directory listings
✓ A repeatable review-request system
✓ A realistic weekly and monthly SEO routine
✓ A way to track whether your efforts are working
✓ A checklist for identifying and fixing common visibility problems
✓ A 7-day plan to get your foundation moving
✓ A long-term roadmap for continued improvement
No guessing. No overwhelm. No starting over.
Just a practical system you can use to make your business easier to find — and easier for potential customers to choose.
Stop wondering why other businesses keep appearing ahead of you.
Start building a local SEO foundation that works for your business — one simple step at a time.
Local SEO Made Simple
By Corri Gidden LLC
