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100 Local SEO Tactics for 2026

These are my top 100 Local SEO Tips you can try right away.​

Check out this list and please leave a comment below. Thank you!

1. Improve your on-page SEO (title tags, meta descriptions, image (alt text, titles/file names)
2. Add relevant Google Business Profile services (be sure to add descriptions as well)
3. Join a local SEO community like Local SEO Hustlers
4. Create a content plan targeting local mid- and bottom-of-funnel keywords (those keywords that can actually make you money and don't trigger Google AI Overviews)
5. Check the local area for spam competitors and report them (report reviews, suggest edits to fake profiles and report fake review profiles on mobile)
6. Do local competitor research (Every local SEO campaign should start with that)
7. Improve website user experience like page speed, broken links and accessibility
8. Reply to online reviews on Google, Yelp and co until all reviews are caught up.
9. Get listed on niche business directories like Nextdoor or Angis
10. Create a review overview page on your website where you list all your different reviews (text reviews from Google, Facebook, Trustpilot and co + video reviews + screenshots)
11. Build a local business community (like a Facebook group) to grow organically
12. Publish a local press release
13. Join a community and engage with people in your industry or area (try here or Reddit)
14. Track your rankings on a geo-grid with a local rank tracker like LocalFalcon/Whitespark
15. Offer a discount for your products or services
16. Keep yourself updated on Google core updates
17. Upload a video to the Google Business Profile (at least one)
18. Open your website on mobile and fix usability issues (99% of local websites have flaws)
19. Start a Youtube channel entertaining or educating people in your space
20. Learn how to use Google Analytics & Google Search Console - free but powerful SEO tools
21. Try to claim the first 30 organic Google results for your brand keywords - you can research this now.
22. Set up 2-factor authentication on any of your online platforms (such an important task!)
23. Find local photographers or videographers on Instagram
24. Google your brand name and learn what people say about you
25. Think about turning your local business into an online business (at least parts of it if you can)
26. Use a call-tracking app like CallRail - tracking is such an important task in SEO
27. Add keywords to your business name and change it accordingly on the GBP (get a DBA that legitimizes you to use that name)
28. Buy from your competitors to learn how to improve your services/products
29. Showcase Google, Facebook, or Yelp ratings on your website
30. Optimize your calls-to-action (use a color that stands out and a call to action that is clear)
31. Use parasite SEO to add another result to the SERP (best (service) posts work well - on Linkedin or Medium.
32. Deindex low-quality pages that have no chance to rank
33. Improve your technical SEO skills (run an SEO Audit on Semrush and learn from it)
34. Use the suggest edit Google Maps feature to change business information on Google Maps to improve Maps)
35. Add internal links to your website to improve the internal linking structure
36. Add reviews to your local landing pages
37. Improve your review request strategy (in-person, email, SMS, WhatsApp)
38. Write down your local marketing goals for the year (if you haven't done it yet)
39. Report fake reviews (and report them hard - you can do it here: Spam Fighting Community
40. Re-evaluate your keywords - maybe your services have changed?
41. Read a marketing book like the Local SEO Bible
42. Check mid- and long-term rank drops and figure out what happened
43. Get listed on local business directories
44. Add a FAQ section to the website and be sure it's questions customers actually have
45. Support charity as a local business to attract backlinks
46. Brainstorm absurd local marketing ideas that can boost your brand awareness
47. Add relevant attributes to your Google Business Profile (ranking factors)
48. Hire a professional photographer if your business is visually appealing
49. Listen to a local search podcast like Darren Shaw's
50. Spend some time optimizing your Bing listing
51. Create service–area or location landing pages on your website (learn from LLPF)
52. Run local Google Ads to increase visibility and test keywords
53. Learn how to use SEO tools like Semrush or PageOptimizerPro
54. Improve your About Us page and make it personal
55. Use QR codes or NFT cards to get more Google reviews
56. Monitor what you spend on tools and evaluate if you need them
57. Ask your clients what else they need to make more money
58. Add affiliate links to your blog for an extra income stream
59. Read the Local SEO Bible!
60. Analyze your competitor's GBP categories using a browser extension like Pleper
61. Add 24/7 business hours to your GBP by using an automated answering machine for your service-area business
62. Research current local SEO ranking factors
63. Post a question in a local SEO Facebook group
64. Cross-promote your services/products on blog articles
65. Don’t waste your time geotagging images
66. Learn about satisfying search intent (it's all about relevance & intent)
67. Learn about conversion rate optimization (such an underrated topic)
68. Upload high-quality photos to the Google Business Profile
69. Follow real local SEO gurus like Darren Shaw, Joyanne Hawkins, or Luc Durand
70. Watch a local SEO video
71. Upsell local marketing services to existing local SEO clients (much easier)
72. Analyze SERP manually
73. Create product or service landing pages
74. Engage with clients' social media platforms if you’re a B2B business
75. Get listed on all relevant social media platforms and spice up your profiles
76. Add Schema markup to your website
77. Visit an SEO conference
78. Improve your core offer (yes the offer has a lot to do with SEO)
79. Start posting on social media regularly
80. Share a review on your Google Business posts
81. Increase your pricing (most people underprice)
82. Read Google’s Search Central Blog
83. Follow people in your industry on social media
84. Improve your Contact Us page (did you show all ways to contact you?)
85. Share your best blog articles on social media
86. Invest in SEO and outsource certain work to save time
87. Add USPs and social proof to your local landing pages
88. Sign up for industry newsletters
89. Find writers, developers, and SEOs on platforms like Upwork
90. Make your life easier by switching to charging for services upfront
91. Start collecting emails on your website
92. Don’t check your rankings every day
93. Add UTM parameters to your GBP website URLs to identify traffic sources
94. Ask local customers for honest feedback in private
95. Compensate customers who have left a negative review
96. Answer local SEO questions in online communities to position yourself as an expert
97. Bring logic into your website URL structure
98. Think about relocating the business to a richer area with better infrastructure
99. Understand the customer journey and at which stage Local SEO is
100. Use urgency & scarcity to increase sales