SEO · Local search · One‑time
Local SEO Audit: Beyond the Profile
If your Google Business Profile is complete and new customers still do not find you in local search, we audit what sits outside the profile: your name, address and phone across directories, your location and service-area pages, LocalBusiness schema, and where you show in the map pack versus the local blue links.
Every finding lands in one written report with a prioritized fix list. The price is fixed by tier, set by your footprint and how competitive your local market is. This audit includes no implementation: your team or another provider makes the fixes, and the audit changes nothing on your site or listings.
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Problems
Why a great profile is not enough
Part of what decides the map pack and the local blue links sits outside your Google Business Profile. These are the situations where that shows.
The profile is in order, and new customers still do not find you
- Your profile is fully optimized and you still do not rank in the local blue links
- A complete, category-correct profile makes you more likely to show up in local results, the map pack included. The blue links below it are web results, ranked from the pages on your site and the signals pointing at them, which the profile does not control. If you appear on one surface and not the other, measure both before deciding where the problem sits.
- You cannot tell whether the problem is the profile or the website
- A profile tweak does not fix outdated citations, and new content does not fix a duplicate listing. Without a diagnosis that separates map-pack signals from local-organic signals, it is easy to pay for the wrong fix. The audit answers that question first.
Your name, address and phone differ from place to place
- You moved, or now serve a relocated audience, and old addresses are still in circulation
- After a move, including the relocations of 2022 to 2024, or when a business now serves a Ukrainian diaspora across the EU, old addresses, duplicate listings, and conflicting NAP can stay behind in directories. Old and new records disagree about where you are, and a clean current profile does not remove the stale ones.
- Multiple EU branches each entered differently and nothing lines up
- Several locations across EU countries, each with the street abbreviations, phone formats, and language variants entered differently by whoever set them up. Inconsistent entries leave Google, and other services that read directory data, with conflicting versions of each location. The multi-location review with a fix list per location is part of Expert.
- You serve Russian-speaking customers in several EU cities, and old directories still show your old details
- For businesses serving Russian-speaking communities in Tallinn, Riga, or Berlin, citations can end up split across half-abandoned profiles and old directories, so a customer finds an old address or a dead number. The audit lists each record that carries outdated or conflicting details and the data it should carry instead.
Pages for districts, cities and service areas
- You want to be found across several districts of Warsaw or Kraków
- Visibility in a given district rests on things you cannot duplicate your way into: a real address or a declared serviced zone there, the categories on the profile, the reviews, and how completely the profile is filled in. Google can disable a profile for a district where you have no presence, and a page for that district adds little. The audit checks what your real address and declared service zones support in each area, then whether your name, address, and phone records across Polish directories back that up.
- Near-identical city pages that may count as doorway pages
- If thin "[service] in [city]" template pages were built at some point, they can read as near-duplicate doorways. Google's spam policies on doorway abuse describe pages targeted at specific cities that funnel users to one page, and sites that violate those policies may rank lower or not appear in results at all. The audit flags which of your pages carry that risk.
- You serve customers at their address and have no storefront
- A business that travels to the customer hides its street address on the profile and declares serviced zones instead, so what it needs is service-area pages, correct service areas on the profile, and business data that stays consistent without a street address on display. A business that works only online and never meets customers in person is a different case under Google's rules: it is not eligible for a profile, so the local work sits on the website and in citations. The audit starts by establishing which of the two describes you.
How we solve them
What the report looks like
A written document your team can execute from. Every finding carries a severity. From Professional, it also carries an implementation note so a developer or agency can act on it. The report is yours to take anywhere.
Illustrative structure, not a real client report. Length varies with tier and findings.
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Citation inventory
Every listing we found, with a per-listing status: correct, inconsistent, duplicate, or abandoned, and the exact data each record should carry.
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Location-page verdicts
A keep, fix, or consolidate verdict on each location and service-area page, including which pages carry doorway risk.
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Schema error log
Missing, incomplete, or conflicting LocalBusiness markup per page, with the corrected structure noted for each error.
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Visibility snapshot
Where you currently appear for local-intent queries, separated by surface: map pack versus the local blue links below it. Start covers your key districts. From Professional this is a geo-grid scan across your whole service area.
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Prioritized fix list
Every issue ranked by severity. From Professional, each includes an implementation note on what to change and where. On Expert the list comes per location.
What the audit covers
Start covers citations, location and service-area pages, LocalBusiness schema, a visibility snapshot for your key districts and a prioritized fix list. A check that starts in a higher tier is marked on its card.
NAP and citation consistency audit
We check your business name, address, and phone across the top directories (Apple Maps, Bing Places, Yelp, Foursquare) and the sources specific to your market (for example PL, UA, and EU directories). We catalog the NAP variants we find, flag duplicate or conflicting listings, and identify closed or abandoned profiles that keep old versions of your business details in circulation. This is the record outside Google that the profile work does not cover.
Location and service-area page audit
We review the location and service-area pages your site already has: whether each one is crawlable and indexable, whether it carries real local content instead of a city name dropped into a template, how it is linked from the homepage and hub pages, and whether near-identical pages carry doorway risk. A page is worth keeping where a real address or a real serviced zone stands behind it. Where neither does, one more page adds little, and the report says so. Each page gets a keep, fix, or consolidate verdict.
De-duplication across several service-area pages: Expert
LocalBusiness schema audit
We validate LocalBusiness JSON-LD on location and service-area pages: the name and address Google requires, plus geo coordinates and opening hours. For businesses without a storefront we also look at areaServed, a schema.org property that Google's LocalBusiness documentation does not list. We flag missing, incomplete, or conflicting structured data and note where it contradicts the listings we find.
Entity schema across all locations with sameAs alignment: Expert
Local-organic and map-pack visibility diagnosis
We check where you currently appear for local-intent queries on both surfaces: the map pack and Maps results, and the local blue links below them. We sort what we find into problems on the profile side and problems on the website and citation side, so you know where to look first.
Geo-grid scan across your whole service area: Professional and Expert. Start gets a visibility snapshot for your key districts
Local link and local-relevance audit
We assess your local backlink footprint (chamber memberships, association listings, local sponsorships, local press coverage, and niche directories relevant to your sector and market) against the businesses that rank around you. The goal is to find the local link gaps that matter in your market. Building the links is not part of this audit; the report says which ones to pursue and why.
Professional and Expert
Multi-location and service-area architecture review
For businesses with several branches or no fixed address, we audit per-location data standards, whether one-profile-per-location or service-area configuration matches the business model, and whether the URL and page structure is scalable or heading toward a de-duplication problem. The output is a prioritized fix list per location, so whoever implements knows what to change where.
Expert
What this audit does not include
The deliverable is a written report and a prioritized fix list. Everything else is a separate order or another service.
- Implementing the fixes. We audit, document, and prioritize. Your team or another provider makes the changes.
- Work inside your Google Business Profile. Categories, photos, posts, review replies, and verification belong to our Google My Business service.
- Submitting citations and writing location pages. The report says which records to fix and what data each should carry. Submission and page content are separate work.
- Building local links and paid advertising. From Professional the report says which local links to pursue. Building them, like running ads, is not part of the audit.
Who this audit is for, and who it is not for
This audit is for you if:
- Your profile is complete, and you show for your brand name but rarely for service-plus-city searches
- You cannot tell whether the problem with local visibility is the profile or the website
- You moved, rebranded, or changed your phone number, and old records still live in directories
- You have location or city pages and do not know whether to keep, fix, or consolidate them
- You run several branches or broad service areas and want a fix list per location (Expert)
This audit is not for you if:
- Your profile is incomplete, suspended, or not verified yet: start with Google My Business
- You want the fixes carried out month after month: that is Small Business Promotion
- You need an audit of the whole website, not its local layer: that is the SEO Site Audit
- You expect a guaranteed place in the map pack: no one can promise that
Work inside the profile and on the map: Google My Business. Fixes carried out month after month: Small Business Promotion. An audit of the whole website: the SEO Site Audit.
Process
How the audit goes
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Express review
Free, up to twenty minutes on a call or in chat. We name up to three main problems and what to do about each, and tell you whether the paid audit is worth it and which tier fits. There is no written report at this stage.
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Scope and access
We fix in writing how many locations and serviced territories the audit covers, because that count sets the scope and the tier. You invite us by email to Search Console and Analytics with read-only access. We never ask for passwords.
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Outside the profile
We collect your listings across directories, review your location and service-area pages and their LocalBusiness schema, and take the visibility snapshot for your key districts. From Professional the geo-grid scan across your whole service area, local links, and up to three competitors follow. Expert adds the multi-location architecture.
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The report and the walkthrough
One written report with a prioritized fix list, in 3‑5 business days on Start and Professional and 5‑10 on Expert, then a summary call or async Q&A. Expert adds 30 days of implementation Q&A.
Let's look at your local search
We start with the free express review from step 1. After it, the decision is yours.
What we need from you to start
You do not need to share a password. We settle the details in the free express review.
- The number of locations and service areas. Fixed in writing before the work starts, because it sets the scope and the tier. Larger chains are quoted after the free express review.
- Whether customers come to you or you go to them. A storefront, a service area, or an online-only business: each is audited differently.
- Read-only access to Search Console and Analytics. By email invite as a Restricted user in Search Console and a Viewer in Analytics, never a password. You revoke it yourself when the project is complete.
- The language of the report. English, Ukrainian, Russian, or Polish, chosen when you order.
- Who implements the fixes. Your own team or another provider. Implementation is not part of the audit.
What happens after the audit
The report is built to be executed without us. There are three ways to use it.
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Hand it to your own team
Give the prioritized fix list to your developer or your current agency. From Professional, every item includes implementation notes, so nobody has to reverse-engineer what a finding means.
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Fix in the order listed
Items are ranked by severity, and from Professional each carries an implementation note. The ranking is our judgment of your situation and promises no outcome or date.
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Or ask us about monthly execution
If you want the fixes handled month over month, that is our Small Business Promotion retainer: a separate agreement, and the audit creates no obligation to order it.
Price
Local SEO audit pricing
A fixed-scope, one-time audit tiered by footprint and local competition. Every tier ends with a findings walkthrough: a summary call or async Q&A where we go through the report together. The express review is free, and there are no ranking guarantees.
- NAP and citation consistency audit (top directories + market-specific)
- Location and service-area page review: indexing, structure, thin-doorway risk
- LocalBusiness schema validation on location pages
- Visibility snapshot for your key districts: map pack vs local organic
- Prioritized fix list
- Delivery in 3-5 business days + findings walkthrough
- Free express review
- Everything in Start
- Geo-grid scan across your whole service area: map pack and local blue links
- Local link and local-relevance gap analysis
- Implementation notes per issue
- Competitor local-visibility comparison (up to 3)
- Delivery in 3-5 business days + findings walkthrough
- Everything in Professional
- Multi-location architecture review with per-location fix list
- Service-area page structure and de-duplication audit
- Entity schema review across all locations with sameAs alignment
- Delivery in 5-10 business days + findings walkthrough
- 30-day implementation Q&A
What each tier adds
The Start audit costs €199 and covers a single location or service area; Professional at €399 adds the geo-grid scan across your whole service area, implementation notes per issue, the local link gap analysis, and a comparison against up to three competitors; Expert at €750 covers multi-location architecture with a per-location fix list and 30 days of implementation Q&A.
Tiers map to footprint: one location or service area fits Start, a competitive single footprint fits Professional, and several branches or zones fit Expert. The number of locations and serviced territories is fixed in writing before the work starts, because it sets the scope of the audit and, together with how competitive your market is, the tier. Larger chains and franchises are quoted after the free express review, and every multi-location audit delivers a per-location fix list rather than one generic document.
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Why us
- since 2010 working with Google search and ads
- 490+ clients over the years
- 15 countries where our clients do business
- since 2014 Google Top Contributors and Product Experts on the team
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One report. Take it anywhere.
This is a one-time fixed-price audit, not a retainer. The written report and prioritized fix list are yours to keep: hand them to your own team, your current agency, or use them to brief whoever you like. Not sure you need it? Start with the free express review before any payment: up to twenty minutes, up to three main problems named and what to do about them, no written report.
- No implementation lock-in. The audit includes no implementation, so there is no ongoing obligation.
- Read-only access, nothing changed. We access your Search Console and Analytics by read-only email invite, with no passwords. You revoke access the moment the project is complete.
- Who does the auditing. CyberLab.Team has been a Google Partner agency since 2015, and our team has taken part in the Google Top Contributors and Product Experts programs since 2014. We make no promise about rankings, timelines, or any particular outcome.
- EU-registered, GDPR by default. CyberLab.Team OÜ, registry code 14647320, is registered in Tallinn, Estonia. We work under GDPR and sign a Data Processing Agreement on request.
Example of work
What does this look like in practice?
A typical engagement: a service business with a complete, well-kept profile that shows in the map pack for branded searches yet stays invisible for the service-plus-city queries that bring new customers. The geo-grid scan across the whole service area, from Professional, shows the split: present in the pack, absent from the local blue links. The citation crawl finds the address from a move two years earlier still live on a dozen directories, the site has one thin template page per district, and LocalBusiness schema is missing everywhere. The fix list puts citation cleanup and page consolidation first and schema second, each item with a note on what to change and where.
The client's own developer implements over the following weeks. Nothing further is ordered from us.
Anonymized example of our process, not a promise of results. The BMW repair shop case below is a website, a Google Business Profile and SEO promotion, not a local SEO audit.
After the audit: monthly profile upkeep, written per industry
The audit is one-off. What has to stay correct month after month differs by trade; each page below says what. Monthly profile management is a separate service.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Scope, price and timing
How long does the local SEO audit take and what do I get?
What does the audit report actually contain, and how long is it?
Can you audit multiple locations, and how is multi-location priced?
What is NOT included in this audit?
Do you fix the issues you find, or just report them?
Do you build citations or submit me to directories?
How often should a local SEO audit be repeated?
Is it for my business?
Do I need this if my Google profile is already fully optimized?
I have no physical address. Can you audit a service-area business with no storefront?
I am in Poland, Ukraine, or the EU. Do you handle local directories in my market?
Can I get the audit and report in my language?
Will this guarantee I rank in the map pack or top 3?
How it differs from our other services
How is this different from your Google Business Profile service?
How is this different from your Google Maps service?
How is this different from your Small Business Promotion retainer?
How is this different from your general SEO Site Audit?
Do you work as a local SEO service company or only audit?
Do you audit my reviews and ratings too?
Will fixing local SEO help me show up in AI assistants for local queries?
Local search in general
What exactly is NAP consistency and why does it matter?
How is this different from a DIY checklist or a tool score, and what can I do myself for free?
Is this just an automated tool report like a citation scanner would produce?
Which service do you need?
This audit diagnoses what is broken outside your Google Business Profile. If your situation points elsewhere, start with the right service instead.
| Your situation | Start here |
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| You rank in the map pack but not in the local blue links | This audit |
| Your profile is incomplete, suspended, or needs work inside it, or the listing, pin, or reviews on the map have problems | Google My Business |
| You want someone to execute fixes month over month | Small Business Promotion |
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Ready for the audit?
Send your website and the city or area you serve, and tell us what worries you. We start with the free express review. You decide after that.
No commitment. Response within one business day.