Local SEO in Wentzville, run by the people who build the site.
When someone in Wentzville looks for the work you do, three businesses get the map and most of the calls. This is the work that puts you in that block and gives the click somewhere worth landing.
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Why local is different
Local search is mostly a map, not a page.
The thing that decides a local result is not the same thing that decides a national one.
Type a trade and a town into Google and the first thing back is usually a map with three businesses under it. That block is drawn from Google Business Profiles, not from websites, and it is decided largely by three things: how relevant the business looks, how close it is to the person searching, and how well known it is. A good website helps the last one and gives the click a place to go. It cannot win the block on its own.
This is why the order of work matters. Fixing the profile first tends to move something quickly. Rewriting the site first, with a thin or half-filled profile behind it, usually does not.
It is also why being here is worth something. Proximity is a ranking factor you either have or you do not, and a business in St. Charles County already has it for searches made in St. Charles County. That is a genuine head start over an agency running the same page template for two hundred towns it has never been to.
Based in Wentzville, Missouri. We also work with service businesses across the country, and the work described here is the local half of it.
How it runs
Profile first, then pages, then reviews.
What the work is
What we actually do each month.
Nothing here is a secret, and none of it is a trick. Most local businesses lose to competitors on the boring parts, and the boring parts are what this covers.
- Your Google Business Profile: categories, service areas, hours and the photos that actually get looked at
- The pages people land on, written for the job they searched, not for a brochure
- Reviews asked for automatically at the end of the job, and answered when they arrive
- The same business name, address and phone everywhere Google reads them
- Speed and mobile work, because most of these searches happen on a phone in a driveway
- A monthly note in plain English: what moved, what did not, what we are doing next
Where we work
St. Charles County and the towns around it.
We are in Wentzville, so this is the area we know: Wentzville, Lake St. Louis, O'Fallon, St. Peters, St. Charles, Cottleville, Dardenne Prairie, Weldon Spring, Foristell and Wright City. If you are just outside it, say so and we will tell you honestly whether the local work is worth it for you or whether your money is better spent elsewhere.
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Find out where you stand.
A written review of where you show up locally today, and the two or three things holding you back. Free, and yours to keep either way.
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Where should we look?
Takes about a minute. A real person replies by the next business day.
Do I need to be in Wentzville for this to work?
Not exactly, but proximity is real. Google weighs how close a business is to the person searching, so a shop in Wentzville has an advantage on searches made in Wentzville that no amount of writing can buy. If you are in St. Charles County, that advantage is yours and it is worth using.
How long before I show up?
Profile work can move within weeks because the map listing updates faster than the rest of search. Pages and reviews are slower and usually read as months, not weeks. Anyone who puts a date on it is guessing.
What is the map pack, and why does it matter so much here?
It is the block of three businesses with a map above the normal results. For local service searches it takes most of the clicks, and it is won by your Google Business Profile rather than by your website. That is why the profile gets fixed before anything else.
Is this a separate price from the plan?
No. Local search work is part of the $500 a month plan, along with the site, social posts and the follow-up system. There is no setup fee and it is month to month.
I am a contractor, not an office. Can I still rank?
Yes, and it is a common case. A business that travels to customers can hide its street address and list the areas it covers instead. It is a normal setup and it does not hold you back, as long as it is done properly.
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Talk to the people who'll do the work.
Call the number on this page and see who picks up. Or send the site and we'll tell you where you stand locally.
Or call 636-538-5252 or email josh@techallies.co.