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Choosing a Local SEO Company

Updated September 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team

Searching for a Las Vegas SEO company, a Gilbert SEO company or an SEO company in Chesterfield returns broadly the same kind of firm making broadly the same claims. What genuinely differs between those markets is not the agencies — it is the competitive density, the cost of competing, and therefore what a given budget can realistically achieve. This page explains how to read your own market before you read any proposal, and gives you the questions that work regardless of which city you are in.

The short answerEstablish two things about your market before evaluating any supplier: how many competitors are already doing this properly, and how spread out the metro is. Those two decide what a budget buys far more than the agency’s methodology does. In a low-density market the free work — a complete Google Business Profile, a daily review habit, a site that loads on a phone — still moves the phone; in a saturated one it is table stakes and you need content depth on top. Either way, choose one sub-market rather than the metro, refuse ranking guarantees, own every account, and judge at month six on enquiries recorded against a baseline you wrote down in month one.

This page does not rank SEO companies in any city. Any such list assembled from outside would rest on the firms’ own marketing rather than on client outcomes, which are private, and lists of that kind routinely carry paid placement. What follows are the criteria and questions such a list would be approximating, usable on any firm including ours.

Progression Agency keeps a local markets nationwide team standing rather than assembling one per project. Local SEO, SEO Audit and Web Design are the divisions it leans on most — competitive density varies enough between cities to change what a budget buys. We are a New York City firm working across the United States, and we do not claim a local office here — what we run is a division focused on this market, not an address in it.

What actually differs between local markets
None of these five are properties of the agency you hire. They are properties of your market, and they set the ceiling on what any supplier can achieve for a given budget.

Why does the city change the answer?

Because competitive density sets the ceiling on what any budget achieves, and density varies enormously between markets. The same work, the same supplier and the same spend produce different results in a saturated metro and a thin one, and no methodology overcomes that.

This matters because almost every piece of SEO advice you will read was written from one market’s experience and presented as universal. ‘Complete your Google Business Profile and collect reviews’ is close to sufficient in some markets and merely the entry requirement in others, and which one you are in is knowable in an afternoon.

How market density changes what works
The first row is why the same advice produces different results in different cities. In a low-density market a complete profile and steady reviews can be enough; in a saturated one they are the entry requirement and content depth is what separates.

The chart is the whole argument. In a low-density market, profile and review work alone can move the phone because a large share of competitors have not done it either. In a saturated metro those same things are what everybody already has, and content depth is what separates. Same advice, opposite conclusions.

Low density — Profile and reviews may be enough. Competitors have not done it either..
Low density — Suburb pages win quickly. Thin competition, real demand..
Moderate — Profile is table stakes. Content depth separates..
High density — City terms are a year-two goal. Suburb terms first, always..
National SERP — Local pages may not rank at all. Check who occupies the results..
Regulated — Claims constrain the content. Advice before writing, not after..

How do you read your own market?

Search your main service term with your city, look at who appears, count their reviews, check whether the organic results are local businesses or national directories, then search the same term with a suburb name and notice how much thinner it gets.

A one-afternoon market audit you can run yourself
Step five is the one that changes decisions. The gap between the city term and the suburb term is usually enormous, and seeing it yourself is more persuasive than any agency explaining it.
How to read your own market before hiring
The six yes rows take an afternoon and produce a picture of your market nobody can sell you. The last row is the trap: an agency ranking for its own city term has proved it can rank an agency site, not a business like yours.
1 — Audit your own market first. One afternoon, before any proposal..
2 — Count competitor reviews. It tells you the entry requirement..
3 — Compare city and suburb terms. The gap decides your strategy..
4 — Record your enquiry baseline. Month six depends on it..
5 — Pick one sub-market. Not the metro..
6 — Own every account. Domain, hosting, profile, analytics..

The gap between the city term and the suburb term is the finding that changes decisions, and it is usually enormous. Seeing it yourself is considerably more persuasive than an agency explaining it, and it means you arrive at the proposal already knowing what is realistic.

Count reviews, not competitors

The number of businesses in your category tells you less than how many have fifty or more recent reviews. That figure is the entry requirement in your market: it is what you have to reach before anything else you do gets a fair hearing in the map pack.

Check whether the results are even local

In some categories the organic results below the map pack are occupied by national directories and aggregators rather than by local businesses. Where that is true, a local page may not rank at all regardless of quality, and the honest strategy is the map pack plus paid search rather than organic content.

What a modest budget achieves, by market type

Considerably more in a small metro or a suburb than in a large-metro city-wide campaign. The chart below is a budget-expectation tool: find the row that describes your situation and it tells you what to expect before anybody sells you something.

Market density and what it means for a budget
The chart is a budget-expectation tool rather than a ranking. Find the row that describes your situation and it tells you what to expect, which is the single most useful thing to know before a supplier tells you.
Search demand for the city-agency terms in this cluster
The spread here is instructive: one large-metro term dwarfs two smaller-market ones by a factor of fifty. That ratio is roughly the ratio of difficulty, and it is why the same budget produces very different results in each.

The volume chart shows the same thing from the demand side. One large-metro agency term dwarfs two smaller-market ones by roughly fifty to one, and that ratio is approximately the ratio of difficulty. It is also why a supplier quoting the same timeline for both has not looked at either.

What to expect by market type
Market typeWhat works firstCity-wide terms realistic?Main risk
Small metro, low densityProfile and reviews aloneOften yes within a yearAssuming it will stay easy
Suburb within a large metroSuburb pages plus profileNo; suburb terms onlyBeing persuaded to chase the metro
Mid-sized metroProfile, reviews, then contentPossible in year twoUnderestimating content need
Large metro, city-wideSub-market first, alwaysYear two at the earliestSpreading budget across the metro
National-dominated resultsMap pack and paid searchRarely, organicallySpending on content that cannot rank
Regulated categoryCompliant content plus reviewsDepends on claims constraintsPublishing claims you cannot make
Rural or nicheAlmost anything, done properlyUsually yesNothing much; this is the easy case

Find your row before reading any proposal. It converts the supplier conversation from ‘what can you do’ into ‘here is what my market allows, show me how you would work within it’, which is a far better conversation to be in.

Three markets, three different answers

Answer first: the same brief produces different realistic outcomes in a large gaming-and-tourism metro, a fast-growing Phoenix-area suburb and a St Louis-area suburb. Here is how each reads, and why the phrasing people use in each tells you something.

Las Vegas: high volume, high density

Somebody searching seo vegas is in the largest and most contested of these three markets, and the term itself carries roughly fifty times the volume of the smaller-market equivalents. Expectation-setting matters most here: city-level terms are a year-two goal for a modest budget, and the sensible first year is suburb-level plus the profile and reviews.

Gilbert, Arizona: growing suburb inside a large metro

A Gilbert SEO company is competing inside the Phoenix metro rather than in an isolated market, which means the town-level term is winnable while the metro term is not. This is the classic suburb case: build for Gilbert specifically and resist being persuaded to chase Phoenix.

Chesterfield: smaller market, thinner competition

An SEO company Chesterfield search sits in a considerably thinner market, where a complete profile and a steady review habit can move the phone before any content work at all. The main risk here is over-buying: paying for a content program when the free work has not been done.

The same brief, three markets, three realistic answers
Market typeFirst year realistic goalWhat to buy firstMain risk
Large, high-density metroSuburb-level visibilityProfile, reviews, then suburb pagesChasing the metro term
Suburb inside a large metroTown-level visibilityTown page plus profileBeing sold metro-wide targeting
Smaller, thinner marketTown-level plus some service termsProfile and reviews alone may sufficeOver-buying a content program

Notice that the middle column differs in every row while the advice about ownership, measurement and refusing guarantees does not. Those parts are universal; the ambition is not.

Does the agency’s own ranking mean anything?

Very little. An agency ranking for its own city term has demonstrated that it can rank an agency website in a category it understands perfectly. That is a genuine skill and it is not evidence that it can rank a plumbing company, a clinic or a law firm.

The useful evidence is different: examples of work in categories resembling yours, in markets resembling yours, with a description of what actually shipped. Ask for three, and ask what the client did versus what the agency did.

What should you ask, in any city?

Six questions, and the most revealing is whether they have looked at your specific market or are describing a methodology that would be identical anywhere.

Have you looked at my market specifically? — Ask. Not a generic methodology..
Which sub-market first, and why? — Ask. A metro answer is a warning..
What is realistic in twelve months here? — Ask. Market-specific, or they have not looked..
What ships in ninety days? — Ask. Named pages, named dates..
Does reporting show enquiries? — Ask. Not positions alone..
Who owns everything? — Ask. Us, in writing, day one..
  1. Have you looked at my market specifically, and what did you find?
  2. Which sub-market would you start with, and what is the reasoning?
  3. What is realistically achievable here in twelve months?
  4. What specifically ships in the first ninety days?
  5. Who writes the content, and may I read three examples?
  6. Does your reporting include calls and form submissions by source?
  7. Who owns the domain, hosting, analytics and Google profile?
  8. What would make you tell me this is not working?

Question three is the filter. A supplier who gives the same answer for a saturated metro and a thin one has not examined either, and a supplier who tells you the city term is a year-two goal rather than a quarter-one promise is being straight with you.

Guaranteed rankings — Refuse. Nobody controls the results page..
One timeline regardless of city — Refuse. They have not looked at yours..
Agency-held accounts — Refuse. You cannot leave..
Rankings-only reporting — Refuse. It hides the phone..
Templated suburb pages — Refuse. Discounted at scale..
Bulk directory packages — Refuse. Not link building..

Why ranking guarantees disqualify a supplier

Google does not sell placement in organic results and no agency has access to it. A guarantee is either meaningless — covering terms nobody searches — or dishonest, and either way it ends the evaluation.

Ownership matters more than price

If a supplier holds your domain, hosting, analytics property or Google Business Profile, you cannot leave without losing the work and the historical data. Everything should be registered to your business with the agency granted access. Free at the start, expensive later.

What works in every market regardless of density

Five things, and they are the same in Las Vegas, Gilbert, Chesterfield or anywhere else. The density changes how far they get you, not whether they are worth doing.

  1. A complete, verified Google Business Profile with your own photographs.
  2. A review request made the same day every job finishes, in the same words.
  3. A site that loads acceptably on a mid-range phone, tested on a service page.
  4. One page per service and per place you genuinely serve, written specifically.
  5. Call tracking so every enquiry can be attributed to a source.
  6. An enquiry baseline recorded before anything starts.
  7. Ownership of every account, in your business’s name.

Doing all seven costs time rather than budget and it is the entire foundation. In a low-density market it may be sufficient on its own; in a saturated one it is the platform everything else stands on, and skipping it makes the expensive work less effective.

When should you judge it?

At month six against the enquiry baseline, and with a timeline calibrated to your market rather than to a generic promise. Anybody quoting one timeline regardless of city has not looked at yours.

What to expect, by market type
The honest version of the timeline question is that it depends on the market rather than on the supplier. Anybody quoting one timeline regardless of your city has not looked at your city.

The timeline table is deliberately market-dependent, because that is the honest answer. The same competent supplier doing the same competent work produces results at different speeds in different cities, and pretending otherwise is how expectations get set that nobody can meet.

Common mistakes

Seven recurring errors, six of them settled before any money is spent.

Mistakes and fixes
MistakeConsequenceInstead
Not auditing your own marketNo idea what is realisticOne afternoon before any proposal
Taking a supplier’s word on competitivenessExpectations set by somebody selling to youLook yourself; it is visible
Choosing on the agency’s own rankingEvidence they can rank an agency, not youAsk for work in your category and market
Targeting the metro in a large marketCompetes everywhere, ranks nowhereOne sub-market, then template it
Assuming a case study transfersDifferent density, different outcomeMatch the market before the tactic
No enquiry baselineMonth six is an argumentRecord it in month one
Agency-owned accountsYou cannot leave with your own workEverything in your name from day one

The second row is worth emphasising because it is the one that feels reasonable at the time. The person telling you how competitive your market is has a commercial interest in the answer, and checking it yourself takes an afternoon.

Our local SEO services page covers the mechanics of the work, and the statewide page covers what changes when your customers are not searching by town at all.

Seasonality changes the answer too

Answer first: in trades and tourism-adjacent categories, demand follows a calendar and a budget spread evenly across twelve months underperforms one weighted toward the weeks demand exists. Check your own enquiry records by month before setting a spend pattern.

Regulated categories are harder in every market

Answer first: where claims are constrained by regulation, content takes longer to produce and passes through review, which changes both the timeline and the cost. This is true in a thin market as much as a saturated one and it is frequently omitted from quotes.

What happens when a national brand enters your market

Answer first: the map pack is still proximity-filtered, which is your protection. National brands frequently dominate the organic results below it while local businesses hold the map pack, so the profile and review work becomes more valuable rather than less.

Multi-location businesses

Answer first: one Google Business Profile per staffed location with a genuine address, and one page per location on a single website. Separate sites per branch split authority and multiply maintenance for no benefit.

Service-area businesses without a shopfront

Answer first: Google supports a service-area profile with no public address, covering a stated radius. Claiming a radius you cannot actually service is the error to avoid, and creating listings at addresses you do not occupy risks the profile that does work.

How reviews should actually be collected

Answer first: the same day the job finishes, by the person who did the work, in the same words every time. A process beats a campaign, and consistency is what makes the count climb rather than spike and stall.

Responding to reviews

Answer first: briefly and factually, including the negative ones. A short non-defensive reply reads better to the next customer than the complaint reads badly, and silence reads worse than either.

Photographs are a ranking-adjacent asset

Answer first: your own photographs of your work, your premises and your team outperform stock imagery everywhere they appear, and they are something only you can produce. Add them to the profile as well as the site.

Call tracking, or you are guessing

Answer first: without a tracked number per source you cannot tell which channel produced which booked job, so every cancellation decision is made on feel. Tracked numbers are inexpensive and they make the monthly review arithmetic rather than argument.

Answer first: sensible while organic work matures, poor as a substitute. Paid produces enquiries in days and stops the day you stop paying; organic takes months and keeps producing. Cost per click tracks market density, so the bridge is cheaper in thin markets.

What to do if you are already six months in and unsure

Answer first: put a tracked number on every source, log every outcome for sixty days, and calculate cost per booked job by source. That single exercise redirects more money than changing supplier usually does.

When changing supplier is the right call

Answer first: when enquiries attributed to organic search and the profile have not moved after nine months of consistent, properly executed work, and when you have verified the failure is not on your side. Leave with evidence rather than frustration.

What to take with you if you leave

Answer first: the domain, hosting, analytics history, Google profile, any content produced and the keyword and page research. All of it should already be in your name, which is why the ownership question belongs at the start rather than the end.

Market density and what each channel is worth
ChannelLow density marketHigh density metro
Google Business ProfileCan move the phone aloneEntry requirement only
ReviewsOften decisiveNecessary but not sufficient
Suburb pagesWin quicklyThe realistic first-year target
City-wide organicAchievable within a yearYear two at the earliest
Paid searchCheap; a strong bridgeExpensive; use selectively
Content depthRarely needed earlyWhat separates you
Local linksModest effectMaterially more important

Read down the two right-hand columns and the reason generic advice disappoints becomes obvious: every row means something different depending on where you are, and most advice is written from one column.

What to record before, during and after an engagement
WhenWhat to recordWhy
BeforeEnquiries per month for twelve monthsThe baseline every later claim is measured against
BeforeEvery URL with its organic trafficMakes a safe rebuild possible
BeforeCompetitor review countsThe entry requirement in your market
DuringCalls and forms by source, monthlyAttribution rather than impression
DuringWhat shipped, and whenDistinguishes effort from silence
AfterCost per booked job by sourceThe number that decides keep or cancel
AfterWhat you would do differentlyIt makes the next engagement cheaper

The first row is the one nobody does and the one that makes every subsequent conversation straightforward. It takes an afternoon and it is the difference between evaluating a supplier and trusting one.

How do you judge a city-specific SEO page — including this kind of page?

Pages built one-per-city are the most templated genre on the web, and the tells are consistent. Five checks separate a page written about a place from a page with a place name substituted into it.

Swap the city name and see whether anything breaks

This is the whole test in one move. Read the page substituting a different city — if every sentence remains equally true, the page contains no information about the original city and was generated rather than written. A page that genuinely addresses a market will produce obvious falsehoods when you swap the name, because it makes claims that are only true in one place.

Look for specifics that cost effort to obtain

Named neighbourhoods, the actual competitive density, which nearby city genuinely competes for the same customers, local licensing or regulatory quirks, real seasonal patterns. These cannot be produced at scale, which is exactly why their presence is evidence and their absence is diagnostic.

Check whether the advice ever changes by market

Any honest set of city pages will sometimes conclude different things — that one market is not worth entering, that another needs a smaller radius, that in a third the free work will get you most of the way. A hundred pages all recommending the same engagement are a price list wearing a guide’s clothes.

See whether it will tell you not to buy

The most reliable single signal. A page that identifies the circumstances under which you should do nothing, or do it yourself, is written to be useful. One that arrives at hiring regardless of the market, the budget or the situation is written to convert, and its analysis should be read accordingly — including on this site.

Check the date and whether anything dated is on it

Local search changes: profile features are added and withdrawn, result layouts shift, review policies tighten. A city page with no date, no reference to anything time-bound, and no sign of revision is either very carefully written to be timeless or was published once and abandoned. Undated evergreen copy is the cheapest thing to produce at scale, which is why so much of this genre is written that way.

Want an honest read on your own market?

Tell us your city and your service and we will tell you what is realistic there in twelve months — including when the answer is that the free work will get you most of the way and you do not need to hire anybody yet.

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Frequently asked questions

Why does the city matter more than the agency?
Because competitive density sets the ceiling on what any budget achieves, and density varies enormously between markets. The same work, supplier and spend produce different results in a saturated metro and a thin one, and no methodology overcomes that.
How do I find out how competitive my market is?
Search your main service term with your city and note who appears in the map pack, open each competitor’s profile and count reviews and recency, check whether the organic results are local businesses or national directories, then search the same term with a suburb name.
What should I count when auditing competitors?
How many have fifty or more recent reviews, not how many businesses exist. That figure is the entry requirement in your market — what you have to reach before anything else you do gets a fair hearing in the map pack.
What does it mean if national directories dominate the results?
That a local page may not rank organically regardless of quality. Where that is true, the honest strategy is the map pack plus paid search rather than content, and a supplier proposing a content program has not looked at the results page.
Does the profile and review work matter in every market?
Yes, but it gets you different distances. In a low-density market it can move the phone on its own because competitors have not done it either. In a saturated metro it is the entry requirement and content depth is what separates.
Is an SEO company that ranks for its own city term a good sign?
Very little. It shows the firm can rank an agency website in a category it understands perfectly. That is a real skill and it is not evidence it can rank a plumbing company, a clinic or a law firm.
What evidence should I ask for instead?
Three examples of work in categories resembling yours, in markets resembling yours, with a description of what actually shipped — and what the client did versus what the agency did. That is far more predictive than a ranking or a logo wall.
Should I target my city term or suburb terms?
Suburb terms first in any market of moderate density or above. The gap between city and suburb competition is usually enormous, and winning one sub-market gives you a proven page structure to apply to the next.
What can a modest budget realistically achieve?
Considerably more in a small metro or a suburb than in a large-metro city-wide campaign. In a low density market the free work alone can produce results; in a saturated one a modest budget buys suburb-level visibility rather than city-level.
How long should it take?
It depends on your market, and anybody quoting one timeline regardless of city has not looked at yours. In low-density markets profile and reviews can move the phone within weeks; in saturated ones city-level terms are a year-two goal.
What works in every market regardless of density?
A complete verified Google Business Profile with your own photographs, a same-day review request after every job, a site that loads on a mid-range phone, specifically written service and place pages, call tracking, an enquiry baseline, and ownership of every account.
Why record an enquiry baseline?
Because without it month six becomes a debate about whether things improved rather than a measurement of by how much. Writing down enquiries per month for the last year takes an afternoon and settles every later review.
Should I trust a supplier’s assessment of my market?
Verify it. The person telling you how competitive your market is has a commercial interest in the answer, and checking it yourself takes an afternoon. This is the mistake that feels most reasonable at the time.
Do case studies from other cities transfer?
Rarely without adjustment. A tactic that worked in a low-density market may be the entry requirement in yours, and one that worked in a saturated metro may be unnecessary. Match the market before adopting the tactic.
Is a ranking guarantee ever legitimate?
No. Google does not sell placement in organic results and no agency has access to it. A guarantee is either meaningless — covering terms nobody searches — or dishonest, and either way it ends the evaluation.
Who should own my accounts?
Your business, in its own name, with the agency granted access. If a supplier holds your domain, hosting, analytics or Google profile you cannot leave without losing the work and the historical data that makes the next supplier effective.
What should the reporting show?
Calls and form submissions by source, cost per enquiry, and organic sessions to the pages that matter, with positions as context. A rankings-only report can look excellent while the phone stays exactly where it was.
What is the most revealing question to ask?
What is realistically achievable in my market in twelve months. A supplier giving the same answer for a saturated metro and a thin one has examined neither, and one telling you the city term is a year-two goal is being straight with you.
Should I hire locally?
For most of the work, no. Technical fixes, content and profile management are identical wherever done. Local link building, chamber relationships and photography of your premises genuinely benefit from somebody nearby, and those can be handled separately.
Are bulk directory listing packages worth buying?
No. Bulk directory submissions are not link building and have not been for many years. A small number of genuinely relevant local listings is worth having; a package of hundreds is a monthly cost with no mechanism behind it.
How many location pages should I build?
One per place you genuinely serve and can write about specifically. Ten researched pages beat sixty templated ones, because near-identical pages produced at scale are exactly the pattern search engines discount.
Does this page rank the best SEO companies in each city?
No, deliberately. Any such ranking assembled from outside would rest on the firms’ own marketing rather than on client outcomes, which are private, and lists of that kind routinely carry paid placement. The criteria here are what such a list would be approximating.
What should I do first, before contacting anybody?
Run the one-afternoon market audit: search your term, count competitor reviews, check who occupies the organic results, compare the city term with a suburb term, and record your enquiry baseline. One page of notes that will outlast three proposals.
When should I not hire anybody?
When the free work is not done. A complete profile, a review habit and a site that loads on a phone come first, and in a low-density market they may take you most of the way on their own. Hiring before them means paying for what was available free.

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  148. W3C: WCAG
  149. W3C: captions
  150. W3C: making audio and video accessible
  151. ADA.gov
  152. WebAIM
  153. Epilepsy Foundation
  154. Pew Research: internet and technology
  155. DataReportal
  156. US Census Bureau
  157. US Bureau of Labor Statistics
  158. Interactive Advertising Bureau
  159. Think with Google
  160. Google Trends
  161. Nielsen insights
  162. Schema.org: VideoObject
  163. Schema.org: SocialMediaPosting
  164. Schema.org: MusicRecording
  165. Schema.org: HowTo
  166. Schema.org: FAQPage
  167. Schema.org: Organization
  168. Google: video best practices
  169. Google: video structured data
  170. CapCut
  171. Adobe Premiere Rush
  172. DaVinci Resolve
  173. Canva
  174. Descript
  175. VEED
  176. Kapwing
  177. Otter.ai
  178. Later
  179. Buffer
  180. Hootsuite
  181. Sprout Social
  182. Google Analytics
  183. Google Search Console
  184. Google Analytics developer docs
  185. GA4: events and conversions
  186. Matomo
  187. Plausible Analytics
  188. Similarweb
  189. UK Information Commissioner’s Office
  190. Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  191. Australian OAIC
  192. European Data Protection Board
  193. EU data protection
  194. EU Digital Services Act
  195. Ofcom
  196. FCC
  197. AIGA
  198. Nielsen Norman Group
  199. Smashing Magazine
  200. web.dev
  201. MDN: web media
  202. MDN: the video element
  203. ISO 21001 (reference)
  204. Buma/Stemra (Netherlands)
  205. STIM (Sweden)
  206. Teosto (Finland)
  207. Koda (Denmark)
  208. TONO (Norway)
  209. IMRO (Ireland)
  210. SGAE (Spain)
  211. ZAiKS (Poland)
  212. KOMCA (South Korea)
  213. MCSC (China)
  214. CISAC
  215. World Intellectual Property Organization
  216. TikTok: creating videos
  217. TikTok: exploring videos
  218. TikTok: privacy settings
  219. TikTok: growing your audience
  220. TikTok Creator Academy
  221. TikTok Effect House
  222. TikTok for small business
  223. Instagram: Reels help
  224. YouTube: Shorts best practice
  225. How YouTube recommends
  226. Pinterest Predicts
  227. Snapchat for Business
  228. Hootsuite blog
  229. Social Media Examiner
  230. Marketing Week
  231. Adweek
  232. Google — improve local ranking
  233. Google — service area businesses
  234. Google — ranking systems guide
  235. Google Search Essentials
  236. SBA — marketing and sales

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