Local SEO · 2026-05-18

Why your local website probably is not fine

Local SEO

A plain-English look at the small website problems that cost local businesses calls and bookings.

Most websites are not broken in a dramatic way. They are just quietly unhelpful.

The phone number is hard to tap. The opening hours live on Facebook. The menu is a PDF from 2021. Google cannot tell where the business is based.

None of that feels urgent until a customer chooses the place down the road instead.