Free 2026 field guide

Make your business easier to find locally.

A practical 13-page guide to improving your Google Business Profile, website, reviews and local visibility—then measuring whether any of it produces proper enquiries.

  • Plain-English actions
  • 30-day improvement plan
  • Printable control panel

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Rarely requires jargon.

Recalibrated
2026
Cover of The Local SEO Field Guide, illustrated as the local search department of the Total Results Enquiry Engine
Part of the Total Results Enquiry Engine
Free PDF13 practical pagesUpdated July 2026Written for small businesses

What the machine examines

Local SEO without the ranking-fluid sales pitch.

The guide is built around one useful test: can the right local customer find your business, trust what they see and take the next step without unnecessary effort?

It replaces dated advice with current, policy-safe recommendations and puts calls, forms, bookings and worthwhile enquiries ahead of vanity rankings.

Six calibrated stages

What you will work through.

01

Google Business Profile

Set up the categories, services, hours, photographs and access controls that local customers actually use.

02

Website relevance

Build useful service and location pages without resorting to duplicated town-page waffle.

03

Reviews and trust

Create a fair, policy-safe review process and respond in a way that helps future customers.

04

Technical soundness

Check indexing, redirects, mobile usability, Core Web Vitals and LocalBusiness structured data.

05

Enquiry measurement

Connect visibility to calls, forms, bookings, qualified enquiries and sales—not rankings alone.

06

A 30-day plan

Work through the important actions in the right order, with a printable 30-point control panel.

The Local SEO control panel

Find the pressure leak.

Score one point for every completed action. The reading shows whether the basic machinery is missing, pressure is building or your local enquiry system is properly calibrated.

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