Local SEO Landing Page Audit
Enter a local landing page, the service and the city it should rank for, and get a scored audit: local keywords in the title and H1, phone and address, opening hours, LocalBusiness schema, map, reviews, a call to action and technical basics.
- Scores 35+ local ranking signals
- Checks name, address and phone
- Writes a LocalBusiness schema starter
Want to check the schema itself? Use the Schema Markup Validator. For the head tags, try the Meta Tag Checker.
Five areas that decide how a local page ranks
Each area is scored on its own, so you can see where to start.
Local keywords
The service and the city in the title, H1, description, URL, first paragraph, subheadings, body text and image alt text, without stuffing.
Contact details
A visible phone number with a tap-to-call link, a full address in text, opening hours, and whether they match what you entered.
Structured data
LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, address, telephone, geo coordinates, hours, area served, reviews and profile links.
Trust and conversion
A map, reviews or testimonials, a contact form, a clear call to action, social profiles, content depth and internal links.
Technical basics
https, a mobile viewport, a canonical tag, a language attribute, and no accidental noindex.
Schema starter
A LocalBusiness JSON-LD block filled with the details you gave, ready to adjust and add.
What a strong local landing page includes
These are the elements that show up on pages that rank well for local searches.
| Element | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Service and city | Title, H1, first paragraph | Tells search engines and visitors what the page covers and where. |
| Name, address, phone (NAP) | Visible text, footer or header | Consistent details confirm the business is real and local. |
| Click-to-call link | Header and call to action | Most local searches happen on phones, and one tap converts. |
| LocalBusiness schema | JSON-LD in the page | Gives search engines the facts in a machine-readable form. |
| Map and directions | Contact section | Helps visitors and supports the location signal. |
| Reviews | Visible on the page | Build trust and add natural local wording. |
| Unique content | 400+ words about the service in the area | Thin, copied city pages rarely rank. |
How to audit a local landing page
Three steps from a page to a fix list.
Enter the page, service and city
Add your business name, phone and address as well if you want them checked against the page.
Read the score and the matrix
See which area is weakest and where your local phrases appear.
Fix and add the schema
Work through the list, add the schema starter, then run the audit again.
Habits that help a local page rank
Page quality is the part you fully control.
One page per service and area
A page for each main service in each area you really serve, with real detail.
Keep your NAP consistent
Use the same name, address and phone on the page, in the schema and on Google Business Profile.
Use real photos
Photos of your team, premises and work add trust, and alt text can mention the area.
Show real reviews
Genuine reviews with names, and a link to your Google reviews. Never mark up reviews you made up.
Make contact effortless
A tap-to-call number, a short form and a map above the fold.
Answer local questions
An FAQ about prices, areas served and opening hours helps visitors and can win featured answers.
What a local SEO landing page is and what an audit checks
A local SEO landing page is a page on your website built for one service in one place, such as "plumber in Lalitpur" or "dental clinic in Pokhara". It names the service and the place in its title, headings and text, shows how to contact the business, and describes the services in that area. For a business with several branches, each branch can have its own page.
Google says local results are based mainly on relevance, distance and prominence. Distance is out of your hands, and prominence builds slowly through reviews and links. Relevance is where your page helps: it shows what you do and where. Your Google Business Profile and your website should tell the same story, so the name, address and phone number on the page should match the ones on your profile, and Google asks that a Business Profile name reflect your real-world name as used on your website.
The audit scores the parts of the page you control: local keywords in the places that matter, visible contact details, LocalBusiness markup, trust signals and technical basics. It cannot check your Business Profile, reviews or citations, which need their own review. Use it to find gaps, and to spot the thin, copied city page, which Google's spam policies treat as doorway abuse when pages are made only to funnel searchers.
When to audit a local landing page
Run it whenever a page is meant to win a local search, and again after any rewrite.
Launching a new service page
Before you publish a page for a service and area, check the title, h1, contact details and schema so the page starts complete rather than being patched later.
Reviewing a multi-branch site
Audit one page per branch. Pages made from one template often share the same weak points, such as a missing city in the title or no map.
After a redesign or new theme
A redesign can move the phone number into an image, drop the schema or add a noindex tag. Re-run the audit on your key local pages.
Studying a competitor
Enter a competing business's page with the same service and city. See which local signals it shows and which you are missing.
Starting local schema
Use the generated LocalBusiness JSON-LD starter as a base, adjust it to your real details, then check it with the Schema Markup Validator.
Preparing a client report
Use the score and the area breakdown to show a business owner which fixes are on the page and which, such as reviews and citations, need work elsewhere.
Local landing page mistakes and how to fix them
Most local pages fail on the basics, not on anything advanced.
Copy-pasting one page for every city
What goes wrong: Swapping only the city name across dozens of pages makes near-identical pages. Google describes pages made to rank for similar queries that funnel users onward as doorway abuse.
The fix: Create a page only for an area you genuinely serve. Fill it with specifics: local examples, services offered there, staff, photos, prices and questions customers ask.
Inconsistent name, address and phone
What goes wrong: The page says one phone number or address, the Business Profile another, and the schema a third. Mixed details confuse visitors and make it harder to connect the page to the business.
The fix: Pick one exact form of the name, address and phone. Use it on the page, in the schema and on your Business Profile, and keep it updated when anything changes.
Address or phone only in an image or iframe
What goes wrong: Text inside an image cannot be read as text, and details that sit only inside an embedded map may not count as part of your page. Visitors on phones also cannot tap an image to call.
The fix: Write the address and number as plain text, link the phone with a tel: link, and keep the map as an extra beside the text, not a replacement.
Marking up your own reviews for stars
What goes wrong: Google says pages for a local business that control the reviews about themselves are ineligible for review stars. Self-written reviews in markup also risk breaking its structured data rules.
The fix: Show real, attributable reviews as visible text and link to your Google reviews. Do not mark up reviews you wrote or collected only to display them.
Schema that does not match the page
What goes wrong: Schema with a phone, hours or address that the visitor cannot see on the page, or that differs from it, goes against Google's structured data policies.
The fix: Generate the markup from the same details you display. Include the country code in the telephone value, as Google recommends, and test after every change.
Stuffing the service and city everywhere
What goes wrong: Repeating "emergency plumber Kathmandu" in every sentence, or adding keywords to your business name, reads badly and goes against Google's guidance on names and keyword stuffing.
The fix: Use the service and city in the title, h1 and first paragraph, then write naturally. Keep your business name as your real-world name.
Local SEO terms explained
- Local landing page
- A page on your own website made to answer a local search for one service in one place. It combines the service and the location with contact details, proof and useful local information.
- NAP
- Name, address and phone number. Showing them in the same form on your page, schema and Business Profile helps visitors and search engines trust that the details are correct.
- Google Business Profile
- Google's free listing for a business, used in Search and Maps. Local ranking draws on it, so its details should match your page. It is not the same thing as your website.
- Relevance, distance and prominence
- The three factors Google says mainly decide local results: how well a profile matches the search, how far the business is from the searcher, and how well known the business is.
- LocalBusiness schema
- Structured data from schema.org that describes a business. Google requires name and address, and recommends details such as telephone, opening hours, URL and coordinates. Use a more specific subtype where one fits.
- areaServed
- A schema.org property for the geographic area where a service is provided. Service-area businesses can use it to describe where they work without listing a street address.
- Service-area business
- A business that travels to customers instead of seeing them at a shop. Google asks such businesses to hide their address on their Business Profile.
- Doorway page
- A page made only to rank for a specific search and send visitors elsewhere. Near-identical city pages with no real local value can fall into this group.
Related tools, guides and services
A strong local page also depends on correct markup, clear tags and a well-run Business Profile.
Schema Markup Generator
Build valid LocalBusiness JSON-LD, or a more specific business type, from your real details.
ToolSchema Markup Validator
Test the markup on a live page against schema.org and Google's rich result rules.
ToolMeta Tag Checker
Check the title, description, canonical and robots tags on your local page.
ToolKeyword Generator
Find the local phrases and questions people type for your service and area.
GuideSEO in Nepal: a beginner's guide
Read the local SEO section for Nepali businesses, including Business Profile eligibility and local keywords.
ServiceLocal SEO service
Get your Business Profile, Maps visibility, reviews, citations and local pages handled together.
CourseLocal SEO course in Nepal
Learn Business Profile, Maps rankings, reviews and Nepali-language local keywords in two weeks.
Built by
Madhav Kushwaha
SEO, AEO, GEO & Digital Marketing Consultant in Kathmandu, Nepal, and trainer at ODcrU Academy and TechAxis Institute. I work with local businesses in Nepal and abroad, and the same few mistakes hold their location pages back: no city in the title, an address hidden in an image, no schema, no click-to-call. I built this audit to find those quickly and to give the fix, not just the score.
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