Service 04
Local visibility & lead generation
Help nearby customers find you, trust you, and call you.
When somebody nearby searches for what you do, three businesses appear on the map before anything else. Local visibility work is about being one of them: the Google Business Profile, the reviews, the details that have to match everywhere, and the pages on your site that back it all up.
If people search for what you offer and your business does not come up, that is money leaving every day. We fix where you appear and what people see when you do.
What this helps with
- Showing up on Google Maps and in local search
- More calls, directions and enquiries
- Reviews and listings that are accurate everywhere
What you get
- Your Google Business Profile claimed, filled in properly and kept current
- Name, address and phone number made identical everywhere they appear online
- Categories, services and hours set so you show up for the right searches
- A workable way to ask for reviews, and replies to the ones you get
- Photos and posts on the profile, which most businesses set up once and abandon
- Pages on your site that match what the profile claims
Best suited to
Restaurants, salons, clinics, local shops and service businesses
How it runs
What actually happens
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Find where you stand
We check what you rank for on the map today, from the areas you actually serve rather than from wherever we happen to be sitting. Then we look at the businesses beating you and why.
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Fix the details
Mismatched phone numbers, an old address on a directory nobody remembers signing up to, two profiles for one business. This is the single most common reason a legitimate local business does not appear.
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Build the profile out
Categories, services, hours, photos, questions answered. A profile filled in fully outranks one that was claimed and left, and the gap is larger than most owners expect.
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Keep reviews moving
Reviews are the part you cannot shortcut. We set up a way of asking that fits how you actually deal with customers, and reply to what comes in.
What we need from you
- Manager access to your Google Business Profile. You stay the owner and can revoke it at any time.
- Your exact business name, address and phone number in the form you want used everywhere.
- Real photos of the premises, the team or the work, which count for more on a profile than most owners expect.
- A willingness to ask customers for reviews. This is the one part nobody can do for you.
How it is measured
- Whether you appear in the map results, checked from the areas you serve
- Calls, direction requests and website clicks from the profile itself
- Review count and how steadily new ones arrive
- Enquiries that started with a nearby search
What it costs
This is included in the monthly plans, which start at $149 a month and run to $349, or it can be bought on its own if a plan is more than you need. Every plan carries web hosting, professional email, custom domain name, ssl certificate, on-page seo, built to wcag 2.2 aa accessibility standards and client hub — raise anything, see where it stands. Nothing is tied to a contract, so you can stop at the end of any month and the work already paid for is finished and handed over regardless. The full breakdown, including what each tier adds, is on the pricing page.
What this is not
We will not build pages for suburbs you do not genuinely serve. Fake location pages are worse than none, they get penalised, and they waste the authority of the pages that are real.
What it works with
- Website design & development The profile sends people to your site, and what they find there decides whether they call. The two are one funnel, not two services.
- Search engine optimisation Local gets you into the map. Broader search work is what gets you found for the things people type without naming a place.
Straight answers
Common questions
Yes, and the profile is set up differently for it. Service-area businesses hide the street address and declare the area covered instead, which is a setting most listings get wrong.
Yes, as a manager rather than an owner. You stay the owner throughout, which means you can remove our access at any time and never risk losing the listing itself.
Only if it breaks Google’s rules, and then only by reporting it. What actually works is replying well and having enough genuine recent reviews that one bad one stops being the first thing anybody reads.
No. Everything is month to month and you can stop at the end of any month. Work already paid for is finished and handed over either way.
Two separate things. Your ad budget is billed directly to your card by Google or Meta — it never passes through us and is never marked up. Our management fee for building and optimising the campaigns is 20% of monthly ad spend, with a $500 a month minimum spend, invoiced separately from your plan.
What changed, what it produced, and what we are doing next — in plain language. Calls and enquiries, not impressions.
Related reading
Guides on this
In their words
I’ve had an excellent experience working with 99 mph. They built two websites for my business, and both turned out perfectly aligned with my brand. Their design quality, attention to detail, and technical expertise truly stand out. Beyond the websites, they manage my social media postings with creativity and consistency, keeping my audience engaged and growing. Their responsiveness is reliable. They address feedback immediately, and always provide thoughtful solutions. I highly recommend 99 mph to anyone seeking reliable, high-quality digital marketing services. Their professionalism makes every project smooth and stress free consistently.
As standard
The half of the job nobody advertises
Every site we build now gets all of this, whichever plan it is on. Most of it is invisible until it is missing, which is exactly why it is worth saying out loud.
- Works on whatever they are holding Checked on a phone, a tablet and a desktop, down to the narrow screen of a folding phone. Not shrunk to fit: laid out so it reads properly at each size.
- Readable by the AI assistants people now ask More people start with ChatGPT or a search assistant than with a search box. The words on the page are plain text an assistant can read and quote, rather than something it has to run to see, and the site tells them it is welcome.
- Built to recognised accessibility guidelines We follow WCAG 2.2 AA, the standard most of the world writes into law. That means it works by keyboard, the text can be enlarged without the layout breaking, colours stay readable, and photographs are described for anyone who cannot see them. We follow the guidelines and test against them; we do not sell a certificate, because nobody can honestly certify this.
- Looks right in daylight and at night Where it suits the brand, the site follows the light or dark setting on the visitor's own device, and offers a switch for anyone who prefers the other one.
- Fast on a bad signal The pages are small and there is very little for the phone to do before it can show them, which is what matters in a van or a car park rather than on office wifi.
- Looks right when somebody shares it Paste a link into WhatsApp, LinkedIn or a text and a proper card appears with the right title and picture, rather than a bare address.
- Nothing to break into, nothing to keep patching No plugins, no admin login, no database. The usual way a small-business site gets defaced is a plugin nobody updated, and there are none here.
- Every version kept, so anything can be undone Each change is recorded. Putting the site back as it was last week is a minute of work rather than a disaster.
- Yours, not ours The domain is registered in your name, you can reach the hosting, and if you ever leave you take the lot. We have written about why that matters more than the price.