Free guide · for local service businesses
Get found on Google. Before your website even loads.
The 20-minute setup that decides whether you show up when someone nearby searches for what you do, and a way to ask for reviews that doesn’t feel awkward.
- 7 pages, PDF
- Free
- Checked against Google’s help pages, Oct 2026
Where should I send it?
The guide comes to your inbox as a download link. You only get emails from me beyond that if you tick the optional box, and you can unsubscribe in one click. Either way, I may show you my ads on Facebook, Instagram or Google afterwards, and you can opt out any time. How your email address is handled: privacy policy, section 02.
7 pages · A4 · print the checklist
What’s inside
Six sections, in the order you’d do them.
- 01Why your Google listing comes firstOn a phone, the map comes before the websites. The three things Google says it ranks on, in its own words.
- 02The 20-minute setupCategories, services, hours, photos and the details everyone skips, with the exact menu path for each.
- 03Reviews: a system, not a favourWhere to find your direct review link, the text I’d send with it, and the rules Google enforces.
- 04Keeping it aliveTen minutes a fortnight: reply to reviews, add photos, post one update.
- 05One thing old guides still get wrongA feature Google removed in 2025 that people are still being told to use.
- 06The one-page checklistPrint it and tick it off.
I’m Lewis. I build websites for local service businesses from Swindon and help them get found on Google. One person, start to finish.
Everything in the guide is free to do, and you can do all of it yourself.