Free field guide · for local-service business owners
5 SEO Mistakes Your Agency Is Making
If you're paying $500–$3,000/mo to a local-SEO agency and you can't tell whether they're still doing the work — this guide is the field test. Five things to verify on your own site, in under 15 minutes, without their password.
Verify in 15 minutes
Five tests you can run yourself, on your own site and GBP, without your agency's permission.
Score your agency honestly
A simple ✅ / ⚠️ / ❌ rubric so you know whether you're paying for SEO or paying for monitoring.
Know your alternative
If you're moving, the V5.1 Playbook is the same 24-chapter system you'd hand to a VA — for the price of one month of agency fees.
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The audit your agency hopes you never run
The free audit checks all five categories above — GBP cadence, service-page extractability, review velocity, schema integrity, and call-tracking — against your live site and Google Business Profile. No login required. ~3 minutes.
See a sample audit report →Sample audit score · plumbing · Austin TX
Anonymized from a real audit of a US plumber paying $1,400/mo (within the $500–$3,000/mo range) to a managed agency. Three of five categories at red.
One free audit. One honest answer.
Before you fire your agency — or sign a new one — run the audit. If three or more of these five mistakes are happening on your site right now, the guide pays for itself in the first month.
Run your free audit at localservicebusinessseo.comOr read the framework first — The V5.1 Playbook (24 chapters).