Local SEO £199/month ✓ Google Business ✓ Technical fixes ✓ Local keywords ✓ Monthly report Local competition Full SEO £349/month ✓ Everything in Local ✓ Content creation ✓ Link building ✓ Competitor analysis National competition The right tier depends on who you're competing against

If you're short on time

  • Local SEO (£199/mo) is right if your customers search with a location attached — "dentist Fethiye," "plumber Marmaris"
  • Full SEO (£349/mo) is right if you're competing for searches without a geographic limit
  • The test: who are you competing against? A handful of local businesses, or dozens of sites from across the country?
  • Your Google Business Profile is doing more work than you think — and most local profiles I look at are only half set up
  • Citations matter for consistency, not volume — 10 accurate ones beat 100 sloppy ones
  • Reviews affect rankings both directly and through click behaviour

When someone messages me asking about SEO, the first thing I want to understand is what they're actually trying to rank for. The answer to "which SEO package do I need" is almost entirely determined by that one question. I've looked at enough local businesses around Fethiye and Muğla to know that the most common mistake isn't paying too little for SEO — it's paying for a scope of work that doesn't match the actual competitive environment.

The question that actually matters

Who are you competing against for the searches you care about? If the answer is a handful of local businesses in the same town — a few other dental clinics, a few other villa rental agencies — local SEO is the right fit. The fundamentals will move the needle. If the answer is dozens of businesses from across the country, local SEO alone won't cut it. You need content production at scale, active link building, ongoing competitor analysis.

What actually moves local rankings

I check Google Business Profiles for local businesses fairly regularly, and the same problems appear almost every time. Opening hours that haven't been updated. A category that's close to right but not quite. No photos, or photos from three years ago. No posts. No responses to reviews — not even the positive ones. Three things consistently make a difference: posting regularly, responding to every review, and getting the primary category exactly right.

Do reviews actually affect rankings?

Yes — but not in the simple "more stars equals higher ranking" way most articles claim. Google's local ranking factors include review count, recency and average rating as part of what it calls "prominence." A business with 80 recent reviews at 4.6 stars reads as more established than one with 4 reviews from 2019. The part most guides skip: reviews drive clicks, which drives ranking. That click-through behaviour itself feeds back into Google's ranking signals.

Not sure which tier fits your situation?

Tell me what you're trying to rank for and I'll give you a straight answer — Local, Full, or honestly neither if that's what fits.

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