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Local SEO for Multi-Location Businesses: What Do You Need to Know?

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If your business operates in more than one location, your local SEO strategy has to do more than check boxes. You’re not just trying to show up—you’re trying to show up everywhere you serve, and ahead of your competitors. For multi-location businesses, this means getting organized, staying consistent, and building systems that scale.

At Strottner Designs, we help service businesses build and manage local SEO strategies across multiple cities, regions, and service areas. Whether you’ve got three locations or thirty, we make sure your business shows up when people search.

Let’s break down what matters—and how we help.

Why Local SEO for Multi-Location Businesses Is So Important

It’s not enough to rank in one market. With multiple locations, you need each branch, office, or service hub to be visible to local customers searching in their area.

But here’s the challenge:

  • Every location needs its own online presence
  • Duplicate content or messy listings confuse search engines
  • Reviews must be localized to build trust
  • Managing everything at scale requires structure and strategy

That’s where a dedicated local SEO plan for multi-location businesses comes in. Without it, visibility gets fragmented, and you lose opportunities.

The Essentials of Local SEO for Multi-Location Businesses

1. Google Business Profiles: One Per Location

Every physical location you operate needs its own Google Business Profile (GBP). No shared listings. No shortcuts.

Each listing should include:

  • Accurate business name
  • Complete street address (with suite/unit if applicable)
  • Local phone number (not a toll-free line)
  • Business hours
  • Category (choose the best match)
  • Location-specific photos

Consistency here is non-negotiable.

How Strottner Helps: We set up and manage each GBP, ensure information is accurate, and monitor performance across all your locations.

2. Location-Specific Landing Pages

Your website should feature a dedicated landing page for every location. This is key for targeting search queries with geographic intent—like “roof repair in Austin” or “HVAC services near Plano.”

Each page should have:

  • A unique page title and meta description
  • City-specific content (not generic copy)
  • Address, phone, and map embed
  • Services offered at that location
  • Local testimonials or team bios
  • Calls to action linked to forms or scheduling tools

How Strottner Helps: We create and optimize these pages for SEO and conversion. Our copywriting reflects your voice, but with local context that boosts search performance. Our services outline many of the ways we can help!

3. Consistent Citations and Listings

Business directories still matter. If your Name, Address, and Phone (NAP) info isn’t consistent across platforms like Yelp, Apple Maps, Bing, or Facebook, your rankings will suffer.

For multi-location SEO, it’s easy to lose control of these listings over time. Moves, rebrands, and duplicate entries all create noise.

How Strottner Helps: We audit and clean up your citations across major directories using both software and manual review. We also monitor them monthly to prevent drift.

4. Review Strategy by Location

Reviews are a top factor in local rankings—and they influence customer decisions more than any ad ever could.

But here’s the key: reviews need to be tied to individual locations. If one location has 100 reviews and another has 3, people (and Google) notice.

Tips:

  • Ask for reviews using location-specific links
  • Train staff to prompt reviews during real interactions
  • Mention the city or team in the review when possible
  • Respond to every review, good or bad

How Strottner Helps: We provide tools and systems that automate review collection, flag negative feedback, and help your team respond professionally and consistently.

5. Local Content That Connects

If you serve different regions, your content should reflect that. A blog post titled “Tips for Maintaining Your HVAC System” is fine, but one titled “How San Antonio’s Climate Affects Your AC Unit” connects directly to your audience.

Strong local SEO content for multi-location businesses should:

  • Reference local events, weather, laws, or neighborhoods
  • Use regional keywords in headings and subheadings
  • Feature location-specific case studies or testimonials
  • Link to local landing pages internally

How Strottner Helps: We develop a content strategy tied to your business goals, then create original articles and FAQs that rank—and actually help your customers.

6. Schema Markup for Local SEO

Schema helps search engines understand your content better. For multi-location businesses, we use LocalBusiness schema on each landing page to provide structured data for:

  • Address
  • Phone
  • Hours
  • Reviews
  • Geo-coordinates

Proper schema improves visibility in search results and can enable rich snippets (like review stars or FAQs).

How Strottner Helps: We implement schema using best practices; clean code, no bloat, and tailored to your platform.

7. Track Performance by Location

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. That’s especially true for multi-location SEO.

Key metrics to track:

  • Rankings by city or region
  • Clicks, calls, and direction requests from GBP
  • Organic traffic to location pages
  • Review volume and average rating per location
  • Conversion rate differences between markets

How Strottner Helps: We track local performance across all your locations. You’ll know what’s working, and where to double down.

Avoid These Common Mistakes in Multi-Location SEO

  • Using a single location page for all markets
  • Duplicating content across different city pages
  • Listing only a central phone number for all offices
  • Inconsistent NAP data across directories
  • Ignoring or neglecting underperforming location profiles

If you recognize any of these, you’re not alone. We fix these issues every day for clients nationwide.

How Strottner Designs Supports Local SEO at Scale

We don’t just advise, we execute. When you work with us, we become your partner in building and managing a scalable, reliable local SEO strategy for multi-location businesses.

Here’s what we handle:

  • GBP setup and optimization for each location
  • Full location page strategy, copy, and design
  • Business listing management and citation cleanup
  • Schema implementation
  • Review generation systems
  • Ongoing content creation with local focus
  • Performance tracking and reporting

You focus on serving your customers. We make sure they can find you online, wherever they are.

Ready to Grow Across Every Market You Serve?

If you want to stop guessing and start ranking, we’re here to help. At Strottner Designs, we specialize in local SEO for service businesses with multiple locations, and we’ve been doing it for over a decade.

Let’s build your presence city by city, page by page, listing by listing—together.

Contact us to learn more about how we can help!

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