Get found first.
Schema, speed, sitemaps and a properly built Google Business listing — so when someone in Abbotsford searches for what you do, you are the one they find.
How local ranking actually works
Three levers
Ranking is not a mystery. It is plumbing.
Google needs to know what you do, where you do it, and that your site loads. Most local sites fail at least one of those. Fixing them is unglamorous and it works.
Your Google listing outranks your website.
For local searches the map pack sits above everything. Categories, service areas, photos, hours and Q&A all feed it — and most listings are half-filled and never touched again.
Named service areas, not a vague radius.
Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Langley, Surrey, Mission, Maple Ridge, Aldergrove. Marked up in schema so there is no ambiguity about where you actually work.
The whole checklist
Nothing held back
Schema markup
LocalBusiness, Service and FAQ structured data so search engines read your site correctly.
Speed and Core Web Vitals
Image compression, script cleanup, and a real measurement before and after.
Sitemap and indexing
Submitted properly, with Search Console set up so you can see what is happening.
Google Business cleanup
Categories, service areas, hours, photos, posts and Q&A — filled in completely.
Named area pages
A real page for each community you serve, not one page stuffed with city names.
Plain-English reporting
What moved, what did not, and what is next. No 40-page PDF nobody reads.
Ranks faster alongside
Compounding work