for businesses on A1A Get found on the mile
Neighbors search on their phones while they're already on the island. Here's how a shop, office or restaurant on this stretch shows up when they do.
Background: Fort Lauderdale beach at night, January 2021. Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
How local search works here
Two kinds of search.
Neighbors search two ways, by place and by service, and your business needs to show up for both. If you run a shop, office or restaurant on the mile, on A1A or in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, the audit below is for you.
Searches that name the place
Think "Galt Mile," "Galt Ocean Drive," "Galt Ocean Marketplace," "Fort Lauderdale beach," "Lauderdale-by-the-Sea," "A1A" or "33308." These searches are about where something is.
Searches that name a service
Someone needs a grocery, a pharmacy, a dentist, a restaurant or a salon. They add "Galt Mile" or "Fort Lauderdale beach," or just search from a phone that's already on A1A. The business that comes up is the one whose page states the service, the hours and the address the same way everywhere.
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Can neighbors find you?
Tick everything that's true for your business today. Your score updates as you go, and it stays in your browser.
Hard to find
Neighbors searching from A1A are likely landing on someone else. The fixes are basic and fast.
Get the free auditWhat we do
Everything that has to match.
Your name should read the same on your website, your sign and your listing. The address should be the real one, and the hours should match what's on the door this week.
Google Business Profile
Category, hours, photos, services and the correct street, set up so you appear in the map results on A1A.
Location pages
One page per location, naming the service, the street and the landmark the way your customers search for them.
Schema & technical SEO
LocalBusiness, opening hours and FAQ markup, fast pages, clean titles and a sitemap search engines can read.
Consistent listings
The same name, address and phone on Google, Apple Maps, Bing, Yelp and the directories that feed them.
Review program
A simple routine for asking happy customers for reviews and answering every one, good or bad.
A place in this guide
Neighborhood pages for the mile and the map around it, pointing readers to the businesses on those streets.
How it works
Four steps.
We do them in this order, because each step depends on the one before.
Audit
We check your listing, your site and your rankings for the searches your neighbors make.
Fix
We correct the name, address, category and hours everywhere they appear.
Publish
We build or rewrite your location page with the service, the street, the landmark and schema.
Keep it current
Monthly checks on hours, photos, reviews and rankings, with a short report.
FAQ
Owner questions.
How long until my business shows up better in local search?
Fixes to your Google Business Profile and your own site can show within weeks. Reviews and neighborhood content build over months. We tell you which is which before we start.
Do I need a new website?
Usually not. Most businesses need one strong location page that names the service, the street and the landmark, with correct schema markup. We work with the site you have.
Why does it matter whether I say Galt Ocean Drive or North Ocean Boulevard?
They are different streets a block apart. If your listing, your sign and your site disagree, search engines trust the listing less and customers walk to the wrong door.
What does the free audit include?
A check of your Google Business Profile, your location page, your name, address and phone across the web, and how you rank for the searches your neighbors make. You get a short written list of fixes.