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Audit your locations' local search readiness

See how ready each location is to win local search, with an estate heatmap and a prioritised, location-by-location fix plan.

Written by Dan Pillay

See how ready each of your locations is to win in local search — the map pack, Maps, and "near me" / "[town]" searches — and turn it into a prioritised fix plan across your whole estate.

Local Search Readiness Audit — opening message and route options


What it does

The Local Search Readiness Audit scores the things you control across three drivers:

  • Proximity — where location eligibility is being thrown away

  • Relevance — pages, NAP (name, address, phone), categories and local business data matching local intent

  • Prominence — reviews, local links and authority

It takes a priority-weighted sample of your locations, audits each for NAP, hours, page quality, structured data and mobile performance, then rolls everything into an estate heatmap with a focused, location-by-location fix plan.

One straight note on scope: this is a readiness and opportunity audit, not live rank tracking — so demand figures are labelled directional, and it won't claim map-pack positions it can't measure.

How to run it

Step 1: Open the agent

Find Local Search Readiness Audit in the Agent Library and pick the brand you're working on.

Step 2: Choose your depth

The agent offers three routes — pick the one that fits:

Choosing Pulse, Full or Blended

  • Pulse — a fast readiness read on one priority location with your top three fixes

  • Full — the complete audit across a priority-weighted sample of your estate (about 20 locations), with the scorecard, estate heatmap, fix plan and presentation

  • Blended — the full audit with the method explained as it goes

Step 3: Get your heatmap and fix plan

You'll get a per-location readiness scorecard, an estate heatmap, and the prioritised fixes that actually move the needle.


💡 Tip: Start with the locations scored lowest on Relevance — they're usually the fastest wins.

What's next?

Hand the fix plan to your web team, then re-run to watch readiness climb.

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