Business Success Centre
Local SEO Academy
Build accurate local signals through a useful website, a maintained Business Profile, genuine reviews and consistent business information.
What this path helps you do
- 01Improve the accuracy of local business information
- 02Plan valuable service-area and location content
- 03Request and respond to reviews responsibly
Guides and tools
Start with an existing AHANIX resource
What Is Local SEO?
Learn how local SEO, Google Business Profile, reviews, location pages and consistent business details help UK customers find nearby services.
How to Improve Your Google Ranking
A practical guide to improving technical foundations, content relevance, local signals and website authority.
SEO Score Checker
Review selected technical and on-page signals on a public webpage.
Why Isn’t My Website on Google?
Work through crawl, indexing and ranking problems using Search Console, robots, canonicals, sitemaps and a practical investigation checklist.
How Long Does SEO Take?
Set realistic expectations for technical SEO, indexing, content discovery, local search and longer-term growth without guaranteed ranking dates.
What Is Robots.txt?
Understand robots.txt crawl rules, sitemap references, full-site blocking risks and why the file cannot secure private information.
What Is Technical SEO?
Learn how crawling, indexing, canonicals, status codes, rendering, internal links and performance shape a website’s search foundations.
What Is On-Page SEO?
Improve individual pages through useful intent-led content, clear titles and headings, internal links, media and trustworthy evidence.
What Is a Sitemap?
Learn what an XML sitemap does, which canonical URLs belong in it, how to validate and submit it, and why inclusion is not an indexing guarantee.
What Is Schema Markup?
Understand schema.org structured data, JSON-LD, supported search features, validation and the risks of marking up invisible or invented claims.
Website vs Social Media for Google Visibility
Why a professional website gives UK small businesses better Google visibility than relying only on social media pages.
How to Read an SEO Score
Learn what automated SEO checks measure, what they miss and how to prioritise findings without chasing a perfect score.
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