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A plain guide to area pages that help customers and rank.",{"type":153,"content":154},"doc",[155,161,165,172,176,180,185,189,193,198,202,224,228,233,237,241,246,250,270,283,288,300,305,325,336,340],{"type":156,"content":157},"paragraph",[158],{"text":159,"type":160},"If you run a business in Hull and you want to be found for the towns around it, you will sooner or later be tempted to build a page for every place on the map. Hessle, Beverley, Cottingham, Hornsea, Withernsea, and on it goes. 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Someone in Cottingham reads a page that could have been about anywhere, and it tells them nothing about whether you will turn up. They leave.",{"type":166,"attrs":181,"content":182},{"level":168},[183],{"text":184,"type":160},"Start with the page you already have",{"type":156,"content":186},[187],{"text":188,"type":160},"Before adding anything, make your main services page strong for Hull itself. It needs the service named the way a customer would say it, the area you cover written in ordinary sentences, and a phone number and contact route that are easy to find. That one page does most of the local work for most small firms.",{"type":156,"content":190},[191],{"text":192,"type":160},"The same goes for the home page. A clear sentence near the top saying what you do and where you do it is worth more than a paragraph of keywords tucked in the footer.",{"type":166,"attrs":194,"content":195},{"level":168},[196],{"text":197,"type":160},"When a separate area page earns its place",{"type":156,"content":199},[200],{"text":201,"type":160},"A page for a nearby town is worth writing when you can answer yes to at least one of these questions:",{"type":203,"content":204},"bulletList",[205,212,218],{"type":206,"content":207},"listItem",[208],{"type":156,"content":209},[210],{"text":211,"type":160},"Do you get real enquiries from that place, so you know something about the work there?",{"type":206,"content":213},[214],{"type":156,"content":215},[216],{"text":217,"type":160},"Is there something genuinely different about serving it, such as travel time, parking, typical property types or a local customer you can name with permission?",{"type":206,"content":219},[220],{"type":156,"content":221},[222],{"text":223,"type":160},"Would a person in that town find the page useful even if search engines did not exist?",{"type":156,"content":225},[226],{"text":227,"type":160},"If the honest answer is no, skip it. Eight good pages beat forty thin ones, and the thin ones can cost you more than they bring in.",{"type":166,"attrs":229,"content":230},{"level":168},[231],{"text":232,"type":160},"What goes on a good area page",{"type":156,"content":234},[235],{"text":236,"type":160},"Keep it specific. Say which jobs you do in that area, how long they usually take, and how people get in touch. Mention real details you can stand behind, like the roads you drive in on or the sort of building you often work with. Add a photo of your own work if you have one, because a genuine photo says more than a stock image of a handshake.",{"type":156,"content":238},[239],{"text":240,"type":160},"Write it as if you were explaining to a neighbour. 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A page nothing links to is hard for Google to value.",{"type":206,"content":265},[266],{"type":156,"content":267},[268],{"text":269,"type":160},"The pages load quickly on a phone, since most local searches happen on mobile data.",{"type":156,"content":271},[272,274,281],{"text":273,"type":160},"If you want to see what that checking looks like in full, I wrote up ",{"text":275,"type":160,"marks":276},"what a technical SEO audit in Hull actually looks like",[277],{"type":278,"attrs":279},"link",{"href":280},"/blog/what-a-technical-seo-audit-in-hull-actually-looks-like",{"text":282,"type":160},". It is a dull job and it is where most of the quiet wins are.",{"type":166,"attrs":284,"content":285},{"level":168},[286],{"text":287,"type":160},"Do not forget your Google Business Profile",{"type":156,"content":289},[290,292,298],{"text":291,"type":160},"For a local business, your Google Business Profile does a lot of the heavy lifting alongside the site. 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If you are still working out what the site should hold, my ",{"text":310,"type":160,"marks":311},"small business website checklist",[312],{"type":278,"attrs":313},{"href":314},"/blog/what-should-a-small-business-website-include",{"text":316,"type":160}," is a good place to begin, and if you are weighing up who should build it, ",{"text":318,"type":160,"marks":319},"WordPress developer in Hull",[320],{"type":278,"attrs":321},{"href":322},"/blog/wordpress-developer-in-hull",{"text":324,"type":160}," explains how I work.",{"type":156,"content":326},[327,329,334],{"text":328,"type":160},"When I look at a site's local search setup, I do it as part of my ",{"text":330,"type":160,"marks":331},"technical SEO",[332],{"type":278,"attrs":333},{"href":116},{"text":335,"type":160}," work. I check which pages exist, which ones deserve to, and which should be merged or removed. 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