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Local SEO in Ireland

Irish local search has a shape that catches people out: the county is as much a search unit as the town. A plumber in Naas is looked for as Kildare at least as often, and a site with only town pages misses the broader search entirely.

It is also a market where the basics are genuinely unclaimed. A Google Business Profile with a correct Eircode, real opening hours and photographs added regularly is the cheapest position in Irish local search, and most competitors have left theirs untouched since the day it was created.

How the work is done

The profile is the product

Categories decide which searches you are eligible for at all, and most profiles have one when they could have five. Services, attributes, opening hours and the question-and-answer section are all ranking inputs and all sit empty on most profiles. This is the first thing we work through and it is the part that moves fastest.

A page for each place you actually serve

One page listing twelve towns in a footer ranks for none of them. A page per area you genuinely send somebody to, written about that area, ranks for each. The test is whether you would take the job: pages for places you cannot serve cost more than they earn and they read as false to a buyer.

Citations, which are boring and still matter

Your name, address and phone number have to match everywhere they appear. They usually do not, because a business moves, changes a number, or gets listed by somebody else with the old details. Cleaning that up is unglamorous and it is one of the few things that reliably moves a stubborn map ranking.

Reviews, asked for properly

Volume, recency and whether you reply all feed the ranking, and all three are within your control. We set up the asking so it happens without anybody remembering, and the replies get written.

What is different about search in Ireland

County is the unit people search by

Irish searches attach a county as often as a town. A plumber in Naas is searched for as Kildare at least as often, and a site with only town pages misses the broader search entirely.

Directories occupy the first page

National directories rank for many commercial terms, which pushes real businesses below the fold. Two routes past them: the map pack, which directories cannot occupy, and pages specific enough that a directory listing cannot answer the question.

Eircode and the profile

A Google Business Profile with a correct Eircode, real opening hours and photographs added regularly is the single cheapest position in Irish local search, and most competitors leave it from the day it was created.

Searches in Ireland run on google.ie, which returns a different result set to google.com. Work is checked against the one your customers actually use.

What you get

  • Google Business Profile: categories, services, hours, attributes, weekly posts and photographs
  • Every review replied to, and a process so new ones keep arriving
  • Citation audit and clean-up so your details match everywhere
  • A page for each area you genuinely serve, written about that area
  • Local schema so a search engine can read the business, not guess it
  • A monthly report from your own Search Console and your profile insights

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Results from real clients

Every number below is from the client’s own Google Search Console, for the period shown. Impressions are how often the site appeared; clicks are people who arrived. What each visit is worth is your sales process, not ours, so these are the visits we can prove rather than a conversion figure we cannot.

See all eight client results

  • 52,993clicks
    Up and Running Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 1 Mar 2023 to 14 Mar 2024
    Impressions
    2,238,155
    CTR
    2.4%
    Avg. position
    13.49

    +139,355% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

  • 12,285clicks
    Backcountry Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 6 Jul 2023 to 31 May 2024
    Impressions
    601,822
    CTR
    2.0%
    Avg. position
    19.3

    +2,059% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

  • 7,630clicks
    Your Place Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 1 Sep 2023 to 31 May 2024
    Impressions
    284,589
    CTR
    2.7%
    Avg. position
    15.66

    +1,184% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

  • 6,816clicks
    Peak Endurance
    Performance and physical therapy · 1 Sep 2023 to 31 May 2024
    Impressions
    482,378
    CTR
    1.4%
    Avg. position
    16.16

    +1,174% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

How the engagement works

There is no package to pick from. What the site needs is decided on a call and written down before any work starts, because a business with one location and a clean site needs a different month to an agency reselling to twelve clients.

  1. 01

    A call, before anything is quoted

    Thirty minutes on what you sell, where you sell it, and what the site looks like today. No scope is written before that conversation, because the right work depends on all three.

  2. 02

    A written scope and quote

    What will be done, in what order, and what it costs, in writing. Nothing starts until you have agreed to it.

  3. 03

    Month to month from there

    The work runs monthly and the scope changes as the site does. Cancel with 30 days’ notice.

True of every engagement

  • Search Console and Analytics set up in your name, so the data is yours
  • No lock-in: month to month, cancel with 30 days’ notice
  • One person you can email, in your working hours
  • Every change listed in the monthly report

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Questions about local seo in Ireland

How fast does local SEO work?

Profile work often shows within four to eight weeks because so few competitors maintain theirs. Area pages take three to six months. Citation clean-up shows up slowly and mostly by removing a ceiling rather than by lifting you.

Do I need a page for every town near me?

No, and it is the commonest way this goes wrong. A page for a place you would not actually travel to is a page that earns nothing and makes the rest of the site look padded. Pages follow where you genuinely send someone.

Can you fix a profile that is suspended?

Usually, and the first step is finding out why, which is often a category or an address problem rather than anything you did. It is handled case by case and we will tell you honestly if it looks unlikely.

We have several locations. Is that different?

Yes. Each location needs its own profile and its own page, and the failure mode is one page and one profile trying to cover all of them.

Do you work with Irish businesses?

We work with businesses anywhere that sells in English. The results published on this site are from other markets because those are the ones that can be verified from a Search Console report, and nothing unverified is published here.

Is the writing in Irish English?

Yes. Pages are written the way your customers write, which includes spelling, the word for the service and the way an address is given.

What is the first thing you would do?

Read the site and say what is holding it back, in writing, before quoting anything. That read is free and takes two working days.

Book a call with us

A 30-minute call in your working hours. Tell us what you sell and where, and we will tell you what we would do first and what it involves. Prefer email? Send your website through the form and the Passieon Team will reply within two working days.

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