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Multi-location SEO for growing brands

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Most local SEO advice assumes one shopfront, one Google Business Profile and one set of opening hours.

We spend most of our time on the other end of the problem.

Nando's has 147 restaurants in Australia. Jim's Group has more than 5,000 franchisees across Mowing, Trees, Skips and Test and Tag. Chemist Warehouse has over 560 stores. When you multiply local SEO across a footprint that size, very little of the standard playbook survives contact.

Location pages become a template problem. Google Business Profile becomes a permissions and data problem. Reviews become an operations problem. And every fix has to work five hundred times, not once.

That's the work we do.

What changes when you have more than one location

Local SEO for a single business is a checklist. Across a network it's a system, and the failure modes are completely different.

Your templates carry all the risk

One weak location page is a rounding error. The same weakness copied across three hundred pages is a site-wide quality problem, and Google assesses those pages as a set.

We build location page templates that hold up in bulk, with enough genuine substance per page to justify indexing every one of them.

Cannibalisation stops being theoretical

Suburb pages, city pages, service pages and franchisee sites end up competing with each other for the same query. Left alone, your own pages split your rankings.

We map the full footprint before we touch anything and decide which URL is allowed to win where.

Profile management becomes governance

Who can edit a listing? What happens when a franchisee changes their hours, uploads a bad photo, or opens a second site without telling head office?

At scale, the optimisation is the easy part. The hard part is building a process that holds when hundreds of people have their hands on it.

Reporting has to work at three levels

A national marketing lead needs one number. A state manager needs their twelve stores. A franchisee needs to see their own suburb and nothing else.

We report at all three, in one place.

Local now includes AI

People ask ChatGPT and Gemini for a recommendation near them, and the answer gets assembled from your profile data, your reviews, your site and whatever third parties say about you.

The signals overlap with traditional local SEO, but they aren't identical, and almost nobody is measuring them properly yet. We track how brands appear in AI answers for near-me and category queries, then work on the inputs that shape them.

How we help businesses with multiple locations in local SEO

  • Google Business Profile at scale. Bulk profile management, category and attribute strategy, service area configuration, post and photo programs, duplicate and suppression cleanup, and the API and permissions setup that makes it maintainable across a network.
  • Location page architecture. Template design, internal linking between locations and services, indexation control across large page sets, and a content approach that doesn't collapse into filled-in placeholders.
  • Local technical SEO. LocalBusiness and Organization schema across the network, store locator crawlability, NAP consistency, and canonical handling for brands operating across multiple regions.
  • Reviews and reputation. Acquisition programs, response workflows, and reporting on the review signals that genuinely move ranking and conversion rather than the ones that just look good.
  • Citations and local authority. Directory and aggregator cleanup at volume, plus local link acquisition through our digital PR team.
  • Local AI visibility. Tracking and improving how your locations show up in AI-generated answers. This runs alongside our GEO work rather than as a separate product.
  • Reporting built for networks. Rankings, profile performance, calls, direction requests and AI visibility, rolled up nationally and broken down by store, state or franchisee.

Brands we do this for

  • Nando's. 150% growth in organic traffic to their local Google Business Profiles, across 147 restaurants.
  • Jim's Group. One of Australia's largest franchise networks, with more than 5,000 franchisees across Mowing, Trees, Skips and Test and Tag. We run SEO, Google Business Profile and AI visibility reporting across the group every month. Jim's Mowing alone grew organic traffic 47%. 
  • Chemist Warehouse. 75% organic traffic growth across a 560-store national footprint, alongside major platform migration work. 
  • Dental Boutique. 129% organic traffic growth across 35 clinics. 
  • Allied. Local search across 40+ locations.

We work with single-location businesses too, and we're good at it. Maid to Clean, Man with a Van and Aluminium Trade Centre are all in our case studies. But if you're running more than a handful of sites, the problems above are the ones we solve most often.

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Local SEO for franchise networks

Franchise SEO needs coordination between the brand and the people running each location.

We help franchisors build a consistent approach to business profiles, location pages and local search performance, while allowing for the services and details that vary between franchisees.

The focus is on helping customers find and choose their local business, with visibility for head office across the network.

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Local SEO that works five hundred times, not once

That's the work we do. Chat with us about your network and we'll show you where local search is leaving customers on the table.

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