SEO Cork

Google has no way of knowing who the best electrician in Cork is, so it goes on what it can check. Does this business do the job. Is it near the person asking. Is it open at the hour they ask. Has it been chosen lately by real customers. Answer all four and you are one of the three names on the map. Answer two and you are where nobody scrolls.

Most businesses here answer two. The profile was set up the week the doors opened and never touched again, so the category is wrong and half the services are missing. The website carries one page covering fourteen jobs, which means no search for any single one of them lands. The reviews came in a rush at the start and stopped. And every page says Cork and only Cork, so the customer searching in Midleton or Bandon goes to whoever bothered naming Midleton and Bandon.

Your competitor did not outspend you. Somebody sat down once, probably years ago, and answered those questions on their behalf.

Cork is harder than the small counties, and it is only fair to say so. The firms on page one here have addresses, reviews and years on the same pages. It is a climb. It is also worth more at the top, because the volume behind every trade in this county is large and it does not go away.

What you are buying is a moment. Somebody in your part of the county looks for what you sell, and you are there. On the map with your number one tap away, in the results below it, and in the answer that now sits above both. Then the phone goes, and the report shows which search set it off.

Four jobs put you there. First the Google Business Profile, filled in completely and held that way, categories set properly, each service on its own line, this year’s photographs, and the towns you travel to named. Second, one page per service, written for a stranger, so a person searching for that single job arrives on the page about that job. Third, a supply of reviews from customers who used you, requested the moment the work is signed off and replied to by name. Fourth, every record of your business matching every other, Golden Pages, the register for your trade, Cork Chamber, and whatever Local Enterprise Office Cork kept after a course or a grant.

Underneath that, your site is made quick enough to hold somebody on two bars out the Bandon road, marked up so Google can identify the company and the address without guessing, and stocked with the answers Cork customers want before they hand over money. When a search worth having is in somebody else’s hands, you are told which search, what closing the gap involves and roughly how long it takes.

The first thing worth knowing is what we will not do. We will not put you on to an account manager, we will not quote a number without showing what it buys, and we will not sell you search when Google Ads is the honest answer for the situation you are in.

We started Bubblehub in 2013. The person who draws up your plan is the person who works it, so you never end up talking to somebody who has to leave the call and go and find out.

The prices are on the site, so a Cork budget can be worked out before you speak to anybody. Reporting is built around enquiries, since rankings on their own have never paid anybody. And every review here came from Google, left by a named business we work for.

There is a meeting address on the South Mall, so talking about Cork can be done in Cork. The head office sits in County Louth. Whichever address you use, the same small team does the planning and the work.

Send me the Cork searches in my trade

Ask Google for a good physio in Ballincollig and the screen opens with an answer it wrote itself, picking out two or three firms. Put the same thing to ChatGPT and it gives you names as well. There is nothing mysterious in it. Both weigh up what the map has weighed for years. Is the listing complete. Are the reviews current. Do the pages spell out in ordinary words what this business sells and who it sells to.

So nothing separate has to be bought, and an agency charging for an AI package is charging you twice over for work you need anyway. It falls out of those four jobs, plus writing clear enough that a machine quoting you gets you right. Your prices, the distance you travel, your hours, and honest answers to what customers ask before booking.

Every Cork campaign is built that way rather than having it added to the invoice. When Google picks out three firms for your trade in your town, we are working to make yours one of the three, and the report tells you the month it starts.

Send the form, or ring if you would rather talk. Inside a working day an email comes back with the searches Cork runs in your trade, the position you hold on each of them today, and the names sitting where yours should be. That costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Bring it to another agency if you like.

If you decide to start, two weeks go on the audit. Your existing search data gets read, the site is crawled for anything broken or slow, every record carrying your details is held up against the truth, and the firms Google currently prefers get taken apart so you can see exactly what a finished rival looks like in your line of work.

Weeks three to six are foundations. Listing completed, records corrected, a review habit built into the way your team closes a job, technical faults cleared, and call tracking wired up so each enquiry arrives tagged with the search that produced it. After that the pages, one service at a time, worth most first.

Three months in, the map around your own premises should have shifted and the report should be setting enquiries against the searches and the towns that produced them. In Cork the suburb and town searches land ahead of the bare county term. You watch which is moving as it goes, and if a quarter passes with nothing moving at all, the report will say that plainly and we change the plan.

What the county types tells you who is being looked for. Restaurants take 14,800 a month, hotels 8,100 and massage 6,600. Car hire and hairdressers sit on 3,600 apiece. Bed and breakfasts, car sales, gyms, jewellers and taxis all run around 2,900. Behind each of those numbers is a person about to pick somebody.

A city restaurant is scrapping for three places on the map, and it takes them with fresh reviews, photographs from this year and hours that are right on a Friday evening. A hotel is really two businesses, summer rooms and Christmas parties, and each wants a page of its own written in a different season. Car hire is decided on dates, deposits and the airport, so those answers belong on the page long before a booking screen appears.

Anything with a premises, a hairdresser, a gym, a jeweller, is settled on the map, which is why those move quickest of all. A taxi firm wants one thing, a number that dials from the map at two in the morning. Solicitors, accountants and engineers get a fraction of the searches and a great deal more money per job, so their pages are built on trust, with the people named and the fees explained.

Some businesses should not buy this at all. If the phone has to ring by Friday, Google Ads does that and search does not, and we will say so. If two hundred a month is what there is, spend it on finishing your own listing and come back later. For the rest of Cork, the top of the page is winnable and it stays won.