Someone is standing in Town Center looking for you right now.

Local search is a phone search

The person deciding where to eat or shop in Suwanee is not researching at a desk. They are on a phone, on a patchy connection, and they will not wait. If your page takes six seconds to show something useful, you have already lost them to whoever loaded first.

This is why page weight matters more for a local shop than for almost anyone else. It is not a technical nicety — it is the difference between someone walking in and walking past.

The things people actually need to find

Hours. Address. Phone number. Whether you're open right now. What you actually sell. On most small-business sites those are buried in an image, hidden in a footer, or absent entirely — and none of them are readable by Google unless they're marked up properly.

I put them where a person can find them in one glance, and mark them up so they can appear directly in search results and in Maps.

What that looked like for a real shop

A retail store I rebuilt had a four-megabyte photograph as its hero image. Its largest paint took 23.3 seconds on a phone. After the rebuild: 3.1 seconds, with proper business hours, address and location data marked up for search. It now ranks in the top five for its category, with a click-through rate near five percent.

Common questions

I already have a Facebook page. Do I need a website?

Facebook works for people who already follow you. A website is how people who have never heard of you find you in the first place, and it's the thing Google can actually rank. They do different jobs.

How fast should my site load?

Google's threshold is 2.5 seconds to the largest piece of content on a phone. Most small-business sites I audit are three to eight seconds, almost always because of unoptimised photographs.

Can you help with my Google listing too?

Yes, and for a walk-in business that's often worth more than the website. The map results sit above the organic ones for most local searches.

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Based in Cumming, working across Forsyth County and the north metro — Cumming, Alpharetta, Suwanee, Johns Creek, Milton, Dawsonville and Gainesville.