Local SEO is the work that makes your business show up when someone searches for what you offer in their area: “brunch in Granada,” “catering for first communions,” or “hair salon near me.” Google answers those searches with a map and a list of results, and it pays to do well in both.
It rests on three pieces: your Google profile, well maintained and with reviews; your website, with a page for everything you offer and every area where you work; and the signals that you’re from there, like mentions in directories and on local websites. It’s SEO, with its own rules.
What can be moved
Google ranks local results by relevance, distance, and prominence. Distance can’t be changed, but the other two can.