local marketing and map listings

There is paid priority placement inside Yandex Business, and there is the organic ranking of maps, which depends on how complete the listing is, on categories, reviews and user behavior. I work with the organic part and say plainly where paid placement genuinely pays off. If you specifically need a paid stream of visits to the listing, that is a separate service with its own plans, described on the Yandex Maps promotion page.

Not by buying them: it gets caught, and it costs the listing both position and trust. What does work is a protocol for replies, collecting reviews from real customers and removing the reasons behind the negative ones.

The listing wins the choice made nearby; the site handles comparison and complex services. If there is budget for one of them, we start with listings: they are cheaper and bring enquiries sooner. The SEO Start package at $490 a month comes after that: it is built for local businesses and small sites.

It works with maps, reviews and proximity to the customer, while website SEO works with the general results page and a far larger set of queries. The ranking factors differ, so the work differs too.

Optimisation of one location is from $310, a network of up to five from $610, over five from $970. For networks the real difficulty is keeping the data consistent and clearing duplicate listings.

No, I work remotely and I am not tied to a city. Map ranking is set up wherever your business physically sits and wherever customers travel to.

Yes, the detailing studio KORSA: I am pulling together promotion, the service descriptions and the path a customer takes to a booking. The project is still running, so the case shows what I found and why I did it that way. The numbers go in once the client agrees to publish them.