No star ratings
You won’t find “5 out of 5” or a review count anywhere on this site. Ratings belong on Google, where anyone can click through and read them, not typed into my own HTML.
Results · being built honestly
No case studies yet, and no invented ones either.
Most agency “results” pages are numbers nobody can check. This one stays empty until there are real client results I’m allowed to publish, with the client’s name on them.
Why it’s empty
An empty page beats a made-up one
Top in Local is a small agency and this website is new. Rather than pad the page out, here is exactly where the evidence stands.
No percentage claims
“Traffic up 47%” means nothing without the starting number, the time period and the account it came from. When I publish a figure here, all three will be on the page.
No borrowed testimonials
Stock quotes attributed to “J.S., business owner” are filler. A testimonial goes up with a real first name, a real business and a link to it, or it doesn’t go up.
What does exist
Evidence I can actually put in front of you
Not client outcomes, but not nothing either. These are checkable today.
This website
The site you’re reading was rebuilt from the ground up after a full technical audit of the old one. Every page here has its own subject and its own answers — which is exactly the problem the audit found on the old version, where several pages were near-identical to each other.
If you want a site built to be found and to convert, judging mine is a fair place to start.
The audit itself
The free audit isn’t a lead-magnet PDF with your logo dropped in. It’s the same process I ran on my own site: crawl every page, check titles, headings, schema, page speed, Google Business Profile and who’s outranking you locally, then write up what to fix first.
What the audit coversA working method, in writing
What I’ll do, what it costs and what it should change is agreed before anything starts. The service pages spell out what’s included and, just as importantly, what isn’t.
What a build includesA named, reachable person
Tony, Clacton on Sea, 01255 442479. Not a contact form behind a brand name — you can ring the person who would do the work and ask him anything on this page.
About me
Coming here
What a case study will look like
When the first ones land, this is the shape they’ll take — so you can hold me to it.
The named business
- Real business name, trade and town, linked to their site
- Published with their written permission
- What they came to me with, in their words where possible
The checkable numbers
- The starting position and the date it was measured
- What changed, over what period, from which account
- Enquiries and calls where the client is happy to share them
- What didn’t work, when that’s part of the story
Are you a Top in Local client? If the work has gone well and you’re willing to be named, send me a line and I’ll write it up and send it to you for approval before anything is published.
Next step
Judge the work, not the page
The free audit is the honest version of a case study: I do a piece of real work on your business first, and you decide from that whether I’m any good.
Call or text 01255 442479, or email Tony@topinlocal.com. Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.