My Solution: Focus OnWorks and Change
By my experience I was enable by helping many businesses to thrive against the competition, even up against franchises.
Before I started implementing optimizations to the website, I audited the existing site to detail the work needed to improve traffic and conversions.
My roadmap established the foundation needed to grow their website traffic with all the essentials such as Google My Business page set up, Schema Implementation, and Keyword Research.
Once the essentials to my roadmap were implemented, I then cleaned the content and removed the unnecessary elements to improve the site-speed and user experience as I proactively reviewed the performance each month to my updates, and reactively modified them.
For keywords that were underperforming and couldn't be helped with improved copy, I simply removed them.
Once I started to gain traffic from specific keywords and search strings, I then started to expand the list of targeted keywords to attract new customers, and build awareness to pre-existing clients.