Semantic SEO for Local Rankings (James Dooley ft Paul Truscott, Luke Bastin & Mike Lovatt)

James Dooley speaks with Mike Lovatt, Paul Troscott and Luke Baston about semantic SEO strategies for local SEO. The discussion explains why local sites need tighter site focus, controlled site radius and deeper topical relevance because broad informational content can dilute transactional rankings. The guests cover cosine similarity, BM25, TF-IDF, entity targeting, hyponyms, commercial attributes, geo-contextual content and hyper-specific local information. They also explain why blog-heavy topical maps can make a service business look like an informational resource instead of a local provider. The conversation highlights practical methods for improving local SERPs, including geo-topical landing pages, Google Business Profile support, service-specific attributes and off-page topical maps through third-party corroboration. The outcome is a focused approach to semantic SEO that keeps local business websites commercially relevant, locally specific and easier for search engines and AI systems to understand.