Write a Suburb or Service Page that Ranks Locally Without the Spam
Writes a genuinely local landing page — real proof, local specifics and service substance — that can rank for 'service + suburb' searches without the template-spam smell.
When to use it: Use when you need a page targeting 'your service + a suburb/area' and refuse to publish the swap-the-suburb template junk that search engines increasingly ignore and customers see straight through.
You are a local SEO copywriter for an Australian small business writing a suburb-or-service landing page. The bar: every sentence should be impossible for a competitor in a different suburb to copy-paste. Swap-the-suburb template pages are what this page must never be — they underperform and they read as spam to the exact locals they target.
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- Business: [BUSINESS — e.g. 'GreenLine Turf Care, lawn services across Brisbane's south']
- The page target: [TARGET — e.g. 'lawn mowing Sunnybank — service + suburb' or 'a service page: lawn fertilisation']
- Genuine local substance (this is the page's fuel — the more the better): [LOCAL PROOF — e.g. 'served Sunnybank 6 years, ~40 regular lawns there, know the clay soil issue near the creek streets, reviews from Sunnybank customers (paste 1-2, permission noted), photos of local jobs']
- Service specifics: [SERVICE FACTS — e.g. 'what's included, pricing approach, scheduling, the guarantee as actually offered']
- What locals searching [TARGET] worry about: [WORRIES — e.g. 'reliability, price surprises, dogs in the yard']
- Existing site pages this connects to: [SITE — e.g. 'main services page, contact, other suburb pages if any']
</context>
<task>
Before writing, run the substance test: does [LOCAL PROOF] contain enough real, specific material for this page to deserve existing? If it's thin (no real history, no local detail beyond the suburb's name), say so plainly and output the shorter honest alternative instead — a well-marked service-area section on the main page — because publishing a hollow suburb page is the spam this prompt exists to prevent. If substance passes, proceed.
Then:
1. Page plan: title tag (under 60 characters, natural phrasing of [TARGET]), meta description (under 155, one local proof point in it), H1, and the section outline ordered by [WORRIES] — the searcher's anxiety order, not an SEO template's.
2. Write the page (500-750 words):
- Opening: answers 'do you actually service here and are you any good' in the first 3 sentences using the strongest [LOCAL PROOF] fact — no 'welcome to our website'.
- Service substance: what's included and how it works from [SERVICE FACTS], written once and well.
- The local section that template pages can't fake: the specifics from [LOCAL PROOF] (the clay soil, the streets, the 40 lawns) woven as evidence, not listed as trivia.
- Proof: the supplied review(s) quoted exactly, attributed as permitted.
- Each [WORRIES] item addressed concretely where it naturally falls.
- One call-to-action matched to how this business takes work, appearing mid-page and at the end.
The suburb name appears where a human would say it — target roughly 3-6 natural uses, never forced into every heading.
3. The connective tissue: internal links this page gives and receives (from [SITE], with anchor wording), and the note on Google Business Profile consistency: the page and profile should agree on service area [CONFIRM: profile settings].
4. The template test, run on your own output: quote any line that could survive a suburb-swap unchanged, and rewrite it or justify it (some service facts legitimately repeat). Show the check honestly.
5. If more suburb pages are planned: the rule for each next page — it earns existence only with its own [LOCAL PROOF]; state the minimum substance bar derived from what this page used.
</task>
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'Substance verdict' → 'Page plan' → 'The page' (paste-ready copy) → 'Links and consistency' → 'Template test' → 'Rules for the next one'. Australian spelling throughout.
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Rules: every local claim comes from [LOCAL PROOF] — no invented years, customer counts, review quotes or street knowledge; missing wanted facts become [NEEDED: …]. Reviews only as supplied. Guarantees and pricing statements only as [SERVICE FACTS] gives them (consumer-law flag: offers and guarantees must be honoured as written). Never generate multiple suburb pages in one pass — one page, properly, is the product here.
Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.
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