How to Rank #1 FREE with Local AI SEO 🤯

Today, I'm going to show you how I take brand new websites with zero domain authority and rank them number one in Google within 30 days for high ticket keywords. This is working right now in 2025. It's fast, it's simple, and you can do it even if you've never ranked for anything before. I'm going to break down my exact workflow step by step, the same process I use to generate leads every single day from DR0 websites. We're talking about ranking for keywords like link building London and SEO agency Dublin. This works for any business. Doesn't matter if you're a chiropractor, run an agency, or sell courses. As long as you're selling something valuable online, this system will work for you. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads every comment, so make sure you comment below. Here's what most people don't understand about local SEO. While everyone's fighting over national keywords, local keywords are sitting there wide open, no competition, easy to rank, and they convert like crazy because people searching locally are ready to buy. I'm going to show you a website I built recently that's bringing us clients every single day. It's ranking number one for multiple keywords in a competitive city. And this site was built from scratch with a brand new domain. The beauty of this approach is that it's not competitive at all. You can rank really fast within weeks or even days. It works for brand new domains. You can create the content easily using AI and it's working right now in 2025. But here's the kicker. Once you crack the code in one city, you can replicate this across multiple cities. Build an empire of local SEO sites, each one bringing in high ticket clients on autopilot. Step one, keyword research. That actually works. Most people mess up keyword research completely. They go after keywords that are too competitive or don't convert. I'm going to show you exactly how to find the golden keywords that will make you money. First, you need to validate that you can actually rank in your niche. The cool thing is whatever business you have, as long as you're selling something substantial, this works. Let's say you're targeting link building services. You go into Afs and type in your main topic. Then you filter for keyword difficulty 20 and less. These are going to be easy to rank for. Here's the critical part most people miss. Don't pay attention to the traffic potential. Local SEO traffic estimates in tools like AfreS are way off. The tool isn't designed for local SEO accuracy, but it's great for finding low competition keywords. Filter for local pack results. These show you cities where there's local demand. You want to target affluent areas, London, New York, Los Angeles, places where businesses have money to spend. You need at least 50 keywords that you can rank for with low competition. Keywords like SEO London or link building Dublin. Even in competitive cities, you can find easy keywords if you know where to look. Use the keyword explorer to filter for sites with DR30 and below that are already ranking. This tells you that new websites can rank for these keywords. Don't have money for paid tools? No problem. Google's autocomplete is your best friend. Go to Google and start typing your service plus a city name. SEO agency London or restaurant Newport, Kentucky. Google will show you what people are actually searching for. Run through the alphabet soup method. Try different letter combinations. All these suggestions are real searches with real demand. These longer tail keywords are usually easier to rank for. Four words or more. That's typically low competition gold. Step two, content creation. In the AI era, here's where AI completely changes the game. In 2025, you can create highquality local SEO content faster than ever before, but you need to do it right. The key is matching search intent. If someone's looking for a link building company in Dublin, give them the answer immediately. Here's the best company. Here's how to book a call. Done. Reverse engineer. What's already ranking? Look at the top 10 results. What headings do they use? What topics do they cover? What's the average word count? Use tools like Surfer or Neuron Writer to get the exact blueprint. But don't just copy. Add new information that's never been seen before. This is called information gain. Embed a new YouTube video you created. Add testimonials and reviews. Include pictures of your team or your process. For external links, use Perplexity AI and ask for external links for your blog topic. It will give you authoritative sources like search engine land mo and Google's developer docs. These are gold for building authority. Step three, the replication strategy. This is where it gets exciting. Once you find a process that works in one city, you replicate it everywhere. If I'm ranking well in New York for SEO services, I can create another site targeting New Jersey. Same process, same content structure, same success. You're building many digital assets. Each one is like owning real estate in that city for your keywords. If one site gets hit by an algorithm update, you have 10 or 20 others still making money. This makes you update

proof. Google can't kill your entire business with one algorithm change. Step four, the EAT advantage. Here's a secret most people don't understand. You can leverage one expert profile across multiple sites in the same niche. Google's quality guidelines specifically look for experts. If you've built authority in your space, you can use that same profile across multiple local sites. I have one YouTube channel, one LinkedIn profile, one Twitter account, but I leverage that content across multiple local SEO sites. This builds my following faster and gives each new site instant authority. The sites rank faster because Google sees I'm an established expert in the space. It's a positive feedback loop. More sites mean more traffic to my social media. More social media authority means my new sites rank faster. Step five, making it profitable. This is where most people mess up. They get the traffic but don't know how to convert it. I use a simple system chatbot on every site for instant engagement. Clear call to action buttons linking to my booking funnel. UTM tracking so I know exactly which sites are making money. The traffic you get is just the start of your funnel. Someone interested in SEO services might also want content creation, conversion optimization or training courses. One client can buy multiple services if you build the relationship right. This all feeds into a CRM system like go high level where I can track every lead and sale back to the specific website and keyword that generated it. Once you have traffic, you can get creative with monetization. Create directory style content where you list the top 10 services in a city. Rank your business at the top, but charge other businesses to be featured, too. This works especially well for restaurants. Create a top 10 restaurants in Newport, Kentucky page. Rank yourself number one, then charge other restaurants for sponsored listings. You're making money from your own business, getting customers, plus additional revenue from other businesses paying for exposure. Each local SEO site becomes a mini asset, like owning digital real estate in every city you target. This strategy is brilliant because it's lowmaintenance. You set up a site, get it ranking, then move on to the next city. You're not putting all your eggs in one basket. If you build 50 of these sites and even 10 of them bring in one client per month paying $5,000, that's $50,000 in monthly recurring revenue from local SEO sites you can build in a weekend. Most people over complicate link building for local sites. You don't need hundreds of backlinks. These are low competition keywords. For most local keywords, you need three to five quality backlinks to rank in the top three. Use link inserts on relevant sites. Focus on relevance over quantity. Don't use citations like most local SEO guides tell you. They're not necessary if you're doing outreach properly. One relevant backlink from an industry site is worth more than a 100 directory submissions. Don't focus on Google My Business for this strategy. That's the maps algorithm. We're targeting organic results. Different game entirely. Don't pay attention to search volume estimates in tools. Local SEO volume is often under reportported. Focus on commercial intent and conversion potential instead. Don't try to rank one site for every city. Build separate sites for each target area. This gives you more topical authority and better click-through rates. AI tools have completely changed how fast you can execute this strategy. Use chat GPT or Claude for content outlines. Use perplexity for research and external links. Use AI writing tools for first drafts. But always add human touches, information that only you would know, your unique perspective, your actual experience. Google can detect purely AI content, but AI assisted human content performs incredibly well. Use AI to speed up your process, not replace your expertise. Don't rely only on Google traffic. Build an email list from your local SEO traffic. Share your content on social media. Get featured in local publications. This protects you from algorithm updates and gives you multiple ways to monetize the same audience. Once you prove this works in one niche and one city, scaling becomes mechanical. Hire virtual assistants to do keyword research. Use AI to create content outlines. Build templates for site setup. Systematize your outreach process. I have a team of 50 people now, but you can start with one virtual assistant and scale from there. The key is creating systems that other people can follow. Local SEO works because you're solving a specific problem for people in a specific area. The intent is crystal clear. The competition is limited to that geographic area. You're not competing against every business in the world, just the businesses in that city who know about SEO, which is usually very few. Plus, local businesses pay premium prices. A national company might pay $1,000 per month. A local business owner might pay $5,000 for the same service because they have less competition and higher urgency. This strategy will only get better as AI tools improve. Content creation gets faster, research gets easier, but the fundamentals stay the same. Find low competition, local keywords, create better content than what's currently ranking, build a few quality backlinks, repeat in new cities. The businesses that start building these local SEO empires now will dominate their industries for years to come. You don't

need a big budget to start. Pick one service you offer. Pick one affluent city. Find 10 easy keywords. Create 10 pages of content. Build three back links to each page. That's your minimum viable local SEO site. If it works, replicate the process in the next city. Most people never start because they think they need everything perfect. You don't. You need one working example, then you scale from there. The essential tools for this strategy, AEFS for keyword research, surfer or neuron writer for content optimization, Plexity AI for research, go high level for lead management, but you can start with free tools. Google autocomplete, Google Trends, free website builders. The strategy matters more than the tools. Local SEO is the fastest path to ranking new websites I've found. While everyone else fights over national keywords, you're building an empire in local markets. The clients are higher quality. the competition is lower and you can replicate success across unlimited cities. This is working right now in 2025. It worked in 2024 and it'll work in 2026 because local businesses will always need customers from their area. Julian Goldie reads every comment. So, make sure you comment below with your questions or success stories. If you want to dive deeper into advanced SEO strategies like this, join my SEO Elite Circle. We do weekly live calls where I share my latest findings and personally help you overcome roadblocks. You'll get my complete SEO playbook that we used to grow from 0 to 145,000 plus monthly visitors. Plus, steal the exact systems we're using to scale past our state figures. Here's what you get. Weekly SEO hot seat calls where we solve your biggest roadblocks live. Direct access to me. DM me directly and I'll help you personally. Live calls every week that are recorded. Actionable strategies you can steal that made us eight figures. My swipe and deploy SOPs to make SEO easy. You get instant access plus a 14-day money back guarantee. If you're not happy, get your money back, no questions asked. Want a free SEO strategy session where we'll build you a custom plan to dominate your local market? Book that call using the link in the comments and description. The opportunity in local SEO has never been bigger, the tools have never been better, and the competition has never been lower. Start building your local SEO empire