Local SEO schema is structured data added to your pages that tells search engines exactly what your business is, what you do, and where you do it. Home-service sites that implement schema correctly qualify for richer search results and give Google clean facts to work from instead of guesses.
For a local home-service business, six schema types cover nearly everything: LocalBusiness for your company details, Service for each thing you offer, FAQPage for question sections, Review and AggregateRating for social proof, and BreadcrumbList for site structure. Additional types like VideoObject or HowTo are worth adding only if your content warrants them.
LocalBusiness schema, with your exact name, address, phone, hours, and service area, is the foundation. It should match your Google Business Profile word for word. Mismatches between the two are one of the quietest ways sites undermine their own local rankings.
Broken schema is worse than none, because Google simply ignores it. After adding markup, run the pages through a rich-results test and fix every error before publishing, not just the ones that block a specific rich result.
Google's AI Overviews and Bing Copilot pull business details directly from structured data when deciding which businesses to surface. Clean schema is one of the few ranking inputs you control completely, on your own site, with no ongoing cost.
Schema is one layer of a broader system; the home services SEO guide shows where it fits alongside content and links.
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