Local SEO · Japan
Local SEO services in Japan
Detailed specifications, careful testing and reliable schedules, with a team overlapping most of your afternoon.
Clarigo Infotech offers local SEO services that help customers near you find and choose your business. We optimise your Google Business Profile, build consistent local citations, grow genuine reviews, create location pages and fix the local signals on your website. Each month you see calls, direction requests and website visits from Google Business Profile, Search Console and Analytics.
10+
Years of delivery
600+
Projects delivered
20+
Countries served
25-30
Days to a live MVP
Get a free consultation
Tell us what you need. A senior engineer replies within one working day.
Quality, detail and reliability
Teams in Japan and Korea expect precise specifications, thorough testing and schedules that hold. We plan in detail, report regularly and treat quality as non-negotiable.
Detailed specifications
Written requirements, screen specifications and acceptance criteria agreed before development.
Thorough testing
Automated and manual testing with reports at every milestone.
Reliable schedules
Realistic plans, regular written progress reports and early warning of any risk.
Long-term partnership
The same team maintains and improves the product after launch.
What our local SEO includes
Google Business Profile optimisation
Categories, services, hours, photos, products, posts and Q&A set up completely and kept up to date.
Local citations
Consistent name, address and phone details on directories, maps and industry sites, with duplicates cleaned up.
Reviews
A simple, compliant process to ask customers for honest reviews and reply to every one, good or bad.
Location and service-area pages
Useful, unique pages for each location or area you serve, not copies with the city name swapped.
Local on-page and schema
LocalBusiness schema, local keywords, maps and contact details that confirm where you operate.
Multi-location management
Profiles, pages and reporting for franchises and businesses with many branches.
What to expect when you hire
Relevance, distance and prominence
Google ranks local results on how well a business matches the search, how close it is and how well known it is. We cannot change your distance, so we focus on relevance through categories, services and content, and prominence through reviews, citations and links.
Your Google Business Profile does most of the work
For many local searches, people call or ask for directions straight from your profile without visiting your site. A complete, active profile with the right primary category, real photos, regular posts and answered questions is the single biggest local SEO lever.
Reviews done properly
Reviews influence both rankings and whether people choose you. We help you ask every happy customer at the right moment and reply to all reviews. We never write fake reviews, offer incentives for them or filter who gets asked, which breaks Google's policies.
Location pages that are worth ranking
Thin pages that only swap the city name rarely rank and can hurt the site. We create location pages with genuinely local details such as the team, services offered there, directions, local reviews and frequently asked questions.
Built for Japanese teams
Time-zone overlap
Japan is three and a half hours ahead of India, so our working days overlap for most of your afternoon, with a stand-up and same-day replies.
The Act on Specified Electronic Mail and the APPI
We follow Japan's Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail and the APPI: opt-in consent for marketing email, sender details and a working opt-out.
Billing
Invoices in Japanese yen (JPY) or US dollars. A monthly local SEO retainer or a fixed-price Google Business Profile and citation clean-up project, quoted after a free local audit.
Industries we work with in Japan
Japanese companies value careful specifications, quality and reliable schedules. We work with detailed written specs, thorough testing and regular reports, and design to Japan's APPI privacy law.
Automotive
Carmakers invest in connected-car software and factory automation. We target the searches buyers in this sector actually make.
Electronics and robotics
Hardware makers need companion apps and embedded AI. Content and technical SEO built around how this sector buys.
Gaming and anime
Entertainment firms reach global fans through apps and stores. Rank for the questions this sector's customers ask.
Retail and convenience
Chains run loyalty apps and cashless checkout. We target the searches buyers in this sector actually make.
Your working day with us
Our team's hours, in Japanese time
13:30–23:00
Monday to Friday
Overlap with your working day
13:30–18:00
About 4.5 hours every day
Daily stand-up
14:00
Japanese time, plus written updates every evening
What we set up for Japan
Search engines we optimise for
Choose how you work with us
Monthly retainer
An ongoing team for SEO, content, social and ads, with monthly targets and reporting.
Best for steady growth
Campaign or project
A defined piece of work, such as a launch campaign, a website SEO overhaul or a content sprint.
Best for a specific goal
Marketing + build
We build the website, landing pages or app and market it, so product and growth work together.
Best for new launches
How it works
1. Free audit
We review your website, search rankings, ads, social channels and competitors, and show you the biggest opportunities.
2. Plan and targets
A 90-day plan with clear targets: traffic, leads, cost per lead and revenue, agreed before we start.
3. Launch and optimise
We run the campaigns, publish content and fix what holds you back, improving every week.
4. Monthly reporting
A plain-English report every month: what we did, what it delivered and what we do next.
See what we've built
Local SEO services: questions from Japan
Do you work with companies in Japan?+
Yes. Clarigo Infotech works with companies across Japan, including Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, as part of clients in 20+ countries. We work remotely from India with one in-house team.
What time-zone overlap do we get from Japan?+
Japan is three and a half hours ahead of India, so our working days overlap for most of your afternoon, with a stand-up and same-day replies.
How do you handle the Act on Specified Electronic Mail and the APPI?+
We follow Japan's Act on Regulation of Transmission of Specified Electronic Mail and the APPI: opt-in consent for marketing email, sender details and a working opt-out.
Which currency do you bill in, and what does it cost?+
We bill in Japanese yen (JPY) or US dollars. A monthly local SEO retainer or a fixed-price Google Business Profile and citation clean-up project, quoted after a free local audit.
What time are your meetings in Japanese time?+
Our team works 13:30–23:00 Japanese time, so we overlap with your day from 13:30–18:00. Daily stand-ups are usually at 14:00 your time.
Which search engines do you optimise for in Japan?+
Mainly Google and Yahoo! JAPAN and Bing, plus AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews that buyers in Japan increasingly use.
Do you work with automotive companies?+
Yes. Automotive is one of Japan's key sectors, and content and technical SEO built around how this sector buys.
Can you get us into the Google Maps top three?+
No one can guarantee map pack positions, because Google also considers how close each searcher is. We improve every factor you can control and report calls, direction requests and visits every month.
Do you handle businesses with several locations?+
Yes. We manage profiles, citations, location pages and reporting for multi-location businesses and franchises, keeping details consistent across every branch.
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