FoundHint – Local SEO, Schema & Google Business Profile Manager

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Your business info, locations, schema and Google reviews in one place. Free multi-location support, and no Google Cloud project or API key needed.

FoundHint – Local SEO Plugin to Get Found by Local Customers

FoundHint is a free local SEO plugin for WordPress that helps you manage your Google Business Profile info, LocalBusiness schema, audits, posts, citations and reviews from your WordPress dashboard.

When your business details are right everywhere, from your website to your Google Business Profile, local customers find you, trust you, and visit you.

That is what local SEO is really about, and FoundHint gives you the local SEO tools for WordPress to get it right without code.

Why FoundHint Is the Best Local SEO Plugin for WordPress?

Most WordPress local SEO plugins either lock multiple locations behind a paid add-on or ask you to set up a Google Cloud project. FoundHint does neither.

• Multi-location management, run every branch from one WordPress dashboard, free.
• Accurate business info with Google sync, keep your website and Google Business Profile in step, and review every change before it’s sent.
• LocalBusiness schema, accurate structured data for every location, with no coding and no duplicates alongside other SEO plugins.
• Local SEO audit, find what’s missing, sorted by severity and explained in plain words.
• Review management, read, filter and reply to Google reviews without leaving WordPress.
• Local SEO dashboard, your health score, what to fix and your Google connection at a glance.
• Advanced schema, Organization, industry-specific, WebSite, WebPage and Breadcrumb schema (Coming soon).
• Review auto-reply, reply to new reviews automatically (Coming soon).
• GBP posts and scheduling, create and schedule posts for your locations (Coming soon).
• Local citations, manage directory listings to keep your NAP (name, address, phone) consistent (Coming soon).
• Local ranking grid, track target keywords across 5 km, 10 km or 15 km of your area (Coming soon).
• Location and service landing pages, build a page for each location and service from data you already saved (Coming soon).
• Performance analytics, see how customers find and interact with your Business Profile (Coming soon).

A WordPress Local SEO Plugin That’s Free Where It Counts

Multiple locations, Google Business Profile sync, schema, the audit and review replies are all included in the free version. No upsell to add your second branch.

Business Information Management

Stop typing the same details everywhere. Add them once, in one place:

• Business name
• Business type, primary category and additional categories
• Business description, with a history of earlier versions
• Phone number, up to two more phone numbers, email address and website
• Opening date
• Price range
• Social profiles and directories
• Booking and messaging links: appointment link, texting number and WhatsApp
• Business hours, including special hours for holidays
• Services
• Service area
• Logo, cover photo and gallery photos

FoundHint uses this information across your whole local SEO setup.

NAP Consistency for WordPress

Your name, address and phone (NAP) are stored once and reused in your schema, your audit and your Google Business Profile. That single source of truth is the easiest way to keep NAP consistent, and it lays the groundwork for local citation management (Coming soon).

Business Categories

Tell search engines exactly what you do. Search Google’s own list of categories, set a primary category and add secondary categories. Clear categories keep your business described the same way everywhere.

Multi-Location SEO Plugin for WordPress

Run many branches from one WordPress site, free. Switch between them from the bar at the top of every screen. FoundHint is a local SEO plugin for multiple locations, built for franchises, chains and agencies.

Location Management

Each location keeps its own details:

• Location name
• Address line 1 and address line 2
• City, state or region, country and postal code
• Map position, shown on a Google map
• Phone, website and opening date
• Service area: the places you serve beyond your address

Business details and location details are kept separate, so your setup grows easily when you add more locations.

What Each Location Gets?

• Business information
• Address and contact information
• Opening hours
• Services
• Photos, attributes and reviews

Opening Hours Management

Set your hours for each day of the week as Open, Closed, or Open 24 Hours. Multiple opening periods per day are supported, so split hours (like a lunch break) work too. Add special hours for holidays and one-off dates. Hours are saved in a structured format for use in schema and on Google.

Service Management

List the services you offer. Each service can include:

• Service name and slug
• Description
• Price and currency
• URL
• Status
• A matching ready-made service from Google’s list for your category

Local Business Schema for WordPress

Get accurate structured data with no coding. As a local schema plugin for WordPress, FoundHint builds LocalBusiness schema from your saved business, location, hours and service details:

• LocalBusiness and business subtypes
• PostalAddress
• Geo coordinates
• Opening hours
• Services
• Contact information and social profiles
• Areas served

Every location is published. No separate schema-only data to maintain.

How to Add Local Business Schema in WordPress?

Fill in your business and location details (or import them from Google), and FoundHint publishes valid JSON-LD for you. Open the Schema screen to see exactly what search engines see.

Schema Ownership (No Duplicate Schema)

Already using another SEO plugin? FoundHint detects Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress. If one of them already outputs LocalBusiness schema, FoundHint can stand aside so your pages never carry duplicate markup. FoundHint never changes or disables another plugin’s settings.

A Yoast Local SEO and Rank Math Local SEO Alternative

Looking for a Yoast Local SEO alternative or a Rank Math local SEO alternative? FoundHint focuses only on local search: multiple locations, Google Business Profile sync and review replies, all free. Keep your current SEO plugin for content and on-page SEO, and let FoundHint handle the local side.

Local SEO Checklist for WordPress: The Audit

Find out what’s missing before it hurts your visibility. Run an audit right from your dashboard. It works as a built-in local SEO checklist for WordPress and checks:

• Business information: business name, type, description, phone number, logo, services, social profiles
• Location information: complete address, coordinates, primary location, status
• Opening hours: hours configured and complete
• Structured data: schema published, opening hours in schema, conflicts with other plugins
• Website signals: HTTPS and site address
• Google Business Profile: connected, mapped, and whether the name and phone match your website
• More website checks: homepage availability, basic indexability, canonical URL (Coming soon)

Local SEO Health Score

See your progress at a glance with one simple score, with a trend over time. It covers business information, location, schema, opening hours, website signals and your Google connection.

Note: the Health Score shows your setup progress. It is not a Google ranking score and does not show your position in Google Search or Google Maps.

Local SEO Issues

Every problem found is sorted by severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low and Passed. Each issue explains what’s wrong and why it matters, in plain words.

Safe Optimization Workflow

You stay in control. Supported fixes follow a safe process:

Detect → Explain → Apply → Recheck

A one-click fix is offered only when the right value is already known, for example your own site address with https:// in front of it. Nothing is made up: anything that needs your judgement stays a finding with a recommendation. A fix is applied only when you press its button, and the audit runs again straight away so the score shows the result. FoundHint never silently makes risky changes to your website or to third-party services.

• Preview and confirm each change before it is applied (Coming soon)

How to Improve Local SEO on WordPress

Run the audit, fix the Critical and High issues first, then make sure your website and Google Business Profile match. Complete, consistent business data is the foundation for showing up in the Google map pack.

Centralized Business Data

Your Business → Location → Services data is one source of truth. The audit, the schema, your Google Business Profile and other features all reuse it. Less duplicate work, fewer mistakes.

Google Business Profile WordPress Plugin

One-Click Google Business Profile Connection

Connect your Google account with one button: no Google Cloud project, client ID or API key needed. FoundHint finds the Business Profile locations your account manages, and each Google listing is linked to its own FoundHint location.

Google Business Profile Data Comparison

Spot mismatches before customers do. Compare Website Data vs Google Data side by side:

• Business name and description
• Phone and website
• Address and map position
• Opening hours
• Categories
• Services
• Social and booking links

See what matches and what’s different, then decide which version to keep.

Import from Google

Bring your details in from Google in a guided import: name, description, categories, address, phone numbers, website, opening date, opening hours, services, service area, social and booking links. Refresh from Google reads your attributes and photos, and only fills fields that are empty here, so nothing you set is overwritten.

Send Updates to Google

Send supported updates from FoundHint to Google: business information, phone numbers, website, opening date, categories, opening hours, special hours, services, service area, attributes, social and booking links, and photos. Review the changes first; anything left empty here is never sent as a deletion. Nothing gets blindly overwritten.

Google Review Management in WordPress

Google Business Profile Reviews

See your customer reviews right inside your WordPress dashboard, for each location, with the reviewer’s photo and any photos the customer attached. Filter by star rating, reply status and review status (live, edited, or removed by the reviewer), search by name or words, page through 5 to 100 reviews at a time, and export the list, or just the reviews you select, to CSV. Reviews a customer later removes from Google stay readable here, clearly marked, and no longer count toward your rating.

Review Replies

Reply to reviews directly from FoundHint: post, edit or delete your reply. No more switching between WordPress and Google.

Coming Soon

These are planned and are not in this version yet.

Local Landing Pages for WordPress

• Location Landing Pages (Coming soon): build location pages for SEO from data you already saved: address, phone, hours, services, description, map and directions, photos, calls to action and LocalBusiness schema.
• Location Page Templates (Coming soon): keep every location page consistent with reusable templates.
• Front-end blocks (Coming soon): show your business details, hours and an embedded Google map on any page.

Schema and Audit

• Advanced Schema (Coming soon): richer, more detailed structured data for your business, each location and your services, with more control over what search engines see.
• Advanced Local SEO Audit (Coming soon): deeper checks across your business, locations, website, schema and local search setup.

Google Business Profile Posts

• Google Business Profile Posts (Coming soon): create posts for your connected locations from FoundHint.
• Post Scheduling, Post Calendar and Post History (Coming soon): plan posts ahead, see them on a calendar, and track everything you have published.
• Multi-Location Post Management (Coming soon): choose which locations each post goes to.
• Google Business Profile Performance (Coming soon): see how customers find and interact with your Business Profile.

Rank in the Google Map Pack: Local Ranking Grid

• Local Ranking Grid (Coming soon): see how you rank across your whole area, not just from one spot: set a keyword, a location, a search area and grid points, and see the results on a map.
• Ranking Results (Coming soon): average rank, top 3 and top 10 visibility, and positions gained and lost at each grid point.
• Competitor Analysis (Coming soon): find out who shows up in your local results and compare their visibility with yours.
• Area Coverage (Coming soon): find the strong and weak parts of your service area.
• Ranking History (Coming soon): compare old scans with new ones.
• Local Search Visibility (Coming soon): a clear picture of how visible you are across different areas.
• Local SEO Performance Dashboard (Coming soon): Google performance, customer actions, ranking changes and visibility trends in one place.
• Actionable Local SEO Recommendations (Coming soon): your issues turned into prioritized actions, grouped as Critical, High Priority, Quick Wins and Completed.

Your Local SEO Workflow

Build → Connect → Optimize → Grow, then repeat.

1. Build: set up your business, categories, locations, opening hours, services and schema.
2. Connect: link your Google Business Profile and your Google locations.
3. Optimize: use the SEO audit, its issues, data comparison and schema to improve your setup.
4. Grow: reply to reviews, keep Google in step with your website, and, coming soon, monitor rankings, competitors and performance.

Works With Your WordPress Website

FoundHint fits into your current setup. No need to replace your existing SEO workflow. It works alongside:

• Gutenberg
• Classic Editor
• Yoast SEO
• Rank Math
• All in One SEO
• SEOPress
• WooCommerce (great for local SEO for ecommerce with physical stores)
• Common WordPress themes

Local SEO for Small Businesses in Every Industry

FoundHint is a local business SEO plugin for any business that depends on local customers. Pick the right Google category and LocalBusiness subtype, list your services, and your schema markup and Google Business Profile optimization follow from the same data.

Local SEO for Restaurants, Cafes and Hotels

A restaurant SEO WordPress plugin needs accurate hours, holiday hours and fresh reviews. FoundHint covers local SEO for restaurants, cafes and coffee shops, bakeries, bars and pubs, food trucks, catering businesses, hotels and bed and breakfasts.

Local SEO for Plumbers, Electricians and Home Services

Service area businesses can list the places they serve without showing a street address. Ideal for local SEO for plumbers, electricians, HVAC companies, roofers, contractors, landscapers, pest control, cleaning services, locksmiths, painters, moving companies, pool services and handyman businesses.

Local SEO for Dentists, Doctors and Medical Practices

Keep every clinic’s hours, phone and services correct on Google and in your schema. Built for local SEO for dentists, doctors, chiropractors, medical practices, physical therapists, veterinarians, optometrists, pharmacies, med spas and therapists or counselors.

Local SEO for Lawyers, Law Firms and Professional Services

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