About
King of Prussia, PA. Working with local service businesses since 2001. I help service companies get found in Google Search, Google Maps and AI answers, so the people nearby who need what they do can find them first.
My story
I'm Gregg Thorpe. I started in 1998, selling advertising in magazines to electronic component manufacturers while helping many of the same advertisers with their first search-optimized websites.
I founded First Place Positioning in January 2001. Since then, the way people find a business has been reinvented again and again.
What changed
Getting listed was enough.
Who linked to you decided who ranked.
The pages that answered the question won.
Google Maps put nearby businesses first.
A summary can describe a business before anyone clicks.
Every shift changed the work. None of them changed the point.
What has not changed
To make it obvious to people and machines what you do, where you do it, and why you are the right call.
A service page that answers what someone actually typed.
A Google Business Profile that matches your website.
Reviews, hours, service areas and structured data that line up.
Most of the work is unglamorous. Done consistently, those details move a business into the results people trust and act on.
How I work
Not an account manager. I run this business myself.
I keep the client list small enough to stay that way.
I will show you what is working now, what is not, and exactly what your next best steps are to bring in the leads you want.
Free website video review
I review your site and send you a personal screencast with three clear, specific recommendations. No cost and no obligation.
Fill in the short form below. You do not need to tell me what to look for.
I look at your site the way Google, AI tools and your customers do.
A short video that shows what to fix first and why it matters.
Send me your website. I will record a short video with three specific fixes, at no cost.
