Google Maps listing
Get your York business into the map results
The three map spots at the top of local searches come from Google Business Profiles. Here's what we review on yours.
Look up a plumber or a hair salon in York and the first thing on the screen is a map with three businesses. Many people choose from those three and never scroll.
Google fills that little map from Business Profiles. It sorts them by the category you chose, how filled-in your listing is, the reviews you've earned and how near you are to the person searching. Your address is what it is. Everything else on that list is fixable, usually for less money than any other marketing you could buy.
Our eight-point listing review
| Part of the profile | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Primary category | The one setting Google leans on hardest. Pick a near miss and you quietly lose searches. |
| Extra categories | Two or three that match jobs you truly take on. Padding them dilutes you. |
| Name, address, phone | Written exactly the way your website writes them, character for character. |
| Service area | The real towns on your route: York, Clover, Sharon, Lake Wylie. Not all of South Carolina. |
| Services | Named in plain customer language and tied to the matching page on your site. |
| Photos | Current shots of jobs, people and trucks, plus the gaps worth filling. |
| Reviews | Total count, recent activity, your replies, and a simple link to request new ones. |
| Website link | Aimed at the page that fits the listing, not dumped on the homepage. |
What lands in your inbox
A prioritized punch list, biggest payoff first. The majority of it is stuff you can knock out yourself after closing time. On monthly SEO, a new punch list arrives each month.
Google Maps questions
Will you need to log in to my Google account?
How soon does this pay off?
My business runs out of a truck, not a shop. Does this matter?
No cost, no pressure
Curious how your website looks to a York customer?
Send Roger the address. He'll open it on a phone, search for you the way someone in York County would, and email back a plain-English list of what's helping and what's losing you calls.
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