Service
Google Maps Profile & SEO
Google Business Profile optimisation and technical SEO — categories, citations, reviews and the site-side signals that decide whether you appear in local results.
- Timeline
- Movement in 30–60 days
- Deliverables
- 10 items
- First milestone
- Week 1
Local businesses invisible in search and on the map
Almost every local business has a Google Business Profile and almost none of them rank. The difference is rarely the listing itself: it is category selection, review velocity, citation consistency and whether your website supports the profile with matching structured data. We handle those as one system.
Typical stack
What you get
Not included
- Paid ads
- Bought backlinks
- Guaranteed rankings
Listed as plainly as the inclusions. Anything here can be scoped on top — quoted before it starts, never assumed.
How it works
Category engineering
Primary category is the highest-leverage field on the whole profile and most businesses pick the obvious wrong one. We reverse-engineer what the businesses currently ranking for your keywords actually use.
Review velocity as a system
A steady arrival of reviews beats a large stale count. We install the asking mechanism — counter QR, one-tap WhatsApp template, post-service SMS — rather than reminding you to ask.
Site and profile in agreement
Your website's structured data mirrors the profile exactly. Conflicting details across directories do not merely fail to help; they actively suppress the listing.
No ranking guarantees, ever
Maps results are personalised by the searcher's distance from you, so there is no single 'position one' to promise. We report measured movement instead, and anyone guaranteeing a position does not understand the product.
Delivery sequence
- 01Week 1
Audit & baseline
Current profile state, citation audit, and the competitors holding your target results. You get the baseline before any changes.
- 02Week 1–2
Foundation fixes
Categories, attributes, services, description and the citation correction pass. Most movement originates here.
- 03Week 3
Content & reviews
Photos, posts, Q&A seeding, and the review system handed to your staff.
- 04Monthly
Compound & report
Ongoing posting, review responses and monthly reporting against the baseline.
Maps & SEO FAQ
Straight answers
Including where the honest answer is 'no' or 'buy something else'.
How long until we rank?
Foundation fixes usually show movement in 30 to 60 days. Competitive urban categories need three to six months of sustained review velocity and content. Anyone quoting a fixed date is guessing.
Can you guarantee number one?
No, and nobody honestly can — Maps rankings are personalised by how far the searcher is from your premises, so there is no single position to hold. What we guarantee is a measured baseline and a monthly report showing exactly what moved.
Do you buy reviews or backlinks?
No. Bought reviews are the fastest route to a suspended profile and bought links take the domain down with them eventually. Both are a bad trade on a business you intend to keep.