The Competitor Above You in the Map Pack Might Not Be Real
There are only three spots in the map pack. If one of them is held by a business that does not exist, you are competing for two.
Straight answers about the map pack, your Google Business Profile and Search Console, for contractors who would rather understand what they are paying for than take it on trust. If you want the short version instead, the case study shows what six months of this did for one landscaping company.
There are only three spots in the map pack. If one of them is held by a business that does not exist, you are competing for two.
A suspended profile means you vanish from the map results, usually with no warning and no explanation. The order you do things in matters more than how fast you do them.
Search Console is free, it is yours, and it is the only place that tells you what Google actually did with your site. Four numbers do most of the work.
Ask an assistant for a landscaper in your area and it names two or three businesses. There is no second page, and nobody is scrolling past the answer.
Every trade has a month when the phone rings. The mistake is starting the work in that month, when the ranking needed to be there already.
Send your business name and your trade. The audit comes back free.