The map pack sits above the organic results and takes most of the clicks. For businesses with a physical footprint or a service area, this is the highest-leverage real estate in search. We run it as a system, not a checklist.
Ranking in the map pack has almost nothing to do with your website's authority. It runs on proximity, relevance, and prominence, and prominence is mostly reviews and citations.
This is why the plumber with the ugly website outranks the one who spent forty thousand dollars on a rebuild. He asked every customer for a review and kept his profile current. That is the whole trick, and almost nobody does it consistently.
For multi-location businesses it gets harder fast. Forty profiles means forty sets of hours, forty review streams, forty chances for a duplicate listing to cannibalize the real one.
Scope is set during the audit. Not every client needs every line, and we will tell you which ones you can skip.
Order matters here. Doing these out of sequence is the most common reason this work underperforms.
We audit every listing tied to your business, claim what is unclaimed, and suppress duplicates. Most businesses have listings they do not know exist, often with a wrong phone number.
Categories, services, attributes, description, hours, and photos. Primary category selection alone moves rankings more than most owners expect.
Name, address, and phone consistency across the sources Google actually reads. Inconsistency here is a quiet ceiling on how high you can rank.
Each location or service area gets a real page with unique content, embedded map, local schema, and internal links. Not fourteen copies of the same page with the city swapped.
Posts, photos, Q&A, and review responses on a schedule. Profiles that stay active outrank profiles that sit still.
Profile optimization and citation cleanup often move rankings within 30 to 60 days. Review velocity compounds over 90 days and beyond. Multi-location rollouts scale with the number of profiles, typically 2 to 4 weeks of setup per batch.
We never charge a percentage of ad spend. Recommending you cut a channel costs us nothing, so the advice stays honest.
No minimum, 30 days notice. You stay because it is working, not because of a termination clause.
Ad accounts, domain, CRM, analytics, creative files. During and after. You take all of it if we part ways.
On the pricing page, in public. No discovery call required to learn whether you can afford us.
The free marketing audit covers exactly this, benchmarked against three competitors you name. Written findings in 3 to 5 days, yours to keep either way.
Local Search & Google Business Profile in Columbus, Ohio. If you have a footprint, own it. One storefront in Powell or forty locations across six states. An Arch engagement covers google business profile claim, cleanup, and optimization, category and attribute selection strategy, and photo, post, and q&a content cadence, among other work. Profile optimization and citation cleanup often move rankings within 30 to 60 days. Pick Your Channels starts at $500 per month, month to month, and every engagement begins with a free marketing audit.
