Free Google Maps rank checker
Find out where your business actually comes up on Google Maps — measured from nine points around your own address, not from your phone.
Why your business is not showing up on Google Maps
The usual answer is not that Google is broken. Across fifty plumbing and HVAC shops we measured around Vancouver, Washington, fourteen did not appear in the top twenty at all for their own trade in their own city — and the ones that did were not obviously better businesses. They had more reviews.
1. Rank changes with distance
This is the part most owners have never seen. Google ranks a business differently depending on where the searcher is standing. You can be first outside your own door and nowhere three miles away.
2. Reviews are doing more work than anything else
In our fifty, the shops in the top three had a median of 649 reviews. The ones outside the top twenty had 97. That is not a rule of Google's, but it is a very consistent pattern in one county.
3. The profile is half-filled
Missing hours, no description, one category, a handful of photos. None of these get a business to the top on their own, and all of them are free.
4. You are checking it wrong
Searching your own business name tells you nothing — Google knows it is you, and you are already nearby. The keyword a customer types is "plumber near me", and that is what has to be measured.
How this rank checker works
- We find your Business Profile on Google.
- We search your trade and city from nine points spread around your address.
- We record the position you came up in from each one, and who was above you.
- We send you the map and the three fixes worth doing first.
It is free, there is no card, and you get one check per business.
Common questions
Will this change my Google listing?
No. It only reads. Nothing is posted, edited or claimed.
How long does it take?
About a minute.
Do I need to be in Clark County?
No, it works anywhere. Our own data is from Vancouver and Portland, so that is what the examples show.