Groundbreaker Marketing

Service

Google Business Profile Optimization & Local Map Rankings

We manage your Google Business Profile as an ongoing job — categories and services, geo-tagged and keyworded photos, update posts, and a reply to every review.

What’s included

  • Category, service and service-area configuration
  • Geo-tagged, keyworded photos posted on a schedule
  • "What’s new" update posts
  • A written response to every review, good or bad
  • Citation building and clean-up so your name, address and phone match everywhere
  • Local grid ranking checks, so you can see where you actually show on the map

Included in the Groundbreaker Program

This service is not sold separately. It is part of the $1,495/month programme, alongside everything else on our services list.

See the full price and inclusions

Google Business Profile & Reviews

Common questions

How do I rank higher on Google Maps?

Proximity to the searcher, relevance and prominence. You cannot change where you are, so the work is in categories and services, review volume and recency, photos, posts and citation consistency.

For a service-area business without a storefront, proximity works differently and the other factors carry proportionally more weight — which is good news, because those are the ones you can influence.

How many Google reviews do I need?

More than the competitors showing above you in the map pack, and recent. A profile with 40 reviews where the newest is two years old reads worse than one with 15 from this quarter.

Do you write fake reviews?

No. Never. It violates Google’s policies, it gets profiles suspended, and it is dishonest.

What we do is make asking systematic, so real customers who were happy are actually prompted at the right moment instead of being forgotten.

What do I do about a bad review?

Respond to it, publicly, calmly and specifically — and then keep collecting good ones so it is not the newest thing anyone sees.

We write a response to every review, good or bad, as part of the programme. A well-handled one-star reply frequently reads better to a prospect than the review reads badly.

What are geo-tagged photos and do they matter?

They are photos uploaded to your profile with location and keyword data attached, posted on a schedule rather than in one dump.

They are not a magic ranking lever. They are a freshness and relevance signal, and profiles that are actively maintained do measurably better than profiles that are set up once and abandoned.

All 6 questions on google business profile & reviews

Ready to see what your marketing should be doing?

Book a video call. We will go through what you are running now, what it is producing, and what we would change — before you spend anything.