Google Business Profile · for contractors and trades

Get your contracting business into the Google map pack.

When someone searches for a contractor near them, Google shows a little map with pins at the very top, above the regular links. That map is where the most calls come from. The problem is most contractor profiles are half filled out, on the wrong category, with no photos and a handful of reviews, so they never show up there. We fix all of that so ready customers see you and call you.

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Why your Google Business Profile decides who gets the call

Before anyone reads a website, they look at that little map. If you are not one of the three pins on it, most people never see you.

Three pins get almost all the near-me clicks. The map sits above the blue links, and most people tap one of the three businesses on it before they scroll down. If your Google Business Profile is not set up to land in those three, the caller goes to whoever is.
A half-filled profile is invisible. Wrong main category, no photos, a bare description, and a few reviews tell Google it does not know enough about you to show you. Most contractor profiles are stuck exactly there, which is why the map keeps handing the job to someone else.

What we fix on your Google Business Profile

The $350 setup is a full clean-up of the profile, in plain terms:

We claim and verify the profile. If you never claimed it, or someone else set it up years ago, we get it under your control and verified so you can actually manage it.
The right main category. Google uses one word to decide what you are (general contractor, roofer, plumber, and so on). Pick it wrong and you show up for the wrong searches. We set the right one and add the extra ones that fit.
Every service listed and the towns you work in. We list out what you actually do and set the service area to the towns you cover, so Google knows where to show you.
Real photos and a description that reads like you. We add real job photos with your location saved in them, plus a clear description of the work, so the profile looks like a busy contractor, not an empty shell.
Questions seeded and answered, and posts started. We seed the common questions with real answers and start the weekly posts, which are the little updates Google likes to see so it knows you are active.
A plan to get more reviews. We hand you a simple way to ask every customer, because reviews are what push you up past the contractor next to you.

Want the website and rankings handled too? See our contractor local SEO, or we build you a site you own.

Reviews are what move a Google Business Profile up the map

You can have a cleaner profile than the guy above you and still lose to him on review count. That is the part nobody likes.

Asking for reviews is a grind. Nobody enjoys it, and most contractors quietly skip it, which is exactly why it works when you do not. If you want a review ask that runs on its own, the Contractor System at $97 a month has the review tool built in. If you want us running the reviews and posting every month for you, that is the SEO plan from $497 a month.

The honest part

The map is not something you set up once and walk away from. A profile slips when you stop posting and stop asking for reviews. A competitor with 80 reviews will beat your 9 even with a worse profile. The $350 setup gets everything clean and correct and hands you the plan. Keeping it climbing is steady work, which is what the monthly plan is for. Anyone telling you a profile alone locks in the top pin forever is not being straight with you.

Why contractors can win this map right now

We pulled 13,579 contractor websites and looked at what Google actually reads. 29% had no working website. 55% had no local schema, the code that tells Google what they do and where. Most were invisible in the exact spot a ready customer looks first.

That is your opening. Most of your competition has a half-built profile, so the ones who fix theirs get the calls. One remodeler we worked with went from 17% to 41% of their map covered in the top ten in 55 days. Their invisible spots dropped from 67% to 27%.

Common questions

What is the Google map pack?

It is the little map with the pins that sits at the top of Google when someone searches for a contractor near them. Three businesses show up there, above the regular blue links. Most people call one of those three before they ever scroll down. Getting into that map is the whole point of a Google Business Profile.

Will this get me to the top of the map?

We get your profile filled out right so Google can rank it, and most contractor profiles are so bare that fixing them moves you up on its own. Nobody honest can promise you the top spot, and your reviews and steady posting decide a lot of it. We set the foundation and hand you a plan to keep climbing.

How many Google reviews do I need?

There is no magic number. It comes down to beating the contractor next to you on the map. If the top pin has 80 reviews and you have 9, you are behind even when your profile is better. We hand you a plan to ask every customer so your count keeps growing.

Do I need a website too?

A profile helps on its own, but Google trusts you more when a real website backs it up and your business info matches everywhere. If you do not have a good site, we can build one you own or one on the RankGrid platform. See our contractor local SEO page for how the profile and the website work together.

Is this one-time or monthly?

The Google Business Profile setup is a one-time $350 job. We clean up the whole profile and hand you a plan. If you want us to keep posting, keep asking for reviews, and track where you rank every month, that is our SEO plan from $497 a month.

See where you show up on the map right now. Free.

Run the free scan and see exactly where you land on the map today, and what is keeping you out of the top three pins. Takes about two minutes. No pressure.

Run the free scan Get the $350 GBP setup