Here’s how many calls I got in January for carpet cleaning, car detailing, and pest control pages I worked on:
These pages took me 1 day to setup and have been getting close to 1 call/day every month
It’s so easy to rank a GMB because of how unmonopolized the rankings are. The biggest ranking factor for a GMB is proximity which means you can rank above the huge optimized companies doing SEO if your business is closer to the searcher.
Who is GMB for?
I’ve ranked car detailing, carpet cleaning, and pest control pages to 20+ calls/month without much work.
This alone should get you ranking within a 6 km proximity:
What keyword do I rank for?
If you are a pest control service in Toronto, your keyword is “Pest Control Toronto”
If you are an electrician in Boston, your keyword is “Pest Control Boston”
Now you will be ranking within a 6 km radius, but it’s hard to rank past 6 km because more local companies will beat you by proximity.
But what you can do is make 5 GMBs scattered around your city so that you can rank across a 30 km radius and get 100 calls/month instead of 20. A lot of profiles get instantly suspended in spammy categories but here’s how you can avoid this:
How to verify a page:
The page should get processed for 5 days and then verified and there you go!
These pages took me 1 day to setup and have been getting close to 1 call/day every month
It’s so easy to rank a GMB because of how unmonopolized the rankings are. The biggest ranking factor for a GMB is proximity which means you can rank above the huge optimized companies doing SEO if your business is closer to the searcher.
Who is GMB for?
- Businesses in population-dense cities
- Service industries that get high/demand volume of searches per day
I’ve ranked car detailing, carpet cleaning, and pest control pages to 20+ calls/month without much work.
This alone should get you ranking within a 6 km proximity:
- Add a physical address instead of operating as a service area business (you can use any address you won’t be penalized)
- Place your business in the center of your city if possible (being in the center of a city reaches more searches via proximity than being on the edge of the city)
- Add the keywords you want to rank for into your name
- Get 15+ reviews that include photos and the keywords you want to rank for
- Add 3+ Q&A questions that mention your keywords
- Add 3+ products that mention your keywords (you can add the equipment you use even if you don’t sell it)
- Set your page hours to 24/7 (Google prioritizes businesses that are open when the user searches)
- Build a website with a headline and text about your keyword
What keyword do I rank for?
If you are a pest control service in Toronto, your keyword is “Pest Control Toronto”
If you are an electrician in Boston, your keyword is “Pest Control Boston”
Now you will be ranking within a 6 km radius, but it’s hard to rank past 6 km because more local companies will beat you by proximity.
But what you can do is make 5 GMBs scattered around your city so that you can rank across a 30 km radius and get 100 calls/month instead of 20. A lot of profiles get instantly suspended in spammy categories but here’s how you can avoid this:
How to verify a page:
- Make each page’s name slightly different (Sparkle Shine Car Detailing North Toronto vs Sparkle Shine Car Detailing South Toronto)
- Use a new number, website, and address, that has never been used for a business profile before
- Create the page on a friend/family member's phone and aged gmail account
- Include branded photos of company T-shirts and company van
The page should get processed for 5 days and then verified and there you go!
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