Days 1–30
Establish the truth and remove blockers
Confirm business information, access, locations, service areas and conversion goals. Preserve a baseline before changing profiles or pages, then resolve technical, eligibility and tracking issues that would make later work hard to evaluate.
- Document the business-data source of truth
- Benchmark priority queries and map coverage
- Review indexation, canonicals, redirects and conversion paths
- Identify profile, listing and review-policy risks
Days 31–60
Improve the pages and profile that matter most
Match the most valuable service and market intent to one clear page, strengthen the customer proof on that page, and align the Business Profile with the same facts and next action.
- Improve priority service and location pages
- Complete accurate categories, services, hours and links
- Add crawlable contextual internal links
- Test calls, forms, bookings and source tracking
Days 61–90
Build reputation and local authority
With the foundation stable, begin the repeatable work that supports prominence and customer trust. Quality and relevance matter more than citation, review or link volume.
- Launch a policy-compliant review request process
- Correct important citation conflicts and duplicates
- Pursue relevant associations, partnerships and local mentions
- Publish the next evidence-backed resource or market page
After day 90
Use evidence to choose the next cycle
Compare visibility, landing-page discovery, profile actions and qualified enquiries with the original baseline. Keep what created useful movement, repair weak links in the customer journey, and resist expanding the page footprint without distinct demand and proof.
Reviewed sources
Primary sources and standards
Use these official resources to confirm platform rules and technical guidance. They are maintained by their publishers and may change over time.
- Google Business Profile: improve local rankingGoogle’s explanation of relevance, distance and prominence, plus profile completeness and review guidance.
- Google Business Profile representation guidelinesOfficial eligibility, business-name, address and service-area rules.
- Google Maps prohibited and restricted contentGoogle’s rules for genuine reviews, incentives, conflicts of interest and rating manipulation.
- Google Search Central: get started with Search ConsoleOfficial guidance for monitoring queries, pages, countries, clicks and impressions.