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Reviews answered
Every new review answered, none older than a week.
The one page that decides whether the map shows you at all. Ten pages: claim it, verify it, fill in every field that matters, and keep it alive with a routine that takes about an hour and a half a month. Every template written out in full. Free, sent to your inbox.
Nine sections, ten pages
Four moves to claim, the four ways Google verifies, and how to pass the video check most new profiles now get.
The primary category is the number one map-pack factor (Whitespark 2026). Worked examples, and storefront versus service area.
A 750-character template, the same template filled in, and the fields most profiles leave half done.
The shot list with counts, the HIPAA release rule, and eight questions to post and answer yourself.
A cadence table with time per task, what to post and skip, the review ask text that stays inside the FTC rules.
What sets a suspension off, the five reinstatement steps, and the fifteen-item monthly checklist to pin by the desk.
See the checklistWritten for dental offices first and any local business second. Every number carries its source. Prices printed: setup $450 one time, ongoing local SEO from $297 a month.
The full ten-page PDF in your inbox in a minute, and open right here.
The guide is in your inbox at . You can also open it right here.
Page nine of the guide, in full. Everything in the order you would actually do it. Put it on the same day each month and give it to one named person.
Every new review answered, none older than a week.
Every new question answered from the business account.
Hours checked against next month's calendar.
Holiday hours entered for anything coming up.
Three to five new photos added, shot this month.
Two posts published since last time.
Services list still complete, nothing retired still showing.
Description still accurate and still under 750 characters.
Primary category still the thing you mostly do.
Website and booking links clicked and confirmed working.
Phone called from a mobile and answered by a person.
Suggest-an-edit emails reviewed, wrong edits reverted.
Name, address and phone matched against the website footer.
Messaging checked and every message replied to.
Calls, direction requests, website clicks and searches that found you, read and written down.
Two ways to get the profile right. Follow the guide and it costs an afternoon, then about an hour and a half a month. Or we set the whole thing up once for $450, and keep it alive from $297 a month if you want it managed.
This guide is the whole method. Four things to watch: the primary category, a fresh verification after any name or address change, the wording of your review asks, and the monthly checklist.
Claim or create, verification including the video, primary and secondary categories, the description, services with descriptions, your photos uploaded, the first questions seeded, booking and messaging wired, hours set, and a 30-day check-in. The logins stay yours.
Prices and plan terms published here are exact and match our internal pricing catalog; they are not promotional or subject to change after a sales call. Ad spend is billed separately and paid directly to the platforms.
Short answers. If yours is not here, ask us on the call and we answer directly, including when the answer is no.
Yes. Add your name and email and the PDF opens right here and lands in your inbox. Two short follow-up notes come after it, each with a link to stop them. If you would rather we did the setup, the price is on this page too.
In Whitespark's 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors survey the primary Google Business Profile category is the number one factor for showing up in the map pack. Pick the one that names what you mostly do, not everything you also do.
Google now assigns most new profiles a live, one-take video: the street and your signage, the door, the inside, your equipment, and you proving you manage the place. Pre-recorded files are not accepted. Page two walks through it.
No. The FTC rule on consumer reviews, in effect since October 21, 2024, bans paying or rewarding anyone for a review with a particular sentiment, and bans only sending the link to people who said the visit went well. The guide's ask text stays inside both rules.
Claim or create, verification, categories, the description, services with descriptions, your photos uploaded, the first questions seeded and answered, booking and messaging wired, hours and holiday hours, and a check-in at 30 days. You own the profile and every login.
Local SEO from $297 a month covers the posts, the review asks and replies, the profile upkeep and a monthly report in plain English. Month to month, like everything else we sell.