Six stages, thirty-six checks, in the exact order we run them for clients. Email it to yourself, print it, and work it top to bottom.
It is in your inbox now, attached. Work it top to bottom - stages one through four are mostly free and mostly one-off.
Did not arrive in two minutes? Check spam. The download button above works either way.
For a service business, the map results are roughly half of local ranking. Your Google Business Profile, reviews, and the site behind them, are the whole game.
They measure. Search Console is the only source of the actual queries and positions. That is why it is in stage one, before any content gets written.
Every customer is a future review, and almost none get asked. The ask script, the QR card, the 24-hour reply - that engine is in stage five because it is the highest and most forgotten value.
Citations and local links from real people matter, but doing them before the base is set is like watering a lawn with no seed. Stage six is where they stick.
One address gets the PDF and nothing else. No sequence, no drip, no spam. The download is instant either way.
Six pages, thirty-six boxes. Put it on the wall or in the truck. Tick a box only when the check is genuinely done.
This is the first thing we ask a new client to fill in. The unanswered boxes tell a contractor exactly where the work is. If your gap is stage five, you already know your answer.
Straight answer: the checks in this list are two to four weeks of working. The rankings move in months, and most of the movement shows up between the second and fourth month. Anyone promising faster is selling the call, not the result.
Reviews and owner activity on Google Business Profile, roughly half of local ranking. The first check is your site. The most valuable is your review engine.
No. Google Search Console and Google Business Profile are free. This checklist exists because the work is not data, it is the tasks, and nobody does them.
You can do the list yourself. Most owners get through stage four and stop. If you get to the review stage and the week gets busy, you have found the answer to your own question.
The checklist is the first stage of our local program. Prices live on the services page and the call is free, so bring the gaps you found and we will tell you which ones we fix and which ones are yours.
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