Google Business Profile management
The profile decides the map pack, and the map pack sits above every organic result you are fighting for. $149 a month, no setup fee, no contract.
$149
per month, per profile. No setup fee. Cancel any time.
For most local service businesses the Google Business Profile matters more than the website, and it is almost always the thing nobody is maintaining. It sits above the organic results, it is where proximity and reviews are weighed, and it is free to own - which is exactly why it gets ignored. This is the least glamorous work we do and the fastest to show up in a phone that rings.
- 01
Full profile audit and rebuild
Primary and secondary categories, services, attributes, hours including holidays, service areas, description, and the products or services list almost nobody fills in. The primary category alone moves map-pack relevance more than anything on your website.
- 02
Weekly posts
Offers, updates and event posts written for your trade, not recycled stock copy. Posts are one of the few levers on a profile you can pull whenever you like.
- 03
Review responses within one business day
Every review, positive and negative. Response speed and response rate are both signals, and a well-handled one-star reply sells better to the next reader than a five-star with no reply.
- 04
Review request system
A short link and a script your team can actually use at job close, prompting for the service name so the review text carries the query language.
- 05
Q&A seeding and monitoring
The questions section is public and anyone can answer it, including competitors. We seed the real questions and watch for answers that need correcting.
- 06
Photo and geotag uploads
Fresh job photos monthly. Profiles that go quiet visibly lose ground to ones that do not.
- 07
Monthly report
Calls, direction requests, website clicks and search-term data straight from the profile - what people typed to find you, not a vanity ranking chart.
- Website changes. That is the build or the retainer.
- Buying, incentivising or filtering reviews. That is against Google's policies and it gets profiles suspended.
- Creating additional profiles for cities you do not operate in. Same reason.
- Paid ads management.
Right for
A single-location service business whose customers search on a phone and pick from the map, whose profile has not been touched since it was verified, and who is not ready to spend on a rebuild. It is also the sensible first month with us: cheap, quick to show movement, and it tells us whether the rest is worth doing.
Not right for
A business with no profile and no intention of getting verified, an ecommerce business with no local component, or anyone expecting this to fix a website that cannot convert. The profile brings the call; something still has to answer it.
Canadian agency, entry package
$285/mo
Local SEO Essentials from a Canadian agency; their growth tier is $475/mo.
Low-cost provider
$99/mo + $399 setup
Cheaper monthly, but $1,587 in year one against our $1,788 - and they have you for the setup fee whether it works or not.
WARDORX
$149/mo
No setup fee, no contract. $1,788 in year one.
We are not the cheapest monthly number in the market and we are not pretending to be. We are well under the Canadian agency benchmark, we do not charge a setup fee, and there is nothing to cancel out of. If the $99 offer suits you better after you have read what each includes, take it - that is the point of publishing the comparison.
- Is a Google Business Profile not free?
- The profile is free and always will be. What you are paying for is somebody doing the work every week - posts, review replies, Q&A, photos, category and service updates - which is exactly the work that gets skipped when it is nobody's job. If you have the time to do it yourself, do it yourself; the profile is more valuable than most websites and it costs nothing to own.
- How fast does this show up?
- Faster than anything else in local search. Category and service corrections can move things within days because they change how Google classifies you. Review velocity and posting take a couple of months to compound. It is the shortest feedback loop available to a local business, which is why it is the first thing we do.
- Can you get a suspended profile reinstated?
- Sometimes, and it is a separate piece of work rather than part of the monthly fee - see the reinstatement service. What we will not do is the thing that usually caused the suspension: a fake address, a keyword-stuffed business name, or duplicate profiles for cities you do not operate in.
- Do I have to give you ownership of my profile?
- No, and you should not give that to any agency. We ask for manager access on your own profile. If we part ways you remove our access and nothing changes - the profile was always yours. An agency that insists on owning it is holding an asset hostage.
- What if I have more than one location?
- $149 per profile up to three, and it comes down after that - per-location rates should fall with volume and ours do. Tell us how many and we will give you the number before you commit to anything.
Competitor prices above are published rates, linked so you can check them rather than take our word for what the market charges.
- Storyteller Media - GBP management plans (Canada)
- SEO Resellers Canada - GBP pricing
- Renew Local - GBP management pricing
Every price on this site is published. None of them require a call to find out.
Stop paying $5K/month for nothing.
Get a site that ships. Fourteen days, fixed fee, and a number you can hold us to from month one.
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