When someone in the next town over needs your trade, they search "[your trade] near me" and call somebody from the results. If that somebody isn't you, it's worth knowing where you actually stand. Tell us your trade and one town you want work from, and we'll run that exact search and send you what it shows. No charge.
Get My Free CheckGoogle's own suggested top-of-page bid for "plumber near me" runs to about $82. That's per click, not per booked job. You pay it for the tire kicker, you pay it for the wrong-town caller, and you pay it again tomorrow.
The local results below the ads are where a lot of those calls actually go, and nobody is charged per click for them. That spot isn't bought. It's earned, and it keeps working after you stop paying for ads.
Your own phone won't show you this. It knows where you are, so it shows you your own back yard. The results a homeowner sees 20 miles away are a different list, and you have probably never seen it.
Bid figures: Google Keyword Planner, pulled July 2026, national US. Bids are Google's own suggested top-of-page range and vary by market. Google's local ranking factors are published at support.google.com/business/answer/7091.
Not an estimate, and not a guess. We run the actual search the way a homeowner standing in that town sees it, and send back what came up.
The top 20 results plotted by location and numbered by rank, with the businesses that hold a real address in the town shown separately from the ones reaching in from outside it.
We look up to 60 results deep, so you get an exact rank or a clean "you're not in the top 60". Either answer is useful. Only one of them is comfortable.
Every result we found, with its distance from the town centre, its rating, and its review count. Your row is highlighted, so you can see exactly who is ahead of you and what they have that you don't.
Plain English on exactly which search we ran and how we read it. No black box. If you want to re-run it yourself afterwards, you'll know how.
When we run these checks, the same thing shows up almost every time: the top of the pack is local. Typically 16 or 17 of the top 20 are businesses with a real, verified address within about 5 to 6 miles of the town center. A local address is the price of admission to that pack, and it's the whole reason an office in the town changes where you stand.
What a local address doesn't do is win the pack on its own. You can't climb the order just by being closest: once you're in, reviews and relevance decide where you land. You'll see nearby shops sitting near the bottom on thin reviews, and the occasional business ranking without publishing an address at all. Google says its local results run primarily on relevance, distance, and prominence, so distance genuinely matters, it just isn't the only lever.
So the check answers one question honestly: where do you stand today? That's the question you can't answer from your own phone, and it's the one you need answered before you spend a dollar on anything else.
Your trade, one town you want work from, your company name, your website, and your email. The website is how we find your office and pick you out of the results.
The real "[your trade] near me" search, geolocated to that town, exactly as a homeowner standing there would see it.
A short, branded report with the map, the field, and your rank. Usually within two business days. No charge and no obligation.
Yes. No card, no trial, no obligation. We think the report is a fair demonstration of how we work, and that some of the owners who read it will want the bigger analysis later. That's the whole business case.
You'll get the report. If you want to talk about what to do next, reply and we will. If you don't, read it and put it down.
Because past that it stops being a realistic expansion and starts being a fantasy. The report measures distance from your actual office, so a town 200 miles away produces a true answer to a question worth nobody's time.
You can, and plenty of owners should. Serving a town and showing up in it are different things, and the gap between them is usually the surprise.
One trade, one town, and we'll show you where you actually stand.