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Who turns up when someone searches your suburb?
Not what you hope. What Google actually returns today, in your patch, with the names and the numbers.
Check your patch
This one goes and looks things up, and every look-up costs us money — so we ask for an email. The calculators don’t, and never will. One scan per email a day.
What a ghost town actually looks like
It is not an empty phone. It is a business that has been trading for eleven years, has a shed full of gear and a ute that never stops — and does not appear anywhere in the three map results its own customers see.
That gap is normal and it is invisible from the inside. You know you exist. Your regulars know you exist. The bloke two streets away searching at seven at night has never seen your name, because Google is showing him three others and a page of directories.
This check does one thing: it runs the search your customer would run, and shows you what comes back. If you are in there, you will see where. If you are not, that is the finding.
Why the numbers here are small
There is no estimated monthly search volume on this page, and no dollar figure attached to what you are missing. Both are guesses dressed up as data, and you have been sold enough of those.
What you get instead is checkable. Three named businesses. Their review counts. How far they are from you. How much of page one is Hipages and Oneflare rather than actual trades. Every one of those you can verify on your own phone in about a minute — and you should.
Anything the check could not confirm is labelled rather than filled in. Mobile trades routinely hide their address on Google, so those come back without a distance instead of with a made-up one.
What it can’t tell you
It is one search, on one day, from one place. Google personalises results, so what it shows a customer standing in your street will differ a little from what it shows this check. The ranking order is the least stable part; the names and the review counts are the solid part.
It does not know whether those competitors are any good, whether they are taking work, or whether they answer the phone. It knows who Google puts in front of the customer, which is a different question and the one that decides who gets rung.
And it cannot tell you why. That takes reading the pages, and that is the conversation, not the tool.
Seen enough?
If the names that came back are not better tradies than you — and they usually aren’t — the fix is getting found, not working harder. That starts with a conversation, not a price list.
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