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The last 7 days on RankLocal
138 Google reviews answered, 28 posts published and 550 map points checked, for local businesses.
Source: RankLocal records · updated daily
959
Google review replies written
AI replies drafted by RankLocal
231
Google posts published
Posts RankLocal published
6,975
map points checked
Rank map scans, 25 points each
167
local businesses connected
Business Profiles linked to RankLocal
Source: RankLocal records, all time, counted 30 October 2026
Real businesses on RankLocal. The same keyword scanned from the same 25 points, the first scan against the latest one. Each point is a spot on the map where a customer could be searching.
#16 → #2
Chiropractor, Ontario
1.5 km north of its door, in 23 days
#12 → #3
Surf school, Morocco
3.4 km south-east of its door, in 49 days
#11 → #3
Chiropractor, Ontario
1.5 km south of its door, in 23 days
#16 → #8
Barber shop, Sydney
3 km east of its door, in 36 days
#17 → #5
Chiropractor, Ontario
2.1 km south-west of its door, in 23 days
Not in top 20 → #5
Chiropractor, Ontario
3.4 km north-west of its door, in 23 days
“surf school” · 49 days · 6 Sep 2026 to 25 Oct 2026
#1 on Google Maps at 19 of 25 points, up from 7
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Points where it is #1 | 7 of 25 | 19 of 25 |
| At its own door | #2 | #1 |
| Points in the top 3 | 22 of 25 | 23 of 25 |
| Average position | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| Points that moved up | · | 16 of 25 |
In between, RankLocal replied to 273 reviews and published 16 posts, and made 4 profile fixes. 244 new reviews came in.
“chiropractor” · 23 days · 7 Sep 2026 to 30 Sep 2026
From #7 to #2 at its own door
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| At its own door | #7 | #2 |
| Average position | 13 | 5.6 |
| Points in the top 3 | 0 of 25 | 3 of 25 |
| Points where it shows up | 8 of 25 | 12 of 25 |
| Points that moved up | · | 12 of 25 |
In between, RankLocal replied to 9 reviews and published 1 post. 12 new reviews came in.
“barber shop” · 36 days · 16 Sep 2026 to 22 Oct 2026
From #5 to #1 at its own door
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| At its own door | #5 | #1 |
| Average position | 10.2 | 2.1 |
| Points in the top 3 | 2 of 25 | 23 of 25 |
| Points where it shows up | 5 of 25 | 24 of 25 |
| Points that moved up | · | 18 of 25 |
In between, RankLocal replied to 23 reviews and published 10 posts, and made 2 profile fixes. 20 new reviews came in.
Source: RankLocal rank scans. Of the 6 businesses with two scans of their main keyword at least a week apart, 5 moved up and 1 moved down (26 October 2026). Rankings also depend on things outside RankLocal.
If customers find you by searching “near me” on Google, your Google Maps rank decides who gets the call.
Google picks the three businesses in the Map Pack, the Google 3-pack, by relevance, distance and prominence. Distance is fixed. The other two you can work on, every week. What the Google 3-pack is and how it works
How well your profile matches the search. Google reads your categories, services, attributes and description.
How far you are from the person searching. You cannot change it, which is why your rank differs street by street.
How well known and active you are: the number and freshness of your reviews, your replies, your posts and photos.
That turns into four jobs, every week:
Most owners do not have the hours for it. RankLocal does all four for you.
Connect your Google Business Profile once. From then on RankLocal does the weekly work that moves your Google Maps ranking.
Why it matters: Fresh reviews with replies are part of prominence, and a reply is read by every customer who opens your listing.
What RankLocal does: Every day, RankLocal answers your new 4 and 5 star reviews in your tone and in the reviewer’s language. Lower reviews are drafted and wait for you.
Example
Fixed our leaking pipe the same morning. Friendly, on time and he left everything clean.
Reply posted on Google by RankLocal
Thanks Maria, glad we could stop that leak before it did any damage. Call us any time you need us.
Took longer than quoted.
Reply drafted. Waiting for you to send it.
Why it matters: Your rank changes from one street to the next. One number for the whole town hides where you are losing customers.
What RankLocal does: RankLocal searches your keyword from 25 points across your area and shows your position at each one, so you see where you are in the 3-pack and where you drop out.
Example
“plumber near me” · 25 points across the area
Why it matters: A complete profile is what makes you relevant: the right categories, every service, the attributes people filter on, accurate hours.
What RankLocal does: RankLocal reads your profile from Google, checks every field and writes the fixes: description, services, attributes, holiday hours. You press publish and they go to Google.
Example
Why it matters: Regular posts show Google and customers that the business is open and active.
What RankLocal does: RankLocal writes a post from what you sell, with one of your photos, up to three times a week. Each one waits a day in your list so you can read or change it.
Example
Spring boiler checks are open: book a 30 minute service before the cold comes back.
Live on GoogleBefore and after: a full bathroom repipe in Northside, finished in two days.
Scheduled. You can read it firstWeekend call-outs: we answer the phone until 6 pm on Saturdays.
Scheduled. You can read it firstMoving from third to first in the Google 3-pack is the difference between being called and being scrolled past. RankLocal works on what Google measures, and the rank map shows you the move.
No guarantees and no invented timelines. Profile fixes reach Google the same day. Rank movement takes weeks of reviews, posts and a complete profile.
Example
Google Map Pack
Top 3 for “plumber near me”
Paste a Google review, yours or any other, and see the reply RankLocal would post.
Sign in with the Google account that manages your Business Profile. It takes about two minutes.
The same day it reads your reviews, profile and ranks, answers what can be answered and lists what to fix.
Replies, posts and rank checks keep going on their own. On Pro you get a short email each Monday with what changed.
Yes. RankLocal was built by a local business owner who depends on his own Google listing, so it protects yours first.
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RankLocal is local SEO software for Google Business Profiles. It replies to your Google reviews, fixes your profile, posts every week and tracks where you rank on Google Maps. It is software, not an agency and not a website builder.
Google ranks local results on three things: relevance, distance and prominence. You cannot move your shop, so the work is in the other two. Relevance comes from a complete Business Profile: the right categories, your services and a clear description. Prominence comes from a steady flow of reviews with replies, regular posts and photos. RankLocal does that work every week and shows your rank on a map, so you can see it move.
The Google 3-pack, also called the Map Pack, is the box of three businesses with a map that Google shows at the top of a local search such as "plumber near me". It sits above the normal results, which is why getting into it is the main goal of local SEO.
Local SEO is the work that makes a business show up when people nearby search for what it sells. Most of it happens on Google Maps and in the 3-pack, and it is driven by your Google Business Profile, your reviews and your website.
Profile fixes reach Google the same day. Ranking is slower: it responds to reviews, posts and profile completeness building up over weeks, and nobody can promise a position. What you get from day one is the measurement, so you can see whether the work is landing.
Yes. Turn on auto-reply and RankLocal answers your 4 and 5 star reviews in your tone and in the reviewer’s own language. Reviews of 3 stars or less are never answered automatically: RankLocal drafts a reply and you decide whether to send it.
Yes. A business that travels to its customers ranks in the towns it lists as its service areas. RankLocal lets you set the real towns you serve and warns you when an area is too broad to rank in, such as a whole country.
Every change goes through Google’s official API. RankLocal never edits your business name, address or main category, because changing those can send a listing back for verification, and it never sends a reply to a low review without you.
Yes. It works anywhere with a Google Business Profile. Rank tracking runs on your own area, and replies are written in the language your customer wrote in.
There is a free plan with 5 AI replies, 5 profile fixes and 2 auto-posts a month. Pro is $19 a month with everything unlimited, and your first month of Pro costs $1. You can cancel in two clicks.
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