About
Built by a local business owner — not a marketing agency.
RankLocal started the way most honest tools do: with a real problem. Our founder runs a small local business — a surf school on the Moroccan coast — and lived the Google Maps struggle first-hand. Great reviews, happy customers… and still buried under competitors in the Map Pack.
The options were an agency at $300+ a month, enterprise software priced for chains, or hours a week of manual work: replying to every review, posting updates, uploading photos, checking rankings street by street. None of those fit a real owner's life.
So we built the tool we wished existed: software that runs the proven local-SEO routine — review replies in your voice (and your customer's language), fresh posts and photos, a live geo-grid of your real rank, an SEO score that fixes itself in one click — on autopilot, at a price a single-location business can afford.
Everything we recommend in the app, on this blog, and in our Playbook, we practice on a real listing first. That's the experience baked into the product.
What we believe
Official APIs only
Every action RankLocal takes on your Google Business Profile goes through Google’s official API — the same secure system big platforms use. No scraping, no browser bots, no gray-zone tricks that put your listing at risk.
We protect your listing like it’s ours
The app physically cannot edit the fields that trigger Google re-verification (business name, address, primary category). Automations are paced and capped. Negative reviews are never auto-answered — a human should handle those, with AI drafts ready.
No fake anything
No fake reviews, no invented ratings, no “submit to 500 directories” spam. If a tactic could harm you in a Google update, we don’t build it — even if competitors sell it.
Plain English
You shouldn’t need an SEO dictionary to grow your business. Every score, tip, and button in RankLocal explains itself the way you’d explain it to a friend.
Talk to a human
Questions, ideas, or a website you want us to build? Email hello@getranklocal.com — a person reads every message. You can also start with the FAQ or try the free profile grader.