Google Business Profile optimization, block by block

Local rank, a page of its own next to the profile, scans a grid of points around any of your locations (3x3, 5x5 or 7x7, 0.5 to 20 km apart). At each point it checks your Google Maps local pack rank for up to 10 searches and asks AI up to 5 prompts, written for you from the searches. Both land on one map with two layers, the Maps rank from green for the top 3 down to red past 10 and the share of AI answers that name you, with the competitors of both below. It needs no Google connection.

Yes. Each city or location is a market of one report, read in all 7 AI engines with its prompts asked in the market’s language, and a whole region can be added at once. Answers change almost completely between nearby cities, so every location gets its own score, competitors and sources.

Yes, with Gemini and Google Maps. Inside one city, most AI answers vary as much between two identical runs as between two neighborhoods, so Rank Prompt reads AI visibility per location and per city in 7 engines. Gemini with Google Maps does change point by point, so every local scan asks it up to 5 prompts at every point around a location, on the same grid as your Google Maps rank, which moves block by block too.

Google weighs proximity heavily in local results, so the business that wins downtown can be invisible three miles north. A Local rank scan makes that variation visible, so you know exactly where to push reviews, posts, and local content instead of guessing from a single rank check.

116 directories, from Yelp, Foursquare, BBB and Apple Business Connect to industry sites such as Avvo, Healthgrades and Angi, with local ones for 30 countries. Reading the directories your AI answers cite is free; checking whether a location is listed costs 1 credit per 10 directories searched.

Gemini and Google AI Mode (AI Overviews) draw on Google Business Profile data: categories, reviews, photos and activity. ChatGPT leans on listings such as Yelp, Foursquare and Bing Places instead, which is why the local sources check looks there too. Optimizing both lifts your Maps rank and how AI assistants recommend you locally.

Each week it reads every linked profile: details and hours, categories against the top 3 of its own map scan, services, photos, posts, reviews and how many get a reply, and the site the profile links to (the landing page, its LocalBusiness schema and whether its name, address and phone match). The score is 0 to 100 over what it could measure, with the coverage next to it. Prepare fixes then drafts the description, services, review replies, posts and a review kit in one run for 1 credit; you review and apply, and the main category never changes without your approval.

Yes, on Agency and Agency Plus. A prospect audit reads a business that is not a client yet from its public Google data, its Maps link or its name and city, for 2 credits a run, refunded if it fails. Checks only the owner can see are marked as needing access. Share it, or the city page plan, as a link under your own branding.

For each review, the AI drafts a reply in your brand voice that addresses the specific sentiment and content, gracious on praise, constructive on complaints. You can edit before sending, and consistent replies are a known local ranking signal.

Locations, city reports and the local sources check work on every plan, Free included. The Google Business Profile tools and Local rank start on Starter. A local scan costs 1 credit per 3 AI answers, one prompt at one point, and your Google Maps ranks come with it for every search: with one prompt, 3 credits at 3x3, 9 at 5x5 and 17 at 7x7, scheduled runs with prompts priced the same. The Business Profile audit is free and runs every week on every linked profile; Prepare fixes and the weekly local pilot, which drafts up to 60 review replies and 12 posts a month per location for your approval, start on Starter.