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Type business + UK town
Examples: ‘Joe’s Plumbing Cardiff’, ‘cafe Manchester’, ‘dentist SW1A’. We auto-detect URLs and run a website scan if you paste a domain.
No signup. Free unlimited scans, all UK postcodes.
How it works
From invisible on Google to fully ranked
A clear, end-to-end walkthrough of how Rank Meter scans your local-pack visibility, scores eleven signals, and turns the result into a done-for-you plan our UK team delivers.
Done-for-you, not DIY
One free scan. Then our UK team does the work.
See exactly where you sit on Google Maps in 30 seconds — no card, no signup. From there, our specialists take over the fixes, the upkeep and the growth, so you never have to learn local SEO yourself.
- Free Google Maps visibility scan
- Eleven ranking signals scored
- Specialists handle every fix
- Plans from £14.99 / month
Managed by our UK team
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Visibility score
Local pack #2 · 11 signals tracked
Why every UK business needs this
Local search decides who walks through your door.
For UK high-street businesses, Google's local pack is the most important shop window you have. If you're not in the top 3 for your category in your town, the customer is walking into the competitor. Most owners never know how close they are.
76%
UK consumers check reviews
before deciding which business to call or visit
50%
‘Near me’ searches convert
visit a business within 24 hours of searching
2.7x
Photo-rich profiles get more
direction requests vs profiles with no photos
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Listings is the local pack
Google shows three. If you're not one, you're hidden
What's quietly going wrong on most UK profiles
Five issues you can't see — but Google can.
Wrong primary category
Picked ‘Restaurant’ instead of ‘Italian Restaurant’ — costing two tiers of rank.
Mismatched NAP
Phone or address differs across Yell, Yelp, Bing, FreeIndex — Google demotes.
Stale photos
Last upload 18 months ago — Google reads this as an inactive business.
Bank holiday hours
Hours not set for UK bank holidays — ‘unknown’ flag suppresses you.
Slow website
Core Web Vitals fail on mobile — page-experience signal demotes for ‘near me’ queries.
You don't fix any of this. The scan finds it, then our UK team puts every issue right and keeps it right month after month.
The free scan
From worried to in-control in 30 seconds.
No login. No card. We pull the public Google Maps data, score it, and show you exactly where you sit against the businesses around you.
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Get a structured report
Visibility 0–100 score, ranking position vs the local pack, six nearest competitors, eleven signal scores, and a fix list ordered by impact.
Honest fields: anything we can’t verify is marked ‘to verify’ — we never invent.
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We do the work
Pick a plan and our UK team executes — citation cleanup, profile rebuilds, review push, backlinks. Every action is timestamped to your dashboard.
Plans from Bronze £14.99/mo, Silver £29.99/mo, Gold £59.99/mo.
What we score
Eleven signals that decide whether Google shows you
Every one is checked from public Google data and weighted into your visibility score. None require us to log into your account — and once you're on board, our team owns every one of them for you.
45%
Profile
30%
Reviews
25%
Competition
Business name
Set, consistent, matches what customers search.
Full UK address
Street, city, postcode — required for local-pack appearance.
Public phone
Visible UK landline or mobile drives calls and trust.
Website link
Even one well-built page lifts CTR from Maps.
Opening hours
Full weekly schedule unlocks ‘open now’ surfacing.
Primary category
The single biggest local-SEO ranking lever.
Secondary categories
Capture related search intents.
Photos (5+)
Listings with photos earn measurably more clicks.
Profile description
Helps Google match your offering to keywords.
Review volume
10+ reviews moves you out of the long tail.
Average rating
4.0+ keeps you visible in competitive searches.
Where the data comes from
Live Google Maps Places + Geocoding APIs, Google PageSpeed Insights, Companies House (UK gov), Wayback Machine. No scraping, no third-party data brokers.
What the scan can't see
A few owner-only GBP fields — services menu, posts, Q&A, attributes. We mark those ‘to verify’ and never invent the answer. Connect via Google for those.
Why it's fast
The whole scan runs server-side in parallel: Places, PageSpeed, social parse, Companies House, Wayback. Total round-trip 8–25 seconds depending on your site.
After you start
A 15-minute onboarding — then we take it from here.
Pick a plan (or a one-time setup) and a short guided onboarding collects everything our team needs to work on your behalf. No agency phone calls, no jargon — five quick steps and you're done.
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Your basics (NAP)
Legal + trading name, address, phone, opening hours — the exact details Google matches you on.
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Google & website access
You tell us your listing + website. Then you give us access (two easy ways — see below).
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Categories & service area
Your primary category, the secondary ones worth claiming, and the towns you actually serve.
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What makes you different
Services + prices, accreditations, USPs and your tone — so everything we write sounds like you.
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Goals & competitors
The keywords you want to win, the rivals to beat, and your monthly review target.
Option A · Manager invite
Add us as a manager on your Google Business Profile. We send the exact click-by-click steps — it takes a minute and you stay the owner.
Option B · One-click Google
Connect with Google in your account and we can read + update your listing through Google's official API. Revoke any time.
We never ask for your Google password. Access is granted by you and removable any time.
What we manage
Everything that moves your local ranking — handled for you.
Ranking in the local pack isn't one fix — it's six things kept right, every month. Rank Meter runs all of them as one managed service, so you never have to learn local SEO or chase freelancers.
Google profile
Google Business Profile
Your single biggest local-ranking asset, fully optimised and kept fresh.
- Right primary + up to 5 secondary categories
- 600–750 char keyword-tuned description
- Hours, services, attributes, payment methods
- Optimised + tagged photos, posts and Q&A
Consistency
Citations & NAP
Inconsistent name/address/phone is one of Google's strongest demotion signals.
- Audit across 50+ UK directories
- Fix every mismatched listing (with screenshots)
- Re-check after 30 days to confirm
- Consistency report you can keep
Authority
Backlinks & authority
Google weighs who vouches for you across the web. We earn relevant links — and prove each one.
- Relevant UK links: local directories, trade bodies, regional press, partners
- We do the outreach for you
- Every link fetched and verified genuinely live
- Dated, anchor-tracked ledger in your dashboard
Reputation
Reviews growth
Volume + recency drive the local-pack ranker more than almost any other public signal.
- Branded QR card, SMS and email request templates
- A 30-day cadence that keeps reviews flowing
- Negative-review deflection (Google-policy compliant)
- Never fake — only real customers, the right way
On-site
Website & on-page SEO
The signals Google reads on your own site — fixed and kept healthy.
- LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema markup
- Core Web Vitals (LCP / INP / CLS) wins
- Sitemap, robots, Search Console + GA4
- Local service pages that actually rank
Content
Photos & content
Fresh, correctly-tagged media tells Google (and customers) you're active and real.
- Photo audit + improvement plan
- Optimised, geo-tagged uploads
- Content briefs for posts and pages
- Brand-matched tone on everything we write
Your monthly cycle
Every month: measure, fix, build, prove.
Local SEO isn't set-and-forget — Google re-ranks constantly and competitors keep moving. So we run the same disciplined loop every month and you watch the score climb.
1Measure
We re-scan your visibility and pinpoint the gaps costing you the most positions this month.
2Fix the profile
We work the highest-impact Google Business Profile gaps first — categories, description, photos, posts.
3Build authority
New citations and relevant backlinks go out — and every link is verified genuinely live before it counts.
4Grow reviews
We keep your review volume and recency climbing with compliant, branded requests.
5Tune the website
Schema, speed and local pages get patched wherever the scan flags a weakness.
6Prove it
You get a clear before/after report — every action dated, every link checked, the score plotted.
Honest expectation: local ranking compounds. Most measurable lifts show within the first 30 days; the bigger gains stack over two to three months as authority and consistency build.
Your dashboard
Proof of work — not vague promises.
Every action we take shows up in your account, dated and evidenced. You always know exactly what we've done, what it changed, and what's next — no "trust us" required.
Live task board
Every job, its status and the latest update — so nothing happens in a black box.
Visibility score timeline
Your baseline vs today, with every re-scan plotted so the trend is undeniable.
Backlink ledger
Every link we build — dated, with its anchor text and a verified-live tick.
Citation report
Directory-by-directory NAP status you can download and keep.
Two-way messaging
Talk to the team on any task. Replaces the 'what's happening?' email chase.
Re-scan on demand
Check exactly where you stand whenever you like — plus shareable PDF reports.
Who does the work
A real UK team — now AI-assisted, always human-checked.
Rank Meter isn't a black box that spits out a checklist and leaves you to it. Real specialists deliver the work. AI agents now draft the heavy lifting — descriptions, backlink prospect lists, outreach, review templates, on-page plans — so work ships faster and more consistently. But a human reviews and approves every single item before it ever touches your listing.
Human-supervised AI. Agents draft; a UK admin approves before anything goes live.
Every backlink verified live. We fetch the page and confirm the link points to you — a claim isn't enough.
Hands-on where it counts. Google verification and directory submissions are done by hand, on your behalf.
Pick your path
Two paths, same goal — be the listing customers click.
Whether you're already on Google Maps or starting from scratch, there's a clear next step. Both start with the free scan.
Existing business
Already on Google Maps? Sign up + pick a plan.
Run the free scan, see your visibility score, and let our UK team close the gaps with monthly upkeep.
- 1Run free scanSee your 0-100 score and the eleven signal breakdown.
- 2Save as a projectSign up with email + password, save the scan, track over time.
- 3Pick a monthly planBronze monitoring, Silver active growth, or Gold done-for-you.
New business
No Google profile yet? We launch you on Maps.
One fee, two weeks, ready for monthly upkeep. We handle the entire zero-to-live setup so you skip the scan-and-fix loop entirely.
- 1Create + verify your GBPPostcard or video verification, fully managed.
- 2Optimise + launchCategories, description, photos, hours, services, attributes.
- 3Submit to UK directoriesTop 10 directories — Yell, Bing Places, Apple Maps, FreeIndex, more.
£119
One-time
10–14 days
Google verification incl.
Monthly
Pair with Bronze+
Ready to see yours?
The first scan is free and there's no signup. You'll know your visibility score in 30 seconds — then we take it from there.