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Google Business Profile

Why Google Business Profile is your #1 lead source.

The single biggest lever most home service companies ignore.

The map pack

It drives more local leads than your website does.

The map pack sits above organic results and above the ads on every “near me” search. If you’re not in those three pins, you’re fighting for scraps.

44%
of clicks on a local search go to the map pack. The organic website links below it get 29%.
BrightLocal local pack click study
The 4 levers you control

Where the real work lives.

Categories
Primary category first.
The right primary outweighs every other one. Get this wrong and nothing else matters.
Reviews
Volume, velocity, recency.
100+ reviews. Steady flow every month. The last review shouldn’t be from 2023.
Photos
Geotagged, real, often.
20 to start. Add a few every week. Real jobs, real crews, real trucks.
Posts
Weekly. Every week.
Service highlights, jobs you finished, seasonal updates. Consistency signals an active business.
One source, every surface

Your other channels read from it.

Your map pack, your Google Maps pin, and the panel on branded searches are all built from your profile. Your Local Services Ads rank on its reviews, your search ads show its address, and it’s often the largest source of clicks to your website. It isn’t one more channel to manage. It’s the source the others run on, so fixing it once lifts all of them.

If you do one thing

Ask your last 10 customers for a Google review.

Send the direct link. Not the homepage. Not your card. The review link. This week.