Local search and Google Business Profiles
The listing is what most local customers see first. Usually it is wrong.
When somebody searches for a service near them, the map results appear above everything else. For a shop, a clinic, a restaurant or a contractor, that listing is the front door, and it is the single most neglected asset in Pakistani small business.
We currently manage twelve Google Business Profiles across Sadiqabad, Rahim Yar Khan, Lahore and Karachi. This is not a service line we added to a menu. It is what we do every week.
What is included
- Audit and baseline
- Every listing that exists, every duplicate, and six months of your current numbers recorded before we touch anything.
- Geogrid ranking check
- Where you actually rank across the area, not from one point. Repeated monthly with the same terms so the comparison means something.
- Claiming and verification
- Including video verification, which is now the default in Pakistan and which most people fail on the first attempt.
- Duplicate removal
- Merged, not deleted, so the reviews on both survive.
- Categories
- Chosen by testing against what already ranks. This one field carries more weight than the rest of the profile combined.
- Services, products and attributes
- Every field filled, each with its own description. AI summaries in Maps read these directly.
- Photo programme
- A proper set to begin with, then a steady handful every month. Shot on location, never faked.
- Review mechanic
- A request system that asks every customer, suggests no wording, and offers nothing in return. All three are required.
- Weekly posts
- With an image and a call to action. They expire from view but stay indexed.
- Monthly report
- Calls, direction requests and website clicks against the baseline. Not impressions.
What it costs
Ongoing work starts at PKR 10,000 a month. Most engagements sit between PKR 5,000 and PKR 30,000 depending on scope, and smaller one-off jobs start at PKR 5,000.
We scope before we quote and the first phase is a fixed price, so if it is not working, stopping is cheap. See how that compares with the rest of the market →
What we will not do
We will not guarantee a ranking position. Nobody controls it, and anyone who promises one is telling you something useful about themselves.
We will not buy reviews, write them, or coach your customers on what to say. It is prohibited, it is detectable, and when Google clears them it removes the honest ones too.
We will not put keywords in your business name. It works briefly, competitors report it, and the profile gets suspended.
Questions
Sometimes. It depends on why. Reinstatement means identifying the actual violation, fixing it, and appealing with evidence. We will tell you honestly what the odds look like before you pay us anything.
Ten, then stop counting. Published testing found that reaching ten produced a consistent lift and that going from ten to eleven produced nothing measurable. After ten, keeping them recent matters more than adding more.
Category and profile changes can move things within weeks. Reviews and photo cadence take longer because they are supposed to. Anyone quoting you a fixed number of days is guessing.
Yes. Everything except the photographs and the verification video can be done from here, and for those two we can talk you through exactly what to film.
Yes, and almost nobody in this market does. Bing feeds ChatGPT and Copilot; Apple feeds Siri and Apple Maps. Both are free to claim and both are ignored locally.
Other things we do
Want this done properly?
Tell us what the business is and where it is. We will tell you what it takes.