Up to 10 per report
Keywords
Every report is built around the words customers type when they need your service. We check your list against real search behaviour in your area.
Google Maps ranking, explained
One search from your desk is one data point.
Most owners check their Google Maps ranking by opening Maps, typing the service and seeing where they land. It feels like an answer. It is your position at a single spot on the map.
Google Maps ranking is proximity-weighted. Google's own guidance lists three factors for local results: relevance, distance and prominence. Distance is measured from the person searching, not from your address, so a customer two suburbs away sees a different Map Pack than you do.
A free Google Maps ranking check runs the same search from dozens of points across your area and shows you all of them at once.
What the Google Maps ranking audit will tell you
Everything the report measures.
Per keyword
Ranking grid
Your position at every search point across your area, shown on a map. You see where you sit in the Top 3, where you drop below it, and where you are missing.
Are you ranking at all
Coverage
The share of your area where you appear in results at any position. The rest is where customers cannot find you.
Leading indicator
Average Ranking Position
Your mean position across the whole grid. The number we watch first, because it moves before your territory does.
Lagging indicator
Top 3 share of local voice
The share of your area where you already hold a Map Pack spot. This is the figure that grows as rankings compound.
What a free Google Maps ranking check looks like
The first scan is your baseline. Day 7 shows the movement.
This is a window tinting shop on the Gold Coast. The first grid is the free check: position at every point for the shop's main keyword, before anything was done. The second grid is the same keyword seven days into the trial.
Nothing on the shop's profile, website or reviews was changed in between. Your report uses the same grid, so you can compare your own day 0 and day 7 the same way.
Want to look before the report arrives? Read how to check your Google ranking in Australia, or why a business fails to rank on Google Maps.
FAQ
Checking your Google Maps ranking: questions.
Enter your business name and up to ten keywords in the form above. Within 24 hours you receive a grid-based report showing your Google Maps ranking at every point across your area, for each keyword. No card and no account are needed.
Google Maps ranking is proximity-weighted. Google ranks businesses partly on how close they are to the person searching, so the same search from two suburbs returns two different orders. A single search from your own location shows one position out of many.
Position 3 or better. The Map Pack shows three businesses before anyone taps More places, and First Page Sage (2026) measured 48% of all local search clicks going to those three results. Position 4 is one tap away from invisible.
Google names three factors: relevance, distance and prominence. In practice that covers your primary category and services, your proximity to the searcher, your review count and rating, and how people interact with your listing. Our audit measures the outcome of all of them at once.
No. A profile audit looks at your listing's settings. A ranking check measures where the listing appears in results. You can have a fully optimised profile and still sit at position 7 across most of your area, which is why we measure position first.
No. The check runs from the outside, the way a customer's search does. Nothing on your profile, website or reviews is touched.