Google Map Pack expansion · Canada and the USA
Search a trade plus “near me” and Google shows three businesses beside a map. For most businesses, that spot fades the further the customer is from the shop. We push your reach out, town by town, so the next town over finds you too.
30 minutes on Google Meet. For businesses doing $20k a month or more.
From a business we rank · American Hurricane Shutters, Wilmington NC
Google Maps: “storm shutters near me”, searched from Ocean Isle Beach
52 miles from the shop. First on the map.
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(01) Businesses we rank
Screenshots from the work, cropped to what matters. Look at where the search was made, then look at who’s first.
American Hurricane Shutters · Wilmington, North Carolina
Searched from
52 mi
away from the shop
Position on the map
#1
for storm shutters near me
The lesson
62 reviews beat 159. Reviews are one signal among many.
Asheville Area Movers · North Carolina
The search
“local movers”
From every spot
1st or 2nd
360 Hazardous Cleanup · Louisville, Kentucky
Biggest jump
#37 → #1
The lesson
1 review beat 76.
(02) How Google picks the three
Google weighs three things for every map search. One of them works against you with every mile. The other two you can build.
Relevance
You can build this
Does your business match what they searched, in the place they searched it? Your Google profile and a page on your website for each town tell Google you do the job there.
Distance
Fixed: you can’t move the shop
How far the person searching is from you. Every mile counts against you, which is why most businesses vanish from the map a few towns out.
Prominence
You can build this
How well known and trusted you look online. It’s built from many signals: links, listings, mentions, your website and reviews among them.
Said differently...
You can’t shrink the miles. You can build the other two high enough to carry you further out.
(03) The customer you’re missing
She lives inside the area you cover. She types the job and “near me”.
She calls one of the three on the map.
If you’re not one of them, the job’s gone before you knew it existed.
Every town you serve where you’re not in those three is a town of jobs going to someone else. Map Pack expansion is how you win those towns back.
(04) What we do
We do all of it for you. You keep running the business.
We run your main searches from points right across your area and plot where you show up from each one. That’s your starting map, and the one we measure against every month.
An illustration. Your shop in the middle, your position from each spot around it.
Your Google Business Profile is the listing that shows on the map. Google lets a business that travels to customers name up to 20 service areas, by town or postcode, and hide the address if customers don’t visit. We set it up the way Google’s rules ask, then fill in everything that tells Google what you do.
Not a copy with the town name swapped. A page about the work you do there: the jobs, the areas, how fast you get out, who to call. It gives Google a reason to match you to searches from that town.
yourwebsite.com/service-areas/riverside
yourwebsite.com/service-areas/millbrook
yourwebsite.com/service-areas/lakeview
An illustration. Made-up town names.
Links and mentions from websites in the towns you want: local news, community groups, suppliers, sponsorships, local directories. It shows Google you belong there too.
A steady habit of asking real customers, wherever the job was. Reviews are one signal among many and the easiest one to see, so we build them alongside everything else, never instead of it.
★★★★★
“Came out the same day, fixed it in an hour. Would call again.”
An illustration of the kind of review that helps.
We walk you through it live: your keyword positions, your Google Analytics data and a list of the work done. You see which towns you’ve won and which are next.
Towns where you’re in the three: before
After the work
An illustration of what the report tracks.
Part of the full plan
(05) What we won’t do
Google’s rules ban the tricks on the left. A profile that breaks them can be suspended and drop off the map completely.
The shortcuts
What we do instead
(06) Do it yourself, free
No web person needed. Do these whether you hire us or not.
Search like a customer in the next town
Check your service areas
Run the free radius check
Our free 50-mile radius playbook walks you through a check that takes three searches and shows how far out you rank today. Then it gives you the fixes for pushing that further.
Open the playbook →(07) Before you sign
If an agency won’t answer these plainly before the call, keep looking. Here are ours.
Can I see a business you rank far from its shop?
Yes. American Hurricane Shutters is first on Google Maps for “storm shutters near me” searched from Ocean Isle Beach, 52 miles from their shop in Wilmington. The screenshots are above. More case studies
How will I rank in towns where I have no address?
A profile set to the area you really cover, a real page for each town, and mentions from websites in those towns. Never fake addresses or extra profiles.
What will it cost me each month?
Usually $1,497 to $5,000 a month, set by your market and how many towns you want. Work across several websites usually starts at $5,000. See pricing
How long am I locked in?
Zero months. It’s month to month.
What happens if it doesn’t work?
No visible improvement in 20 days: your payment for that period back, plus $200. Your qualifying keywords not on page one of Google in 60 days: we keep working free until they are. The guarantee
(08) Is this for you?
Under $20k a month? We’re not your agency. Over it, and ready to win the towns around you? Let’s talk.
Who it’s for
$20k+
a month in your own revenue. This is for established businesses already doing $20k a month or more.
How many we take
15
new clients a month, at most. That’s what it takes to hold the rankings we promise.
What it costs
We put our fee on the line. Page one for your qualifying keywords on Google in 60 days, or we keep working free. We confirm which ones qualify on the strategy call.
Guarantee 01
20days
If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.
What we measure: your traffic, what that traffic is worth, how much authority your site and its pages carry, and how many other sites link to you, against the day we start.
Guarantee 02
60days
If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
What counts: at least one high-value search for your business on page one of Google.
No long-term contracts. Results keep you here. Paperwork doesn't.
Your next step
On a free 30 minute call we look at where you show up on the map across your area, who's taking the towns you're missing, and what it takes to reach them.
Bring with you
We search your market live
The way your customers do, in the towns you serve.
We show who's above you, and why
On Google, on Maps and in the AI answers.
You leave with a road map
Yours to keep. If we can help, we'll invite you to work with us.
For established businesses doing at least $20,000 a month.
Questions
What business owners ask us before they book.
Book my free strategy callThe three businesses Google shows beside a map when someone searches for a local service, like plumber near me. It sits above the normal results, and it's where a lot of local calls start.
Yes, though it gets harder the further out you go, because distance is one of the three things Google weighs. American Hurricane Shutters ranks first for storm shutters near me searched from Ocean Isle Beach, 52 miles from their shop in Wilmington. We build how well you match and how trusted you look in each town, so your reach goes further.
No. Google's rules don't allow a mailbox or an unstaffed virtual office as a business address, and a profile that breaks them can be suspended and drop off the map completely. We grow your reach from the one real location you have.
Google lets you list up to 20, by town or postcode. Listing an area tells customers you work there. It doesn't on its own make you rank there: that takes the work on your website and across the web.
No single thing does. Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and prominence, and prominence is built from many signals: links, listings, mentions, your website and reviews among them. Reviews are one signal, and the easiest one to see. At 52 miles out, American Hurricane Shutters ranks first with 62 reviews, above a business with 159.
Local SEO gets you on the map where you are. Map Pack expansion pushes that reach out to the towns around you. Same foundations, aimed further out, and tracked town by town.
We guarantee it. No visible improvement in 20 days: your payment for that period back, plus $200. Your qualifying keywords not on page one of Google in 60 days: we keep working free until they are.
Usually $1,497 to $5,000 a month, set by your market and how many towns you want. Month to month, with no lock-in.
