On a local search, the panel
is your front page.
Whether you manage it or not. Most businesses have a Google listing, plenty of them have never opened it, and it is the first thing a customer sees when they search your name.
Found this week, not ranked next year.
Search work has a slow half and a fast half. We do the fast half on day one, because a business waiting six months for a ranking still has to eat this month.
What we set up
- Google Business Profile
- Claimed, filled in and connected. Hours, area, services, photos, and the questions answered before somebody else answers them for you.
- Reviews
- A way of asking that a customer will actually use. What they write is what appears, and we never choose, edit or arrange them.
- The basics
- Titles, descriptions and structure on every page, so a search engine can tell what each one is for.
- Local pages
- A page for each place you genuinely serve, with something on it worth reading.
- Structured data
- The markup that turns a plain blue link into a result with detail in it.
- Speed
- A slow page is a search problem before it is a design problem, so we measure it.
- Measurement
- Search Console and analytics connected on day one, so whatever happens next is visible.
- Ownership
- The listing, the accounts and the data stay in your name. We get access, not possession.
How this runs
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Baseline
We record what you rank for, what the panel says and what the site scores today, before a single line of it changes.
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Fix
The things holding it back, in the order they matter, rather than the order we happened to find them.
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Publish
Pages, listing and markup go up together, so they agree with each other from the first day.
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Ongoing
Monthly, measured against that baseline. If a number went the wrong way you hear it from us first.
We record what you rank for before we touch anything, so the after has a before.
Google Ads and social
- Google Ads
- Paid search on the terms worth buying, with the budget capped where you set it and the spend visible to you rather than summarised to you once a month.
- Social presence
- The accounts set up properly and tied to the site and the Google profile, so somebody who finds you on one finds the same business, the same hours and the same phone number on the other.
- Which one your business needs first
- Ads buy attention for exactly as long as you pay for them. Search and your Google profile keep earning it after you stop. We will tell you which one to start with, and it is often not the one you came asking for.
What somebody actually sees.
- A title nobody wrote, a description the engine had to invent, and no profile beside it. You are found, and you are still not chosen.
These are live. Open any of them.
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futuredrive.co.za
Future Drive
A review engine built off an audit of the real listing: branded cards for the counter and for WhatsApp, pointing customers straight at the Google profile.
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drivediva.co.za
Drive Diva
The same engine for the sister brand, built off its own listing audit rather than a copy of the first one, because the argument is different for every business.
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baseline
A client rebuild
We recorded what the old site ranked for before a line of it changed, so the new one could be measured against something real.
A review shows what the customer wrote. We never pick which ones appear and we never ask for a number first. See the rest of the work
What does your listing say right now?
We will open it before the call and tell you what a customer sees today. Twenty minutes, no pitch on it, and you keep whatever we find either way.