Playbooks, teardowns, and research on Google Maps rankings — written by the team behind Grid My Business and 12,000+ local operators in the field.
Putting a word like “dental” or “dentist” in a practice’s name carries a real rank advantage, our data shows. But does that mean an established practice should rename to get it? Here’s the honest answer.
Add a free ranking-scan widget to your agency’s own site. Visitors get a real answer, you get a qualified lead, and it runs itself once it’s live.
Grid My Business now has an MCP Server that gives AI assistants read-only access to live account data, so agencies can pull rankings and reviews directly inside Claude, Cursor, or Codex.
Three GBP enforcement waves since April 2026 have caught legitimate profiles alongside spam. Here is what is triggering the flags and how to recover.
Primary category is the biggest optimizable signal in Google’s local ranking. Here’s how to audit a GBP profile’s category and fix what’s costing it rank.
