Local Rank Grid — Free Local Rank Tracker
This free local rank tracker checks your Google Business Profile position from every point around your business and plots it on a geo grid — so you can see exactly where you win the Map Pack and where you are invisible. It is the Localo / BrightLocal-style grid, free: no single misleading rank number, just a street-by-street picture of your local visibility.
1 · Choose your business
Pick a location from your Google Business Profile, or find any business manually.
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2 · Keywords & grid
This run: 0 keyword(s) × 49 points = 49 free calls.
Rankings come from live Google Places data at each grid point. Average position is the mean across points where the business appears in the top 20. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
How to Use This Local Rank Tracker
- Choose your business. Pick a location from your Google Business Profile, or find any business manually by name.
- Add your money keywords. Enter the phrases customers actually type — a service plus the area you serve — one per line.
- Pick a grid and run the scan. A 5×5 grid gives a quick read of your immediate area; 7×7 and 9×9 grids with wider spacing cover a whole town or city district.
- Read the map, then re-scan. Top-3 cells are where the phone rings. Work on the weak edges, then run the same scan again to confirm the movement in your saved history.
Why a Geo Grid Tells the Truth About Local Rankings
Almost every local business owner has had the same misleading experience: you search your main keyword from the shop, see your business at number one, and conclude local SEO is handled. But Google builds local results around the searcher's exact location, so the customer standing in your car park and the customer three miles away are effectively looking at two different league tables. A single rank check answers a question nobody is asking — where you rank from your own desk.
A geo grid scan replaces that single check with a map. It records your Google Maps position at dozens of points spread across the area you serve, and the pattern is what matters: most businesses have a strong core around their premises that fades with distance, and the shape of that fade — which neighbourhoods hold up, which drop away, and which competitor owns each weak zone — is the real state of your local visibility. That is the picture a local rank tracker should give you, and it is the one this geo grid produces from live Google Places data at every point.
The weak zones are a work list, not just a report. Reviews that mention the area by name, accurate categories and services on your profile, location-relevant content on your website and citations from local sources all strengthen the edges of the grid over time. Pair the grid with a standard rank tracker for your organic positions, re-scan on a regular rhythm, and you can watch your visibility area expand instead of guessing from one flattering search.
Frequently Asked Questions
A local rank tracker measures where a business appears in Google Maps and the local pack for a given keyword. Because local results change with the searcher’s location, a good local rank tracker checks from many points around the business — a geo grid — instead of reporting a single position from a single postcode.
A geo grid scan lays a grid of points (5×5, 7×7 or 9×9) over the area a business serves and records its Google Maps ranking at every point for the chosen keyword. The result is a colour-coded map — strong in one neighbourhood, weaker in another — which shows exactly where visibility drops off.
Google weighs proximity to the person searching heavily, alongside relevance and prominence. A customer two streets away may see you first while someone across town never sees you at all, which is why a single rank check from your own office can be seriously misleading.
Run a baseline scan for each of your main keywords, then re-scan after changes — new reviews, profile updates, fresh photos or a local campaign — and otherwise on a regular weekly or monthly rhythm per keyword. Comparing scans over time shows whether your visibility area is growing or shrinking.
Yes. You can run 5×5 geo grid scans free within a monthly allowance of scan credits. Paid plans add larger 9×9 grids, more credits, the competitor table and white-label reports — see the pricing page for the current allowances.
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