How to rank in Google Maps in Los Angeles.

Why a single search lies to you

When you search your keyword from your office, Google shows results for your office. Your customers search from their homes, three to ten miles away. A rank grid searches from 49 points across your area and shows the truth: often green at the door and red everywhere else.

The five things to fix, in order

Primary category and services on your Google Business Profile. Get the category exactly right. List every service.

Name, address and phone that match everywhere. Google checks dozens of directories. Mismatches cost trust.

Reviews, asked for at the right moment, and every one answered.

Photos and posts, real ones, added regularly.

Pages on your site for the services and cities you want to win.

What to expect

Movement usually shows on the grid in 30 to 90 days. Dense categories in dense areas take longer. Nobody can guarantee a position, and anyone who does is selling something else.

Los Angeles specifics

LA is big and spread out. A business in Porter Ranch and a business in Long Beach are not competing. Pick the neighborhoods you can actually serve, and build pages and listings for those. Spreading thin across the whole county is how you rank nowhere.

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Sean Sotoudian, founder of 2X Market. Builds growth and operations systems for companies in Los Angeles and Orange County. About Sean