A free look at your Google listing

What you get

What is on your listing right now — claimed or not, photo count, review count, how many reviews have been answered, and whether you have duplicate listings splitting your reviews.
How you compare to four or five other businesses in the same trade in your town. Not opinions — their actual numbers next to yours.
What I would do first, second and third, in an order you could work through yourself over a weekend if you would rather.
What I cannot see, stated plainly. No ranking claims, no placement promises, no made-up revenue figures.

There is no sales call. The price is on the report, at the end, in a number. If you read it and decide to do the work yourself, that is a perfectly good outcome and you will not hear from me chasing it.

Where to look

Business name, as Google has it * Copy it off your own listing rather than typing it from memory. The exact wording matters more than it should — “Hillside P&D” and “Hillside Plumbing & Drain” are two different businesses as far as a computer is concerned.

Town and state * Or a street address if you have a shop. This is how I find the right listing — there are a lot of businesses with your name.

Your email * Where the report goes. Nowhere else, and nobody else gets it.

Your name

Phone Only so I can check I have matched the right listing. I will not ring you.

Website If you have one. Not having one is not a problem — plenty do not.

One quick step after this: I will email you a six-character code and you type it in on the next screen. It is the only way I can tell that the address really is yours — anybody can put anybody’s email into a form, and I am not willing to send a stranger a report about a business that is not theirs.

I will reply from scott@polymathduck.com, usually the same day. Your details are used to look at your listing and nothing else — not sold, not shared, not added to any other list.

Now check your email — I just sent you a code

It is six characters, and it is in the subject line, so you can read it straight off the notification without even opening the message.

From Scott at PolyMathDuck, subject starts “Your code:”. Usually under a minute. If it is not there in five, look in spam — and tell me, because that is worth knowing.

Nothing happens until that code comes back — I do not look anything up and you hear nothing more from me. If you have changed your mind, just ignore it and that is the end of it.

That is all I needed. I am looking at your listing now, and the report will arrive at the address you gave me — usually the same day. It comes from scott@polymathduck.com, so glance at your spam folder if it has not turned up by tomorrow. Nothing else for you to do.

Something went wrong sending that, which is embarrassing on a page about websites. Email me directly at scott@polymathduck.com with your business name and town and I will do it by hand.