How geo-grid rank tracking works, one pin at a time
The five steps at every pin, what “as a phone sees it” means, and the evidence with its limits.
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Local SEO ranking guides and calculators for agencies.
Plain guides for agencies that report Google Maps rankings to clients, each with a worked example from real scans, and two calculators. No jargon and no ranking promises.
Last updated · Written by the Local Pinmeter team in Phoenix, Arizona
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How to read a geo-grid report and explain it to a client
Pins, colours, Pinmeter Score and Pin Rank, with a real scan and the words to use with a client.
Read the guide: How to read a geo-grid report and explain it to a clientA monthly local SEO ranking report: checklist and template
What a client wants from the monthly report, a checklist and a template you can copy.
Read the guide: A monthly local SEO ranking report: checklist and templatePhone vs desktop Google Maps rankings
Why the two views differ, and what our own tests measured.
Read the guide: Phone vs desktop Google Maps rankingsGeo-grid size and spacing
Which grid and spacing to start with for each kind of business, with credits and distances worked out.
Read the guide: Geo-grid size and spacingHow many keywords to track per local client
How to choose them, and what each choice costs in credits.
Read the guide: How many keywords to track per local clientHow often to run geo-grid scans
Daily, weekly or monthly: what each costs and when each makes sense.
Read the guide: How often to run geo-grid scansProximity, relevance and prominence in a geo-grid
Google’s three local ranking factors and what a grid can and can’t show about each.
Read the guide: Proximity, relevance and prominence in a geo-gridHow to pitch a local business with its own heatmap
A prospect’s own map opens the conversation. What it costs and what to say.
Read the guide: How to pitch a local business with its own heatmapCalculators
Work out your own numbers
Geo-grid credit calculator
Clients, keywords, grid size and scans a month in; credits and the plan that covers them out.
Open the calculator: Geo-grid credit calculatorGrid size and spacing calculator
Pins, credits per keyword and the distance a grid covers.
Open the calculator: Grid size and spacing calculatorGlossary of terms
Every term on a map, a score or a report, in plain words.
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