Cost: $0 It's 100% Free.
Cost: There is a cost to use a grid tool like Local Falcon and a cost to set up a Google Workspace account.
Cost: It's $59 a month per location you would like protected.
Time: A few minutes.
Time: Hours and days depending how many listings your working on every month.
Time: None, outside the initial 2 minute setup, we do all the work for you every single month.
Manpower: A single person can handle this.
Manpower: Depending how many locations your doing this for, you would need multiple people to handle the work monthly.
Manpower: We have a team that is dedicated to conducting your audits on a monthly basis.
Who Does the Work: Your able to do the work yourself.
Who Does the Work: While you can do the work yourself, the amount of time needed to do the work every month isn't worth it to most people. If you have a lot of listings you might need a small team to help.
Who Does the Work: We have a dedicated team that manually identifies and reports fake, old, and keyword stuffed to Google.
Keyword Limit: Theoretically there is no limit but we recommend not doing more than 5 keywords.
Keyword Limit: Theoretically there is no limit but we recommend not doing more than 5 keywords.
Keyword Limit: Theoretically there is no limit but we recommend not doing more than 5 keywords. (We currently cap our subscription at 5 keywords per location but might offer larger packages in the future)
Tracking: Simple since you only need to track a small number of listings.
Tracking: Complex since it becomes more impossible the more you manually track.
Tracking: Simple and limitless since you have access to a dashboard that tracks the status change of all listings daily.
Accuracy: This is the most inaccurate method. While you will of found a handful of listings to report, odds are, your missing many other listings taking up your market share.
Accuracy: This is the most accurate method before needing our platform to help. Depending if you plan to only look at the competition in front of your ranks or the top 20 competitors, and depending if you run multiple keyword scans per location, will make the process less accurate vs having a program to truncate the results.
Accuracy: 100% accurate as we programmatically truncate down a list of competitors for our auditing team to work on.
Success Rate: Medium, as you likely aren't paying for a Google Workspace account.
Success Rate: High as you likely have a Google Workspace account that is trusted by Google. Our data has shown that local guide levels have no impact on the success rate of edits.
Success Rate: Highest as you likely have a Google Workspace account that is trusted by Google. Our data has shown that local guide levels have no impact on the success rate of edits. Our tracking and data allows us to be sensitive to the nuances of what works and what doesn't work with Google at a given point in time.
Cost: $0 It's 100% Free.
Cost: $350. (cost is based on how large and complex the case is)
Time: Depends how large the case is.
Time: Depends how large the case is.
Manpower: Depends how large the case is.
Manpower: Depends how large the case is.
Who Does the Work: Your able to do the work yourself.
Who Does the Work: A former Platinum Google Business Profile product expert will handle your case.
Success Rate: Low, while simple cases might be taken down by Google, more complex cases have a history of low success.
Success Rate: High, by building a detailed case for Google to review, combined with the knowledge of the nuances our team has, the success rate is high.
Cost: $0 It's 100% Free.
Cost: Starts at $350. (cost is based on how large and complex the case is)
Time: Depends how large the case is.
Time: Depends how large the case is.
Manpower: Depends how large the case is.
Manpower: Depends how large the case is.
Who Does the Work: Your able to do the work yourself.
Who Does the Work: A former Platinum Google Business Profile product expert will handle your case.
Success Rate: Low, reporting fake LSAs through traditional means has a history of low success.
Success Rate: High, through connections with the LSA team, the reports against the fake LSAs have the highest chance of success.