A free map of where you rank on Google Maps

What the map check covers

Market Visibility is the first pillar of the MOSAIC Six, and this map is how I measure it.

• One main service

  The search that matters most to you, in the words a customer types, such as “dentist”, “emergency plumber” or “coffee”.

• One location

  Your business on Google Maps, searched from points spread across the area around it, because your rank changes with where the searcher is.

• A map by email

  Where you appear at each point, with a short explanation of what the map shows.

How to read your map

Each point on the map is one search, run from that spot the way a customer standing there would see it: on a phone, with the ads left out. The point’s shade is where you ranked from that spot. The darkest points are the top three, the part of the map that shows without a tap; the lighter ones are fourth to tenth and eleventh to twentieth; grey means you were not in the top twenty there.

Read the shape, not one point. A business almost always ranks best near its own door and falls away with distance, so the question is how far your top-three area reaches and where it stops, and whose it is beyond that line.

It is a snapshot: one service, one afternoon, the spots we chose. Rankings move with the hour and the season, so treat it as a map of today, not a grade.