The GeoGrid search allows you to see the visibility of a GBP listing for a specific keyword from a number of different latitude and longitude coordinates. This lets you see where you might rank strong and poorly in your listing’s city or surrounding areas.
The GeoGrid rank tracker gives you a view of how your GBP Listing ranks from different positions across one geographic area (a square to be precise).
A GeoGrid search result looks like this:
The required inputs are:
Business Name - This can be entered in one of four ways:
1. My GBP - Select a location already imported into Local Brand Manager
2. Google Search (only works for non-SAB businesses)
3. Place ID - input your businesses Place ID
4. Map URL - input your listings Google Map URL
All four ways suit storefront businesses, but if you run a Service area business, you can use My GBP and Map URL.
Keyword - the keyword you are searching for
Grid Size - how many points you want your grid to have
Point Distance - the distance between each point, in meters or miles
Local Google region is meant for GeoGrid searches outside USA.
GeoGrids can be run instantly (Live GeoGrids) or scheduled.
To schedule a GeoGrid simply go to GeoGrid Search at the top of your screen and you'll find yourself on the Scheduled Search page.
Once you've added the keywords you'd like to track and set the settings up, click the "Create Config" button. The settings here are the same as the live GeoGrid search, but here you will set the schedule to when you want the GeoGrid ran.
Once your scheduled GeoGrid has been set up, go to the Configs tab and click on any location to see a report. The menu on the left lets you choose the keyword you'd like to see the results info for.
To create an animated gif with all the GeoGrids for this location/keyword combination, click the "GIF" button, and you will select a looped or not looped gif. Once you clicked that, the gif will be generated. You can watch it by clicking the pop-up notification on the top right or by clicking the "GIF" button once more - the image will be there.
Now.... what do the results mean?
At the most basic level, we are requesting a list of GBPs for a given latitude and longitude and a keyword, for each grid point. We then take the list of GBPs and compare where our business ranks, for each of the points. Color-coding this information allows us to have a "heatmap" of visibility across the grid.
For more questions, please contact customer support by clicking the chat button at the bottom right of your screen.