How the scan works

Google Maps shows different results depending on where the searcher is. A search from your front door doesn't tell you what a customer a few streets away sees. Listed Local checks many places at once.

The steps

1. Find your business. Type its name and city, then pick it from the list. We search the Google Maps listings of the country you selected, in that country's language.
2. Choose a search. Enter the term a customer would type, for example "dentist" or "emergency plumber". On a niche page it is filled in for you.
3. Choose the grid. The free checker offers 3×3 (9 points) or 5×5 (25 points). You also set the distance between points.
4. Run the scan. We run the same Maps search from every point, as if a customer were standing there, and record your position in the top 20.

Results appear point by point while the scan runs. If you reload the page, the scan keeps going and the page picks it up again.

What you get

• A map with your position at each point
• Your average rank, your top-3 coverage and how many points you were found at
• The businesses that outrank you
• A short list of fixes
• "What AI tells them": what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say when asked for your kind of business in your city

Reading your results explains each part.

Where the data comes from

Listed Local is not part of Google and is not affiliated with it. We get Maps results through a search-data provider, which runs each search from the exact coordinates of the grid point. Your phone's location and your Google account play no part.

What a scan can't tell you

A scan is a snapshot: one search per point, at one moment. Google's results change over time and from person to person. See Why results differ from what I see on my phone.