Guide
Service-area businesses: earn the map without faking a storefront
Plumbers, HVAC, mobile clinics, and consultants often serve a radius. The job is to make that radius legible to humans and systems — not to keyword-stuff city names.
Clarify the geography
List primary cities and counties you truly serve. If you subcontract or refer outside core zones, say so. Clear geography reduces bad leads and improves assistant summaries because the facts are not contradictory.
Match the site to the listing
Your homepage should repeat the same service list, emergency policies, and proof points as your public listing fields allow. Mismatches are a common reason assistants hedge with “call to confirm.”
Proof for high-stakes jobs
Licenses, insurance, warranties, and response-time SLAs belong in obvious places. For SABs, trust beats clever copy — especially when someone is comparing three tabs at midnight.
What GravyBlock checks today
The scan scores public listing signals plus a fetch of your website and discovered social links — a practical baseline for SABs that live on maps + mobile. Run a scan to see prioritized fixes.
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GravyBlock runs a free, automated local visibility scan — start a scan to see prioritized fixes for your business.