Credit Free Geo Grids and competitor tracking

[GMBapi.com]

Got some big news for anyone serious about local SEO! We launched our their new Local Rank Tracker in August, and it’s a game-changer for understanding your local visibility for agencies and freelancers. No more credits needed and it works across all markets and languages.

No more guessing where you stand. This feature gives you a crystal-clear visual map of your rankings across different areas, showing you exactly where you're crushing it and where your competitors are gaining ground.

Here’s what we are excited about from a user perspective:

• It's FREE for GMBapi.com customers AND in the free trial : Seriously, no extra fees or credits needed!
• See Your Real-World Local Rankings: Our geo-grid scans simulate local searches from 35 different points around your business (up to a 30-mile radius!). This means you get an instant picture of your visibility, not just a single ranking.
• Know Your Competitors' Game: You can instantly see the top 20 competing businesses and compare your performance side-by-side. Spot opportunities to get ahead by understanding their strengths and weaknesses.
• Easy to Use, Powerful Insights: Whether you manage one location or hundreds, it’s super intuitive. Just select your location, choose a "Primary Category Scan" or a "Keyword Scan" (e.g., "emergency dentist near me"), and hit "Run Scan." Results are ready in seconds! Doing similar scans (with a time interval in between) triggers competitor and rank monitoring.
• Monitor competitors (ranking): This new feature stores all competitor GBP data, and monitors changes your top 20 competitors make over time, as well as their rank. You can see for each individual competitor what’s changed between similar scans.
• Generate ranking strategy: Automatic AI-powered advice on how many extra reviews you need (based on competitive set) to grow your rank. Also, per location advice on photos, content and the number of 5-star reviews needed to improve conversion.
• Works across all geographical regions: This feature will work in any country, across all languages, where Google Maps works. So, no Cuba, China and Iran, but all other markets and languages, no problem!
• Pure Service Area Businesses require a workaround. This feature uses the coordinates of a GBP profile to determine the centre of your scan. So, for SABs that do not have an address associated with them, it is best to use the business next door, or a random other business, and see if your business comes up.

If you're managing local listings for chains, agencies, or as a freelancer, this is a must-have feature to keep an eye on your local presence and stay ahead of the curve. If you use geo grids to track across hundreds of locations (campaign tracking), you will not find that in GMBapi.com (yet). The team is working on multi-keyword/location geo grids and hopes to have that functionality available soon.

What do you think? What kind of information are you looking for when analysing the competitive field and/or ranking? Has anyone tried this? Care to share your POV?

 

[keyserholiday]

I will go through it and provide my feedback.