STEP 2 · WEBSITE, BUT NO CUSTOMERS
Most owners have never searched for their own business the way a customer does. Five minutes on your phone tells you exactly where you stand.
The four searches
- Business type + parish. "Dentist Mandeville", "car rental Montego Bay". This is how strangers find you. Are you in the map pack (the three businesses with a map)? On page one at all?
- Business type + near me. Google uses your location; stand at your shop if you can.
- Your business name. If you are not number one for your own name, something is badly wrong — usually no Business Profile, or a Facebook page outranking a site you never built.
- Your name + reviews. What a customer sees before they decide.
What each result means
- Nowhere for your type + parish: Google does not know what you do or where. Fix: a complete Google Business Profile with the right category, and a free listing on a directory page that already ranks for your category.
- Page two: you are known but not trusted. Fix: reviews, prices in the text of your site, one page per service.
- Map pack sometimes: close. Fix: weekly posts, photos, reply to every review, consistent name/address/phone everywhere.
- Facebook outranks you: you need a site Google can read — a turnkey one is J$35,000.
Write it down
Four searches, four positions, today's date. Run it again in thirty days. That sheet is the only honest SEO report you will ever need.
- Google Business Profile management — J$10,000/mo
- Free directory listing on a page that ranks for your category — J$0
- Reviews with Google stars on your site — included in every plan
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Frequently asked
Why does my competitor show up and I don't?
Usually a complete, active Business Profile with more recent reviews, and a website that names the service and the parish.
Does a Facebook page count?
Google indexes it, but it rarely ranks for service searches and you cannot put prices or a booking button on it.
How long until I move?
Profile fixes show in days to weeks; reviews and content in months.