Your business is not showing on Google Maps: the five things Google reads first

Run the free check on your own site. No sign-in, no email, about fifteen seconds. It reads your public pages the way a basic crawler does and tells you, in plain rows, whether your site is linked to your own Google Business Profile, whether Google can read your business details, and eight other yes-or-no checks.

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Price: $397 flat, once. No sales call.
Time: 14 days, starting the next business day. Written plan first, no change made before you approve it.
Retainer: $997 a month, optional, cancel anytime.
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You search your own business name and the map either skips you or buries you under competitors with thinner reviews. Our public report on 2,491 dealer and contractor websites found the exact public-page signals behind that, and most sites are missing more than one.

What Google reads

Before it ever ranks a listing, Google checks whether the public pages behind it agree with the map. Here is what it found, site by site.

59% show a map, but only 16% link their own profile. A map embed and a link back to your own Google Business Profile, g.page, g.co/kgs, business.google.com or search.google.com/local, are different things. Our report on 2,491 sites found 59% have a map on the page and only 16% link the profile itself. Without that link, Google has to guess the two belong together.
51% carry business details Google can read. Name, address, phone, hours and category, written as structured data rather than only in the text a visitor sees. The other 49% leave Google to parse the page the hard way, or not at all.
39% have a page for every town they serve. Outside the home city, a nearby search has nothing tied to that town to rank, which is why a listing can show for its own name and never for the town next door.
The rest of the checklist still counts too. 77% of sites mention financing somewhere, 51 of 967 product-category dealers, 5%, have data Google Shopping can read, and only 3% have a Spanish page. None of these decide whether you appear on the map, but they decide how far you rank once you do.

Check it in fifteen seconds

Before you touch your profile or your site, find out which of the signals above you already have.

The free check at conectamedia.app/check reads your home page and up to five more, without running scripts, the same subset of what a crawler sees. It returns a short list of yes-or-no rows: your own Business Profile link, business details Google can read, a map on the site, plus financing, a Spanish page, product data and four more. Nothing is published, nothing changes, and no name or account is required.

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The fix, in order

Five steps, in the order that gets a listing found rather than just live.

Link the site to your own profile. Add the direct link to your Google Business Profile, g.page, g.co/kgs, business.google.com or search.google.com/local, somewhere a visitor and a crawler can both see it. An embedded map alone does not do this.
Put your business details in code, not just text. Add LocalBusiness structured data to the home page: name, address, phone, hours, category. Google reads this even when it never shows on the page.
Give every town its own page. If you serve more than one town, each one needs a page that names it, not a single service-area paragraph. Start with the five towns that send the most calls.
Put financing where the shopper decides. Most competitors already ranking near you show a monthly payment on the page; if you do not, add it next to the price, not on a page by itself.
If you sell units, structure the product data. Product schema or a Merchant Center feed that matches the page is what lets a unit show in free product listings, not the photos alone.

If you want it done

The profile link, business details, town pages and financing placement above are line items inside the $397 pilot, the same fourteen days as the rest of the checklist. Before anything on your site or your Business Profile changes, you get a written plan naming exactly what gets fixed. You approve it, then it gets built. One payment, no renewal.

$397 once See the full pilot

If you want it kept current as your service area or inventory changes, that is the $997 a month retainer, optional, cancel anytime.

Questions

Why is my business not showing on Google Maps at all?

Usually because the public signals Google checks before ranking a listing are missing: a link to your Business Profile, business details it can read, or a page tied to the town someone searched from. A suspended profile is a different problem with its own fix.

Is this the same as a suspended Business Profile?

No. A suspended profile is pulled everywhere and needs a reinstatement request, covered on a separate page. A profile that is live but ranks low or never appears for a nearby town is usually a page-signal problem, which is what this page covers.

Can you guarantee I will show up on the map?

No. We fix what Google's own guidance says a listing needs on your side and name every item in writing before we start. Google alone decides ranking and display, and anyone who promises you a spot on the map is guessing.

What does the $397 pilot include?

The same eight-item checklist on the dealer page: your Business Profile connected and completed, business details, town pages, reviews, financing, a Spanish page and the product or service data Google reads, in fourteen days for one flat payment.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure on this page comes from our public read of 2,491 dealer and contractor websites, September 2026, no accounts or logins, only what any visitor or search engine can see. Read the full report.