Why am I not showing up on Google Maps?
Usually because the local signals on your own website contradict your Business Profile, or were never there at all. This reads the eight signals Google and AI assistants actually pull from your site, and tells you which ones are missing.
We read your public homepage only. Nothing is stored, nothing is shared.
Local signal score
What your site tells a machine about where you are
These are the signals Google reconciles against your Business Profile, and the ones an AI assistant reads when it has never heard of you. Each failure below is a specific, fixable thing.
Do AI assistants actually recommend you?
The scan above reads your website. This is a different question: it asks a live AI assistant three real customer questions and reports whether your business comes back — and which websites it used to decide. That second part is the useful one.
The eight things this scan cannot see
These live inside your Google Business Profile, which no outside tool can read on your behalf. Rather than guess at them and hand you an invented number, here is the list — it takes about ninety seconds to walk, and for most businesses the answer is somewhere in it.
Know which one is costing you the most?
Most local businesses have four or five of these wrong at once, and they are not equally expensive. A short call sorts them in order — no charge, no pitch deck.
Local visibility, answered plainly
Why am I not showing up on Google Maps?
In most cases it is one of four things: the Business Profile is unclaimed or unverified, the primary category is too general, the business details on the website contradict the details on the profile, or the website carries no structured data telling a machine where the business is and when it is open. The first two are fixed inside the Google Business Profile. The second two are fixed on the website, and that is the half this scan measures.
Does this tool check my Google Maps ranking?
No, and no honest free tool does. Checking a Maps ranking requires the Google Places API, and scraping the results breaches Google's terms of service. This scan measures the local signals on your own website, which are readable, and separately asks a live AI assistant whether it names your business. Anything claiming to show a free live Maps rank is either using cached data or inventing it.
What local signals does the scan actually read?
Eight: whether LocalBusiness structured data exists at all, whether it carries a complete postal address, whether the phone number in that data matches the phone number on the page, whether geo coordinates are present, whether opening hours are declared, whether the street address and city appear in visible page text rather than only in code, whether third-party profiles are declared through sameAs, and whether a map or directions link is present.
Why does my website matter if customers find me on Maps?
Google reconciles your Business Profile against your website and against every directory that lists you. When those sources disagree — a different phone number, different hours, a different suite number — confidence in the whole entity drops and a competitor with consistent details gets shown instead. The website is the source Google treats as authoritative, so a contradiction there is the most expensive kind.
Do AI assistants use Google Maps data to recommend local businesses?
Not directly. Assistants build local recommendations from whatever they can retrieve at the moment of the question — directory pages, review platforms, local press, city guides, and your own website. That is why the live check in this tool reports which sources the assistant used to build its answer. If the answer came from three sites you do not appear on, that is the specific gap, and it is a different problem from Maps ranking.
Is the local visibility check free?
Yes. The website scan is free and requires no signup. The live AI assistant check is also free and rate-limited to keep it available.