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Free Google Maps rank checker

Enter a keyword, a business name and a US address. Rank.ai checks nine points within 1.5 km of the address and shows where the business ranks on Google Maps at each one.

  • Free, no account
  • Nine map points
  • About a minute

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How it works

Nine points, one keyword, one map

01

Enter the keyword, business and address

Use the search your customers make, such as “emergency plumber”, the business name as it appears on Google, and its address.

02

Rank.ai searches from nine points

A 3x3 grid is laid within 1.5 km of the address. At each point Rank.ai runs the Google Maps search three times and averages the rank. Searches are cached for up to seven days.

03

Read the grid

Each point shows the business's rank there, colored from green for the top 3 to grey for not found, with the best and average rank across the grid.

Why it matters

Why Google Maps rank varies by block

Google names distance, how far a business is from the person searching, as one of the main factors in local results. A business in the top three for someone near its door can be off the list for a customer a few streets away, so a single rank number for “your area” hides the picture. A grid shows it.

Each point here is a Google Maps search centered on that spot, run three times and averaged. It is the same search Rank.ai’s paid tracker runs, held to nine points. Nothing re-runs it on a schedule, so use it to find blind spots, and the paid tracker when you want to scan a 3x3, 5x5 or 7x7 grid, or a whole metro area, and send a client a report link.

For what moves the rank, see the Local Pack guide and geo-grid rank tracking, and grade your profile with the free Google Business Profile audit.

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Frequently asked

What's a 'grid scan'?
Rank.ai lays nine points in a 3x3 grid within 1.5 km of the address you give. At each point it runs a Google Maps search for your keyword, centered on that spot, three times, and averages the rank your business reached, or records that it didn't appear. Searches are cached for up to seven days, so a result can be a few days old.
How is the business matched in the results?
By name, ignoring case, against up to about 20 places at each point: “Joe's Plumbing” matches “Joe's Plumbing & Heating”. A very generic name can match a similar business nearby. The paid tracker matches by the Google place ID when one is linked, which is exact, with the website as a fallback.
What do the colors mean?
Green is 1 to 3, yellow is 4 to 7, orange is 8 to 19 and red is 20 or lower. Grey means the business wasn't found at that point, often the answer that matters most. The paid product uses the same bands.
What does 'avg rank' mean when some cells are blank?
The average counts only the points where the business appeared. A business that ranks 1, 2 and 3 at three points and is missing from the other six has an average of 2 across 3 points, so read both numbers together.
Why is this free, and what does the paid tracker add?
It is one snapshot of one keyword at one address, held to nine points. The paid tracker scans 3x3, 5x5 or 7x7 grids or whole metro areas at higher densities, within monthly limits, keeps the top five competitors with their rank at each point, and gives you a report link a client can open without logging in. Scans run when you start them.
Are there limits?
The check works for US addresses, and each network can run three checks an hour. All the free tools share a daily limit per network and a weekly budget.
Do you store my address or business name?
Your result stays available for an hour while this page checks on it. The map searches behind it are cached for up to seven days by keyword and location, so a nearby search someone else ran can come back without a new search; your business name isn't part of that key. If you enter an email we record it, but we don't send a report.

See if AI names you when customers ask who’s best.

Enter your website. In about two minutes, Rank.ai asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini 12 questions your customers ask and grades how often they name you.

  • Your grade out of 100How often AI names you, cites your site, and how high it ranks you.
  • Who gets namedEvery competitor in the answers, most named first.
  • The pages AI readsThe sources behind each answer.
  • Three fixesWhat to fix first, with a brief for the first page.