Google map stacking, built on Google’s own platform.

Google Map stacking is a local SEO technique that uses Google Maps to improve local rankings and visibility. It involves creating a series of custom maps with embedded links, driving directions, geotagged imagery and relevant information about a business, all built around the location and keywords you want to rank for. Because the maps live on Google's own platform, the signal comes from inside the ecosystem doing the ranking.

Google Stacking is the broader version of the same idea: building assets on Google's own properties — My Maps, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Sites — that reference and link to a business, so its presence is reinforced from within Google itself. Map stacking is the Maps-specific part of that, and it is the part that moves local pack rankings most directly.

Yes. A Google Drive stack is a $30 add-on you can tick on any order — map stacking, citation building or cleanup — and it adds two days to the turnaround. It builds a linked set of assets on Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides pointing at the same business, which is the non-Maps half of Google stacking. If you want something larger or more custom than the standard stack, ask us and we will quote it.

No, and be wary of anyone who does. There are over 200 ranking factors in play and nobody controls Google's index. What we guarantee is the work: the map is built manually to the specification on this page, every asset is handed over with its URL, and you can verify all of it yourself. What we do not do is promise a position we have no lever over.

That is the case it suits best. A service area business has one registered address but needs to be found across a whole radius, and a stack is a way of describing that radius to Google — pins, routes and geotagged imagery spread across the area you actually cover rather than concentrated on a single point. It helps storefront businesses too, they just start with less ground to make up.

Reach and density. Basic covers a 10 mile radius with 200 pinned places, 3 geotagged photos, 2 driving directions and 5 local listings. Standard widens that to 20 miles with 300 places, 4 photos, 3 directions and 10 listings, and adds directory submission and account set up. Premium runs to 30 miles with 500 pins, 5 photos plus a YouTube video, 5 directions and 20 listings. Pick the radius that matches the area you would genuinely travel to serve — a 30 mile stack around a business that works one town is coverage you will not convert.

A geotagged photo carries latitude and longitude in its EXIF metadata, so the image itself says where it was taken. On its own it is a small signal. As part of a stack — where the map, the routes, the listings and the imagery all agree on the same coordinates — it is one more source telling Google the same story, and consistency across sources is what local ranking rewards.

Everything is built by hand on Google's own tools, using your real business details, with no bots and no automated submission. Nothing here misrepresents your address, creates a fake location, or claims a premises you do not have — those are the things that get profiles suspended. A map that describes your genuine service area accurately is not something Google penalises.

The stack is delivered in 5 to 7 days depending on the package. Indexing and any ranking movement follow Google's own pace after that, typically over the following few weeks. If your Google Business Profile is weak or your citations contradict each other, the stack will underperform until those are fixed — which is why we will tell you when that is the real problem instead of selling you a second stack.

Your website URL, your Google Business Profile URL, your NAP exactly as it appears on that profile, one main keyword, five supporting keywords, and a short description of the company. Premium adds a YouTube video URL. That is the whole brief — we do not need account access, and we do not need you available for verification calls.

Yes. Everything is created in your name where an account is involved, and the delivery sheet carries every map URL, embed URL, listing URL and login. Nothing is held in an agency account you would have to ask us for later.

If your citations are a mess, fix those first. A stack reinforces whatever Google currently believes about your business, so pointing one at contradictory NAP data amplifies the contradiction. Clean record first, then build the stack on top of it — that order gets you more from the same money. If your details are already consistent, stacking is a reasonable next step.

Yes, each location needs its own stack — a single map cannot centre on two addresses without diluting both. Multi-location work is quoted per job rather than sold per package, so send us the list and we will price the set.