Profile & competitor audit
Your profile compared with the businesses above you in the map pack, gap by gap.
Google Business Profile (GMB) optimisation for local businesses in Germany. We fix your categories, services and photos, build a steady flow of genuine reviews, publish posts and clean up your citations across German directories, so you show up when people nearby search for what you do.
30 minutes. We check your profile and local rankings beforehand, and you leave with a written note on the fixes that would move you up.
Brands we have delivered for
Six things local businesses tell us
The map pack is often the first thing a local customer sees. These are the reasons businesses miss it.
Competitors with worse service rank above us on Maps.
Usually categories, reviews or local signals. We audit your profile against the top three and close the gaps one by one.
We picked one category and forgot about it.
Categories decide which searches you appear for. We set the right primary and secondary categories and add services to match.
We get very few reviews.
Happy customers rarely review unprompted. We set up a simple review request routine that stays within Google's rules.
A bad review is the first thing people see.
Silence looks worse than the review. We draft calm, professional replies for you to approve.
Our address and phone number differ from site to site.
Inconsistent data confuses Google. We clean up your citations across German directories.
Our profile was suspended.
Suspensions have causes. We find the cause and handle the reinstatement request through Google's own process.
What our GMB optimisation includes
Profile, reviews, posts and citations, handled together because Google weighs them together.
Your profile compared with the businesses above you in the map pack, gap by gap.
Primary and secondary categories, services and attributes set for the searches that matter.
Real photos of your premises, team and work, uploaded and refreshed regularly.
Regular posts for offers, news and events that keep the profile active.
A simple, compliant routine for asking customers for reviews, and replies to every review.
Consistent name, address and phone number across German directories.
Consistent profiles and landing pages for every branch or city you serve.
Calls, direction requests, website clicks and map rankings, on one page every month.
Local search in Germany
Local search works the same way everywhere. The details in Germany are different.
Listings on German directories such as Gelbe Seiten, Das Örtliche and 11880, plus sector portals, support your local signals. We make sure your details are consistent on each.
Buying reviews or rewarding customers for them breaks Google's rules and can breach German competition law. We only use honest review requests to real customers.
Customers search in German, often with a city or district, like “Steuerberater Köln Ehrenfeld”. We match your categories, services and posts to those searches.
Correct opening hours, a website with an Impressum and clear contact details make a local business look established to German customers.
The comparison nobody publishes
Six questions to ask before paying anyone to optimise your profile.
| What you need to know | Typical local SEO offer | Boost Hive Marketing |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A generic checklist. | An audit against the businesses above you in your own map pack. |
| Reviews | Bought, incentivised or ignored. | A compliant routine for asking real customers, and replies to every review. |
| Citations | A bulk submission tool. | German directories checked and corrected one by one. |
| Posts | Automated filler. | Posts about real offers, news and work. |
| Ownership | The agency owns the profile. | You stay the owner; we work as a manager on your profile. |
| Reporting | Profile views. | Calls, direction requests, website clicks and map rankings. |
How we start
We check your profile and local rankings, then name the fixes that would move you up.
Categories, services, photos and business details corrected, and citations cleaned up.
A review routine and regular posts that keep the profile active and trusted.
Map rankings, calls and direction requests, reported on one page every month.
The stack
You stay the owner of your Google Business Profile. We are added as a manager and can be removed at any time.
The team behind your local visibility
Most agency pages say “our experts”. Here are the people behind your account, by name and face, backed by a wider team of specialists. One of them will own your account and join every call, so you always know who built what.
Verifiable, not decorative
That is the complete list. If a badge is not here, we do not hold it, and we would rather tell you that than decorate a page with it.
One page a month. It opens with cost per qualified enquiry, then leads, then the channel detail, in the same format every time, so you can compare month to month at a glance.
Everything else under one roof
Google Business Profile is one part of the picture. Every service below has its own page, and all of them report to the same scorecard.
Full-service digital marketing
Every channel on one scorecard, including the 360° Marketing plan most of our clients choose.
Digital marketing agency Germany →Search engine optimisation
Technical fixes first, then German content on keywords that map to a purchase.
SEO services Germany →Google Ads
Search, Performance Max and remarketing priced against cost per qualified enquiry.
PPC agency Germany →Meta Ads
Facebook and Instagram campaigns with creative testing on a fixed fortnightly cadence.
Meta Ads agency Germany →TikTok Ads
Short-form paid built natively for the feed, not a resized Meta asset.
TikTok Ads agency Germany →Amazon Ads
Sponsored Products, Brands and Display, plus listing and A+ content that converts.
Amazon Ads agency Germany →ChatGPT & AI ads
Paid placement inside AI assistants and chat surfaces, as those inventories open up.
ChatGPT & AI ads Germany →AEO: answer engine optimisation
Structured data, entity clarity and answer-shaped content so Google's AI Overviews quote you.
AEO services Germany →GEO: generative engine optimisation
Being the source ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite when someone asks about your category.
GEO services Germany →Website design & development
Fast, accessible, search-ready builds on whichever platform fits the business case.
Website design Germany →Website maintenance
Updates, backups, security, uptime and speed monitoring so the site never quietly rots.
Website maintenance Germany →Lead generation
The funnel itself: offers, landing pages, forms, follow-up and the tracking that proves which one produced the enquiry.
Lead generation agency Germany →Content marketing
Blogs, pillar pages and lead magnets written by people, planned around what your buyers search.
Content marketing agency Germany →Social media management
Calendar, creative, publishing and community replies. A real presence, not a logo posting quotes.
Social media management Germany →Social media marketing
The strategy layer: audiences, content pillars and paid social planned together, so every post has a job to do.
Social media marketing Germany →Influencer marketing
Creator sourcing, negotiation, briefing and performance tracking, with audited audiences only.
Influencer marketing Germany →Celebrity Instagram management
Full account handling for public figures: grid strategy, stories, collabs and reputation care.
Celebrity Instagram management Germany →Branding & identity
Positioning, naming, logo systems, tone of voice and the guidelines that keep it consistent.
Branding agency Germany →Graphic designing
Ad creative, social sets, brochures, packaging and pitch decks, on brand and on schedule.
Graphic design agency Germany →Video editing
Reels, shorts, ad cuts and long-form. In-house editors, subtitles and platform versions included.
Video editing services Germany →Marketing consultation
Strategy sessions, channel audits and second opinions, without hiring us for delivery.
Marketing consultation Germany →Straight answers
It is the free business listing that appears in Google Maps and in local search results, formerly called Google My Business (GMB). It shows your address, opening hours, reviews, photos and posts, and it is often the first thing a local customer sees.
Profile fixes are often picked up within weeks. Reviews and citations build over months. Distance to the searcher also plays a big part, so results vary by area.
We set up a simple routine for asking real customers for reviews and replying to them. We never buy reviews or offer rewards for them, which breaks Google's rules and can cause legal trouble in Germany.
Yes. Each location gets a consistent, complete profile and, where useful, its own landing page on your website.
Yes. We find the likely cause, fix it and submit a reinstatement request through Google's own process. Google makes the final decision, so we cannot guarantee the outcome.
Usually a one-off optimisation followed by monthly management. The price depends on the number of locations and how much review, post and citation work is needed, and we agree it in writing.
Yes, it is the biggest part of it. The rest is your website: city pages, local content and technical basics, which our SEO services cover.
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