Through the franchisor
One point of contact with system-wide access. We work from the master location list and report on the whole portfolio.
Local SEO and Google Business Profiles for multi-location brands.
Duplicate listings, details that drift between locations, and bulk edits that trigger suspensions. We audit every profile against your real location list, fix what is broken, and pace the changes so the fixes do not cause new problems.
Quoted per portfolio after a free audit. Profile management is $264 per profile per month.
Listed on Clutch, G2, DesignRush and GoodFirms. Office in Arlington, Virginia.
Find out what is broken across your locations
Send your brand and roughly how many locations you have. We will come back with what we can see is wrong and how we would approach it. One business day.
Request received ✓
Request received. We will review your locations and come back within one business day during business hours.
- Free audit firstWritten findings within one business day
- Month-to-monthCancel with 30 days written notice
- Reported in real numbersCalls, leads and rankings every month
- Everything stays yoursAccounts and content remain in your name
The short answer
What is multi-location local SEO?
Keeping every location visible and accurate on Google, without one fix breaking another.
Multi-location local SEO is the work of keeping every location's Google Business Profile, citations and location page accurate, consistent and ranking, across a brand or franchise. It fails for reasons that do not exist at a single location: duplicate listings, details drifting between systems, and bulk edits that look like abuse to Google.
- Best for multi-location and franchise brands with profile data drifting out of agreement, duplicate listings, or a suspension at one or more locations.
- Not for a single location. For one suspended profile, GBP reinstatement is faster than a portfolio audit.
What breaks at scale
The problems that do not exist at one location
- 1
No single source of truth
Location data lives in the POS, the CMS, franchise agreements, registrations and every profile, and none of them agree. A fix made on one profile gets overwritten the next time another system syncs.
- 2
Duplicate listings
Franchisees create their own profiles, data aggregators sync from stale sources, and old profiles stay open after ownership changes. Each duplicate splits reviews and can trigger a review by Google.
- 3
Details drifting between locations
Independently managed locations edit their own name, address and phone. No single edit is wrong, but the portfolio stops agreeing with itself.
- 4
Inconsistent categories
The same brand ends up with different categories at different locations, set once by whoever created each profile.
- 5
Bulk-edit suspensions
The same change pushed to many locations in a short window can be flagged by Google, even when every change is legitimate. Changes have to be paced.
- 6
Suspensions that spread
A problem specific to one location usually stays there. A shared signal, such as a shared data feed or verification method, can affect several locations at once.
How it works
One process for every portfolio
- Stage 1
Inventory and standard
Every profile reconciled against your location list, then one name, address, phone and category record set per location.
- Stage 2
Correct
Each flagged profile fixed individually. Suspended locations go through our reinstatement process.
- Stage 3
Pace the rollout
Changes batched and timed so corrections do not trigger the bulk-edit pattern.
- Every month
Monitor and report
Watching for drift, franchisee changes and new suspensions, with one consolidated report to one contact.
Working with your structure
Franchisor, franchisees, or both
With individual franchisees
Where franchisees control their own listings, we coordinate with each one. Duplicates we cannot access are flagged for the owner to close.
Some problems cannot be fixed inside Google Business Profile, such as missing location pages or a store locator that does not work. We scope those separately.
Client results
Two Google Business Profiles we manage, in Google's own numbers.
Every figure below comes from the monthly performance reports and Search Console emails Google sends to the profile's managers. We compare each month with April 2026, the first full month under Rankure's management.
Dragon Mountain RV & Cabin Resort
- 392 → 542monthly profile interactions, up 38% (April to September)
- 246 → 346website visits from the profile, up 41%
- 113 → 153direction requests, up 35%
- 20+new Google reviews since April 20, 2026
Source: Google Business Profile performance reports, April and September 2026, and Google review notifications.
DentalNightGuard.com
- 327 → 2,910monthly profile views (April to September)
- 18 → 132monthly searches showing the profile
- 4 → 13website visits from the profile
- 65 pagesconfirmed by Google as fixed from “not indexed” (August 2026)
Source: Google Business Profile performance reports, April and September 2026, and a Google Search Console validation email.
Results depend on the business, its market and the season. Full monthly reports are available on request. See both case studies
Pricing
How multi-location pricing works
Pricing is quoted per portfolio after the free audit, based on the number of locations, the condition of the data and how many profiles need correction or reinstatement. We do not publish a flat multi-location rate because the work varies too much between portfolios.
For reference, our published single-location prices are: Google Business Profile management at $264 per profile per month, and local SEO at $750, $1,370 or $2,750 per month for Starter, Growth and Authority. A suspended location is reinstated on the same terms as any other: a $199 diagnostic, and the $288 balance only if it is reinstated. See what each local SEO package includes.
We work in the US, the UK and the UAE.
- A statement of workYour deliverables are listed before work starts, so you can check each month what was done.
- Month-to-month termsCancel with 30 days written notice. Fees prepaid for months that have not started are refunded in full.
- Your approval firstNothing is published on your website, profiles or ad accounts without your sign-off.
- You keep ownershipYour accounts stay in your name, and the content made for you is yours once paid for, including after you cancel.
- No passwordsYou add Rankure as a manager on each profile. You never share your Google password, and you can remove access at any time.
- Honest about hard casesIf data is diverging faster than fixes can keep up, or a location already has competing duplicates, we tell you at the audit, before you commit.
- No ranking guaranteesGoogle controls rankings. Treat any provider who guarantees a number one position as a warning sign.
Questions
Multi-location and franchise questions
Can pushing the same fix to many locations at once get them suspended?
Yes. Google can flag a batch of identical changes pushed in a short window, even when each change is legitimate. That is why we pace multi-location rollouts instead of making one mass update.
If one location is suspended, are the others at risk?
It depends on the cause. A suspension from something specific to one location usually stays isolated. A suspension from a shared signal, such as a shared data feed or verification method, can affect several locations at once.
How do you handle duplicate listings across many locations?
Each duplicate is found during the inventory stage, matched against your location list and resolved individually: merged, closed, or flagged for the location owner to close if we do not have access to it.
How does pricing work for a multi-location portfolio?
It is quoted per portfolio after the free audit, based on location count, data condition and how many profiles need correction or reinstatement. For reference, profile management is $264 per profile per month, and terms are month-to-month with 30 days written notice to cancel.
What do you need to start a portfolio audit?
A list of locations and, if available, access to the Google Business Profile accounts or the franchisor's location management system. We can also start from the location list alone and tell you what we cannot yet see.
Which markets do you cover?
The US, the UK and the UAE.