The 5-Minute Gut Check · Free, no account, about 5 minutes
How does your business really look on Google?
Grab your phone. The Gut Check is a self-check: answer 15 quick questions, put your reviews next to whoever shows up first, and leave with up to three fixes you can do yourself. No account, no email. Be honest. You're the only one grading this.
A self-check based on your own answers, not a full audit. InboundHook is not affiliated with Google. Google is a trademark of Google LLC. Your answers stay on your device: we don't save them or send them anywhere. If you open the Google search, Google sees that search. From this scorecard, Google Analytics only gets that it was finished and whether the result suggested a call, plus the usual page-visit and button-click data. See our privacy policy.
What The Gut Check looks at
Getting found
Is your Google Business Profile verified? Does your primary category fit what you do? Are your hours, phone, service area and website link complete?
Getting chosen
Are your services and photos up to date? Do you ask every customer for a review? Do you reply to your reviews? Then you put your review count next to the first local business in your search.
Your website
Can people tap to call from the first screen on a phone? Does the site load quickly?
Answering fast
What happens when you miss a call on a job? Does every call, text and message end up in one place?
Questions
Is The Gut Check free?
Yes. No account, no card. About 5 minutes, or a little longer if you check each answer on your phone.
Is this an official Google score?
No. It's a self-check based on your own answers. InboundHook is not affiliated with Google, and the result is not a promise of any ranking.
What do I get at the end?
A plan with your score by area, up to 3 fixes to do first with the steps to do them yourself, and, if you enter your review counts, how yours compare with the first local business in your search. You can print it or save it as a PDF.
How is this different from the Business Reality Check?
The Gut Check is you checking yourself. With the free Business Reality Check, we look your business up the way a customer would and show you what to fix first on a 10-minute call.
See what customers see when they search for you.
Free scored report, 3 fixes, 10 minutes. Yours to keep, even if you never hire us.
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