Rank at Every Point
Your exact Google Maps position at each GPS point in the grid, instead of one blended number for the whole city
01 Google Maps geo-grid
Local Rank Tracker for Google Maps
One position number hides the truth about your Google Maps ranking
Your business can rank #1 at its own door and be invisible three streets away. A single rank check will never show you that. SerpDino scans Google Maps from dozens of GPS points laid out around the business, in a real browser at every point, and reports the exact position at each one. Any business, no Google account to connect — about a cent for a full 5×5 scan.
No credit card required
Per grid scan$0.01a full 5×5 grid scan, 25 GPS points
Versus the field3×cheaper than the lowest-priced tier of every tracker we compared
Free every month450free credits a month to start — 18 grid scans, no card
Fixed zoom17zfixed zoom, validated against BrightLocal
02 Live demo
A Live Geo-Grid You Can Click
A real pizzeria in Brooklyn, scanned on three keywords. Switch the keyword, toggle the heat field, and click a point to see who ranks there.
A Live Geo-Grid You Can Click
03 The price argument
The Cheapest Grid Scan You Can Buy
Every tool in this category prices the same unit: 1 credit = 1 point of the grid, so a 5×5 scan costs 25 credits everywhere. Two columns, because most competitors get cheaper on their top tier and we don't — our price per credit is flat.
The scenario: one 5×5 grid, 5 keywords, scanned daily for a month = 3,750 credits.
| Tool | $/credit, entry plan | $/credit, best plan | Scenario cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| SerpDinoflat $4.95/mo | $0.00041 | $0.00041 | $1.55 |
| GMB Radarfrom $15/mo | $0.00300 | $0.00200 | $11.25 |
| Local Falconfrom $24.99/mo | $0.00333 | $0.00317 | $12.49 |
| GTrack (Wiremo)from $19.99/mo | $0.00400 | $0.00123 | $14.99 |
| Whitespark Gridsfrom $10/mo | $0.00500 | $0.00308 | $18.75 |
| LocalVikingfrom $39/mo | $0.00520 | $0.00520 | $19.50 |
| Local Dominatorfrom $39/mo | $0.00780 | $0.00323 | $29.25 |
The cheapest tier among the tools above is GTrack Pro at $0.00123 per credit. We're three times cheaper than that without changing plan — and eight times cheaper than Local Falcon's entry tier.
The last column is the real point: the same credits also run your classic Google SERP tracking. Every other tool here is a local-only product, so its credits buy grid scans and nothing else. In the scenario above, $1.55 comes out of your $4.95 plan and 8,250 credits stay available for keyword tracking.
- Our credits reset each month. Unused credits roll over at Local Dominator (Pro and up) and LocalOptics; they expire at Whitespark, Local Falcon and GMB Radar, same as ours.
- BrightLocal isn't in the table. Their Local Search Grid is included in every BrightLocal plan rather than sold as an add-on, but the plans carry no numbers: the product page quotes "from $31/mo" while the pricing page lists all three tiers as "price on request". With no credit allowance published, there is no per-credit rate to compare.
- Prices checked 2026-08-11. This category moves; if you spot a stale number, tell us and we'll fix it.
04 Price your own grid
Build Your Grid and See What It Costs
Create a free account and get 450 credits every month. That's 18 full 5×5 grid scans, and we don't ask for a card.
Shape
Grid size
Step
Keywords
Scan frequency
per month
- 25 points
- covers 4.0 km across
- 125
- credits per scan
- 3,750
- credits per month
8,250 credits left over from your $4.95 plan. Spend them on classic SERP tracking, or on more grids.
A broad head term will paint most of the grid grey — Google serves roughly 80–120 businesses per point, and a city-wide query is genuinely won by a handful of them. We learned that the hard way while picking a business for the demo above: Lombardi's in Nolita sits at #16 on its own coordinates for "pizza" and is absent from 38 of the 39 points around it. Geo-grids earn their keep on keywords with local intent.
05 Accuracy
Why Our Numbers Match the Expensive Tools
Every Google Maps rank tracker picks a zoom level, and that choice decides which businesses show up at each point and in what order. We scan at a fixed 17z, and we arrived at it by measurement. BrightLocal publishes the proximity of every result it returns, so we ran the same keyword for the same business on the same six coordinates and compared both the rank and the radius directly. Six points, one keyword, three zoom levels. The table is the whole result.
17zfixed zoom, validated against BrightLocal
| Grid point | BrightLocal | 13z | 15z | 17z |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (town centre) | #1 | #5 | #1 | #1 |
| 2 | #9 | #23 | #62 | #14 |
| 3 | #14 | — | #39 | #20 |
| 4 (far out) | #10 | — | #24 | #19 |
| 5 | #3 | #16 | #12 | #10 |
| 6 | #8 | #53 | #20 | #17 |
Same keyword, same business, same six coordinates. 17z landed closest on every single point, and on radius too: the median distance of the top 12 came out at 3.2 km for BrightLocal against 3.6 km for us on a dense point, 19 km against 19.6 km on a remote one. Our zoom is fixed and never adaptive — a scan you run today is comparable with one from six months ago.
Ads can't leak into your position
Google returns sponsored map results in a different node of its own JSON response than the organic feed. We read the organic node, so an ad above you cannot shift your number by one. It's structural, not a heuristic that guesses which card was paid for.
06 In the report
What a Geo-Grid Scan Shows You
Coverage Heatmap
An interpolated field showing where you're strong and where you vanish
Visibility, SoLV & ARP
A weighted visibility score at every point, Share of Local Voice per keyword (the share of grid points where you sit in the top 20), and Average Rank Position behind both. Coverage is always reported separately.
Who Ranks Here
Click any point to see the full local list: every business ranked there, with its rating, review count and, where Google exposes it, its website
History Over Time
Every scan is stored, so you watch the grid shift after each change you make
Any Grid Shape
Square, circle, or hand-drawn custom points — 3×3 up to 21×21, which is 441 points at the top end, with a 0.5–10 km or mi step
07 Terms
Local Rank Tracking Terms, Defined
The vocabulary this page uses, and what each number actually measures.
Geo-grid
A geo-grid is a set of GPS coordinates laid out around a business, each one used as the origin of a separate Google Maps search. Instead of a single position for a keyword, you get one position per coordinate — which is what turns a rank into a map.
SoLV (Share of Local Voice)
Share of Local Voice is the percentage of grid points where a business appears inside the tracked top 20 for one keyword. It answers how much of the map you own for that keyword, and it is the number most agencies put on a client report.
Visibility
Visibility is a weighted score for a single grid point across all of its keywords. Each keyword contributes according to how high it ranks, so #1 is worth a full point and #10 about half of one. It is the value that colours each pin on the map.
ARP (Average Rank Position)
Average Rank Position is the mean position of a business across the grid points where it was found. It is always reported next to coverage, because an average of 2.0 found at three points out of twenty-five is a weak result, not a strong one.
Local pack
The local pack is the block of business listings Google shows above the classic blue links, drawn from Google Maps. A geo-grid scan reads the whole Maps feed behind that block, well beyond the three listings visible on a search page.
Zoom level (17z)
The zoom level is the map scale a scan runs at, written as a number followed by z. It changes which businesses Google considers nearby enough to return. SerpDino fixes it at 17z for every scan so that results stay comparable between points and over time.
08 How it works
How the Google Maps Rank Tracker Works
From business name to a live grid in under a minute
Find your business
Start typing the name and we pull it straight from Google Places. No Google login, no ownership verification, no waiting for a listing to be approved.
Shape your grid
Square, circle or hand-drawn points, 3×3 to 21×21, with a 0.5–10 km or mi step. Shape it to your service area instead of an arbitrary radius. The credit cost updates as you drag.
Add your keywords
Country is locked to the business location and the language is detected for you. You only touch it for places like Canada, Switzerland or Belgium.
Pick a schedule
Daily, every 3 days, weekly or your own set of weekdays, at the hour and timezone you choose. You can also run a scan on demand. Every scan is stored, so history starts building from day one.
No Google Business Profile connection needed
Most local tools ask you to connect your Google account and then charge per connected profile: Local Dominator caps it at 1 profile on its entry plan, 5 on the next and 20 on the top one. We never touch your account. Your business is identified by its public Place ID, the same one Google Maps uses. That means unlimited businesses on one plan whatever you pay, and it means you can grid a competitor exactly the way you grid yourself.
We're a tracker and nothing more: no posts, no review replies, no citation building. That's also why we never need access to your account.
09 Inside a project
Inside a Local Project
The everyday tooling around the grid, shared with every other project type in SerpDino.
Notes on the timeline
Pin a dated note to the project when you change a category, publish a landing page or push a review campaign, and colour it by importance. Six weeks later the grid movement has a cause attached to it.
Folders for client work
Group projects into folders by client, city or language. There is no cap on projects — an agency running forty locations keeps them sorted instead of scrolling.
Exact hour and timezone
A schedule is not just a frequency here. Pick the hour and the timezone the scan runs in, see the week laid out before you save, and switch any project to on-demand when you'd rather trigger it yourself.
Every scan kept
Positions, visibility, SoLV and the full ranked list at each point are stored per scan, so you can compare any two dates rather than only the latest run.
10 Coverage
Where Local Rank Tracking Works
If Google Maps serves a business in your country, we can grid it — no allow-list of supported cities, no per-market pricing.
countries in the business search, filtered by the one you're working in
result languages, detected from the business location and editable per keyword
grid step in either unit, so a US service area and a European one are set up the same way
11 What sets it apart
What Makes Us Different
Everything a local SEO rank tracker should do, and nothing you have to pay extra for
Only $4.95 per month
Grid, circle or custom point layouts
Exact positions, no "20+" buckets
12k credits/mo = 480 grid scans of 5×5
Coverage heatmap, SoLV & map pins
Sponsored results filtered at the data level
Unlimited projects, keywords & locations
Full competitor list at every point
Fixed 17z zoom, validated against BrightLocal
Similarweb & PageSpeed included for your site
Same credits work for classic SERP tracking
No Google account connection required
12 Scale
Running on SerpDino Right Now
13 In the product
More Than a Map of Pins
01
Two Numbers, and Neither One Lies
A percentage on a geo-grid pin is where a tool can quietly flatter you, so here is exactly what ours mean, on the same Brooklyn grid you just scrolled past.
SoLV, Share of Local Voice, answers "how much of the map do I own for this keyword": the share of grid points where the business sits inside the tracked top 20. That's the column below — one number per keyword, recomputed after every scan. It's the figure a client actually wants on a report.
Visibility answers the other axis, one point across every keyword, and it's what colours each pin on the map. It's a weighted share rather than a counted one: each keyword contributes how high it ranks, so #1 is worth a full point and #10 about half of one.
Both are built from your positions alone, so nothing moves because a competitor appeared or vanished, and coverage is always reported beside them rather than folded in. Ranking #2 for one keyword out of five must never read like a strong point.
02
One Credit Pool for Local and Classic SEO
Every other geo-grid tool is a local-only product. Its credits buy grid scans, and if you also track ordinary Google rankings, that's a second subscription and a second bill.
SerpDino runs both on the same credits. A 5×5 grid on five keywords, scanned daily for a month, costs about a third of the entry plan. The rest keeps tracking your regular keyword set, with SERP snapshots, AI Overview detection and competitor positions.
Nothing to switch on, no per-product tiers. Local projects and classic projects sit next to each other in the same dashboard.
03
Traffic and Speed Data, Included
A local business with a website is still a website. When your local project has a domain attached, you get the same Similarweb traffic panel and PageSpeed monitoring every classic project gets — visits, sources, engagement, Core Web Vitals — at no extra cost.
No local-only tracker ships this, because none of them look at your site at all. And site speed feeds the map pack too, so it belongs on the same screen as your grid.
14 Who it is for
Who Runs Geo-Grids Every Week
The four setups this tracker was priced and shaped for.
Local SEO agencies
Dozens of client businesses on one subscription, sorted into folders, each one shareable by link. No per-profile fee and nothing to connect on the client's side, so onboarding is a business name and a keyword list.
Multi-location brands
One project per location, the same keyword set across all of them, and grids sized to each catchment rather than to a head-office radius. Comparing branches becomes a question of coverage instead of anecdotes from store managers.
Service-area businesses
Plumbers, locksmiths, mobile mechanics — businesses whose customers are spread over a region rather than gathered at a door. Custom points follow a motorway or a coastline where a circle would waste half its credits on water.
Single-location businesses
A restaurant, clinic or salon that wants to know how far its pull actually reaches. A 5×5 grid on a handful of keywords costs a few cents a week and answers the question properly.
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16 Frequently Asked Questions
Questions,
answered plainly.
Still unsure about something? Ask us directly — a person who works on SerpDino answers.
01How is a geo-grid rank tracker different from a normal rank check?
A geo-grid (also written geogrid) is the difference between one sample and a map. A normal check gives you one position, measured from one place — usually the middle of the city. Local results change street by street, so that single number is one arbitrary glance. A geo-grid scans the same keyword from dozens of GPS points laid out around your business and shows the position at each of them, so you see the shape of your visibility instead of a single sample of it.
02How much does one grid scan cost?
1 credit = 1 grid point × 1 keyword. A 5×5 grid on one keyword is 25 credits, which works out at about one cent. The entry plan includes 12k credits per month, roughly {{scans}} scans of that size, and the price per credit doesn't change on bigger plans.
03How many scans do I get on the Free plan?
{{freeCredits}} credits every month, which is {{freeScans}} full 5×5 grid scans, and the allowance refills each month. No credit card. For comparison, Local Falcon's free allowance is 100 credits and GMB Radar's is 300.
04Why is my map mostly grey?
Almost always because the keyword is too broad. Google serves roughly 80–120 businesses per point, so for a city-wide term like "pizza new york" a non-dominant business genuinely isn't visible from most points. The grid is reporting reality, not failing to find you. Scan keywords with local intent and the map fills in.
05What zoom level do you scan at, and why does it matter?
A fixed 17z. Zoom decides which businesses appear at a point and in what order, so it can't be arbitrary. We validated ours against BrightLocal on identical coordinates, same keyword, same business, six points, and 17z came out closest on every point, both on rank and on the radius of results returned. It's never adaptive, so scans stay comparable over time.
06How deep do you capture results?
Roughly 80–120 businesses per point, which is Google's own ceiling for a Maps query. Scrolling longer doesn't go deeper — a 150-second scroll budget came back with 98 results in our tests while a 48-second one returned 120, because Google starts throttling. Positions are exact numbers with no cap, so if you're 78th at a point you'll see 78.
07Can I track competitors?
Yes, in two ways. Click any grid point to see every business ranked there with its rating, review count and, where Google exposes it, its website. And because we identify businesses by public Place ID, you can build a full grid for a competitor exactly the way you build your own. Nothing about the setup is limited to businesses you own.
08What grid shapes and sizes can I use?
Square grids and concentric circles from 3×3 up to 21×21, with a 0.5–10 km or mile step, in either unit. 21×21 is 441 points; for comparison, Whitespark and BrightLocal both stop at 225 and Localo at 49. There is also a custom mode where you click up to 60 points anywhere on the map, which is what you want when a service area follows a motorway or a coastline instead of a circle.
09Do I need to connect my Google Business Profile, and will you manage it?
No to both. There's no Google login and no ownership verification anywhere in the flow: you search for the business the way you would in Google Maps, and we identify it by its public Place ID. We're a rank tracker, so there are no posts, no review replies and no citation building. That's why the plan doesn't cap how many profiles you connect. There is nothing to connect.