Guides
Straight answers for garages that want the right work
12 guides for garage owners, written by the people who do this for a living, from what we see in Search Console and Google Business Profiles every week. No prices, no jargon, no filler, and one case study with the real numbers: a remapping garage in the map pack 5 weeks after launch.
How garages get found on Google, and why the map decides most of it
Where a UK garage's bookings come from: the map with 3 garages on it for MOTs and servicing, organic results for the expensive jobs, and what decides each.
7 min read
"MOT near me": how MOT centres rank for it and what to do if you do not
The search that fills an MOT bay, how Google picks the 3 test centres it shows, and the profile, page and review changes that move a centre into them.
7 min read
Google Business Profile for garages: the checklist that fills the bays
A garage's Google Business Profile checklist in the order the 2026 local ranking survey puts the factors: category, services with prices, hours, reviews.
8 min read
Why your garage website is not ranking, and what fixes it
The 4 reasons a garage website is usually invisible on Google: one page for everything, not indexed, generic text, slow on a phone. And the fix for each.
8 min read
How much should a garage spend on SEO? Three garages, three answers
What decides the cost of SEO for a garage: area, competition, the state of the site and what the monthly fee buys, with 3 garages as worked examples.
6 min read
A remapping garage in the map pack in five weeks: what we did, what we did not, and what came next
A new remapping garage's first months on Google: map pack after 5 weeks, clicks 7 to 42 then 81, the order of the work and the mistake we nearly made.
8 min read
How to choose an SEO agency as a garage owner: three quotes on the desk
3 kinds of SEO quote land on a garage owner's desk: the cold-call deal, the big agency and the specialist. How to tell which one you are holding.
4 min read
DVSA, IMI, Trust My Garage and the badges that move a garage on Google
Which garage badges customers check (DVSA, IMI, Trust My Garage), which ones Google and AI assistants read, and where to show each one so it counts.
4 min read
Which keywords a garage should actually target, and which are a waste of a page
A garage has three kinds of search to win and they need three different things. Which ones a page can win, which the map decides, and which to leave alone.
8 min read
BookMyGarage, WhoCanFixMyCar or your own website: where a garage's bookings should come from
What BookMyGarage, WhoCanFixMyCar and the rest give a garage, what they take, and the mix that keeps the MOT bay full without renting your own customers.
7 min read
Getting Google reviews as a garage: the routine at the desk, the wording and the law
How a garage goes from one review to 21 without a fake one: who asks, when, with what words, and what Google and UK law forbid. Real numbers.
7 min read
DPF cleaning is the biggest job search in the garage trade. Here is the page that wins it, legally
33,100 UK searches a month for DPF cleaning, 3,600 for regeneration, 1,900 for a delete you must never sell. What a garage's DPF page must say to win them.
7 min read
See what is stopping your garage from ranking
Send us your website and your town. You get a plain-English audit of where you stand against the garages already in the map pack, and a quote. No pressure, no long contract.