Guides
Straight answers for garages that want the right work
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.
How garages get found on Google, and why the map decides most of it
Where a UK garage's bookings come from online: the map pack for MOTs and servicing, the 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 specific search that fills an MOT bay, how Google decides which three test centres to show, and the profile, page and review changes that move it.
7 min read
Google Business Profile for garages: the checklist that fills the bays
A working checklist for a garage's Google Business Profile in the order the factors matter: categories, services with prices, hours, reviews, photos.
8 min read
Why your garage website is not ranking, and what fixes it
The reasons we find most often when a garage's website is invisible on Google: one page for everything, not indexed, generic text, slow on a phone. 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: the area, the competition, the state of the website, and what the monthly fee actually buys. Questions to ask any agency.
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 real account of a new specialist garage's first two months on Google: the numbers, the order of the work, the mistake we nearly made, why reviews became the limit.
8 min read
How to choose an SEO agency as a garage owner: three quotes on the desk
Three kinds of quote land on a garage owner's desk: the cold-call deal, the big agency, the specialist.
4 min read
DVSA, IMI, Trust My Garage and the badges that move a garage on Google
Which garage badges customers check, which ones Google and the AI assistants read, and how to show each one so it counts: the profile, the citations.
4 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.