Built 5 Google Maps tools that surface local businesses with a fixable problem — would love feedback from actual local SEOs
I run two Shopify stores and got tired of cold-pitching, so I built a small family of tools that read public Google Maps signals and hand back a scored list of businesses that already have a visible, fixable problem:
- Businesses ignoring their Google reviews (unanswered, with response rate)
- Thriving businesses with no real website
- Google listings that were never claimed
- Ratings that dropped in the last 90 days vs their history
- Newly opened businesses
Each result gets a 0-100 score so the hottest prospects sort first, and it all exports to CSV / Make / n8n.
Real example from testing: scanned 200 dentists in Miami in one run → 158 had unanswered reviews. In one small town I found 35 trades with no website (33 with a phone number).
My question for this sub: which of these signals actually converts best for you when you prospect locally — unanswered reviews, no-website, or unclaimed listings? And is there a signal you wish existed that I could add?
(Happy to share the tools if anyone wants them — I'll drop links in a comment so I'm not spamming the post.)