Did you know anyone can make changes to your Google Business Profile without your knowledge? That's right - competitors, disgruntled customers, or even well-meaning individuals can propose edits to your business information, potentially affecting your local search visibility and customer interactions.
Falcon Guard acts as your vigilant protector, monitoring your Google Business Profiles for any alterations. With Falcon Guard, you maintain control over your online presence, ensuring your customers always see accurate, up-to-date information about your business.
Additionally, Google only saves your Google Business Profile Performance Metrics (Calls, Website Clicks, & Driving Directions) for 6 months. Falcon Guard saves these metrics forever, allowing you to easily see all of your data.
Falcon Guard keeps a watchful eye on the critical fields that make up your Google Business Profile. Our robust monitoring system tracks any edits or changes day and night. With this extensive coverage, you can rest assured that no important edits go unnoticed.
Falcon Guard doesn't just monitor changes—it helps you understand their impact. By tracking modifications alongside your local search rankings, you can identify correlations between specific changes and ranking fluctuations. This powerful feature allows you to:
Falcon Guard sends notifications when any monitored field is altered, allowing you to quickly review and respond to updates. This rapid response system ensures you're always ahead of potential issues, maintaining control over your online presence. The 20 monitored fields are Calls, Website Clicks, Driving Directions, Place ID, Google FID, Google CID, Business Name, Address, Phone, URL, Display URL, Hours, Latitude, Longitude, Store Code, Description, Primary Category, Secondary Categories, Rating, and Review Count.
Falcon Guard aligns your GBP Performance Metrics, profile changes, and ranking fluctuations, providing valuable insights into which updates positively or negatively affect your visibility. Use this data to make informed decisions about your Google Business Profile optimization strategy.
Falcon Guard maintains a detailed history of all modifications to your profile along with your Google Business Profile Performance Metrics, allowing you to review past changes and performance at any time. This historical data is invaluable for auditing, troubleshooting, and understanding the evolution of your online presence.
Whether you have a handful of stores or hundreds, Falcon Guard scales to your needs, providing centralized monitoring for all your Google Business Profiles to help streamline your local SEO efforts. Monitor and protect up to 10 business locations for only $1, making it an affordable solution for businesses of all sizes.
Don't leave your local SEO success to chance. With Falcon Guard, you gain peace of mind knowing that your Google Business Profile is protected around the clock. Our powerful monitoring tool alerts you to changes instantly, helps you understand ranking fluctuations and gives you the insights you need to maintain and improve your local search visibility. Join thousands of businesses already benefiting from Falcon Guard's vigilant protection and start safeguarding your online presence today.
How much does Falcon Guard cost?
How many listings can Falcon Guard monitor?
Can Falcon Guard monitor competitor listings?
Yes, Falcon Guard can also track changes made to competitor listings, giving you insights into any shifts in their profile that could impact your business in local search rankings. To monitor a competitor's listing, simply add the location to your Local Falcon account and activate the monitor in Falcon Guard settings.
What does Falcon Guard monitor on my Google Business Profile?
Falcon Guard monitors critical changes to your Google Business Profile, including edits to business name, address, phone number, website, business hours, categories, latitude, longitude, business description, star rating, review count, store code and Place ID. Monitoring these fields helps ensure you are alerted when any changes have been made to your listing.
How quickly will I be alerted by Falcon Guard if my listing is changed?
What types of changes to my Google Business Profile listing should I be concerned about?
Can I see Google Business Profile Performance Metrics in Local Falcon?
What do I need to do to see GBP Performance Metrics in Falcon Guard Reports?
That's easy! All you have to do is ensure you have a Falcon Guard subscription ($0.10 per location you want to monitor), connect a Google Account to Local Falcon, and import the locations you manage from the account. Then, add one or more of those locations to Falcon Guard and it will take care of the rest, automatically updating GBP stats for the location twice daily according to its protection scan schedule.
What if I want to see GBP Performance Metrics in Falcon Guard, but I've already added my location to Local Falcon manually?
How long does Falcon Guard show GBP Performance Metrics for?
Falcon Guard stores your locations' Google Business Profile performance data forever, allowing you to track performance over time, including for the past 7 days, 30 days, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, and year-over-year (once we have enough data). You can also toggle between seeing daily and monthly metrics for the chosen timeframe.
Are the GBP Performance Metrics the same in Local Falcon and in my GBP dashboard?
Is it easy to share GBP Performance Metrics from Falcon Guard Reports with clients?
It couldn't be easier! You can download the GBP Performance Metrics as a SVG, PNG, or CSV file and work them into your existing reporting according to your needs. You can also share a whole Falcon Guard Protection report, GBP insights included, with clients via a direct link, PDF, or CSV. This is much easier than extracting the stats from Google, which requires a complex technical process or an expensive third-party tool.
How can I correlate GBP performance with changes to my location's business details?
The easiest way is to track both changes and GBP Performance Metrics with Falcon Guard, which automatically scans your GBP listing twice a day and keeps a record of all changes while also updating stats on the most important profile interactions, including calls, website clicks, and requests for directions.