GMB post automation for local service businesses.
Two to four Google Business Profile posts a week, generated from your services and service area, scheduled and published for you. You can review or edit the week before it goes live.
$99/mo, no setup fee
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- 2–4 posts per week
- One-text weekly approval
- $99/mo, no setup fee
- No contract
Almost nobody in your market posts. That is the entire opportunity.
Walk the map pack in your city and open the profiles one by one. Most have not posted in a year. Many have never posted at all. The field is empty because posting is a weekly chore with no obvious payoff, and owners who are on a roof at 7am do not do weekly chores.
Google surfaces posts inside the profile panel, in branded search, and increasingly in the local results themselves. A profile with fresh weekly activity reads as an operating business. A profile last touched in 2023 reads as one that might be closed.
The compounding part is not any single post — it is the signal that the profile is alive, plus a steady stream of your actual service and city language attached to the listing Google already trusts.
Automation is the only version of this that survives contact with a real contractor's week. If the posts require you to sit down and write them, they stop by month two. If they show up written and you approve them from the truck, they never stop.
From nothing posted to four a week
- 01We read your businessServices, service area, primary and secondary categories, price points, seasonality, and the language your existing reviews already use.
- 02The generator drafts the weekSunday evening it builds the coming week's posts from that profile plus season and local conditions — offers, service spotlights, recent job types, seasonal reminders.
- 03You approve by textMonday 7am you get one SMS with the week's drafts. Reply Y and they publish on schedule. Want a change? Edit any post in the portal.
- 04It publishes and repeatsPosts go out across the week rather than in a batch. After a few weeks of approving without edits, most owners switch it to fully autonomous.
What changes when the posting actually happens
| Signal | Typical local business | With post automation |
|---|---|---|
| Posting frequency | Zero posts in the last 12 months | 2–4 per week, every week, all year |
| Profile freshness | Last update was the phone number in 2023 | Activity on the profile every few days |
| Service language | One category, no service list | Every service named repeatedly in real content |
| Seasonal offers | Nothing, or a flyer nobody sees | Seasonal posts timed to when people search for them |
| Owner effort | A weekly chore that gets skipped | One text on Monday morning |
Common questions
What is GMB post automation?
It is software that writes, schedules, and publishes Google Business Profile posts on your behalf. Ours generates 2–4 posts per week from your services, service area, season, and local conditions, then publishes them to your profile on a schedule. You approve the week with a single text reply, or switch it to fully autonomous once you trust the output.
Do Google Business Profile posts actually help rankings?
Posts are not a direct ranking factor the way categories and reviews are, but they feed the freshness and engagement signals around your listing, they add your service and city language to a property Google already trusts, and they occupy space in the panel where competitors show nothing. The businesses seeing movement are almost never the ones posting zero times a month.
How often should a local business post to Google?
Once a week is the floor. Two to four a week is where the profile starts to look genuinely active without the content thinning out. More than daily has diminishing returns for a service business with a fixed service list.
Will the posts sound like AI wrote them?
They are generated from your real services, prices, and service area, and they inherit the tone of your existing reviews and site copy. You see every post before it publishes for as long as you want that control. Owners who read the first few weeks generally stop editing.
Can I edit or reject a post before it goes live?
Yes. Every post sits in draft until approved. You can edit any individual post in the portal, reject one, or reject the whole week. Nothing publishes without passing through whatever approval level you set.
What happens if I never respond to the approval text?
Nothing publishes. The drafts stay in the portal and the next week's batch is generated as normal. We follow up if a couple of weeks go by unapproved, because an unapproved queue means the profile is going quiet again.
Run the system for 10 days before you pay.
$0 today. Card required. Cancel during the trial and pay nothing. Keep it, and your first $99 month is charged on day 11. No setup fee.
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