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We start with a free LSA check: your trade, your area, your current account if you have one, and a look at who's holding the top three slots near you. From there I either set the account up and get you verified, or fix the one that's already running. It's a working session and a plan, not a slide deck — and you keep everything, including the account.

You can absolutely set an LSA account up yourself — plenty do, and then wonder why the leads are wrong or the ranking won't move. What a specialist brings is knowing which settings cause which problem: why your service areas are draining your budget, why verification keeps bouncing back, which job types are sending you jobs you'd never quote for, and what to do the week Google changes the rules again. You're buying the shortcut past the expensive learning, not a secret.

Both, and you choose. Basic is setup and one optimisation round if you'd rather run it yourself afterwards. Growth and Expert Level are ongoing local service ads management — monthly or weekly optimisation, lead disputes, review routine and reporting — with no minimum term, so you can stop the management side whenever you like and keep the account either way.

No, and neither can anyone else — the order changes with every search, based on who's nearest, who's open, who answers and who's reviewed. What I can do is make sure you're the business with nothing left to fix, which is how you end up in the top three far more often than not.

In October 2025 Google folded Google Guaranteed, Google Screened and its other badges into one blue "Google Verified" tick, shown alongside the checks your business has passed. The old money-back guarantee programme was retired at the same time — Google’s own announcement of the change is worth a read. The tick still does the same job: it tells a stranger you've been checked before they ring you.

Usually three to four weeks in the UK, longer if something is submitted wrongly and has to go round again. That's most of what my setup work is: getting insurance documents, licences and identity checks accepted the first time instead of the third.

Two separate things. Google bills you per lead — for most UK trades that’s commonly quoted at around £20 to £50, and you set the weekly budget, so your ad spend stays under your control. My own work is a fixed fee quoted after the free LSA check, once I know the size of the job, with no ongoing contract. There’s a fuller breakdown in my guide to what Local Services Ads cost in the UK.

You can dispute a bad lead, and Google reviews charged leads for up to 30 days. But it no longer automatically refunds leads outside your area or outside your job types — it expects you to have set those up properly. So the fix is at the front end, in your service areas and job selections, not in an argument afterwards.

Yes — your LSA account links to it, and your reviews and hours come from it. If yours is a mess, out of date, or doesn't exist, that's part of the job.

Most local home and trade services, plus a growing list of professional ones. A handful of categories aren't eligible, and some — legal work, for instance — have been rolled out more cautiously in the UK. Checking your exact category is the first thing I do, before you spend anything.