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How Ashford builds your presence, starting on Google Maps

It starts with your Google Business Profile, because that’s where most buyers find you first, and we rebuild and run it until you show up in the map results. From there we build your website and run your social media on the same account, with the same team behind them.

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It’s free, and we’ll pull your map rank before we talk.

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01 Google profile

02 Website

03 Social media

04 One team

05 Custom software

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Google Partner

5.0 on Google

Month to month, no setup fees

01

Your Google profile

The map pack, explained

Three agents get most of the calls

  1. 01 / 04 The search

    Someone moving to your town types “realtor near me” into their phone.

  2. 02 / 04 The map pack

    Google shows a map and three agents under it, before any website. That map and its three agents are the map pack, and they get most of the calls.

  3. 03 / 04 Google's rule

    Google picks the three by reading each agent's Google Business Profile, the free listing with your name, phone and reviews, and checking it against the rest of the web. Most agents never touch either.

  4. 04 / 04 The climb

    Most agents already rank in the top 200, so Google knows them. Four fixable gaps keep them out of the top three. Ashford South fixes them and keeps them fixed.

70% Customers are 70% more likely to visit a business with a complete Business Profile. Source: Google Business Profile Help

Illustration. Google decides the rankings, and we do the work it reads.

How Ashford moves an agent up
realtor near me
Map resultsTop three
  1. 2Brokerage on Main StreetReal estate agency, 0.6 mi
  2. 3Team across townReal estate agent, 2.1 mi
  3. 4Agent by the parkReal estate agent, 0.9 mi
  4. 5Office downtownReal estate agency, 3.4 mi
  5. 6Agent on Fifth AvenueReal estate agent, 1.8 mi
  6. 7Agent near the schoolReal estate agent, 2.7 mi
  7. 1YouYour Google Business Profile
  • Details matched
  • Categories set
  • Service tabs filled
  • Pages indexed

The problem

You’re excellent at selling homes. The internet just doesn’t know it yet.

Most agents have spent years becoming the best option in their market and almost no time becoming the most visible one. Their website doesn’t say much, their Google presence is a placeholder, and when a buyer searches for an agent in their area, they don’t show up on top.

What Google reads

Google picks the three by reading your profile

Every agent in the map pack has a Google Business Profile, the free listing Google shows on Maps and beside search results with your name, phone, reviews, hours and photos. Google checks that profile against the rest of the web, and when AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers name an agent, they’re reading the same profiles, reviews and directory listings.

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2.7x

Customers are 2.7 times more likely to consider a business reputable if they find a complete Business Profile on Google Search and Maps.

Source: Google Business Profile Help, “Complete your Business Profile on Google”.

01

Relevance

Whether your profile matches what was searched, which comes down to your categories, your services and the words on your profile.

02

Distance

How close you are to the person searching, also called proximity. Results shift from one neighborhood to the next, so what you see at home isn’t what a buyer across town sees.

03

Prominence

How well known and trusted you look, based on your reviews, mentions of your business on other sites and steady activity on your profile.

Google names relevance, distance and prominence as its three tests for local results. Here’s the long version: How to rank higher on Google Maps.

The four gaps

Most agents are on Google, few in the top three

Google usually knows an agent exists, and most profiles already show up somewhere in the top 200 for the searches that matter in their area. It’s the move into the top three that makes the phone ring, and the same four gaps hold most agents back.

BeforeYour profile today

  • Your name and phone read differently across the web
  • One category, set too narrow
  • Service tabs left empty
  • Pages Google has not indexed
  • Posts when you remember
  • No record of what changed

AfterRun by Ashford South

  • Your details match on the directories Google checks
  • One main category and up to nine more, set for your searches
  • Service tabs filled: buying, selling, relocation
  • Your pages indexed, so Google can show them
  • Posts tagged to your area, every week
  • A written report and a call, every month

We never rebuild from zero. What you have already built, your profile and your reviews, is protected.

How we fix them

01

Details that don’t match

When your name, phone and address read differently on Zillow, your brokerage page and other directories, Google can’t tell it’s the same person, so it trusts your profile less. Each of those mentions is called a citation.

02

Categories set too narrow

Categories tell Google what your business is and decide which searches you can show up for. Google allows one main category and up to nine more.

03

Empty service tabs

Your profile has sections that list what you offer, like buying, selling and relocation. Google reads them, but most agents leave them blank.

04

Pages Google hasn’t found

Google only shows pages it has found and stored, which is called indexing. If a page about you isn’t indexed, it doesn’t exist to Google.

Book a 15-minute audit

It’s free, and we’ll pull your map rank before we talk.

How it works

What happens, and when

You talk to a person first. Then we build it, run it every week and report on it every month, and you don’t have to log in to anything to make it work.

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01, before you pay anything

A free 15-minute audit call

We pull your map rank and your profile before we talk, then show you where you stand and what’s holding you back. You’ll leave with a clear picture whether or not we end up working together.

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Your Google Business ProfileThe audit
Before you pay
Your details on other sitesZillow, brokerage page, directoriesDo not match
CategoriesOne main, up to nine moreToo narrow
Service tabsBuying, selling, relocationEmpty
Your pages on GoogleFound and stored by GoogleNot indexed

The four gaps the audit checks first. Your own call shows your real rank across your area.

02, the first month

Setup

We get your profile verified, or out of Google jail if it’s been suspended. Then we set your categories, fill your service tabs and make your name, phone and address match across the directories that matter. Since the first month is setup, it pays to start before you need it.

Google Partner badgeAshford South is a Google Partner. We handle verification and appeals with Google for you.
Your Google Business ProfileSetup
Verified
Your details on other sitesMatched
CategoriesReal estate agentReal estate consultantReal estate agency
Service tabsBuyingSellingRelocationNew construction
Your pages on GoogleIndexed
03, every week

Activity

Every week, without gaps, we publish posts with photos tagged to the area you serve, reply to your reviews and add new mentions of your business on trusted sites. You just send your photos once through the client portal.

Your Google Business ProfileEvery week
Week 1Tagged to the area you serve
Week 2A home you sold, with photos
Week 3Your market this month
Week 4A neighborhood you serve
Replies to your reviewsSent
New mentions on trusted sitesAdded
04, every month

Report and one-on-one

Your report is built by hand and covers where you rank for the searches that matter, the month’s wins, what Google changed and what to improve next. It opens with a written note from your point of contact, and then you talk it through one on one.

See real report screens
Your monthly report, April 2026Report ready
A note from your point of contact
Map pack rankings
How to hire a Realtor#11st page
Homes for sale#11st page
Relocation Realtor#21st page
Best Realtor#31st page
Keyword performance
Sent to you every month

The monthly report

A report you can read, written by a person

Every month you’ll see where you rank for the searches that matter, what changed and what’s next. These are real screens from client accounts, and every report opens with a note written by a person, not a chart.

A client's monthly report opening with a written note from the account manager: 70 citations, a 10-citation increase from last month, and a keyword rankings table

The written note

From a client’s June 2026 report, which held its top positions, reached 70 citations (10 more than the month before) and laid out what comes next.

Monthly report table of map pack rankings: How to hire a Realtor #1, Homes for Sale #1, Relocation Realtor #2, Best Realtor #3, all on the first page

Map pack rankings

Each tracked search and its spot in the map pack, from a client’s April 2026 report with every search on page one.

Proof

Three clients, three markets, their own numbers

An agent, a lender and an agent who’d never been on Google. Each story is told in full, with the screens to back it up.

Suzanne Carney seated on a stool, black and white portrait

$60,000

Commission, 60 days in

Suzanne Carney, Realtor, Compass, Los Angeles

She went from Google jail to the map, landed a new client from Google in under two weeks and closed the $60,000 deal at day 60.

Read Suzanne's story

Mediterranean-style home with oak trees and a long front walk

$30M+

Annual deal flow

Paradise Coast Mortgage (PCM), Florida

A mortgage team in Florida that runs $30M+ in annual deal flow through the lead system Ashford South built and manages.

Read the PCM case study

Aerial view of an estate with vineyards and lawns

$30,000

Commission

Carmella Morrison, Hudson Valley, New York

She’d built her reputation offline, and now buyers find her on Google too.

Read Carmella's story

Results are each client’s own and are not a guarantee of similar outcomes.

More client results

02

Your website

A website that works with your Google profile

Once your profile is working, your website is where buyers go next to look you over. We build that site, write its pages and keep it tied to your profile, so the two tell Google the same story.

Homes for sale in East Idaho

IDX website hero reading Homes for Sale in East Idaho, with a Live IDX Search label over a river canyon photo

A client’s IDX website, with a live search of homes for sale in East Idaho.

What we build

Three parts, each one built to be found

01

Live home search

An IDX website shows live homes for sale from the MLS, the shared database agents list homes in. Buyers search homes on your site instead of leaving for a portal, and every inquiry comes straight to you.

02

Area and blog pages

We write blog and area pages for the searches people make in your town. Each one is a page Google can find, store and show, which gives a buyer one more way to land on you.

03

Lead magnets

A free home list or a guide a buyer trades an email for, so a visitor who isn’t ready to call still leaves you a way to reach them.

Every inquiry lands in your inbox as a recap you can rate.

Blog posts and Las Cruces insights

Blog page reading Blog Posts and Las Cruces Insights above photos of local homes

A client’s blog in Las Cruces, NM. Each post is a page Google can show for a local search.

How they work together

Your site and your profile, pointing at each other

A website on its own doesn’t move you up the map. Tied to your profile, it gives Google more to read and gives a buyer somewhere better to go than a portal.

Google

Your Google Business Profile

· Name, phone and address

· Categories and service tabs

· Reviews and weekly posts

One link. The website button on your profile sends buyers to your own site, not to a portal.

The same details. Your name, phone and address match on both, which is one of the first things Google checks.

More to match. Area pages give Google more reasons to show you when someone searches your town.

Found and stored. We check your pages are indexed, so Google can actually show them.

Your site

Your website

· Live home search

· Area and blog pages

· Lead magnets

When the pieces line up, AI answers name you too

When the pieces line up, AI answers name you too

Ask Google’s AI Mode about one of our clients in Las Cruces and it answers with his name, brokerage, rating and specialties, all read from the profile, reviews and listings we keep current.

Google AI Mode answer describing the client as a Las Cruces Realtor with a 5.0 rating and his specialties

03

Social media

Social media that keeps your name in front of your sphere

Your sphere is the people who already know you, like past clients, friends and neighbors, and they’re the ones who send you referrals. We keep your name in front of them every week.

YouTube video by a client: a new home tour in Las Cruces, New Mexico

A home tour from a client’s channel, scripted around his market in Las Cruces, NM.

What we post

Your market, every week

Your market, every week

Posts and short videos about your area and the homes in it, built around what people moving to your town want to know.

Who makes it

We write it, you film it

We write it, you film it

We write the scripts for you to film and manage every platform, from TikTok and Facebook to Instagram and YouTube.

When it goes out

On a schedule you can see

On a schedule you can see

Content goes out every week, and your content schedule lays it out a week at a time, so you always know what’s posting and when.

This is separate from the weekly posts on your Google profile, which are part of the Google work above.

04

Everything with one team

We’re not a marketing agency

We’re not a marketing agency

We’re not a marketing agency

Ashford South is a real estate technology company, and we run the marketing too. When your profile, website and social media all run through us, they share one account and one team, and one report covers all of it. The software and the work were built to fit together.

Ashford South is a real estate technology company, and we run the marketing too. When your profile, website and social media all run through us, they share one account and one team, and one report covers all of it. The software and the work were built to fit together.

01

One account

Every client gets a client portal that keeps their files, services, rankings and leads in one place.

02

A report a person reads

Every month, someone on our team reads your report and the note that opens it before you ever see it.

03

One team

The same team runs your Google presence, website, social media and advertising, and they’re the people who pick up when you call. You fund any ad budget, and we manage it.

Ashford South client portal, Ranking tab, showing a client's keyword performance
Ashford South client portal, Files tab, showing listing photos

The Ranking and Files tabs of the client portal, from client accounts.

05

Custom software

Then we build what’s next

As we grew, we built our own software when we couldn’t find any we liked, and we do the same for some of our top clients with custom software and platform management. Platform work is priced on the call.

A buyer meets you online long before the first call. We build for the agent of tomorrow, the one who treats that first meeting as part of the business, and we’re putting that technology in your hands today.

A buyer meets you online long before the first call. We build for the agent of tomorrow, the one who treats that first meeting as part of the business, and we’re putting that technology in your hands today.

A buyer meets you online long before the first call. We build for the agent of tomorrow, the one who treats that first meeting as part of the business, and we’re putting that technology in your hands today.

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About Ashford South

Month to month, with no setup or cancellation fees

Month to month, with no setup or cancellation fees

Month to month, with no setup or cancellation fees

There’s no contract and no software for you to learn, and we only take a limited number of agents in each area. If you ever cancel, management stops and nothing we built gets taken down.

Your part is small. You give us access to your Google profile, send your photos once through the client portal and take the monthly call.

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Questions agents ask before they start

Is this SEO? Are you Google?

Ashford South runs Google Business Profiles and local search for real estate agents, brokers and lenders. It’s different from website SEO, because we work on the map and the three agents under it, which is where people looking for an agent nearby click first. We’re not Google, but we are a Google Partner.

How long until I see results?

The first month is setup. As for what clients have seen, Suzanne Carney had a new client from Google in under two weeks and a $60,000 closing at day 60, and Carmella Morrison’s first closing through Google came in her first months. We don’t promise a timeline, because Google sets the pace.

Can you guarantee a top-three spot?

No. Google decides the rankings, and anyone who promises one is guessing. What we control is the work, the reporting and the terms, which are month to month with no contracts and no setup fees. That’s how confident we are.

My profile is suspended or stuck in verification. Can you help?

Yes. Google has to verify every profile, and it’s a common sticking point, so common that agents call a suspended or stuck profile Google jail. We handle verification and appeals with Google for you, and we’ll never put you in a position to start over.

Why not just pay Zillow for leads?

On Zillow and Realtor.com you’re renting space next to other agents, and it stops the moment you stop paying. Your Google profile, reviews and content are yours, and they keep working.

Is the audit call really free?

Yes. It’s fifteen minutes and there’s nothing to prepare. We pull your map rank and profile before we talk, and you’ll leave with a clear picture whether or not we end up working together.

More on each step: How to verify a Google Business Profile, Best Google profile categories for Realtors, and the rest in Resources.

See where you rank

Book a 15-minute audit and see your own map rank

It’s free, and we’ll pull your map rank before we talk. We only take a limited number of agents in each area.

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