Locksmith Marketing and Advertising: Google’s Checks, Local Services Ads and Call Handling

Updated October 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team

Advertising for locksmiths is the paid and earned work that puts a licensed locksmith company in front of people who need a lock opened, changed or installed, and turns those searches into booked jobs. It covers Google Ads and Local Services Ads that clear Google’s locksmith verification, landing pages and a website that get the call, call handling, reviews, vans and signage, and the commercial accounts that bring repeat work. It is for owners of residential, automotive, commercial and safe locksmith businesses, from one van to a fleet. Progression Agency is based in New York City and works with clients across the United States and worldwide.

What do locksmith marketing services include?

The areas locksmith marketing covers, including the advertising that has to clear Google’s checks first. Progression’s published services are the Google Ads, website, SEO, social media and email pages linked on this page.

• Walking through Google’s Advanced Verification and Local Services requirements before ads launch
• Search and call campaigns split by job type
• Local Services Ads with a profile that ranks on responsiveness and reviews
• A landing page for each job type the ads pay for
• A website that loads fast and dials in one tap
• Call tracking and answering that match the hours you advertise
• Review requests that follow Google’s and the FTC’s rules
• License numbers in every ad where your state requires them
• Guidance on vans, shop signs and leave-behinds that carry one name and number
• Email and proposal templates for property managers, landlords and businesses
• Social posts, email and texts to past customers

Where this page stops

Ranking in the map pack, service and city pages and spam reporting for rankings are covered on our SEO for locksmiths page, and answers from AI assistants on AEO for locksmiths. This page is the marketing and advertising side: what you pay for, what you print and paint, and how the phone gets answered.

Why advertising for locksmiths is different from other trades

Three things set this trade apart: Google screens locksmiths more strictly than most trades, lead sellers and fake listings compete for the same calls, and most calls come from someone standing outside a locked door.

Urgent buyers decide in minutes

A person locked out of a car or a home calls one of the first credible names they see. How those searches split by job, town and urgency is laid out on our locksmith SEO page, so it is not repeated here; for advertising, the point is that the ad, the landing page and the person answering the phone all have to win the same short decision.

Google checks you before it takes your money

Locksmiths are one of two trades Google names for verification before ads can run in the United States, and the Local Services checks add background checks on service professionals. Budget the time for that before you budget the money.

Your competitors are not all locksmiths

Some companies bidding against you pass the call to whoever pays them, and Google’s verification form asks every applicant whether it is a direct service provider or an aggregator and lead generator. A licensed shop should make the difference obvious: real name, real license number, real address or service area, real technicians.

Google’s Advanced Verification for locksmith ads

In the United States, Google restricts ads for locksmith services and garage door repair, and you must apply for Advanced Verification before they can run. Canada has the same rule for locksmiths, and in Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Belgium locksmith ads cannot run at all.

Google’s Local Services ad policy sets those country rules and says a warning comes at least seven days before any account suspension under it. The verification itself is a request form in Google Ads support, separate from Local Services onboarding.

What the application asks for

The Advanced Verification request form asks for the Google Ads customer ID, whether the business is a direct service provider whose own technicians do the work or an aggregator and lead generator, the business name, street address, phone, owner and website, and the license type, number and expiry date. The business name on the license must match the name on your state business registration or DBA certificate.

Mobile-only locksmiths

A locksmith working only from vans gives the street address used for state registration, licensing and insurance. Keep that address identical everywhere it appears: the form, the license record, the Business Profile settings and the website footer.

If you also run Local Services Ads

The form tells Local Services advertisers not to apply separately, because Local Services onboarding includes the verification. Google’s verification team answers questions within one business day, and a rejected application can be appealed through the same form.

States without a locksmith license

The form offers a no-license option for areas where none is required. Even there, a business registration, insurance and a consistent legal name do the work a license number does elsewhere.

Local Services Ads for locksmiths

These put a screened locksmith above the ordinary results with a Google Verified badge, and you bid for leads rather than clicks. Google treats locksmiths as an urgent category, so the screening is stricter than for most trades.

What Google screens

For the Locksmith category, Google’s screening requirements list business and owner background checks, business registration checks, general liability insurance and a state business license, with owner licenses at state level; most of these apply to select advertisers. Google’s note adds that locksmiths also go through service professional background checks and Advanced Verification. Advertisers need a public, verified Business Profile, and screening takes three to four weeks on average after documents are submitted.

No pre-badge ads for locksmiths

Google’s getting-started page lets some trades run pre-badge ads, placed below fully verified providers, while checks finish. Locksmiths, garage door services and health care are excluded, so a locksmith’s listing waits for full screening.

Google Verified replaced Google Guaranteed

Google now shows a single Google Verified badge, issued once verification is complete, and has discontinued the Money Back Guarantee behind the old Google Guaranteed badge; reimbursement covered services booked before December 7, 2025. If a van, invoice or web page still shows a Google Guaranteed badge, replace it.

How Local Services rank locksmiths

Google ranks Local Services listings in an auction that weighs your bid per lead, how likely you are to produce a lead and profile quality: rating, number of reviews, average response time, high-quality images and verification checks. Missed calls can hurt responsiveness, and message and booking leads give customers a way to reach you at night and on weekends.

Google Ads for locksmiths: search campaigns that earn the call

They work when each campaign matches one kind of job, one service area and the hours you can actually answer. Search ads catch people typing what they need; call ads and call assets let them ring you straight from the results.

PPC for locksmiths: which searches to pay for

Pay first for searches that end in a job: lockouts with a place name, car key replacement and programming, rekeying, lock changes, safe openings and commercial hardware. Exclude people learning to pick locks, looking for training or jobs, or shopping for a product. Separate campaigns let a lockout and an access control inquiry carry different bids and budgets.

Call ads, call assets and call reporting

With call reporting switched on, Google assigns a forwarding number and records call duration, start time, whether the call connected and, for calls over 15 seconds, the caller’s number. Calls above a length you set can count as conversions. Turning it off shows your own number but stops Google Ads tracking calls; third-party call tracking is the alternative.

Radius, schedule and bids

Set the location to the area your vans reach in the time you promise, not the whole metro. Run ads only in the hours someone answers, and bid harder in the hours a technician is free. A 24-hour ad that rings a voicemail at 2 a.m. pays for the click and loses the customer.

Our Google Ads and PPC management page describes the search, Performance Max and remarketing work we run for small and mid-sized companies, always in accounts the client owns.

Locksmith ads that get chosen

Proof wins the click: the business name, the license number where the state requires it, the area you cover, how quickly you arrive and how you price. Vague promises read like every lead seller on the page.

What to say in the headline

Lead with the job and the place, then the proof: licensed, insured, local technicians, an arrival window you can keep. Leave out any claim you cannot back up.

Should a locksmith ad show a price?

If you advertise a price, it has to be the price the technician quotes at the door for that job. A low service fee in the ad followed by a larger bill on site is exactly the impression a licensed shop needs to separate itself from. Many shops advertise how pricing works instead, such as a firm quote before any work starts.

Assets that add trust

Call, location, callout and structured snippet assets can carry the services you offer, the hours you answer and the license number. Keep every version of the name, address and phone identical to the Business Profile and the license record.

What a locksmith landing page needs

The page has one job: turn an ad click into a call or a booked visit within seconds. Build one per job type the ads pay for, not one page for everything.

Explaining identity checks

Customers sometimes bristle at being asked for ID before a door is opened, so explain it on the page. In Illinois, for example, the locksmith act requires a locksmith who bypasses or manipulates a lock, or originates a first key by code, to record the customer’s name, address, date of birth, phone and driver’s license or other ID number, get a signature and keep the record for two years.

Our landing page design and conversion rate optimization pages cover page design and testing in more depth.

Locksmith website design: the site behind the ads

Every ad, review and van eventually sends people to the site to check you are real, so the site has to prove it in seconds: speed, evidence and a phone number that works from every screen.

Web design for locksmiths: the structure

A home page that says who you are and where, one page per service line (residential, automotive, commercial, safes, access control), an about page with the license, insurance and the people, a service-area page and a contact page with hours. The ranking side of those pages, city pages included, is on SEO for locksmiths.

Proof a lead seller cannot copy

Technician photos and names, used with permission; the shop or the vans; the license certificate; association memberships you actually hold, such as the ALOA Security Professionals Association; and one legal name across the site, the license and the Business Profile.

Markup and speed

Mark the business up with the schema.org Locksmith type, a kind of home and construction business, using the exact name, phone and hours on the profile. Keep pages light enough to load on a weak signal in a parking lot.

Our website design and development page sets out our fixed-scope site tiers; contractor website design covers trade sites in general and service business website design the service-business pattern.

Call tracking and answering for locksmith calls

Every marketing dollar a locksmith spends ends in a phone call, so the phone is part of the advertising. Track calls by source, answer them in every hour you advertise and review the ones that did not book.

Tracking by source

Google Ads call reporting covers calls from ads, Local Services leads arrive in the Local Services account, and separate numbers on print pieces show which of them ring. Keep the main number on the Business Profile and in directory listings unchanged, so tracking never breaks your listings.

Tracking numbers and California’s ad rule

California’s Locksmith Act requires every advertisement to carry the business name, the business address or telephone number as they appear in the bureau’s records, and the license number. An ad that shows only a tracking number should also show the address of record.

Answering counts as much as the ad

Google says missed calls may negatively affect your responsiveness in Local Services, and a caller who reaches voicemail calls the next name. If you advertise 24-hour service, staff it or use an answering service that can dispatch, and stop the ads in the hours nobody can.

Learn from the calls that did not book

Unbooked calls show what the ads are attracting: wrong services, wrong towns, price shoppers or calls handled badly. Fix the keyword, the area or the script, in that order.

Lead-generation directories and fake locksmith listings

Lead sellers and fake listings take calls meant for real locksmiths, then pass the job on. Outbid them where it pays and out-prove them everywhere.

How lead sellers compete

Some run ads and listings under generic names with a call center behind them; others publish directories that rank for city searches and sell the calls. Buying those calls can fill a slow week, but the customer, the review and the repeat job belong to someone else.

What Google’s profile rules say

Google’s Business Profile guidelines make a virtual office, a rented mailing address the business does not operate from, ineligible; allow a co-working office only with signage, customer visits and staff during business hours; and allow one profile per location. A service-area business keeps one profile for its central office with a service area.

Reporting fake locksmith listings

Google’s Business Redressal Complaint Form takes complaints about misleading information or fraudulent activity on Maps involving a business’s name, phone number or website. Report with evidence; our locksmith SEO page covers spam fighting as part of ranking.

Should a locksmith buy leads?

Only as a top-up, and only exclusive leads you can check. Compare the cost per booked job with your own ads and Local Services, and stop once your own channels fill the calendar. Our lead generation page explains the trade-offs.

Reviews: what locksmiths can and cannot ask for

Ask every customer for an honest review once the job is done, and never pay for one, filter who you ask or tell people what to write. Google and the FTC both police reviews.

Google’s rules

Google’s Maps content policies bar offering payment, discounts or free services for a review, discouraging negative reviews, asking only happy customers, pressuring customers at your premises, and asking for specific content, including review quotas for staff and reviews that name a staff member. Asking for a genuine review without an incentive is allowed.

The FTC’s rule

Under 16 CFR Part 465, compensation or incentives conditioned on a review expressing a particular sentiment are unlawful, and an officer or manager who reviews the business must clearly disclose the relationship. The rule also covers fake reviews and review suppression.

How to ask

A text after the job with a direct link, sent to every customer, with no reward and no request to name the technician. Reply to every review in your own words; a measured reply to a complaint about price or wait time reads well to the next caller.

Our review management service and guide to getting more Google reviews cover the system in detail.

State license numbers in locksmith advertising

California, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina and Virginia all put the license number into the ad by law. Illinois names websites and other electronic formats, California counts directory listings and paid ads in any media, Texas covers any media used to promote the licensed business, and North Carolina and Virginia speak of all advertisements and all business advertising materials. Each was read in the state’s own law or rules on October 19, 2026; check your own state before you print anything.

California

The Locksmith Act counts business cards, stationery, brochures, flyers, paid ads in any media and directory listings as advertisements, and the director may fine $500 for a first violation and $1,000 for each one after. The Bureau of Security and Investigative Services also requires the license and current renewal certificate to be displayed in each mobile service vehicle.

Texas

A business acts as a locksmith company under Texas Occupations Code 1702.1056 if it sells, installs, services or maintains mechanical security devices, advertises using the word locksmith or puts locksmith in its name, and it needs a security services contractor license to do so. The Department of Public Safety’s private security rule, 37 TAC 35.9, requires the company name, the address as it appears in department records unless it is the license holder’s residential address, and the company license number in advertisements, including business cards, and bars using the state seal or department insignia; the department’s name may be used only to show the company is regulated by it.

Illinois

The Illinois locksmith act counts websites and other electronic formats as advertisements and requires the name, city, state and license number. Knowingly giving a publisher a false license number, or letting another business use yours, is a Class A misdemeanor, with each day a separate offense.

North Carolina

Under the Locksmith Licensing Act, every advertisement for locksmith services must include a valid license number issued by the board, and the owner’s license number satisfies the rule for the company.

Virginia

Virginia regulates locksmith businesses as private security services businesses, and 6VAC20-172-80 requires the business license number issued by the Department of Criminal Justice Services on all business advertising materials, with every licensee’s number when one piece names several.

Other states have their own rules and some have none; Google’s verification form asks for the license wherever one is required and offers a no-license option where none is. We build campaigns inside these rules; your licensing board and counsel decide how they apply to you.

Vans, shop signs and leave-behinds

A locksmith’s vehicles and storefront advertise every day, and in some states they carry legal duties too. Make each one show the same legal name, number and phone as the license and the Business Profile.

Vehicle wraps

A clean wrap with the business name, the main services, the phone number and, where your state’s rule reaches it, the license number turns every job into an ad on the street. In California the license and current renewal certificate must also be displayed inside each mobile service vehicle.

Storefronts and signage

Google expects a business that shows its address to keep permanent, fixed signage with its name at that address. A visible sign also tells people walking past that a real shop is there.

Leave-behinds

A sticker inside the door frame of a new installation, a key tag, a fridge magnet and an invoice that carries the license number put your number where the next lockout starts. Leave only what the customer is happy to keep.

Branches and vans

Illinois requires a separate branch office license for each branch location, and California’s bureau has said a mobile service vehicle does not need a branch office registration. Check how your state treats vans before you advertise them as locations.

Commercial and property-manager accounts

Businesses and property managers bring repeat work: rekeys between tenants, master key systems, door hardware, access control and safes. They buy on reliability and paperwork, so reach them with proposals, account pages and follow-up, not lockout ads.

What property managers buy

Rekeys at tenant turnover, keyed-alike or master-keyed systems, restricted keyways, hardware repairs and emergency response for the buildings they run, with invoices that fit their systems. They want a certificate of insurance, a tax form, clear rates and a named contact.

Where in-house staff stop

Some owners handle simple lock work with their own maintenance staff; Illinois, for example, exempts a property management company’s maintenance employee who services locks for tenants in a multi-family building, as long as that person does not hold out as a locksmith. Pitch what in-house teams do not do: master key systems, access control, safes and after-hours emergencies.

How to market to accounts

A commercial page for each service line, a one-page capabilities sheet, the kinds of buildings you serve (without naming clients who have not agreed), introductions through local business networks, and a follow-up email after every first job. LinkedIn reaches facility and property managers by job title.

Keeping the account

Arrive inside the time you promised, invoice cleanly and send a short note of what was done after each visit. Service keeps accounts; marketing makes sure they know everything else you can do.

Locksmith social media marketing

On social platforms the goal is not followers; it is being the name neighbors recommend when someone asks who to call. Short videos of real work, posted where your service area talks, do more than a busy feed.

What to post

Smart lock and deadbolt installs, safe openings, car key programming, commercial hardware and the van arriving, filmed with the customer’s permission. Say what you did in plain words.

What never to post

A customer’s address or house number, an alarm panel, a safe’s contents or anything that helps someone defeat a lock. Treat a key’s cuts like a password: blur them or keep keys out of the frame.

Where to post

Facebook and Instagram for neighborhood reach, YouTube for how-it-works videos and short clips, and LinkedIn for commercial and property-management contacts. Reply to comments and messages quickly; a slow reply reads the same as a missed call.

Our social media marketing page explains how we run strategy, content, posting, community management and paid social as one team, and video for local SEO covers using the same clips on the Business Profile.

Email and texts to past locksmith customers

Most of your customers will need you again: a new home, a lost fob, a broken lock, a growing business. Keep their permission and their details, and remind them you exist at the moments that matter.

Messages that earn their place

A thank-you with the license number and a review link, a reminder to rekey after a move or a lost key, a note when you add car key programming or access control, and a yearly security check offer for commercial clients.

Consent for marketing texts

Under the FCC’s TCPA rule, marketing calls and texts sent with an autodialer or a prerecorded voice to mobile numbers need the recipient’s prior express written consent, and a recipient can revoke consent by any reasonable method. Collect consent in writing on the invoice or booking form and honor stop requests at once.

Our email marketing service and SMS marketing pages cover the setup, and home services email marketing covers the trade-business pattern.

Locksmith advertising ideas that suit a licensed shop

The best ones use what a lead seller does not have: a real shop, real technicians, local relationships and a license number.

• Rekey offers through real estate agents and closing offices for new owners
• Key and fob programming offers through independent used-car dealers
• A short home security talk for a neighborhood association or a landlord meeting
• A commercial security check offer for the shops on your street
• Smart lock installation pages naming the brands you actually install
• A van wrap that leads with the service you most want more of
• An office lockout card with your number, left with the front desk
• Before-and-after photos of hardware upgrades, with permission
• A thank-you for customers who refer a neighbor, never tied to a review
• Membership in a recognized trade association, shown where it is true

Ideas to skip

Fake urgency, bait prices, borrowed photos, unlicensed subcontractors under your name, reviews swapped with other businesses and anything that hides who will turn up at the door.

Locksmith advertisements in print, radio and directories

Print and directory listings still reach older customers and businesses, and several state rules count them as advertisements. Each one needs the same name and phone, and the license number where required, as your online ads.

What the rules count

California’s definition includes business cards, stationery, brochures, flyers, newsletters, paid ads in any media, directory listings and telephone book listings. Illinois counts printed and electronic material, websites included, but leaves out letterhead, business cards and routine directory listings of a name, address and number.

Direct mail and radio

Mail and radio suit commercial offers, rekey offers to new movers and a new location, where one message can be repeated across a defined area. Our direct mail marketing and radio advertising pages cover both.

Directories worth a listing

List with the directories your customers and Google actually use, keep the name, address and phone identical to the profile and the license record, and claim old listings before someone else edits them.

Digital marketing for locksmiths: how the channels fit together

Online, the channels work as a system: urgent jobs come from Local Services, search ads and the map; planned jobs from the website, reviews and referrals; repeat work from accounts and past customers.

Our digital marketing services page lists every service we run, and SEO and Google Ads together explains how paid and organic share the work.

Where organic search fits in locksmith marketing

The map and the ordinary results bring the steadiest calls, but ranking is its own job with its own method. For marketing, keep the profile, the website and the ads consistent so each one strengthens the others.

Our locksmith SEO page covers the map pack, service and city pages, citations, spam reporting and organic call tracking, and local SEO services covers the method for any local business. The ads on this page and the SEO there share one profile, one set of license details and one pool of reviews, so plan them together.

Specialist locksmith work: car keys, safes, access control and smart locks

These services earn more per job and attract different buyers, so they deserve their own ads, pages and budgets instead of a line in a list of services.

Automotive keys

Drivers search by make, model and key type, often after hearing a dealer’s price. Ads and pages per key type, with the makes you can program and an honest note on what you cannot do, win the calls worth having.

Access control and commercial hardware

Facility managers compare proposals, not ads. A page per system type, a capabilities sheet and fast written quotes matter more than clicks.

Safes

Safe openings and installs are lower volume and higher value. One dedicated page and a small search budget for safe terms in your area cover most of the demand.

Smart locks

Homeowners researching smart locks want an installer who knows the brands. Name the brands you install and support, and explain what happens when the batteries or the app fail.

Advertising 24-hour locksmith service honestly

Promise round-the-clock service only for the hours you can answer and dispatch, and say what after-hours work costs. Customers who find out at the door feel tricked, and missed calls can hurt your Local Services responsiveness.

• Set ad schedules to the hours someone answers
• State after-hours pricing on the landing page
• Route calls to an on-call technician or an answering service that can dispatch
• Pause Local Services when nobody can respond
• Turn on message leads so night-time customers can still reach you

Multi-van and multi-location locksmith companies

As a company grows, its marketing has to show each location honestly and route each call to the right van. Google allows one profile per location, and some states license branches separately.

Profiles and pages per location

Each staffed location gets its own Business Profile and location page with its own hours and phone; vans are not locations. Google does not allow more than one profile for a location, in one account or several.

Dispatch and reporting

Separate numbers by location and channel show which shop each call belongs to, and per-location reporting stops a strong branch from hiding a weak one. Our multi-location SEO page covers the search structure.

Hiring is marketing too

Growth stops at the number of licensed technicians you can field. A careers page, the license or registration path in your state and photos of the team help recruiting as much as sales.

Locksmith marketing in AI answers

People ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google’s AI Overviews which locksmith to call, what a lockout should cost and whether a company is legitimate. Those answers draw on what is published: Business Profiles, reviews, license records and the locksmith’s own pages.

What helps a locksmith get named

A site that states services, service area, hours, the license number and how pricing works as plain text; a complete, verified profile; steady reviews; and consistent details on directories and association listings. Google says its AI features have no additional requirements beyond ordinary search best practice.

Ads beside AI answers

Google can show ads above, below and within AI Overviews, including text ads from existing Search campaigns in the US. An ad buys a placement near the answer, not a place in the answer itself. Our AEO for locksmiths page covers prompts and measurement in detail.

Measuring locksmith advertising

Count booked jobs and cost per booked job by channel and job type. Clicks, impressions and leads are diagnostics; the job log is the scoreboard.

Attribution without guesswork

Use one number per channel, ask every caller how they found you, and reconcile both with the job log each month. When the numbers disagree, trust the job log. Our marketing analytics page covers measurement setups.

How much does locksmith advertising cost?

Two things: the media you buy, as clicks or Local Services leads, and the management, pages and tracking around it. Progression’s own published prices come first below, then the market bands for work we do not publish a price for; a quote follows a written scope.

What changes the number

Competition in your service area, the hours you advertise, how many job types you run, whether you need new pages or a new site, and how much of the work your own team does. Local Services costs follow your bid per lead and the auction.

Where to start on a small budget

Clear verification, fix the Business Profile, build one strong landing page and run search ads only for the job you most want, in the hours you can answer. Add Local Services once screening clears, then reviews and accounts. We do not take SEO retainers below about $1,500 a month, and our SEO pricing guide compares the wider market.

How long before locksmith advertising pays back?

Verification comes first, and Local Services screening averages three to four weeks after documents are in. Search ads can bring calls soon after approval; reviews, commercial accounts and repeat work build over months.

The first month

Account access, a baseline of calls and booked jobs, license and name checks, verification submitted, the profile corrected and the first landing page drafted.

By the third month

Search campaigns tuned on real call data, Local Services live if screening has cleared, reviews coming in from every job and the first commercial proposals out.

How to choose a locksmith marketing company

Pick a provider that knows Google’s verification process, reports booked jobs and builds everything in accounts you own. Each requirement below can be checked before you sign.

Questions that test a provider

Five questions that show quickly whether a provider understands locksmiths.

• What slows Advanced Verification down, and how would you prepare our application?
• Which job types would you advertise first, and why those?
• How will calls be tracked without breaking our listings?
• What will you do about the fake listings near us?
• Who owns the accounts and the website if we part ways?

Warning signs

Guaranteed rankings or call volumes, accounts held in the agency’s name, review incentives or reviews written for you, ads without your license number in a state that requires it, and a provider that also sells locksmith leads in your town.

Locksmith marketing agency or in-house?

An agency makes sense when verification, campaigns and pages need specialist time the owner does not have; in-house works when someone on staff can own the profile, reviews and posts. Many shops split the work.

What stays in-house

Answering and dispatch, asking for reviews, photos from jobs, commercial relationships and the job log. No agency does these as well as your own team.

What an outside team adds

Familiarity with Google’s policies and verification steps, campaign building and bid management, landing pages and site work, tracking, and someone watching the numbers. We build in accounts you own, without exception, so nothing is held back if you change providers. Our marketing agency for small business and home services marketing agency pages cover the wider choice.

Locksmith advertising compliance checklist

Before any ad, van or page goes live, check it against the rules that reach locksmiths: Google’s, the FTC’s, the FCC’s and your state’s. This list is a starting point, not legal advice.

• Advanced Verification approved, or Local Services screening complete
• One business name on the license, registration, profile, site and ads
• License number on every ad where your state requires it
• No Google Guaranteed badge anywhere
• No virtual-office address on the Business Profile
• No review incentives, filtering or scripted reviews
• Written consent on file for marketing texts
• After-hours prices stated wherever you advertise 24-hour service
• Photos of technicians and vans used with permission
• No readable keys, addresses or security details in social posts

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