Google listing · North York

The listing does more
work than the site.

79 of the 2,745 businesses listed in North York do not publish opening hours, and 218 have no reviews at all. For a lot of them the listing gets more visits than the website ever will.

North York listings we checked2,745
Publish no opening hours at all79
Have no reviews at all218
Fewer than ten reviews530
Past a hundred reviews883
Holding a 4.9 rating or better1,314
Median rating in North York4.9

We did not sample North York — all 2,745 listings were checked, and each fault was counted on the page itself rather than estimated from a tool. (North York is part of Toronto; we count the businesses that give North York as their address.)

What gets fixed

Categories, service area, hours, the services list with descriptions, and photographs that are yours rather than stock. The primary category is the heaviest lever on the whole listing, and most owners set it once at registration and never look again.

Reviews in North York

1,314 businesses here hold a 4.9 rating or better, so the rating alone separates nobody — volume does. The median is 48 reviews and the upper quarter is past 151. We set the ask up so it happens when the work is finished, and reply to everything that arrives.

Service area, not a fake address

If you travel to customers, the address should be hidden and the coverage area set instead. Publishing an address you do not receive customers at is a verification risk, and a virtual office is a suspension risk.

Trade by trade

Dentists lead
the list in North York.

The same survey, split by field. Dentists come top here with 10; photographers sit at 1. Fields are not comparable to each other on review counts, but they are on faults.

Trade in North YorkListingsNo opening hoursNo reviews
Dentists791019
Medical practices69912
Car dealerships77913
Real estate agents5945
Law firms6934
Gyms5924
Accountants6112
Cabinet makers4214
Insurance brokers3815
Photographers5912

What it costs.

Website, paid after it is built$590 – $3,900
Hosting, edits, Google profile and SEO$129 – $990 / month
Contractnone — cancel any month

Full breakdown on the pricing page, including the one-off services that sit alongside this one.

Questions

The usual questions.

How many North York businesses have an incomplete Google listing?

Of 2,745 listings we checked in North York, 79 publish no hours and 218 have no reviews. Those two fields alone decide a large share of whether someone calls.

Can you get fake reviews removed?

We can report them with evidence and Google removes some. Nobody can promise removal, and burying them by buying good ones puts the listing at risk.

Your turn

Same check,
run on your site.

The check behind this page is the one we ran on every business above. Put your own address in and it will load your site on a phone screen, look at the certificate and the page age, and tell you what a visitor meets. No email, nothing stored.

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Think yours needs
rebuilding?

Send us the address and what you do. We will look at what is there and tell you whether a rebuild is worth the money, or whether the problem is somewhere else entirely.

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