Google listing · Whitby
The listing does more
work than the site.
8 of the 1,544 businesses listed in Whitby do not publish opening hours, and 142 have no reviews at all. For a lot of them the listing gets more visits than the website ever will.
These are counts, not projections. 1,544 Whitby listings, 1,094 working websites opened and read.
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 Whitby
742 businesses here hold a 4.9 rating or better, so the rating alone separates nobody — volume does. The median is 32 reviews and the upper quarter is past 127. 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
Insurance brokers lead
the list in Whitby.
Broken out by trade, because the Whitby average hides a lot. The gap between insurance brokers at 1 and real estate agents at 0 is most of the story.
| Trade in Whitby | Listings | No opening hours | No reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance brokers | 50 | 1 | 15 |
| Gyms | 46 | 1 | 1 |
| Dentists | 57 | 0 | 1 |
| Law firms | 55 | 0 | 1 |
| Accountants | 43 | 0 | 6 |
| HVAC contractors | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Renovation contractors | 30 | 0 | 2 |
| Electricians | 29 | 0 | 4 |
| Medical practices | 47 | 0 | 2 |
| Real estate agents | 61 | 0 | 0 |
What it costs.
Full breakdown on the pricing page, including the one-off services that sit alongside this one.
Related.
Everything we found in Whitby Google Business Profile management across the GTA All cities
Other services in Whitby: Redesign Local search Reviews Hosting and care Booking and forms Paid search E-commerce
Questions
The usual questions.
How many Whitby businesses have an incomplete Google listing?
Of 1,544 listings we checked in Whitby, 8 publish no hours and 142 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.
Now check your own
You have read the numbers.
Where does your site stand?
Type your address and we will open your site the way a visitor would, then tell you plainly what is wrong with it — including when the answer is nothing. Ten seconds, no email, nothing stored.
Worth a
conversation?
No pitch deck and no discovery call. Tell us the trade and the city, and we will say what we would do and what it costs.