People in your area are searching for what your business does — today. Google shows them a shortlist. tholocal makes sure your business is on it, and that what they see when they get there makes them choose you.
Local search & Google Business Profile specialists · Johannesburg
Someone nearby searches for what you do. Google shows them three businesses. They look at the photos, the hours, the reviews — and they choose one, in about nine seconds. Most businesses never find out they were on that shortlist and lost.
Old hours, a number that rings the wrong desk, no holiday hours, an address that sends people to the wrong entrance. Every one of them costs a visit.
The work is good. The rating doesn't say so, because nobody has a system for asking — and the business down the road does.
Anyone can suggest an edit to a listing. Competitors can. Google can. Most businesses only notice months later.
Want to know whether this is happening to your business?
Get the free Visibility Checktholocal was founded in 2026 for a simple reason: the same fixable problems kept showing up on local listings, and the businesses affected had no idea they were losing customers over them.
The practice grew out of enterprise search work — auditing local and organic visibility across a large South African retail group's brands. The problems facing a single practice, workshop or firm turned out to be the same problems, without anyone paid to watch for them.
tholocal is new, and says so. There is no long client list yet. What there is instead: a defined method, published prices, and promises written into an agreement you can hold the practice to from day one.
Where tholocal works: Johannesburg and surrounds, including Sandton, Randburg, Fourways, Bryanston, Rosebank, Midrand, Roodepoort, Edenvale, Johannesburg CBD and Soweto. The work is done remotely — no site visit needed.
Four questions, answered in order. Everything tholocal does for a business sits inside one of them.
Is the business actually there — verified, complete, accurate, and in the right categories for what it wants to be found for?
Does what people see make them choose you? Reviews, responses, photos, and a system for asking that follows the rules.
Is the profile defended — against unauthorised edits, duplicate listings, and the compliance mistakes that get profiles suspended?
Did it actually move? A scored check before and after, and a one-page report every month.
Prices are published because nobody should have to sit through a meeting to find out what something costs.
Best if the profile is outdated, unclaimed, or was set up by someone who has since left.
Best if you want the profile watched, maintained and defended — and never want to think about it again.
This work pays for itself where a single new customer is worth thousands rather than hundreds — professional practices, specialist trades, and considered-purchase businesses. If you're not sure whether that's you, the free Visibility Check will make it obvious before anyone talks about money.
These are terms in the service agreement, not marketing lines. If a provider won't put them in a contract, ask why.
tholocal takes Manager access only, never Ownership. You can remove it in ten seconds, without asking, and everything stays exactly where it is.
Every customer gets asked, or none do. Screening people before asking them for a review breaks Google's rules and puts the listing at risk.
No keyword-stuffed business names, no fake locations, nothing that conflicts with the rules of a professional body or licensing authority.
Google changes its results without notice, and anyone promising position one is guessing. tholocal guarantees the work and the reporting instead.
A short video showing exactly where a business stands against its three nearest competitors, a clear score out of 100, and what's holding it back. No meeting, no obligation, yours to keep even if it goes no further.
That's all it takes. One line on WhatsApp or by email.
Usually within two working days. Your profile, your competitors, your score, on screen.
Plenty of businesses take the video and fix things themselves. That's a fine outcome.
Send the business name and the area it serves. The Visibility Check comes back within two working days.
Profile corrections show in Google within days. Movement in the map results usually takes weeks, not days, and depends on how competitive the area is and how far behind the profile has fallen. Anyone promising a position by a date is guessing.
Usually, yes. Most profiles are claimed and then left — right name, wrong categories, missing services, no holiday hours, no review system. The free Visibility Check will show exactly which of those apply before anything is paid for.
Thirty days' written notice, any time, no penalty. tholocal's access is removed within five business days and everything stays exactly where it is — every post, photo and review belongs to the business, not to tholocal.
No. The work happens on the Google Business Profile itself. Where the website carries the wrong address or phone number, that gets flagged so it can be corrected, but tholocal does not need to log in to it.
Johannesburg and surrounds, including Sandton, Randburg, Fourways, Bryanston, Rosebank, Midrand, Roodepoort, Edenvale, Johannesburg CBD and Soweto. The work is done remotely, so the profile does not need a site visit.