Be seen.
Be found.
People nearby are searching for what your business does — today. Google shows them a shortlist. tholocal makes sure you're on it.
Local search & Google Business Profile specialists · Johannesburg
People nearby are searching for what your business does — today. Google shows them a shortlist. tholocal makes sure you're on it.
Local search & Google Business Profile specialists · Johannesburg
Google shows a shortlist of nearby businesses. People look at the photos, the hours, the reviews, then choose one in 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. Nobody's asking customers for reviews. The business down the road is.
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 your free Visibility Checktholocal grew out of enterprise search work, auditing local and organic visibility across a large South African retail group's brands. A single practice, firm or workshop faces the same problems. The difference is that nobody gets paid to watch for them.
tholocal doesn't hide behind a long client list. What you get instead is a defined method, published prices, and promises written into an agreement you can hold us 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 people search.
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 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Best if the profile is outdated, unclaimed, or was set up by someone who has since left.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, so you never have to think about it again.
This work pays for itself when one new customer is worth thousands, not hundreds. Think professional practices, specialist trades, and considered-purchase businesses. Not sure that's you? The free Visibility Check makes it clear 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.
Three fields. It comes back within two working days. No meeting, no obligation, and yours to keep either way.
Please add a business name and a suburb.
Prefer to just talk? 068 931 6267
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 get claimed and then left alone: right name, wrong categories, missing services, no holiday hours, no review system. The free Visibility Check shows exactly which of those apply before you pay for anything.
Give thirty days' written notice, any time, with no penalty. tholocal's access is removed within five business days and everything stays 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.