# Local Business

Status: live

Local Business runs real Google searches for the terms local customers use, reads the local map results (the top three and the full local list when shown), and records your position, how many businesses were listed and which rivals sat above and below you. When your business is listed, the run opens your listing and visits your website with the same browsing and dwell settings as SERP clicks. Runs come from your website's shared daily click pool, a term pauses after 3 runs where you aren't listed, and every run is plotted on a map at the real network location it came from.

- **Your position in local results**: Position, total listings and whether the result came from the top three or the full local list, for every run.
- **Who’s ahead and behind**: Rival business names with their positions, ratings and review counts when shown, so you can see who you need to pass.
- **Rankings by area**: Runs are grouped into areas with an average position and the businesses most often directly above and below you.
- **Visits to your listing and site**: When you’re listed, the run opens your listing and visits your website with the same browsing and dwell settings as SERP clicks.
- **One shared click pool**: Local Business, AI Overview and SERP clicks share your website’s daily clicks, with a per-module breakdown in plan usage.
- **Searches from your market**: Searches run through a network in the country, and optional US state or city, you set on the term, same as SERP clicks. The map plots each run where that session really connected from.
- **Not shown or not listed**: When you aren’t found, the run says whether local results were shown at all, so you can tell a missing map pack from a missing listing.
- **Auto-pause and alerts**: A term pauses after 3 runs in a row where you aren’t listed, and you’re notified if your website shows visitors a verification check.