Competitor ranking checker: where you rank on Google reviews

How to check your competitors' rankings

1. Enter your city, then your business name. Both fields use Google's own suggestions, so pick your listing from the dropdown rather than typing the full name.
2. Read your position. The checker pulls nearby businesses in your Google category and ranks them by rating, with review count and distance beside each one. Switch the sort to review count to see the other side of the picture.
3. Adjust the comparison. Use the radius slider to widen or narrow the area, and switch between a narrow category (your exact type, for example "Italian restaurant") and the broad one (all restaurants).
4. Unlock the full list. The top three and the businesses around your own position show straight away. Enter your email once to see every competitor in the ranking; it stays unlocked on this device.
5. Re-check monthly. Rating and review count move over weeks. Run the check again each month and note who gained ground. Repeated searches in a short time are rate limited, so one careful run beats ten quick ones.

Looking for where your pin shows up on Google Maps rather than how your reviews compare? That's a different question: run the free local rank checker, which shows every business ranked above you for a keyword across a grid of your area.

How local competitor ranking works – and how to climb it

This competitor checker ranks you against nearby businesses on the two numbers customers compare first: average Google rating and review count. When someone scans a list of local options, those two figures decide who gets the click. In BrightLocal's study, listings with five stars earned 69% of clicks from Google's Local Pack. Your position in this ranking is a fair proxy for how you look in that moment of comparison.

Distance and category shape who you're measured against. Google surfaces businesses near the searcher in the same category, so your real rivals are the ones a customer would actually see next to you – not the best-rated shop across town in a different trade. Read your position accordingly: mid-pack among ten nearby competitors matters more than your citywide rank. And check recency, because BrightLocal found 74% of consumers only care about reviews from the last three months – a rival with fresher reviews can out-convert you at the same star rating.

How to climb the ranking

• Reply to every review – Harvard Business Review found businesses that start responding get 12% more reviews and +0.12 stars on average, which moves both levers at once.
• Ask consistently – steady weekly requests beat one-off blasts, and keep your profile inside that three-month recency window.
• Deal with unfair negatives – policy-violating reviews can often be removed, lifting your average without adding a single new review.
• Fix what negatives repeat – a recurring complaint is a roadmap; analytics & AI insights shows the themes worth fixing first.
• Give it a timeline – rating and count move over weeks, not days. Track monthly, not daily.

One distinction worth knowing: this check ranks you against competitors by rating and review count – it doesn't show where your pin appears on the map. For that, track your Maps pin across a geo-grid, which maps your actual position across a 3×3 grid of your area. The two answer different questions, and reviews connect them – Whitespark estimates review signals are 16–20% of local-pack ranking factors. To go deeper, audit your own reviews first, then read how to rank higher on Google Maps and how to benchmark your reviews against competitors.