Watch
You post the replies yourself
R249 a month
- New Google reviews flagged to you
- A ready reply sent to you on WhatsApp to post yourself, up to 10 a month
- Holiday hours kept right
- Short monthly note
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Google Business Profile management in Johannesburg
We answer your Google reviews and keep your profile accurate for Johannesburg businesses, from R399 a month with no sign-up fee. Month to month, and you keep ownership of your profile.
WhatsApp us your listing
Month to month, 30 days’ notice. You stay the owner. We never ask for your password.
Most of the work happens over WhatsApp, email and calls. If you'd rather meet, Shaun comes to you, anywhere in South Africa.
Pick your plan. Change or stop any month.
Three monthly plans for your Google reviews and profile.
Our pick
Reviews Answered
We do the replies for you
R399 a month
- Everything in Watch, plus
- We write and post replies to new reviews, up to 20 a month
- Every new review answered within one business day, up to 20 a month
- 1 Google post a month
- A monthly note listing the replies
Profile Active
Replies plus a profile that looks busy
R499 a month
- Everything in Reviews Answered, plus
- Up to 30 replies a month
- Every new review answered within one business day, up to 30 a month
- 2 Google posts a month
- Up to 5 of your photos added a month
All plans: month to month, 30 days’ notice, no sign‑up fee.
We work the way Google recommends for agencies. You stay the owner of your profile and we never ask for your password.
Want us hands‑on?
Care Standard, R2,200 a month: new reviews answered within 4 business hours, Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00 SAST, or that month’s fee is credited, plus 4 Google posts a month, photos and a monthly note. Care Plus, R2,900 a month: higher volume, priority WhatsApp and competitor watch. Care Essential is R1,490 a month. Care is month to month with 30 days’ notice; the one exception is when profile setup is included on Care Standard or Plus, which has a minimum of 3 full paid months. See Care
Reviews Answered: done for you
On Reviews Answered, R399 a month, we write the replies to your new Google reviews and post them on your profile for you. You don't copy, paste or log in. You get a monthly note listing the replies.
Johannesburg at a glance
The City of Johannesburg counted 4,803,262 people (Stats SA, Census 2022) at Census 2022, the most of any municipality in Gauteng. The city grew out of the gold fields of the Witwatersrand, and many of its suburb names still end in fontein, the Afrikaans word for spring, after the farms they were laid out on. Braamfontein is one of them.
Customers here rarely search for Johannesburg as a whole. They search for the suburb they are in, or the one they are driving to. Braamfontein is home to the University of the Witwatersrand and the city council offices, so lunchtime trade there is students, staff and officials. Melville has its run of restaurants, bars and small shops along 7th Street. Rosebank has had a mall since 1976 and is now a busy mix of offices, galleries and places to eat.
That spread changes what a good profile looks like. A café in Melville lives on evening and weekend searches. A copy shop near Wits gets its rush around exams. A practice in Rosebank is chosen by someone comparing three pins on a map. We set your categories, services, photos and posts for the street your customers really come from, not for the city in general.
A Johannesburg profile has to be precise about the suburb on the label. Someone in Fourways will not drive to Rosebank for a haircut, so the pin, the service area and the replies should all say clearly where you trade and how to find parking.
What people in Johannesburg search for
Examples of real kinds of searches, and what a strong profile shows for them. These are examples, not ranking claims.
“dentist Rosebank”
People compare the three practices Google shows on the map. Recent photos of the rooms, a clear list of treatments and steady, specific replies to reviews make the choice easy.
“coffee Melville open now”
This one lives or dies on correct hours. If your Sunday or public holiday hours are wrong, Google may show you as closed, or send people to a locked door.
“printing Braamfontein”
Students search in a hurry. A short product list, prices where you are happy to share them and a photo of the counter do most of the selling.
“plumber Johannesburg north”
Trades without a shopfront need a proper service area and reviews that describe the job. We help you ask customers for honest reviews, the way Google allows.
Trading notes for Johannesburg
Johannesburg trade follows the people around you. Student areas go quiet in the university holidays and fill up again when lectures start. Offices in Rosebank and further north thin out over the December break while the malls get busier. Public holidays, from Human Rights Day on 21 March to Heritage Day on 24 September, are the days a customer is most likely to find you shut, so we put special hours on your profile a week ahead.
Check the dates with our holiday hours tool.
How it works
- Send your listing. WhatsApp us the link to your Google profile.
- Pick a plan. We add ourselves as a manager, so you stay the owner and never share a password.
- We get to work. Replies, hours and posts are handled, and you get a short note each month.
Questions from Johannesburg owners
Which parts of Johannesburg do you cover?
All of it, from Soweto and the south to Braamfontein, Melville, Rosebank, Randburg and the northern suburbs. If you have more than one branch in Gauteng, we can look after them together.
My listing shows the wrong suburb. Can you fix it?
Usually, yes. We check the pin, the address and the service area, and walk you through any proof Google asks for. Some changes need Google to review them, and we tell you plainly which part is ours and which part is Google's.
Do you work with shops in the inner city?
Yes. In the inner city, a pin that sits on the right entrance and a photo of the shopfront from the street help people find you on foot. Getting those two right is often the first job we do.
Can we meet in person?
Most of the work happens over WhatsApp, email and calls. If you'd rather meet, Shaun comes to you, anywhere in South Africa. We don't have an office in your city.
Do you guarantee rankings?
No one can honestly guarantee a Google ranking. Google says local results mainly depend on relevance, distance and prominence. We work on the parts you control: an accurate, active profile and steady, specific replies to your reviews.
Need help with your Google profile right now?
WhatsApp us your listing link and tell us what is wrong. We look at the profile as it stands and tell you what we would fix first.
Ready when you are
Send us your Google listing and we'll take a look.
WhatsApp us your listing
Month to month, 30 days’ notice. You stay the owner. We never ask for your password.