A Local Grid Report is a self-contained HTML artifact — an interactive map plus an audit table — that shows your business’s rank or listing status at every coordinate RankGear searched across a Local Grid.
| Term | Local Grid Report |
|---|---|
| Category | Reports, Workbooks and Exports |
| Also known as | Grid Report |
| Where it appears | Google Maps analysis |
What it means in RankGear
When you run a Google Maps analysis over a Local Grid, RankGear can package the result as a standalone HTML file you can open in any browser or hand to a client without installing anything. The report has two halves: a map rendering the grid of search points, each colored or labeled by where your business ranked at that spot, and an audit table listing the same points with their measured position or status. Because everything is embedded in one file, the map and the numbers travel together — the report is the shareable, human-readable version of a single grid run.
How to interpret it
Start with the opening summary and the legend before reading individual points, so you know what the colors and values on the map actually mean for this run. From there, follow the links into the supporting audit table or report sections to see the exact rank behind each grid cell. When you share the file, keep the run metadata intact — the query, location center, grid size, and date — because those settings define what the picture represents; a report stripped of them can be misread. Treat the map as a distribution across space, not a single score: strong center coverage with weak edges tells a different story than uniform mid-pack positions everywhere.
Example
You run a 7×7 grid analysis for “emergency plumber” centered on a client’s shop and export the Local Grid Report. Opening the HTML file, the map shows green cells clustered within about a mile of the storefront and red cells at the outer corners where the business drops off the local pack entirely. The audit table confirms it: rank 2-4 near the center, unranked past the fifth ring. You send the single file to the client, who opens it in their own browser and sees exactly where their visibility fades — no software, no login.
Important considerations
- A report is a snapshot of one run at one moment; local pack results shift by time, device, and searcher location, so re-run before drawing trend conclusions.
- Compare like-for-like — the same query, grid center, and grid dimensions — when reading two reports side by side, or the maps are not measuring the same thing.
- Do not treat the formatting or color scheme as additional evidence; the visual is a presentation of the underlying rank measurements, nothing more.
- Grid positions are observed rankings at each searched coordinate, comparative indicators of visibility, not scores Google assigns to your listing.
Related terms
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