Which primary category should a mason use?
It depends on the work you want. Masonry contractor is broad. Stonemason leans toward natural stone and restoration. Paving contractor pulls patio and walkway searches. We choose the primary based on your most profitable jobs, then add the others as secondary categories so repair and hardscape searches both reach you.
Should I show my home address?
If you work out of your house or a yard with no customer visits, hide the address and run as a service-area business. Homeowners do not come to you to pick stone, so the address adds nothing. We set the towns you serve and mirror them on your website service-area pages.
How many photos do I need?
Enough that a homeowner sees their project type in the first few taps. That means separate coverage of paver patios, natural stone walkways, retaining walls, steps, fire pits, veneer and brick repair. We add new ones as jobs finish so the listing never looks like it stopped in a past season.
Do posts actually help?
Posts keep the profile active and give repeat visitors something new. For masonry, they also carry seasonal messages: winter planning, spring calendar filling, freeze-thaw repair, patios finished before fall gatherings. We write and schedule them so the listing speaks to whatever homeowners are thinking about that month.
How do you handle reviews?
We send review requests to every customer after a job, no filtering and no incentives, and we reply to what comes in. Reviews that mention the material and town read well to the next homeowner. We never write or edit a review, and we reply to critical ones plainly.
Can you guarantee I show up first on the map?
No, and nobody can. Map results shift with the searcher's location, the category mix and competition in your towns. What we control is a complete, active, accurate profile connected to a masonry website, improved every week by our SEO Ranker agent. That is the work that moves listings over time.
What about old reviews and history on a listing I changed?
Keep the original listing whenever possible. Merging or renaming preserves review history that a new listing starts without. If someone created a second listing under an old business name, we work to remove the duplicate rather than abandon the profile your past customers already reviewed.
What happens before our call?
We look at your current profile, your towns and the kind of masonry you want more of, then build a demo of your new website before we talk. On the 15-minute call you see it, and we walk through what your profile is missing and what we would fix first.