Search and SEO
Google Business Profile
Calls, directions, website clicks and reviews from Google Search and Maps.
Free for 14 days. No credit card needed.
What it does
Connect Google Business Profile to your client work.
- Calls, website clicks and directions
Daily for the last 90 days, with the change on the 28 days before.
The client's Visibility tab - Profile views
Views from Search and Maps, desktop and mobile combined, and the searches that showed the profile.
Visibility tab - Reviews
Average rating, review count, the latest reviews and how many have a reply.
Visibility tab and Studio's review replies - Local advice
Ask Brava, client Insights and Studio's local SEO plan read the latest numbers and reviews.
Insights and Studio
How it works
Connect once. It keeps itself current.
- 1Sign in with Google
The same Google sign-in as the other Google apps.
- 2Match each client to a location
Pick the location from the profiles the Google login manages.
- 3Daily sync
Each match syncs daily and any time with Sync now.
- 4Shown to the client
Their own location only.
What Brava can change
Changes in Google Business Profile, only when you press Apply.
Ask Brava for a change and it reads Google Business Profile live, then shows it on a card: what changes, before and after, and the limits it was checked against. Nothing is written until someone on your team presses Apply. The proposal and the change are both logged on the client's record.
- Reply to a Google reviewUndo in some cases
Posts a public reply to one review, in the client's own voice, signed as the business on Google.
- Up to 1,500 characters.
- One review per change.
Undo puts the earlier reply back when there was one. A first reply has no undo, since taking it down would be a delete: remove it on Google.
A proposal can be applied for 15 minutes; where there is an undo, it is offered for 7 days. No change deletes anything that was there before.
Before you start
What you need.
- A Google login that is an owner or manager of each client's Business Profile.
Permissions the sign-in asks for
- Search Console, read only (webmasters.readonly)
- Google Analytics, read only (analytics.readonly)
- Business Profile (business.manage): Google offers no read-only option. BravaSpace reads the profile and its reviews, and posts a review reply only when you approve it in Ask Brava
- Google Ads (adwords): Google offers no read-only option. BravaSpace reads reports, and pauses or enables a keyword or ad group, changes a daily budget or adds negative keywords only when you approve it in Ask Brava
- Your email address, to show which Google account is connected
Setting it up
Signing in.
- Use the Google login that already has access to your clients: Search Console owner or full user, Analytics viewer, Business Profile manager, Google Ads access (directly or through your manager account).
- Google asks you to choose the account and to tick each permission. Tick them all; an unticked box means that app cannot sync.
- One sign-in covers Search Console, Business Profile, Google Analytics and Google Ads.
In the app, Connect Google Business Profile opens a guided setup with Brava: it asks for each thing in turn, tests the connection and tells you it is working.
Data and privacy
What BravaSpace keeps, and what it can touch.
What is stored
Google's refresh token, in a server-side table no browser can read (not even your team's), and one snapshot of numbers per client per sync. No passwords.
Access
Reads the profile's numbers and reviews. Google only offers business.manage, which also allows edits: Ask Brava can propose a public reply to a review, and it is posted only when you press Apply on its card (Undo puts back an earlier reply). BravaSpace never edits the profile itself, posts updates or deletes anything.
Disconnecting
Disconnect Google on any Google app page: the token is revoked at Google and deleted. Client matches and synced numbers stay, ready for a reconnect; remove a client to delete theirs.
Questions
Google Business Profile questions.
Calls, website clicks and directions; profile views; reviews; local advice. Reads the profile's numbers and reviews. Google only offers business.manage, which also allows edits: Ask Brava can propose a public reply to a review, and it is posted only when you press Apply on its card (Undo puts back an earlier reply). BravaSpace never edits the profile itself, posts updates or deletes anything.
Sign in with Google from the Google Business Profile app page in BravaSpace. Use the Google login that already has access to your clients: Search Console owner or full user, Analytics viewer, Business Profile manager, Google Ads access (directly or through your manager account). Google asks you to choose the account and to tick each permission. Tick them all; an unticked box means that app cannot sync. One sign-in covers Search Console, Business Profile, Google Analytics and Google Ads. Then match each client to their Business Profile location.
Google's refresh token, in a server-side table no browser can read (not even your team's), and one snapshot of numbers per client per sync. No passwords.
Disconnect Google on any Google app page: the token is revoked at Google and deleted. Client matches and synced numbers stay, ready for a reconnect; remove a client to delete theirs.
Brava reads the error and suggests the fix. The common ones: Google Business Profile is coming soon. We're finishing Google's approval; nothing to change on your side. Reconnect Google and tick every permission on the consent screen. This is on BravaSpace's side, not yours: nothing to change in your account. It works again once it is switched on; try again later.
Try it with one client.
Add some work. Share a file. Ask for feedback. See what your client sees, with your name on it. Free for 14 days. No credit card needed.