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Walk-in candidates find a consultancy on Maps, never on a portal.

Local search matters to a recruitment agency for two reasons. Blue-collar and fresher candidates walk in off a Maps search, and HR managers look for a consultancy in their own city. GullySales sets the Business Profile up properly, handles the reviews that come with walk-ins, and writes the city pages.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What local SEO means

Local SEO is the work of making your business show up for searches that name your town or locality, such as a service plus an area name. GullySales sets up locality pages, local citations and map listings so nearby customers find you before a competitor across town.

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For recruitment agencies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Walk-ins arrive from Maps and nowhere else”

    A candidate looking for factory, warehouse or retail work searches manpower consultancy near me and turns up at the door. No portal reaches that person.

  • “The listing invites the reviews you fear”

    A profile that starts drawing walk-in candidates collects angry ratings quickly, so the review routine has to be running before the listing gets busy.

  • “HR managers still search by city”

    Recruitment agency in Coimbatore is typed by a plant HR manager who wants somebody who can reach the site. The pin matters to her too.

What we do

What we deliver for recruitment agencies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A Business Profile with categories that fit

    The right primary category, the role types you recruit for listed as services, and the office pin placed where candidates can actually find it.

    Result: You appear for the local searches that bring real people.

  2. Timings and walk-in rules stated on the listing

    Who you recruit for, when candidates may come, and what to bring, written on the profile so nobody arrives on the wrong morning.

    Result: Fewer wasted visits and fewer angry ratings.

  3. City pages for the markets you recruit in

    A page per city naming its industrial areas, its main employers and the roles you have filled there.

    Result: HR managers searching their own city find you.

  4. A review routine running before the listing gets busy

    Requests to placed candidates and clients set up first, so genuine reviews are arriving by the time walk-in traffic starts.

    Result: One bad rating does not define the listing.

  5. Questions answered on the profile

    The common candidate questions about fees, timings and role types answered in the profile's question section in your own words.

    Result: The listing settles doubts before somebody travels.

  6. A Maps report

    Calls, direction requests and visits from the profile, split between candidate and client contacts, against the starting baseline.

    Result: You can tell what the listing is bringing you.

How the result is measured

  • Map pack ranking
  • Local search visibility
  • Enquiries by locality

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What Google weighs here

How a candidate or an HR manager finds an agency nearby, and what to fix first.

Primary category
Choose Employment agency, Recruiter or Manpower agency to match your work. Blue-collar agencies and IT staffing firms are searched differently, so pick the one your candidates and clients would actually type.
Walk-in rules in the profile
State the walk-in days, the hours and whether an appointment is needed, and what to carry. A line on documents to bring saves the candidate a wasted journey and your desk a queue.
Client and candidate callers
The same number gets job seekers and hiring managers. Say who the profile is for, and give job seekers a separate route so a company's call is not lost among applicants.
Reviews from clients and candidates
Ask placed candidates and the HR managers who hired through you, in two different asks. Reply to a candidate complaint with the process and a contact, and never name them or the employer.
Naukri, LinkedIn and Justdial
Match the agency name, office address and phone on your company pages and directory entries to the Google profile. An old address on a job portal sends candidates to a closed office.

Who it is for

This is written for these recruitment agencies.

  • IT and technology staffing agencies
  • Blue-collar and industrial workforce agencies
  • Executive search and leadership hiring firms
  • Contract and temporary staffing agencies
  • Sector-specialist recruitment firms
  • Bulk and volume hiring agencies
  • Boutique niche-skill recruitment firms

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
  • You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
  • You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the local seo work runs

  1. 1

    Audit every listing

    We check the Google Business Profile and directory listings for every branch against what should actually be shown.

  2. 2

    Complete and correct

    Profiles are filled in fully and inconsistent details are corrected across every directory found.

  3. 3

    Build location pages

    Each branch gets a page written for its own area, not a copy of the head office page with the address changed.

  4. 4

    Set up review handling

    A simple process for requesting and responding to reviews is put in place with whoever is closest to the customer.

  5. 5

    Report and adjust

    Map actions and enquiries per branch are reported, and branches falling behind are prioritised the next month.

Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • The person on the first call does the work

    No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.

  • A baseline before anything starts

    Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.

  • The fee in writing, split three ways

    Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.

  • No guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.

  • One office, and we say so

    Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.

#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Should a purely IT agency bother with Maps?
Less than a blue-collar agency, but not zero. HR managers search by city and the profile is often the first independent thing they see. Set it up properly and then leave it alone.
Our office is already crowded with walk-ins. Will Maps make it worse?
It can, which is why the profile should state who you recruit for and when candidates may come. An honest description turns away more unsuitable visitors than a hidden listing does.
A candidate left a review because he was not placed. How do we reply?
Reply once, politely, without his name or details. Say you are sorry he had a poor experience and give a contact for a talk. Do not defend the decision in public. A reader values a calm answer from a recruiter more than a defence.
Can we use job postings as our listing name or posts?
Keep the name as the agency's. Do not add job titles to it. A platform's profile posts may carry an opening, but check its current rules, and give the role, place and how to apply. Never post an opening you do not hold.
Do we need to advertise for candidates?
Mostly not. A verified database costs nothing in media, and a fast shortlist depends on it. Paid job ads help for one hard-to-fill role type at a time.
A client already has three agencies on its panel. Can we still get in?
Yes, usually through one role the others are struggling with. We prepare a short note on the roles of that type you have filled, sent to the HR head with a shortlist offer. Winning one hard role opens the panel more often than any presentation.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.

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