A real scan finds the named businesses of the kinds you pick, inside your radius. It reads Google Maps listings, through RadiusPilot’s server. RadiusPilot doesn’t own or edit them.
What a scan finds
Each business comes with what its listing has:
- Its name, its kind of business and its position
- Often an address, a phone number, a website and opening hours
- Sometimes an email address and links to social pages
The scan keeps the nearest businesses, up to your plan’s limit. In the Windows app, it then checks up to 300 of their homepages. See What the website checks look at.
Why coverage varies
New scans list businesses from Google Maps, through RadiusPilot’s server. Most businesses are there, but a listing can be out of date: a missing website or phone may only be missing from the listing, so check before you pitch.
What stays empty
A business’s rating and review count come from Google, labelled as Google’s, only when Google has them: a business with no reviews shows none, never 0 stars. Search rankings and SEO stay empty. RadiusPilot never makes any of them up. The score uses only the facts it has: see How the opportunity score works.
Credit
Google’s name sits next to its ratings and reviews, in the map’s corner and in exports, as its terms ask. Businesses from older scans keep the credit their open data’s licence asks for, in the map’s corner, Settings › About and exported reports. If you share the data elsewhere, keep those credits: see the terms.