Find out why you’re not #1 in your city.
Real Google Maps data on you and the companies around you, and a step-by-step plan to pass them. Built by junk removal owners, for junk removal owners.
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| # | COMPANY | TOP 3 IN | REVIEWS | SCORE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy Junk Removal | 3 of 9 | 1,989 | 100 |
| 2 | Strong Junk Removal | 2 of 9 | 483 | 84 |
| 3 | Garbage Guy Queen Creek | 1 of 9 | 1,504 | 82 |
| 4 | Best Junk Removal | 2 of 9 | 274 | 81 |
| 5 | Garbage Guy Mesa | 1 of 9 | 654 | 78 |
Map coverage, reviews, review pace and website strength, scored against the best locally owned companies in your market. Franchises left out.
Real owners · Real Game Plans
This is the plan we actually follow.
Same tool you get. These are the live Game Plans for our own two companies, straight from LocalJunkers. No mockups, no made-up numbers.
The job now: defend the top spot and pull further ahead.
- Add fresh job photos every weekFresh, geotagged job photos keep the profile active. We have 687 and add more every week.
- Match competitors on Facebook and Instagram6 local junk companies are running 15 ads in Mesa right now.
- Post on the Google profile weeklyActive profiles rank better. Cheapest habit on the list.
The job now: defend the top spot and pull further ahead.
- Match competitors on Facebook and Instagram5 local junk companies are running ads in Tucson right now.
- Post on the Google profile weeklyActive profiles rank better. Cheapest habit on the list.
Your turn
Not #1 yet? Good. That’s what the plan is for.
Your Game Plan is built from your own city’s Google data:
- The company one spot ahead of you, by name
- What they have that you don’t
- The 3 moves most likely to pass them, with cost and time
- Every spot you climb, tracked weekly
Plans pulled November 8, 2026 from Google Maps and update every week.
LocalJunkers Pro · My Game Plan
Improve your city rankings. We’ll show you exactly how.
Every week, junk removal owners lose calls to the company one spot ahead of them on Google Maps, and most never find out why. Is it reviews? Photos? Where Google thinks you’re located? Who’s buying Facebook ads in your town?
LocalJunkers Pro answers that with real numbers: your rank, the companies just ahead of and behind you, and what they’re doing that you aren’t. Then you get your Game Plan, the three moves most likely to move you up, with the cost, risk and time for each, and we track every spot you climb, week after week.
Marketing agencies charge $2,000+ a month and send you a PDF. This is built by an owner who’s run a junk removal company for 13 years, and it costs $25 a month, less than one small load.
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Where are you in the journey?
Built for the owner, not the customer.
Know where you stand
See how many neighborhoods you rank top 3 in, and exactly what it takes to pass the company above you.
Learn from operators
Software, trucks, marketing and coaching that real junk removal owners use, in one directory.
Grow together
Swap pricing, overflow work and referrals with owners in other markets. Nobody here is your competitor.
Owner tools
Your KPIs, in one place.
Mateo (Speedway Junk Removal, Tucson) and John (Happy Junk Removal, Mesa)
Built by an owner
I built the system I use to stay #1. Now it’s yours.
John Aguirre has run Happy Junk Removal in Mesa, AZ for 13+ years. LocalJunkers is the playbook and the tools behind it, opened up to every owner who wants to grind and grow.
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Where it started · 2014
One green truck, a hand truck and the Happy Junk crew.
The Happy Junk Removal crew in Mesa, circa 2014. Every lesson since, from pricing to reviews to ranking in Google, is what LocalJunkers is built on.
Where it’s going
Now a full crew in a second city.
Speedway Junk Removal’s crew in Tucson today: matching uniforms, multiple trucks, #1 of 16 local companies in its city. Same playbook, new market.
Same day. Different cities.
Still on the trucks. Still grinding.
Mateo on a job in Tucson, John on a job in Mesa, on the same day. Everything on LocalJunkers comes from owners who still do the work.
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What other owners use.
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- Get listed on the Junk Map for the cities you serve
- Join a network of vetted junk removal pros
- Backlinks that help your Google ranking
- Referral traffic sent to your website
- Local Market Scorecard: 3 reports a month
- Market Saturation score for any U.S. city
- National Scorecard top 10, Top 10 by City and the COGculator
- Weekly Movers & Shakers email (preview)
$25 /month
- Everything in Basic
- Your full scorecard, with the fastest move to close each gap
- 5 Quick SEO Tips, with the fix for each one
- Movers & Shakers in full: every rank move, new review and post from the 4 competitors around you, each Monday
- National Scorecard: your rank among 2,600+ independents, plus every market
- Market Saturation: the full breakdown for any city and all 150 markets ranked
- “Verified Local Provider” badge for your website
- Monthly rank tracking across 9 neighborhoods, with alerts when a competitor passes you
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