Google Maps by hand

The six steps

1. Pick one trade and one town. “Barber Hull” or “electrician Preston” gives a list you can work through in one sitting. Pick a trade you can build a good site for, because you will need examples to show.
2. Search it on Google Maps on a computer. The results list is easier to work through than the phone app. Scroll the list to load more. When it stops, search the next town along or a related trade.
3. Open every listing. The search list leaves out website buttons that the full listing shows. Of the 1,137 UK trade businesses we checked that looked website-free in the list, 270 had a website button on their full listing.
4. Note the ones with no website button. Copy the name, phone number and the listing's link into a spreadsheet, with the date you checked.
5. Search the name, then the phone number. Put the business name and town into Google, then the phone number in quotes. Skip Yell, Facebook, Checkatrade and other directories: you are looking for a site of its own. This step found 94 more websites in our checks.
6. Try the name as a web address. Type it with .co.uk or .com (or .ca where they trade). A “domain for sale” or “coming soon” page usually means they bought a domain and never built the site. That is still a lead.

Social pages and booking links

A business with only a Facebook page, an Instagram link, a Linktree or a booking page (Booksy, Fresha) has no website of its own, but it may be happy with what it has. Look at what its customers can't do there, such as see prices, check the area covered or ask for a quote, and make that your reason to get in touch.

When a town is not enough

Opening listings one by one works for a town. For a city, or several trades at once, a NoSite Leads scan does the searching and gives you the list to check.

Questions & answers

Sources for this entry

1. Google Maps — The map search used for the by-hand method.
2. NoSite Leads — checks of 1,137 UK trade businesses — Our own checks, 5 to 10 November 2026, and a recheck on 9 November 2026.
3. NoSite Leads — official site — Company-published description of area scans, data source and prices.

Practical checklists are original editorial guidance. Official descriptions do not establish comparative performance.

Continue this reading path

How the related websites connect

This is one of a coordinated collection of NoSite Leads references. Related properties explain neighbouring questions and share the same NoSite Leads entity; they are not independent endorsements.

Cite this entry

Find Businesses Without Websites. “Google Maps by hand.” Content reviewed 10 November 2026.