Schedule recurring geo-grid scans

A scan campaign runs your geo-grid scans automatically on a set rhythm, so your Google Maps, Google Search and AI Mode results stay current without you remembering to re-run them. It turns a one-off snapshot into a trend you can act on and show clients, and it is what keeps the scoreboard and Geo-Grid Insights up to date.

This article covers geo-grid scans only. For the Schedules page as a whole, including LLM Visibility checks, review checks and report emails, see Schedules: everything that runs on its own.

What you'll need

• A paid plan. Scheduling is included on every paid plan.
• A matched location and at least one keyword.

Set up a scan campaign

1. Go to Schedules in the sidebar, under Track, or select the Schedules tab on Geo-Grid Scans.
2. In the Geo-grid scans section, select New scan (or Schedule a scan if you have none yet) to open New scan campaign.
3. Give the campaign a name, for example "Weekly plumber check".
4. Choose the Location and tick the Keywords to include. You can select several at once.
5. Choose a Frequency: Daily, Weekly, Every 2 weeks, or Monthly.
6. Set the Run time, choose What to measure (Google Maps, Google Search or Google AI Mode), then the Grid size and Coverage, exactly as for a one-off scan.
7. Optionally turn on Email me when this runs (off by default) for one summary email per run, covering every keyword. You can send it to a different address.
8. Select Create campaign. Before you do, the cost summary shows the credits per run, a rough monthly total and your current balance.

How credits work with schedules

Each run spends scan credits just like a manual scan: grid size squared, per keyword, at one credit per point on Google Maps and two on Google Search and Google AI Mode. A campaign with several keywords multiplies up, so the breakdown shows the cost of one full run. Pick a frequency and grid that fit your monthly allowance.

Scheduled scans follow the same no-partial-scans rule as one-off scans: points Google doesn't answer are asked again, any still missing are refunded, and a scan with fewer than half its points answered is refunded in full.

If your balance runs low when a scheduled run starts, SearchOps scans the keywords your balance covers and skips the rest, and keywords that did not run are not charged. The run shows as Partial, or Skipped (no credits) if no keyword could run. See How credits and quotas work.

Managing campaigns

Campaigns are listed in the Geo-grid scans section of Schedules. Use the switch on a campaign to pause or resume it; pausing keeps the setup so you can resume later. Open a campaign to edit or delete it. Each run shows a status, such as Skipped (no credits), or No new data (recent scan reused) when the same keyword was scanned very recently and SearchOps reused that scan instead of charging again.

To schedule many locations at once, use Bulk schedule at the top of Schedules. Each location runs against its own keywords, so you only choose the engine, grid and cadence.

Next steps

• Learn to read each run: Reading your geo-grid results.
• Schedule LLM Visibility checks, review checks and report emails: Schedules: everything that runs on its own.
• Pick the engine for each campaign: Choose what a scan measures.