How do I rank in multiple cities without an office in each one?
Local SEO — answered straight, by an operator who builds these systems rather than an agency selling them.
Through your website, not your Google profile. The profile ranks mostly by proximity to the searcher, but website pages can rank anywhere — so a real, substantive page per city, linked properly and backed by local proof, is how a single-location business competes across a metro.
The longer version
Do not fake locations. Renting a mailbox to create a second profile is a suspension waiting to happen, and Google does remove listings for it. If you eventually open a real staffed location, that earns a real profile.
Order of operations that works: dominate the city you are physically in first, then expand outward city by city with real pages, real photos from jobs in those towns, and reviews that mention them. Customers naming the town in a review is one of the few local signals nobody can manufacture.
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