How many service areas should a Tampa contractor list on Google Business Profile when covering three counties?

Google lets you add up to twenty service areas, but stuffing all twenty across Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco does not help you rank in them, and can dilute relevance. Your map-pack ranking is driven mostly by proximity to the searcher and your overall prominence, not by how many areas you list, so listing distant towns will not make you appear there. Choose the areas that genuinely reflect where you work and cluster reasonably around your location.

The real lever for ranking across three counties is dedicated city landing pages on your website, one strong, unique page per key market like Brandon, Clearwater, or Wesley Chapel, backed by reviews and jobs from those areas. Use the service-area field to describe your true coverage, then let purpose-built city pages, local citations, and reviews from real customers in each town do the ranking work the profile field cannot.