Donut Shops in Golden, CO — Local Marketing Demand
When someone in Golden searches for donuts on Google Maps, Gold Mine Cupcakes shows up first, helped by 4.9 stars across 259 reviews. Cafe 13 has far more feedback — 1,342 reviews — yet appears fourth. Positions have held steady in recent weeks, but the gaps between shops are small enough that today's order won't hold indefinitely.
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1
phrases tracked
20
shops tracked
0
losing visibility
Golden · right now
⚠️Losing ground0 shops slipping0%of the market
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Every listing on the map
Every “donuts” we found in Golden — 20 listings, ranked by visibility.
All 20 shopsby visibility
Read this first
0 of these 20 shops are losing visibility and almost certainly do not know it
Their ratings and reviews look fine and the doors are open, but their Local Visibility Score — how often they show up in the top Google Maps results near customers — has slipped for months while newer shops climb. By the time it shows up in the till it has been true for half a year. Tap a shop to see where it stands.
100/100
top shop visibility
+110%
Mochi donuts searches
−34%
Cronuts searches
Who's winning and who's slipping
All 20 shops · by visibility
#
Shop
Visibility
12-wk
Direction
1
Gold Mine CupcakesNEW
100/100
Holding 0
2
Red Silo Coffee Roasters | Golden Coffee ShopNEW
80/100
Holding 0
3
Windy Saddle CafeNEW
80/100
Holding 0
4
Cafe 13NEW
55/100
Holding 0
5
Golden SweetsNEW
55/100
Holding 0
6
GOOZELL YOGURT & COFFEENEW
55/100
Holding 0
7
Golden DinerNEW
30/100
Holding 0
8
Dino MartNEW
30/100
Holding 0
9
Nosu RamenNEW
30/100
Holding 0
10
Donut Time CoNEW
30/100
Holding 0
11
Winchell's Donut HouseNEW
10/100
Holding 0
12
We Knead Donut in LakewoodNEW
10/100
Holding 0
13
American DonutNEW
10/100
Holding 0
14
ChuliToxica YummyBites LLCNEW
10/100
Holding 0
15
OMG DonutsNEW
10/100
Holding 0
16
Safeway BakeryNEW
10/100
Holding 0
17
The Salty DonutNEW
10/100
Holding 0
18
Winchell's Donut House LakewoodNEW
10/100
Holding 0
19
Yummy's Donut HouseNEW
10/100
Holding 0
20
Winchell'sNEW
10/100
Holding 0
How visibility is moving
the top shops vs the city average · last 12 weeks · tap a shop to focus
Gold Mine CupcakesRed Silo Coffee Roasters | Golden Coffee ShopWindy Saddle CafeCity average
The listings behind the rankings
ratings, reviews and photos — the engagement that drives visibility · tap a column to sort
#
Shop
Rating
Reviews ↓
New / mo
Photos
1
Golden Diner
4.5★
1,626
0
647
2
Cafe 13
4.5★
1,342
0
754
3
Winchell's Donut House
4.2★
1,099
0
149
4
Yummy's Donut House
4.6★
1,025
0
241
5
Windy Saddle Cafe
4.3★
900
0
668
6
Golden Sweets
4.6★
561
0
300
7
Winchell's
4.5★
558
0
224
8
OMG Donuts
4.6★
516
0
119
9
Nosu Ramen
4.4★
468
0
372
10
American Donut
4.5★
430
0
37
11
GOOZELL YOGURT & COFFEE
4★
305
0
92
12
The Salty Donut
4.3★
290
0
495
13
Gold Mine Cupcakes
4.9★
259
0
201
14
Red Silo Coffee Roasters | Golden Coffee Shop
4.5★
210
0
104
15
We Knead Donut in Lakewood
4.7★
178
0
67
16
Donut Time Co
4.9★
157
0
85
17
Winchell's Donut House Lakewood
4.3★
57
0
70
18
Dino Mart
2.7★
23
0
2
19
ChuliToxica YummyBites LLC
5★
1
0
1
20
Safeway Bakery
5★
1
0
1
Reviews and photos feed the visibility score above, but they aren't the ranking on their own — a highly-rated shop can still be hard to find.
How people are looking for you
71,520 searches a month, sorted by what the person wanted
Hungry right now
48%
Wants a donut in the next twenty minutes. Whoever appears on the map gets the sale.
donut shops near me40,500
donut delivery3,600
donuts open now2,400
Comparing options
23%
Reads your recent reviews and looks at your photos before leaving the house.
best donuts8,100
top rated donuts1,100
donut shops downtown720
Has a dietary rule
20%
One person picks for the whole group. Miss the word on your listing and lose all four.
gluten free donuts6,600
vegan donuts5,400
Buying for a crowd
9%
Offices, parties, weddings. Planned days ahead and each worth ten walk-ins.
birthday party donuts1,900
donut catering880
donut wall rental320
Trending up in your area
+110%
Mochi donuts
One spring opening and the whole area started searching the style.
+28%
Vegan donuts
A two-year climb. Few of the top shops advertise it.
+19%
Late-night donuts
Weekend evenings. Few shops are open, fewer say so.
Cooling off
−34%
Cronuts
Third straight year down. Time to retire the sign.
−14%
Cake pops
Fine as an add-on, no longer a reason to visit.
Why you can trust this
Every ranking here comes from live Google Maps searches, run the same way I run them for paying clients: the phrase people actually type searched from Golden itself, and the results recorded again every week — not a guess, and not a one-off look.
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shops tracked
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phrases searched
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results kept
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How this was measured
Rank and “leads” = where Google Maps actually placed a shop when we searched that phrase from Golden. The visibility score turns that position into 0–100: first is 100, top three 80, top six 55, top ten 30, anything below that 10. We keep the first 20 results of each search.
Direction = that score now versus the oldest week we hold, up to thirteen weeks back. Ratings, reviews and photos are shown as context — they influence where Google places a shop, but they are not the ranking.
Sources: Google Maps results and business listings via DataForSEO — one live search per phrase per city, refreshed weekly.