What is a Google Business Profile?
A Google Business Profile is an easy-to-use tool for businesses and organizations to manage their online presence across Google.” It will help people find your business, whether a website or your physical location via Google Maps, or a phone number to call you, all in one convenient place.
The advantage for prospects and customers alike is that they can find your business hours, schedule times, or even contact you right from your Google Business Profile (GBP) and any other information that you enter into your profile.
The best part, in my humble opinion, is that you can interact with people who leave reviews. Reviews are great for any business and for those searching.
You get to respond to those people, whether they left you a good or a bad comment. You get to reach out and thank them and have a chance to make it right if there was just a misunderstanding.
There’s a second best part to a GBP… It’s Free!!
Do I need to Claim and Verify my Google Business Profile?
That is a resounding YES! Did you know that if you don’t claim your listing, anyone can change your GBP? It’s true.
If you haven’t claimed yours, or even if you have but don’t monitor it, get in touch with me. I will show you in just a couple of minutes how easily an unscrupulous person can make a change.
How do I claim my Google Business Profile?
- Step 1. Type in your business name in Google search
- Step 2. Claim it
- Step 3. Fill in ALL of your business information. This takes some time. The more you add here, the better it will serve you.
- Step 4. Add pictures and a video
- Step 5. Verify—Google will let you know which option to choose. The four options are Text, Call, Video, or Postcard verification. Sometimes, you have an option, and sometimes, they tell you which one you need to complete.
After that, you just need to be patient. Sometimes, it is instant, and other times, it can take up to two weeks.
When we build a GBP, we add an additional step to help the verification process between steps 3 and 4. We produce citations. The number varies depending on several factors, the major one being the amount of competition in your market. We also set up several backlinks.
You can learn about citations and backlinks under the Services tab.
Google Business Profile Setup • Project Scope
Project Background and Description
Many businesses do not know how to get their information on Google. Google Maps is an essential tool for customers and clients to find your business.
When not verified or claimed, you cannot reply to comments or reviews, post, set up descriptions, or add information like hours, products, services, and more.
Did you know that when you don’t claim your business or properly manage your listing, anyone can cause a change to happen? You may not even realize it! Yes, it’s true. You may have claimed your listing, but if you don’t look at the emails and someone has suggested an edit, or even said the business is closed, that change will happen automatically if you don’t respond or intervene.
Once verified, you will be able to customize all the above-mentioned items, add photos and a video, appear in Google Maps, have a much better chance of appearing on Google searches, and more.
Building a Google online presence is done through a Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business).
Google prefers a verified listing, which will help your ranking and build trust among potential customers or clients who browse your listing.
Project Scope
- You will receive a full Google Business Profile, with descriptions, logo, photos, video if you have one, hours, and contact information. You’ll also be found on Google Maps, which will help you show up in Google searches.
- Photos will be geo-tagged and Alt-tagged.
- We will create a Gmail account for your business unless you already have one.
- A one-page free Google Website – Basic set up with descriptions and photos.
- Citations – quantity will depend on competition in your market.
- Backlinks – Varies case by case
Once complete, you will receive full control of the whole package.
Deliverables
What you will receive with this service.
- Gmail Account in the business name (unless you have one)
- Google Business Profile – fully optimized
- Verified Google Listing
- Listing on Google Maps
- List of Citations
Changes & Approval
You will get to approve all content, although sometimes we may write things a certain way to help improve authority and trust, as well as ranking. You are allowed two sets of changes. After that, an additional fee will apply.
Timeline
We will add your project to our calendar, but this can usually get started quickly. Know that getting verified with Google can take up to two weeks to receive that from Google.
How to Get Started
This is how this works… It starts with a Discovery Call to see if we can serve you and it is mutually beneficial. Then we will gather all the information needed either on that phone call or via email.
Contact me for a FREE EVALUATION of your GBP. Jimmy 719-482-8302
Once we receive payment, we will get to work on your project. It’s really that simple.
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