Print this page, or work through it on your phone. It takes about 30 minutes the first time. Everything here is free to do yourself and follows Google's own help pages.
Setup
- Claim or verify your profile at business.google.com.
- Choose the right type: storefront, or service-area business with the address hidden.
- Set service areas to real places you serve (within about two hours of your base).
- Use your real-world business name, with no extra keywords or locations.
Categories and services
- Pick the primary category that describes what you do most.
- Add only the additional categories that truly apply.
- List your main services, with short plain descriptions.
Basic details
- Check your phone number and website link.
- Set regular hours and holiday hours.
- Write a short, honest description (no links, no phone numbers in the text).
Photos
- Add your logo and a cover photo.
- Add at least five recent photos of your work, team or vehicles (JPG or PNG, 720 × 720 pixels recommended).
Reviews
- Get your review link and send it to your last ten customers.
- Ask every customer, not only happy ones, and never offer a reward.
- Reply to every review, including the negative ones, politely and briefly.
Staying active
- Publish one post (an offer, a recent job, or news).
- Answer questions in the Q&A section, if you have any.
- Put a monthly reminder in your calendar to check hours, photos and reviews.
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