Setting Up YourGoogle My Business
Setting Up Your Google My Business
To get your GMB listing up and running, perform a Google search first to ensure your business doesn’t already have one. Google’s in-platform My Business is an effective search feature tool for you to use to locate your business on GMB.
To get your GMB listing up and running, perform a Google search first to ensure your business doesn’t already have one. Google’s in-platform My Business is an effective search feature tool for you to use to locate your business on GMB.
If your business has been around for several years or so, it’s likely it already has a Google My Business listing and you just need to claim it.
Once successfully claimed, you can edit the information as if you started the GMB listing yourself. Google will notify you if:
- A listing has already been made.
- Someone else already claimed your business.
If that happens, follow these steps.
If your business listing is not yet created, setting it up is pretty easy and fast. Verification may take a little while to complete, but normally, a week is enough to get this process done. Remember to start with the official business name before adding more relevant info.
Then input your main business category. You can change and add to this later, but this is a critical part of completing (and optimizing) your brand page.
Next, input your main business category and find the best relevant for it. You can edit and add to this later. This part is a critical and very important step to completing (and optimizing) your business page
There are several variations to choose from but there should be at least one that accurately describes your business, then you will be asked if you want to “add a location customers can visit, like a store or office?”
Keep in mind that this is valuable information since many businesses function as service-area places and do not need/allow customers at the brick-and-mortar location; the exact location of the business will not appear on Google Maps, but will still come up for relevant searches in its service location.
For those businesses that run in a specific service location and don’t want the exact brick-and-mortar location to show up in Maps, choose the service area(s) related to the business.
Proceed to add your business’s contact information: contact number, and your business website URL (if you have this). Also, include brick-and-mortar business addresses that people can go to during business hours.
Proceed to add your business’s contact information: contact number, and your business website URL (if you have this). Also, include brick-and-mortar business addresses that people can go to during business hours.
After setting up your business address, GMB will ask if you “also service customers outside this location?” This is the next step to input if you offer outside-the-business location service.
If yes, you will be able to navigate your way through the same service-area business details which you can edit service area details at any time.
If your business doesn’t include services outside of its location, select “No” then input contact details on the next prompt.
After clicking “Finish”, verify all information to publish the listing.