Free guide, PDF, 6 pages
The Google Business Profile guide for trades and clinics
Set up and tune the free listing that decides who appears in the map when someone searches your trade and town. Step by step, with the settings most businesses get wrong.
- Claiming and verifying, including the video verification most people now get
- Categories, service areas and services, and the mistakes that hide you
- Photos, posts and the questions section, with a monthly ten-minute routine
- How the map ranking works, and what actually moves it
For: owners who want to show up in the map without paying for ads.
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Claiming and verifying, including the video verification most people now get
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Categories, service areas and services, and the mistakes that hide you
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Photos, posts and the questions section, with a monthly ten-minute routine
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How the map ranking works, and what actually moves it
Written from what we check on every site we build. No theory, no jargon, nothing you need an agency to do. Print it, tick it, act on it.
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