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2.- Company listing on Google My Business

Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:24 am
by Md5656se
Needless to say, our main goal will be to have our business appear in the prominent places in the search results that we saw before: the local pack with up to 3 links or the box in the sidebar.

We can only achieve this if we directly inform Google of our business data, through its Google My Business platform, which will also create references to the company on Google Maps:

Local SEO Action Plan - Google My Business

Registering with Google My Business is a very simple process:

You must log into Google with a Gmail account. If you don't have one, you must create one. It doesn't matter if it's not related to the name of the company or activity.

Go to the Google My Business page and click on the “Appear on Google” button.

Fill in the information that Google asks you for. Since you already have it in the company profile we created earlier, you just have to copy and paste.

There probably won't be a category on Google My Business that philippine area code exactly matches the ones you've chosen. Choose the one that most closely matches how you want users to know about you.

Very important! You must indicate whether you offer your services at your clients' locations. This means, for example, that you are available to travel to the client's premises. If you offer this possibility, you must indicate which locations you cover or how much distance you can travel:

Local SEO Action Plan - Customer Location Scope

You are now close to the final step. Now you just need to indicate that you are authorized to manage the company data and press the “Continue” button.

You have already created a listing for your company, but there are still some tasks to be done so that Google has all the necessary information available. Let's go through them:

In the Google My Business Locations list, select the one you just created:

Local SEO Action Plan - Locations

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A form will appear where you can modify the data you have previously entered and add many others such as: schedule, phone number, website, photos, tags (related to our activity, equivalent to categories). All this information is in our company profile, so we just have to copy it.

Finally, the most important step: verify your company.

Until you do this, Google will not show you in local results.

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