Set Up Your Google Business Profile

If set up and managed properly, your Google Business Profile can be the single biggest factor in being prominent in Google searchers who live or work near your business.

We are currently working on our own simple Guide to setting up your Google Business Profile.

In the meantime, here are links to some high quality resources:

• Buffer’s Ultimate Guide
• Search Engine Journal’s Complete Guide
• The Semrush Ultimate Guide

Important Note:

We highly recommend that before you start this process that you create a new Gmail account to use for Google Business Profile that you can also use for all your Google properties (Analytics, YouTube, etc).

In these individual accounts you can then grant user access or admin access as needed to your own email account and to anyone else who might need access.

Don’t share access to this email, except possibly with a trusted vendor who needs temporary access to do things like set up your business listings.

You’ll want to keep careful control of this email and by creating it you’ll have a single email that has access to ALL your listings and properties, which will save you a lot of frustration down the road (take my word for it – the pain is real).