Seven reasons a business is missing from Google Maps. Six of them you can check yourself in about ten minutes.
Palm Beach Gardens, and across Palm Beach County, Broward County and the Treasure Coast. Anywhere by video.
A Google Business Profile is the listing that places a business on Google Maps and in local near me results. It is a separate system from a website. A business can rank on the map with no website at all, and can have a well built website that never appears on the map. Google states that local results are ranked on three things: relevance, distance and prominence. The profile's category is what decides which searches a business is eligible for in the first place.
Work down the list on your phone. Where the fix belongs somewhere else, the link goes there instead of here.
Not a fixed price. What it actually costs depends on the list on the right, and you get that number in writing after a short call, before anything begins.
Profile created, verified, category, services, area, hours, photos, first three posts, handover
When someone searches for a service near them, Google shows a map with three businesses on it before it shows any websites. That map is built from Google Business Profiles.
Yours is a listing you own on Google. Name, category, services, area, hours, phone, photos and reviews. It is what appears when someone searches your business by name, and it is the only way onto the map.
If you have never claimed it, either it does not exist, so you cannot appear, or Google built a basic one from public data and it is showing details nobody has checked.
Near me searches are the highest intent searches a local business gets.
Plumber near me is not research. It is someone with a problem right now, choosing between three names. The profile is the entry requirement. No profile, not eligible.
Category. It decides which searches you are eligible for at all. Filed under the wrong one, you are invisible for the work that is yours.
Correct details. Wrong hours and someone drives to a closed door. An old number and they call, get nothing, and call the next name on the list. You never find out that happened.
Consistency. Google compares your profile against your website and everywhere else you appear. When they disagree it cannot tell whether you are one business or three, so it shows someone whose details are clear.
More on how working together works.
Yes. Your website competes in the links below the map. Your profile is the only way onto the map itself.
Verification is the slow part and it is out of anyone's hands. Sometimes days, sometimes a few weeks. After that the profile is live immediately, and where it ranks builds over the following weeks.
Yes. It is free to set up. The parts that go wrong are the category, the service area, duplicate listings, and matching your details to everywhere else you appear. Those are the parts that decide whether it works.
You can hide it and set a service area instead. That is normal for anyone who travels to their customers.
The profile is yours. It is registered to your Google account, not mine, and you keep it whatever happens.
No. Google says in writing that there is no way to request or pay for a better local ranking. What I can do is make sure nothing is missing, wrong, or contradicting itself when Google looks.
Four lines. Your answers arrive with the page you were reading, so I know what this is about before I call.
I will look you up before I reply, so the first call is about your situation and not about basics.
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. In person across Palm Beach County, Broward County and the Treasure Coast. Anywhere by video.
Seven searches on Google, Maps and an AI assistant. Screenshots, dated. No charge and no call needed.
I will run the searches and send you what comes back, with the dates on them. If anything looks urgent I will say so.
Four lines. I read every one myself.
I will look you up before I reply, so the first call is about your situation and not about basics.