Enter your business hours

Messaging preferences, business description and photos. (We’ll get into the details of how to optimize your profile content in the next section of this post.) Click Continue when you’re ready. You’ll find yourself in the  Business Profile Manager dashboard. From here you can manage your business profile, view analytics, manage reviews and messages, and create Google ads.

Optimize Your Google Business Profile

Google determines local search rankings based on three factors:

Relevance: How well your Google My Business listing matches a search

Distance: How far your current New Zealand Mobile Number List location is from the caller

Importance: How well-known your business is (based on factors such as links, number of reviews, review score, and SEO)

There are some steps you can take to maximize your score for all three factors. These:

Complete all the elements of your profile

Customers who find a complete Business Profile on Google Search and Maps are 2.7 times more likely to think a business is reputable .

Customers are 70% more likely to visit businesses with a complete Business Pr Text Services ofile and 50% more likely to consider buying businesses.

Google specifically says it’s “easier for businesses with complete and accurate information to match with the right searches . ” This increases your relevance score. The key here is to tell Google visitors “what you are doing, where you are and when they can visit”. Also, if your hours of operation change during holidays or seasons, be sure to keep them up to date.