Get The Most Out Of Your Google My Business Listing
There are many, many ways that you can optimize your “Google My Business Listing” but I’m going to give you a list of five of the absolute very best ways.
Below I’m going to list these five ways to take full advantage of your Google My Business listing.
Q and A
Towards the bottom of the listing there is a Question and Answer category. Viewers can ask a question and either the business owner, or someone who has been to the business before can answer it. Now, this is a chance to take full advantage of getting to know your customers better and interact with them.
Reviews
Most businesses already have a place for reviews, but even if you do this is still a great benefit to your business for many reasons. The most important being that when people are debating whether or not to give your business a shot they can see what others are saying about it right there. They don’t have to go searching for your reviews because they’re right there in front of them. The only downside to this is that your customers also get to see the bad reviews, but they’ll go looking for them anyways, right? So why not make it so they get to see the good ones as easily as possible.
Services
Nobody likes having to Google what the services a business offers and hunting around online for hours. Well, with your Google My Business Listing your services show up right away. You can include all of your services and that way customers get to see what you offer and don’t have to search at all! It’s right there.Make sure you take full advantage and put all your services on there.
Photos
Your Google My Business Listing makes it so customers get to see what your business looks like. You can upload photos so that your customers can look and get an idea of what they’re going to be getting. And don’t fall for the common mistake of thinking all photos have to be taken by a professional photographer. Even a few blurry photos from your phone could give people an idea of what your business is like. Be sure to have lots of photos up for your customers to view.
Hours
We’ve all done it before. At least once. We’ve showed up somewhere, maybe even driven a while to get there, only to have that place closed when we get there. It’s one of the worst feelings and we could have swore that we had checked the hours. If you use your Google My Business Listing your businesses hours show up right there. People automatically see the hours when they’re looking at your services, reviews, and more info about your site. This is a great feature to have for the convenience of your customers. Trust me, nobody likes showing up to a closed place that they thought was open.
Now those are the five ways you can optimize your Google My Business Listing, although there are still many more. But don’t forget, the one important thing to always remember is that it is up to you to make sure that all this information is constantly updated and to make sure your customers are reading the correct and current information. I hope that you use your Google My Business Listing and take full advantage of it.
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