Google My Business: Everything from setup to posts & more

This section walks you through what Google My Business is.

As a business owner, Google My Business can have a lot of benefits including improving your exposure online, increasing traffic, and improving your local SEO search. This section will cover these topics.

It is important to know the rules before creating and maintaining a Google My Business listings. This section covers the disclaimer and information you need to know about Google My Business listing and where to find the resources.

Before we walk step by step to create your listing this video provides an overview of the 3 main ways that you can claim your listing. Starting it from scratch, claiming a listing that Google created or requesting access to an existing account.

This video covers the types of businesses that are eligible and not eligible fr creating a Google Business listing.

This video will walk you step by step on how to create a Google My Business listing.

This video will walk you through how to claim a Google Business Listing that has already been created by Google.

If a listing has already been created for your business and is being managed by a previous owner, this video will show you how you can request ownership to it.

This activity is designed to allow you time to set up your Google Business Listing.

If you have created multiple Google My Business listings for the same address this video will walk you through how to clean that up so you only have one listing.

If you have multiple Gmail accounts sometimes you have one listing associated with one account and one with another. This video will walk you through that.

This video will walk you through how to access your account on desktop and on a mobile device so it is easy for you to update and maintain.

This video will talk about the dos and don'ts when it comes to creating your business name on your Google Business Listing.

This video will walk through optimizing your account and business description to help you be found in Google Search and on Google Maps.

If you are a business that operates out of your home you may not want to have your home address listed on Google Maps. This video will show you how to remove your address.

In addition to your regular office hours, you will want to add special hours that you are open or closed, for example, holidays. This video will walk you through how to do this.

If your business is seasonal or closed for part of the year this video will walk you through how to get a temporarily closed status on your listing.

This video will walk you through how to add product and service details to your Google Business Listing.

What happens if someone suggests an edit for your listing? This video will walk you through that.

How to add Amenities to your Google Business Listing.

If you use one of the Google-approved Booking platforms you can add a booking button directly to your listing, making it easy for guests to book directly from your listing. Here is how.

Google has a messaging functionality on Google My Business that you can turn on. This video will walk you through where to find it and how it works.

This section walks you through how to add photos and videos to your Google Business listing.

This section will walk you through where to find posts on Google My Business and how to create them. If you do not have this functionality I will provide a link to help you get access to them.

Everything you need to know about Google Reviews. How to get more reviews, how to handle negative and positive reviews and more.

I have created a quick handout that you can use in your marketing to help you get more reviews.

This video walks you through how to add multiple users and managers to help look after your listing.