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Local SEO wins can come from optimizing Google Business Profile basics: categories, services, hours, description, real photos, and review acquisition.
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Garage Door company hired us for $18,000. They made 1.7 million back in 11 months. Optimized Google Business Profile. This is what helps them show in Google Maps and the local map pack. Collected at least 10 legit reviews as fast as possible. Used real photos, not cheesy stock images. Please don't do that. Fixed hours, services, categories, description, e...
Google publishes industry-specific small-business playbooks for Google Maps and Google Business Profile optimization.
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Google is releasing its own playbook for how to rank higher in Google Maps. They have different playbooks for restaurants, cafes, hotels, accommodations, tour activity operators, service based businesses, plumbers, cleaners, general business playbook. These things are major. This is how long the one for service based businesses is. There's so much in here...
Completing Google Business Profile fields—phone, website, address/service areas, hours, products/services, categories, and keyword-relevant categories—helps Google understand local relevance.
@@webhivedigital · asserts
If you're a local business owner, this is gonna boost your visibility on Google when people search for what you offer in your area. Go to Google my business. Sign up for a free profile. the areas at a minimum that you wanna fill in to help boost your visibility: an up to date phone number, website and address. Or if you're a service based business, add al...
Google Business Profile rankings are heavily influenced by location/proximity, profile title, primary category, and review frequency; many other fields have smaller effects.
@@tjrobertson52 · asserts
If you're a local business, your Google Business Profile is probably even more important than your website. And this is why it seems like a good idea to pay a company $500 a month to manage and optimize your Google Business Profile. But it's not. These companies are ripping you off. Now to be clear, I'm not talking about all local SEO agencies. I'm one of...
For local businesses, a Google Business Profile with address, photos, services, posts, and customer reviews is presented as non-negotiable for local search visibility.
@@webhivedigital · asserts
If you're a local business, a Google my business profile is a non negotiable. This is how you get Google to recommend you in their local search results for free. Add your address, photos, services and posts, and most importantly get every customer to leave a review for the best chances of ranking.
A garage door company hired us for $18,000. They made $1.7 million back in 11 months. Optimiz...
@@build_in_public · 2026-04-07
Garage Door company hired us for $18,000. They made 1.7 million back in 11 months. Optimized Google Business Profile. This is what helps them show in Google Maps and the local map pack. Collected at least 10 legit reviews as fast as possible. Used real photos, not cheesy stock images. Please don't do that. Fixed hours, services, categories, description, e...
Google is releasing its own playbook for how to rank higher in Google Maps. They have differe...
@@build_in_public · 2026-03-14
Google is releasing its own playbook for how to rank higher in Google Maps. They have different playbooks for restaurants, cafes, hotels, accommodations, tour activity operators, service based businesses, plumbers, cleaners, general business playbook. These things are major. This is how long the one for service based businesses is. There's so much in here...
Local SEO is one of the easiest wins for visibility, and Google My Business is where I always...
@@webhivedigital · 2025-11-28
If you're a local business owner, this is gonna boost your visibility on Google when people search for what you offer in your area. Go to Google my business. Sign up for a free profile. the areas at a minimum that you wanna fill in to help boost your visibility: an up to date phone number, website and address. Or if you're a service based business, add al...
Why I tell clients NOT to pay $500 a month for Google Business profile management 👀 These 4 f...
@@tjrobertson52 · 2025-10-31
If you're a local business, your Google Business Profile is probably even more important than your website. And this is why it seems like a good idea to pay a company $500 a month to manage and optimize your Google Business Profile. But it's not. These companies are ripping you off. Now to be clear, I'm not talking about all local SEO agencies. I'm one of...
Free SEO tools that actually help you rank – Part 16 Google My Business is a free tool that p...
@@webhivedigital · 2025-09-03
If you're a local business, a Google my business profile is a non negotiable. This is how you get Google to recommend you in their local search results for free. Add your address, photos, services and posts, and most importantly get every customer to leave a review for the best chances of ranking.
Garage Door company hired us for $18,000. They made 1.7 million back in 11 months. Optimized Google Business Profile. This is what helps them show in Google Maps and the local map pack. Collected at least 10 legit reviews as fast as possible. Used real photos, not cheesy stock images. Please don't do that. Fixed hours, services, categories, description, everything properly. Kill generic service pages on the website. Built hyper-specific money pages: affordable garage door repair in Houston, same-day service, no...
a podcast on this: 18,000 to 1.7 million in 11 months, the local SEO strategy that actually works on the Edward Show podcast. Is post is from sarvestrivastrova, who's a friend of the podcast. He's been on twice already. He'll be coming back on the show tomorrow to break down this exact strategy: 18,000 to 1.7 million in 11 months. If you're a local business, you can do it too.
Google is releasing its own playbook for how to rank higher in Google Maps. They have different playbooks for restaurants, cafes, hotels, accommodations, tour activity operators, service based businesses, plumbers, cleaners, general business playbook. These things are major. This is how long the one for service based businesses is. There's so much in here how businesses can make the most of Google. A guide for optimizing your Google Business profile. If you want to get this, search this on Google. Google Small B...
If you're a local business owner, this is gonna boost your visibility on Google when people search for what you offer in your area. Go to Google my business. Sign up for a free profile. the areas at a minimum that you wanna fill in to help boost your visibility: an up to date phone number, website and address. Or if you're a service based business, add all of your service areas, your opening hours, all of your top selling products or services. An accurate category. I recommend adding more than one here. Bonus po...
If you're a local business, your Google Business Profile is probably even more important than your website. And this is why it seems like a good idea to pay a company $500 a month to manage and optimize your Google Business Profile. But it's not. These companies are ripping you off. Now to be clear, I'm not talking about all local SEO agencies. I'm one of them. A good SEO agency is worth a lot more than $500 a month. I'm talking about a specific type of agency, if you can call it that, that only manages your Goo...
last month. For some businesses like home remodeling, one review a month is plenty. For something like a restaurant, you should be trying to get multiple reviews every day. Now again, there are other things like services and business hours to impact ranking, but those are the four big ones. And at this point you might be saying, but TJ, my competitor has less reviews than me and is in the same primary category. Why are they outranking me? If it can't be explained by one of those four things, it's probably not so...
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