Google Business Profile help in Wigan
Your Google Business Profile is the listing that appears on the map and in the box of local results when someone searches for what you do nearby. For many small businesses it brings more enquiries than the website.
What I look at
- Business name, address or service area, phone and website: correct and the same everywhere they appear.
- Main category and extra categories: the main one matters most, so I choose it carefully.
- Services, products and description: written in plain words that match how customers search.
- Opening hours, including bank holidays, so you are not shown as closed when you are open.
- Photos: real ones of your work, premises or team.
- Reviews: a simple, honest way to ask for them and to reply to them.
- Posts and questions: how to keep the profile fresh without it taking over your week.
Working from home or visiting customers?
If you work from home or travel to customers, your profile can be set up as a service-area business, so your home address is not shown to the public. I can walk you through it.
What to expect
A complete, accurate profile gives you the best chance of showing in local results, but nobody can promise a position, and "near me" results depend on where the searcher is. What I can do is get the basics right and keep them right.
I have done this work on my own business, Pet Getaway, in Hindley, Wigan. The profile and the website support each other there.