Google Business Profile Setup
The free listing that appears above the search results, set up properly instead of half filled in and forgotten.
For a lot of local searches, the map listings sit above everything else and a large share of people never scroll past them. If your profile is missing, unclaimed or thin, you are not in that box, and no amount of work on the website itself will put you there.
This is the highest return thing most local businesses can do, and it costs nothing except doing it correctly. Which is exactly why so many profiles sit unclaimed, with the wrong hours, no categories set, three photos from 2019 and no reviews.
We claim it, fill it out properly, set the categories and service areas so Google understands where you work, and show you how to keep reviews coming in. It is not complicated. It just has to actually get done.
This is priced on its own rather than folded into a website build. There is a one time cost to claim, verify and build the profile out, and a monthly cost if you want us keeping it current with posts, photos and review replies. We quote both before starting, and the listing itself is free from Google either way.
What that actually involves
Claiming and verifying
Getting the listing under your control, including the awkward cases where somebody else set one up years ago or a duplicate exists that is splitting your reviews.
Categories and service areas
Category choice affects which searches you appear in more than almost anything else on the profile, and for a business without a storefront the service area settings decide which towns you show up in at all.
Full details and photos
Services, hours, description and photographs, written and chosen to match how people search rather than filled in at random.
Reviews
We set up a straightforward way to ask for reviews and show you how to ask without it being uncomfortable. Steady honest reviews beat a burst of them, and Google can tell the difference.
Matching the site
The profile and the website need to agree on who you are, what you do and where you work. When they agree, Google trusts both of them more.
Questions about google profile
- Is this included when you build my website?
- No. The profile is its own piece of work with its own price, a one time build out and an optional monthly if you want it maintained. We would rather quote it honestly than bundle it in and do a shallow job of it.
- I do not have a storefront. Can I still have a profile?
- Yes. Businesses that travel to customers list a service area instead of an address, and the address stays hidden. Northfolk itself is set up this way.
- Somebody already made a listing for my business.
- That happens often, and it is fixable. There is a claim process, and where duplicates exist they can usually be merged so your reviews end up in one place instead of split across two listings.
The rest of what we do
Website Design and Build
A complete website built for your business, written for your customers, and fast enough that nobody leaves before it loads.
Local SEO
The work that puts you in front of people searching for what you do in Dunnellon, Ocala and the towns around them.
Website Care
Hosting, updates, changes and someone to call, for businesses that would rather not think about any of it.
Getting Recommended by AI
Being the business that ChatGPT and Google's AI answers name when somebody asks for a recommendation near them.
Tell us what your business does.
A couple of lines is plenty. We reply in writing with what we would build, what it costs and when it goes live.
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