Your videos are very useful and provide lots of information. I have received lots of help after watching this post, please continue to share this kind of information. Thank you.
Such a valuable video! 😲 Loved the tips on optimizing your business name and how to use geotagged photos for better ranking. 📍 The plugin trick to spy on competitors was pure gold! 🔑 If you're serious about ranking in Google Maps, this is a must-watch! 🙌 #SEO #GoogleMyBusiness"
Hi Tim, I have a question about geotagging. If I take photos at different locations (I often travel to my customers) should I tag these photos with the specific locations they were taken at or is it better to stick to the address my business is registered at?
I build websites for local businesses and a lot of them don't have a physical location that are service businesses. Examples: Pressure Washers, Remodelers, Painters. What do you do for the place of business on the maps for google my business? Right now just have the areas they serve but no physical location. What would you suggest to do for their businesses?
I would list their business as a service area rather than a physical location. Google gives you around 20 service areas but I wouldn’t stuff all of them, just use the few most relevant areas you service. Google will generally require an address to verify the business. I would make this address wherever their “office” is. Often that is their home. It’s best if the office can be in the city limits they are looking to do business in. Hope that helps!
I am about to start doing this in the UK. How are you getting on? Any tips? Which particular types of businesses are easier to engage with? Im looking to target people on GMB who don't have a website by calling them and having a template ready so I can just add their logo and show them on a live call what it would look like and just take it from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Great Video Good Information Very Concise and to the point. It makes cents that turns into good dollar$$$. Thanks for the advise. Can not wait to streamline this train.
Great video and an easy-to-understand tutorial! I look forward to watching more. I want to use Google more effectively, I just want to share my experience so far. It's easy when you just fit into Google. I have offered two different category services, mentoring and hiking, that overlap but have different customers, so I initially send customers to direct landing pages rather than my site. My customers are either teens who don't leave reviews or several people with disabilities whom I have worked with for over a year or two. It's too personal to leave reviews, which I respect; I wouldn't want to either. I am already busy and I just want to raise my profile.
His second tip be very careful if your company's branding, stationary and website are not using that keyword you cannot use it in the listing it will get your listing suspended if your service is called Big Mike's Gardening and Landscaping on the website and if you have a registered LLC you can use those keywords, if it's called Big Mike's in your logo website and actual company name and if you use those keywords that will get your listing suspended other than that spot on advice this is exactly what you should do
Hi Tim, Im a freelancer from asian country and my client is from U.S. barber shop ..can I use upload images using location tag using my computer here in asia? How will it affect my clients ranking? thanks for great content..
I'm unclear about the strategy mentioned in step three regarding using a co-working space for your business address. As an example, let's say I'm a dentist with a practice in a suburban area, and I aim to appear in Google Maps results for city residents. This way, I can broaden my patient base beyond the suburb. I'd appreciate clarification on how this strategy works.
Similar question to some others - I have a Service Business tht is mostly Busines to Business - we do really well on Google maps for the city our office is located in. I've heard various methods to get a second or third city listed in other neighboring cites, and was wondering what you might suggest. Also if we actually opened a second office in a different city can we set up a second business profile or ad the city to the existing profile?
I thought I saw in one of your videos you recommended a chrome extension to help with google my business? Could you tell me what that was or did i mishear that lol.
This is a REALLY fantastic video and I've used all your tips to optimize my business's page. One question though: Any tips for someone like me whose business is located in a place where I don't actually operate my business? What I mean is I'm an international tour operator based in Rockford, IL, but my tours are actually run all around the world (Cuba, Antarctica, Asia, Europe and others). Any thoughts on this? Thanks again!
Hi Tim! I have a question. I’m currently managing the Google My Business profile for a restaurant located within a hotel. How can I ensure that the restaurant's profile clearly indicates that it is ''located in the hotel'' and mentions the resort's website? I saw couple of GMB of other restaurant and it there is a option ''Located in'' but I couldn't find that option on mine
How are you able to give your business exposure as just in a website and for the whole country to be able to see you. I am asking in regards to the remote business aspect? By the way great content for a starter I am subscriber number 265 for you but with this great start up content you will reach 100k in no time.
Thanks for subscribing! We write separate and in depth pages for each service we offer and location, which brings in lots of targeted and niche traffic. Multiple GMB locations is harder. They can all be classified as “service areas” but each one has to be verified with a business office or location that is “staffed during business hours” according to Google.
2:00 'Optimize for your business name.' My wife's business name and URL are slightly different. Does it make a difference? The URL is more descriptive by one word.
Google says to use your businesses “real name” as it is shown on your business signage and branding. I’m not 100% sure if a URL qualifies but if you want to be safe I would just stick with whatever is on your wife’s logo and branding.
If your company is who I think it is, I absolutely love (and hate for personal competitive reasons) your site. Been evolving from messy snowflakes in the background to a real solid site that probably is going to be number one eventually. I'm curious what your thoughts on service area vs office location are with someone of your experience.
If you are a service business and don’t service people at your location I would go with service area. Just be aware that even if you put a large service area, google is still going to mainly just show you to searchers who are closest in proximity to the address you use for verification.
What page do you link your GMB to? I have a local service company. My home page targets a specific keyword, I feel it may be better to create a city page to link my gmb to. My address is in a suburb, so do I link the GMB to the suburb city page, or the actual big city page that is 15 miles away? Does a GMB landing page need to briefly cover all the info covered in the GMB listing, like the categories, services, locations?
Duplicate business creation from same geographical location blocked original business from showing on keyword search. Now two days before duplicate business removed. Now original business appear if map is enlarged enlarged again and again.But business name not appearing and map doesnot bring instantly business.How long will it take for the original business to appear on keyword search after removal of duplicate business??
sir geo tag doesnt work anymore and the things with matter in Google Business Profile is optimised business name , centalised address and attributes and reviews and daily activity for both buisiness owner and customers end i.e posting photos
Do you have to have your house pinned on google maps? I don’t want to let thieves know i have lawn equipment hiding on my property? I don’t have a business location elsewhere. Does it hurt you to not have it pinned?
Thanks for asking. Im not doing any one-on-one coaching or memberships at this time but I will be putting everything I know on TH-cam. Let me know if there’s a specific topic you would like to see a video on.
Still learning all the ins and outs of TH-cam. I’ll look into it 👍. I do have another Local SEO video coming soon that covers GMB and best practices for your website layout/content.
I wonder if an AI generated image would work with the geo hack - as theoretically google would instantly know its AI and thus not relevant to any location in the world....thoughts ?
I have always built my sites myself on Wordpress. Lots of learning from mistakes. If I ever need help or advice I generally look for a small local company or individual in my town who does web development. Haven’t had the best experiences with large companies and places like Upwork have been hit or miss for me. Hope that helps.
Sure does! I’ve worked in sales for over 6 years with a company named Housecall Pro and know field service business’s and there needs. So I know some what of the problematics that it comes with. I will venture into this and let you know how it goes. Thanks! Your videos are great.
The business description on GBP has zero impact on rankings / seo. Geo tagged photos have zero impact on rankings. This has been proven time and again.
Great tips thank you so much . How do I even get my business to show up in a google search though? what is the step before this? not sure what to ask because I don't know what I need to do to show up in a google search - right now when I google my business name I don't show up at all? I don't know what SEO means - where do I get info to start before this video please ? really basic, easy to follow, step-by-step directions? don't leave any step out kind of video. thank you !
I will plan to make an SEO "search engine optimization" for beginners video. Your website likely won't rank when first staring out so this Google Business listing is what will show up in google in the beginning.
I believe the geotagging works as in where the review was posted from. If it’s posted in city name a,b,c and d by the customer using a pressure washing business, it helps
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This was a solid and well crafted video with really useful tips! Super actionable! Kudos to you!
Thanks for the new video! I’m looking forward to seeing what other content you post! Always good to learn as much as you can!
Your videos are very useful and provide lots of information. I have received lots of help after watching this post, please continue to share this kind of information. Thank you.
Great information Tim, thank you for your advice and tips to help us ad value for businesses! Kudos!
Really good advice! Thank you for the insights.
Useful and practical contents. Thanks for the hard work
great take brother! thank you very much for your contribution,, you got a new subscriber here and cheers from the City of Knowledge @ the Panama Canal
I learned so much in one video .Thank you.
Nice explanation in layman's terms without the googly tech speak Tim,
thank you!
Such a valuable video! 😲 Loved the tips on optimizing your business name and how to use geotagged photos for better ranking. 📍 The plugin trick to spy on competitors was pure gold! 🔑 If you're serious about ranking in Google Maps, this is a must-watch! 🙌 #SEO #GoogleMyBusiness"
Hi Tim, I have a question about geotagging. If I take photos at different locations (I often travel to my customers) should I tag these photos with the specific locations they were taken at or is it better to stick to the address my business is registered at?
Precise and to the point thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I build websites for local businesses and a lot of them don't have a physical location that are service businesses. Examples: Pressure Washers, Remodelers, Painters. What do you do for the place of business on the maps for google my business? Right now just have the areas they serve but no physical location. What would you suggest to do for their businesses?
I would list their business as a service area rather than a physical location. Google gives you around 20 service areas but I wouldn’t stuff all of them, just use the few most relevant areas you service. Google will generally require an address to verify the business. I would make this address wherever their “office” is. Often that is their home. It’s best if the office can be in the city limits they are looking to do business in. Hope that helps!
I am about to start doing this in the UK. How are you getting on? Any tips? Which particular types of businesses are easier to engage with? Im looking to target people on GMB who don't have a website by calling them and having a template ready so I can just add their logo and show them on a live call what it would look like and just take it from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Very informative I appreciate the gems! 💪🏾
The best explanation I've seen on the subject.
Very helpful, thank you!
Great Video Good Information Very Concise and to the point. It makes cents that turns into good dollar$$$. Thanks for the advise. Can not wait to streamline this train.
Thanks, we Will try it soon
Thanks for a good video and lots of good tips
Great content! Thanks....very informative.
Tim, do you want more clients? Do you offer phone calls or Zoom meets to assist the older fellows? Do you offer consults for pay?
Great idea Tim!
Thanks for you!! Video very Useful!
Great video and an easy-to-understand tutorial! I look forward to watching more. I want to use Google more effectively, I just want to share my experience so far. It's easy when you just fit into Google. I have offered two different category services, mentoring and hiking, that overlap but have different customers, so I initially send customers to direct landing pages rather than my site. My customers are either teens who don't leave reviews or several people with disabilities whom I have worked with for over a year or two. It's too personal to leave reviews, which I respect; I wouldn't want to either. I am already busy and I just want to raise my profile.
His second tip be very careful if your company's branding, stationary and website are not using that keyword you cannot use it in the listing it will get your listing suspended if your service is called Big Mike's Gardening and Landscaping on the website and if you have a registered LLC you can use those keywords, if it's called Big Mike's in your logo website and actual company name and if you use those keywords that will get your listing suspended other than that spot on advice this is exactly what you should do
thanks for this!
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Will give it a try . Thanks
Props to having so many locations!!!!
Nice video, but I wish you would have given more nuggets. This was not 7 tricks to rank. It was the 7 basics to help out.
Hi Tim, can I ask you to explain the last point on Backlinks, how it works etc. Great video btw
Hi Tim, Im a freelancer from asian country and my client is from U.S. barber shop ..can I use upload images using location tag using my computer here in asia? How will it affect my clients ranking? thanks for great content..
I'm unclear about the strategy mentioned in step three regarding using a co-working space for your business address. As an example, let's say I'm a dentist with a practice in a suburban area, and I aim to appear in Google Maps results for city residents. This way, I can broaden my patient base beyond the suburb. I'd appreciate clarification on how this strategy works.
I'm interested in learning how you structure your website to target different geographical areas. Do you have geo specific pages or sites?
I have one site with separate pages for each location we service.
Similar question to some others - I have a Service Business tht is mostly Busines to Business - we do really well on Google maps for the city our office is located in.
I've heard various methods to get a second or third city listed in other neighboring cites, and was wondering what you might suggest. Also if we actually opened a second office in a different city can we set up a second business profile or ad the city to the existing profile?
I thought I saw in one of your videos you recommended a chrome extension to help with google my business? Could you tell me what that was or did i mishear that lol.
Yes. GMB Everywhere is the plugin I think you are referencing.
Buddy taxi companies sometimes have no locations then what to do
It's a pleasure to watch.
Where do i download gmb everwhere
This is a REALLY fantastic video and I've used all your tips to optimize my business's page. One question though: Any tips for someone like me whose business is located in a place where I don't actually operate my business? What I mean is I'm an international tour operator based in Rockford, IL, but my tours are actually run all around the world (Cuba, Antarctica, Asia, Europe and others). Any thoughts on this? Thanks again!
I had same issue but thomethic helped me it can be so frustrated but thomethics will fix it for you he is a verified Meta agent
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Great video, can you do a step-by-step tutorial on how to do these thing?
Nice😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi Tim! I have a question. I’m currently managing the Google My Business profile for a restaurant located within a hotel. How can I ensure that the restaurant's profile clearly indicates that it is ''located in the hotel'' and mentions the resort's website? I saw couple of GMB of other restaurant and it there is a option ''Located in'' but I couldn't find that option on mine
Art the tip still the same since things moved to what’s called google business profile?
How are you able to give your business exposure as just in a website and for the whole country to be able to see you. I am asking in regards to the remote business aspect?
By the way great content for a starter I am subscriber number 265 for you but with this great start up content you will reach 100k in no time.
Thanks for subscribing! We write separate and in depth pages for each service we offer and location, which brings in lots of targeted and niche traffic. Multiple GMB locations is harder. They can all be classified as “service areas” but each one has to be verified with a business office or location that is “staffed during business hours” according to Google.
I’m a trades person and it say I shouldn’t have an address because I travel to customers houses or work. Is this right?
how do i embed my business map on my site? thanks
2:00 'Optimize for your business name.' My wife's business name and URL are slightly different. Does it make a difference? The URL is more descriptive by one word.
Google says to use your businesses “real name” as it is shown on your business signage and branding. I’m not 100% sure if a URL qualifies but if you want to be safe I would just stick with whatever is on your wife’s logo and branding.
thank you very much for the info
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If your company is who I think it is, I absolutely love (and hate for personal competitive reasons) your site. Been evolving from messy snowflakes in the background to a real solid site that probably is going to be number one eventually. I'm curious what your thoughts on service area vs office location are with someone of your experience.
If you are a service business and don’t service people at your location I would go with service area. Just be aware that even if you put a large service area, google is still going to mainly just show you to searchers who are closest in proximity to the address you use for verification.
How do I choose my business address if I’m doing it virtual
Description was the odd one out 😊
Thanks great video
What page do you link your GMB to? I have a local service company. My home page targets a specific keyword, I feel it may be better to create a city page to link my gmb to. My address is in a suburb, so do I link the GMB to the suburb city page, or the actual big city page that is 15 miles away? Does a GMB landing page need to briefly cover all the info covered in the GMB listing, like the categories, services, locations?
why does the place i work at the gmb category doesnt pop up but it shows the category on google maps?
Good video. Although, adding keywords to your business description doesn't help you to rank. There have been several studies that prove this
Thank you sir 🙏
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Hello sir
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I follow your steps in this video, and now i must verifed by the google video! You must say what may happen !
Hi there I had same issue but thomethics help me
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@@a1newlife hiiiii tnk you for answer, can you tell me please what or who is thomethics?
Duplicate business creation from same geographical location blocked original business from showing on keyword search.
Now two days before duplicate business removed. Now original business appear if map is enlarged enlarged again and again.But business name not appearing and map doesnot bring instantly business.How long will it take for the original business to appear on keyword search after removal of duplicate business??
Thank you!
sir geo tag doesnt work anymore and the things with matter in Google Business Profile is optimised business name , centalised address and attributes and reviews and daily activity for both buisiness owner and customers end i.e posting photos
I always believe that assisting Google in understanding where you operate can only help you.
Thanks
Do you have to have your house pinned on google maps? I don’t want to let thieves know i have lawn equipment hiding on my property? I don’t have a business location elsewhere. Does it hurt you to not have it pinned?
i cant seem to understand point 7. can someone explain that in a dumbed down way with examples thanks.
How can I contact you for advice? Or paid membership possibly? Ty
Thanks for asking. Im not doing any one-on-one coaching or memberships at this time but I will be putting everything I know on TH-cam. Let me know if there’s a specific topic you would like to see a video on.
Mr Tim Richard please make A playlist for Local Seo ❤🎉
Still learning all the ins and outs of TH-cam. I’ll look into it 👍. I do have another Local SEO video coming soon that covers GMB and best practices for your website layout/content.
How do you do step #3
nice video but I run my DBA moving service out of my apartment because all of my work is in the streets
I wonder if an AI generated image would work with the geo hack - as theoretically google would instantly know its AI and thus not relevant to any location in the world....thoughts ?
Having trouble editing my profile information because Google don’t accept edit please is there any solution on that ?
Still having this issue? If yes , take ke note of the handle I'll post below this , they're on Instagram.
*WHITEWATERTECH* They got mine resolved .❤
If I have an “uncle” in the USA could I use his house as a virtual office per say haha 😅
Thank you Tim! Very well explained
i think your mic should be bigger
Do you create the website yourself or who do you recomend getting a website from?
I have always built my sites myself on Wordpress. Lots of learning from mistakes. If I ever need help or advice I generally look for a small local company or individual in my town who does web development. Haven’t had the best experiences with large companies and places like Upwork have been hit or miss for me. Hope that helps.
Sure does! I’ve worked in sales for over 6 years with a company named Housecall Pro and know field service business’s and there needs. So I know some what of the problematics that it comes with. I will venture into this and let you know how it goes. Thanks! Your videos are great.
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Used Wordpress it worked great!
The business description on GBP has zero impact on rankings / seo. Geo tagged photos have zero impact on rankings. This has been proven time and again.
Good, but very basic information. I do much more with my client's profiles and they have seen great results.
Do you have any tips you can give?
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Great tips thank you so much . How do I even get my business to show up in a google search though? what is the step before this? not sure what to ask because I don't know what I need to do to show up in a google search - right now when I google my business name I don't show up at all? I don't know what SEO means - where do I get info to start before this video please ? really basic, easy to follow, step-by-step directions? don't leave any step out kind of video. thank you !
I will plan to make an SEO "search engine optimization" for beginners video. Your website likely won't rank when first staring out so this Google Business listing is what will show up in google in the beginning.
I follow these 7 tricks but my GMB RANKING is not increasing !!
Geo targeting doesn't work anymore
thanks for showing not how to do it!
gold
Idid nt found this video Handy
I'm clueless to what you're talking about
Can i have your service
Putting the business service in the business name will
Get you suspended , than you are screwed . It’s called spamming
Geo tagging has been completely disproven as a Local SEO factor. Waste of time.
Appreciate the input. I just believe that anything that assists google in understanding where you operate can only help.
I believe the geotagging works as in where the review was posted from. If it’s posted in city name a,b,c and d by the customer using a pressure washing business, it helps
@@sikkinixxmc if you believe that, you are running your tests wrong.
@@pbryan1967 I have nothing to back it up because I may be ranking in those areas anyway. Just thought google may use it because it’s harder to fake
This information isn't anything new. Lol