A Google listing is free, and you make it directly with Google. No one can be paid to skip that step, so make it yourself.
- Go to google.com/business.
- Sign in with a Google account.
- Enter your business name.
- Enter your address, or your service area if you go to the customer.
- Enter your phone and your category.
Then Google checks that you're real. Often that's a postcard mailed to your address with a code. Sometimes it's a phone call or a video.
Once you're verified, your listing appears on Google Maps.
After that, put your website's address on the listing. The connection to your site follows from there — see "How do I connect my Google listing?" below.
Worth doing early. The postcard alone can take a week or two to arrive.
Why this matters
Without a listing, you don't show up on the map at all. Getting it started now means it's ready when customers are searching for you.
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