What is Google My Business and How it works? I know you may have questions raising on you that, I know google but what is this? Is this existing? All these kinds of questions. Google My Business is nothing but a tool that enables one’s business to manage and optimize their business profile on Google. Many people use to search business profiles on google and they receive many business profiles according to their locations and search results. Those results are nothing but the profiles which are created in Google My Business by the owners that are by providing their business name, business category, and location of their business. After their submission, google will verify their submission to confirm that the information given is true. And if it’s found true, the business profile will appear on google and it will be then open to consumers to leave their reviews of the particular business, they can add photos, raise questions and they can also answer the questions asked.
Usually, google won’t allow managing the information it displays, or the reviews. But having a Google My Business account, you can access, customize, manage and enrich your business profile, and it’s available free. This is how it works. It helps to boost one’s business profile’s visibility and effectiveness. There are four ways by which you can use it on Google My Business to list top on the local search. They are Engaging with consumers, highlighting your business, Gaining insights, Perform local SEO. Engage with customers is that you can interact with your consumers using Google My Business as you can respond to their questions and reply to their reviews. It also works like other social platforms as it allows to post in the business profile. The second thing is highlighting your insight as this tool helps to provide more detailed information about the business-like providing link to the website, products, pricing, and other details.
Google My Business can also be used to gain insights and in search performance. It provides the entire information regarding the consumer that is how they find your business profile, whether they found it on google search or map, and how the photos of your profile are performing while compared to other business profiles of your category. To rank business profiles, Google has algorithms like ranking ads and websites in google. So, to rank your profile, you have to use proper keywords so that your profile will rank in local search results. These are the ways which help in local marketing tools. Google works as the filter as it filters the profiles according to tot the search in the particular category. And the keyword is the most important to make your business profile rank top in the google search and it is also the way of telling Google that the profile is trying to rank top.
And three sectors were preferred by google for local search ranking. They are Relevance, distance, and prominence. Relevance is nothing but search match. Then the distance is the location of the searcher. Prominence is the popularity of business based on the reviews, review score and SEO. It is always better and preferred to keep your profile updated. You can even post the offers that are provided by your company, and the detailed prices of the products. And you can also add attributes and special features of your business and it is good if you add the contact information, and special hours. Updating the information is the most important one as it helps in ranking the profile. Most people nowadays started technically doing business. And they keep updating and checking them to make it successful. This is how Google My Business works. If you’re are an entrepreneur not having Google My Business, then go and create it fast and rank top in the search.