Christo: Hey there! In today‘s tip, I want to share with you another way to make sure that your business is listed in Google and hopefully will be found by more prospective customers.

So we all know you need to have a website and a website can be searched and found within Google. A common thing that a lot of people overlook is listing their business in Google Maps. So what you want to do is make sure that if people search within Google Maps for an area, then it will pop-up with a little icon with the businesses in that area and most businesses won‘t have listed themselves. It‘s totally free to do and it only takes a few minutes. Also, within the map searches, you can add extra data or you can add information about your business, your opening hours, your contact data like phone and website and so on, even images of the business.

So one way to do this is simply do a Google search within maps of the location where your business is. As the map pops up, down on the bottom right is a little bit of text that says “send feedback”. You have to click on “send feedback” and it will pop up with a few options and themes that you can do. One of them being add a place or a location or a business or something like that. You click on that and you can drag the little icon to the location where your business sits and make sure you add it in so you‘re going to be added in Google Maps.

Also, to take it a little bit further, then if you type into Google – Google My Business, what will pop up is you can add more listings through Google My Business. It will probably want to verify that you are at that address so it will send you a postcard with a special code on it. But what that will allow you to do is add opening hours, contact information and all these images and things of the actual business. So if people are in your area, often times, they might not even know your business is right next door or it‘s two doors down. So you want to make sure you get yourself into Google Maps, especially when people are looking for you and they are actually coming to your location, they are likely going to search in Google maps as well. So it makes it a lot easier for them as well.

So this should help you be found by more people in Google searches. So make sure you are listed or if you‘ve moved locations of your business, you probably need to go back and update this. Otherwise, people might still be looking for you at your old address.

So good little tip there to make sure you‘re found by more prospective customers.

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