Dotty Scott walks through five ways to rank higher in Google Maps: complete your entire profile, collect reviews, use a physical address if competitors do, set up services or appointments, and post weekly. Your profile is free to manage yourself.
right here is Google Business Profile, and this should show up for every single one of you if you search your business name with the word reviews. If it does not, you have a problem. Problem number one is you probably don't have your Google Business Profile thoroughly filled out. You may not even have one. If that's true, you want to go out and get them. They are free. And it's not hard. You don't have to pay anybody to do this for you. You can if you want, but you should just be able to do it yourself. Notice the reviews, super important. I have my address. I do this because when I actually started mine, they did not allow service areas. Now they do. However, service areas do not show up high in Maps when your competition has their address used. So again, look at your specific competition. If they're using an address, I encourage you to use yours. We do have this service options, online appointments, not on-site services not available. So this tells people right here Don't come to my address. I don't meet people here. The other thing that I do is I am using their blog posting, article posting, event posting service, and I post once a week here, and it just keeps everything fresh. The thing that I know about Google is that Google loves it when you use whatever they provide. So making sure that your profile is 100% filled out will help you to claim that number one position in MAPS.
