Claim your Google Business Profile
Appear in Google Maps and local search when someone nearby looks for what you do.
About 60 min · easy · free
Why this matters
For most local service businesses this single free listing produces more enquiries than the website does in the first year.
Doing it
Step by step
No steps yet
Steps appear here once published.
Official help
- Open official page
Official process for claiming and verifying a listing.
- Open official page
Official product page and sign-up.
Get your AI to help
Hand this to your AI
Claim and complete a local business listing
Help me claim, verify and complete my Google Business Profile so nearby customers find and call me.
How should it behave?
It stops and asks you before going further: Stop before requesting ownership of an existing listing and explain what that process will trigger.
Link the official help page for claiming and verification.
You're done when
The profile is verified and published, the category, service area, hours and phone number are correct, and at least three photos are uploaded.
- Not yet
The profile is verified and public
Enter your public profile address.
- Not yet
Category, hours, phone and service area are correct
Wrong details here cost you calls.
Check it worked: Search your business name in an incognito window and confirm the profile appears with the right phone number and service area. Call the listed number from another phone.
Almost there
Still to confirm: The profile is verified and public, Category, hours, phone and service area are correct.
If it goes wrong
Verification by postcard can take up to two weeks; video verification is faster where offered. A duplicate listing usually means someone created one for the address before you, request ownership rather than making a second profile.