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How To Increase Your Business's Google Maps Ranking

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To set up your AI receptionist, you input key company information into a knowledge base or central library from which the AI will draw its answers. With an AI receptionist, callers speak in their own words and get quick help. Your staff shouldn’t spend their day answering the same basic questions or booking appointments. Your phone shifts from being a daytime tool to a 24/7 business channel. An AI receptionist keeps your phone lines open after hours. Most businesses miss calls after 5 PM, on weekends, or when the AI phone assistant lines are bus


You can add up to 20 service areas, either by city or postal code. You also have the ability to add temporary hours or holiday hours keeps your profile up-to-date and accurate. The Business Hours fields should be setup to match your actual business hours. The Business Hours field helps Google users understand whether you’ll be there when they reach out via phone or visit your location.
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In step 4 you will now update all of the information about your business on the profile. If not, at least you can check off the list that your profile has all the necessary images it needs. It can also be used as an effective tool to highlight new or popular products, creating an Instagram-esque mood to bring your profile to a whole new level. Aside from that, adding photos of the outside of your building helps customers recognize it as they’re driving up. Geotagging is an extra step, but it can help with ranking your images in Google image search. By including location data in your images, you make it easier for Google to accurately identify the where and what of the imag


It will also make it easier to track ROI by location. Always use a local phone number instead of a central, toll-free or call center number. Ensure that details that should be consistent across all locations, such as brand name, are indeed consistent. To resolve this issue, make sure to search your brand and geographies on Google Maps. Ensure that every detail of your Google Business Profiles for each location is filled out completel


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You can also upload general images for your business, such as products and services, before and afters, awards, and other related images. Localized searches shows a page that prominently shows map with businesses in the area and a structured listing of 3 to 4 businesses. When you have multiple GBPs, you can use different relevant categories amongst the profiles to have each target different searches. For those businesses who are not service oriented, you can add Products to your Google Business Profile. GMB Gorilla recommends creating a Service for each of the services your business offers, both branded, and generic, in addition to ensuring the proper categories. Similar to Products and Services, Google is associating the items found in GBP Menus with user searches, resulting in more visibility for those profile


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Prior to uploading images to your Google Business Profile we also recommend geotagging the images. Business listings with more photos have better performance and engagement, there’s no argument about it. If no Logo avatar has been set, Google will select one of the images uploaded to your Google Business Profile. The ideal image size for the logo to be uploaded as the profile picture is a square sized 1000x1000px. GMB Gorilla recommends centering any image, logo, AI phone assistant or logomark since Google does use these images in various display format

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GMB Gorilla recommends using your exact business name only. The Business Name field holds a lot of influence over the rankings of a Google Business Profile, but not following guidelines can get your GBP suspended. If AI phone assistant not, at least you can check off the list that your profile has all the necessary images it need