Google Business Profile setup for local businesses
The Maps listing in your Google account — categories, photos, reviews and posts that match the door.
Free 30-minute consultation. Written scope within two to three working days.
Google Business Profile is still what most people mean by GMB. For a plumber, a GP or a kitchen fitter it is often worth more than the website, because “near me” searches open Maps first. If the hours are wrong, the category is “contractor”, or the listing sits in an agency login you cannot access, you are paying for ads to send people to a competitor.
We set the profile up in your Google account: verification, categories, services, photos, Q&A and a review process that is actually you asking customers — not fake stars in our HTML. If we manage it on a retainer, posts and photo updates are in the monthly scope. If you leave, you keep the listing.
This pairs with a website and local SEO. A perfect Maps listing that 404s through to a five-year-old Wix page still loses the click. See /industries for doctor, plumber, renovation and trades bundles.
What this includes
- Verification and reclaim if a previous owner still holds the listing
- Primary and secondary categories that match the trade
- Services, products, hours, coverage area and booking/call links
- Photo and review workflow — no AggregateRating spam on your website
- Manager access on your Google account, never a transfer of ownership
Where we work
Google Business Profile management is delivered from 36 Kirby Street, Stoke-on-Trent, and we work across Staffordshire, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Cheshire and remotely throughout the UK. Local clients get site visits; everyone else gets weekly demos on a staging URL.
The industry pages set out how this service fits the rest of the bundle:
Questions
Is this Google My Business?
Yes. Google renamed it Google Business Profile. Same listing, same Maps pack, same reviews.
Do you guarantee a map-pack position?
No. We guarantee a correctly set up listing you own, consistent NAP, and reporting. Anyone guaranteeing pack one is selling you a story.
Can you take over a listing another agency created?
Usually. We start by getting you owner access. If the old agency will not release it, Google’s business support path is slow but it is the only honest route.
Ready to scope it?
Prices for every service are published on the pricing page, and the process page shows exactly what happens between the first call and launch.