Google Business Profile Mistakes Are Easy To Make
5 Google Business Mistakes You Must Stop Now. Avoid these quality issues and you will rank for a much longer time than your competitors. Optimization mistakes in Google Business Profile and maps are common. For local SEO beginners take note of my tips. if you want to avoid quality issues then watch this video right now, you won’t regret it.
This video will use my very latest tricks on how to avoid a suspended account. This is one of the reasons why your business isn’t getting ranked on the maps and search engines, correct these 5 mistakes and you will see a major turnaround.
Timestamps for Google My Business Profile mistakes Video Above
- 0:00 Google mistakes affect business
- 0:50 mistake 1
- 3:05 mistake 2
- 5:44 mistake 3
- 6:04 3 false 1 true game
- 10:47 mistake 4
- 13:35 mistake 5
Who Is This Video For?
Are you wondering why your business isn’t getting found in the search engines Yet you registered your business on Google months ago, It feels like everything you have tried has made no difference? To make things worse you believe it is easy to get your business found. Though if it doesnt happen soon you will struggle to survive.
Well, you are not alone, this is exactly what most business owners experience. Yet today this video above is going to change that FOR YOU. In this video, I’m going to reveal to you all of the incredibly common mistakes business owners make after registering their business on Google So that you can spot them and stop making them in your own business and this will give you a chance to get back on track.
Mistake #1 Business Name
When you registered your business, Google asked for the name of your business as seen in the “real world” Now you can fall into 3 camps here 2 which will put you on borrowed time and eventually suspend your account.
So which of these 3 are you?
- A – My Business name is the name of my business in the real world, on my headed paper on my website, in fact everywhere
- B – My Business name includes some keywords as well after the business name as I heard it will help me rank higher
- C – My Business is set up by an SEO guru and has loads of keywrds as they said it will bring in loads of traffic Well which one will likely succeed?
A B or C
Notice Google’s clear guidelines
So mistake #1 stop thinking about what the Google algorithm wants and think about what real humans are looking for
Mistake #2 Business Address
This is the biggest mistake and everyone is losing out on business, genuine businesses are being suspended for months for this. What’s more, is it’s quite complex and involves a multitude of small mistakes, most have been caused by non-other than Google Because of its complexity – I dedicated a whole video to it here >>> Why You Should Hide Your Address on Google Maps
Simply put … you need to have a real-world business address (though you don’t have to show it). You can’t use PO boxes or mailboxes located at remote locations. You need to understand the difference between shop and service. Then also understand service has 2 parts service area and a hybrid service-area .
Shopfront versus service-area businesses. No wonder this guy was confused, he runs auto repair shops that have a garage for repairs and offers roadside service. Is he a shop is he a service? In his case he should register as a hybrid service-area business. These businesses can show their shopfront address and designate a service area on their Business Profile.
Now while mistakes # 1 and 2 are common for those that register their business from the start. However mistakes #3 through to #5 are most likely done as you want to grow your business
Mistake #3 Google Business Photos
Let’s play a quick game to see how well you understand Google’s way of rewarding photos
3 of these statements are false and 1 is true. Put in the comments below which of these 4 statements is True.
- A) Geotagging Photos is still important (you said it was)
- B) Google photos need text on the image to help Google understand what it is
- C) Adding your logo is a good idea as it increases brand awareness
- D) Genuine unique photos are often not approved for no reason
Your Google My Business Profile Photos can make or break your traffic to the video. Get it right and you get constant traffic not only from Google maps and search but all over the web. Google totally gets photos. But did you know even SEO advice given a few years ago, is now bad for your SEO. Google is forever changing
So did you add your comment below? A, B C D?
The Answers
A) Geotagging Photos is still important (you said it was). False studies have shown Google no longer uses the geotagging of the photo because it was so misused
B) Google photos need text on the image to help Google understand what it is False Google has an incredible built-in AI that interprets the image. You can drag and drop the photos onto the page and see them. https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/drag-and-drop
C) Adding your logo is a good idea as it increases brand awareness. This is false again. This used to be true, but the spam filters are a lot stricter now. Google may see every logo as double content. I explain this in this video on Google Business Profile Spam NOW Even Stricter. So if you put D in the comments then you are absolutely right
D) Genuine unique photos are often not approved for no reason – this is true because of that strict spam filter look at these poor innocent businesses, not able to use their photos
Mistake #4 keep it regularly updated
James Clear is going to help us on our next mistake and it’s one of the easiest things to fix so far the video has given you a few other videos to watch, so make sure you subscribe to avoid missing a future gem
So who is James Clear? James Clear wrote a book called atomic habits He states in the book Atomic Habits …Habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.
I think most would agree with that statement, but how does it help our Google business profile mistakes? It’s one of the easiest things to fix. It’s like having your own Tamagotchi keep feeding the business details into the Google database!
But what about Taking James Clear’s advice how can we make this into a habit?
- Firstly with a few browser tweaks, every time I open my browser – it’s there!
- Secondly, without closing it, I just feed it like a Tamagotchi.
Finally, this gives signals to Google that my business is reactive and very much alive! See how easy that fix is? But the next mistake is a trap that I know many fall into.
Mistake #5 Google Business Reviews
Every other email I get is from a business owner thinking the Google Algorithm is simpy a case of 5 stars to the top and 1 star to the bottom
Moreover, they then get a bad review and think that’s why they aren’t top Stop believing Google algorithm is simply based on reviews. Above all, I estimate around 2% of the algorithm for local searches is influenced by GMB review stars
Do you think your business reviews are really a high percentage of the Google algorithm? You are wrong. After all, you still have around 65% of the LOCAL SEO algorithm that isn’t directly related to your Google Business profile. That’s why I made a really simple video that breaks apart all sections
Now View 5 Google My Business Profile Mistakes To Avoid In 2021 (VIDEO)
Google My Business Profile mistakes & Common Errors – Watch my 5 YOU need to KNOW & STOP. For Your Business To Flourish in Google Maps
Timestamps For Video Above
Therefore the video above can be broken into the following 5 mistakes.
- 0:00 Introduction to the GMB mistakes video
- 1. 1:33 Spammy titles
- 2. 4:45 Not keeping hours and holidays updated
- 3. 7:15 Not answering the questions raised by customers
- 4. 10:04 Not completing the listing
- 5. 14:11 Change too many things( getting banned)
Conclusion on Google My Business Profile Mistakes
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In conclusion, the Video above is one of my most important videos. It reveals exactly what Google is rewarding. So make sure you watch that next to really give your business a massive ranking boost.