Not on Google Maps yet
Start with how to get your business on Google. It covers claiming, creating and verifying your profile.
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Local SEO guides for contractors
Practical local SEO tips for contractors and home service businesses who'd rather handle the basics themselves. Each guide answers one question we hear from owners all the time, with the exact steps, the mistakes to skip, and nothing you have to pay for.
Google Business ProfileHow to Get Your Business on Google (and Google Maps)
Claim or create your free Business Profile, pick the right category, verify it and finish every section so customers can find you on Search and Maps.
ReviewsHow to Get More Google Reviews: A Guide for Contractors
Find your review link, make a QR code, ask at the right moment with templates you can copy, and reply to every review, good or bad.
Where to start
Which guide should you read first?
Each guide works on its own, but they're written to be read in this order: a complete profile is what makes new reviews count.
Profile set up, never finished
Same guide, from Step 7: the setup checklist for hours, services, photos and categories.
Finish your profileComplete profile, few reviews
Read how to get more Google reviews: your review link, a QR code and what to say.
Get more Google reviewsReviews come in, nobody replies
Same guide, Step 7: how to respond to reviews, including the bad ones.
Reply to reviewsHow we write these guides
Before writing each one, we check what Google shows today for the question: the top results, Google's own AI summary and the questions people also ask. Then we write the steps the way we'd explain them to a client, in plain English, with the details that usually get skipped. When Google changes something, we update the guide and its date.
Rather have us do it for you?
Doing it yourself works, and these guides are meant to make that possible. If you'd rather have someone handle it, we'll start with a free audit of your profile and website, in English or Spanish.