Google Business Profile
A Google profile playbook for Tega Cay owners
Google's map is often the first thing a searcher sees. Here is how we coach you through your own listing, one step at a time.
When someone on the peninsula looks up a pressure washer or a pediatric dentist, Google often answers with its map before it shows a single website link. The handful of businesses pinned there collect most of the calls.
That map is built from Google Business Profile listings. Google weighs your chosen category, how fully the listing is filled in, the reviews it carries and how near you are to the person searching. You can't change the last one. Everything else is in your hands, and fixing it usually costs nothing but an evening.
How the playbook works
- We study the listing from the outside, exactly as a customer sees it.
- You get a written, ordered checklist covering eight parts of the profile.
- Roger walks through it with you by phone or shared screen while you make the changes. You remain the only manager.
Eight checkpoints
Primary category
Google leans on this one field more than any other. The closest match to your real work beats the broadest one.
Secondary categories
Only ones that describe jobs you take on today.
Business details
Name, phone and address should read identically on the listing, the website and every directory that shows you.
Where you work
Towns you truly serve, like Tega Cay, Fort Mill and Lake Wylie. Padding the map with far-off places doesn't help.
Services
Described the way a homeowner would describe them, each linked to the matching page on your site.
Photos
Fresh pictures of real jobs, your team and your sign show you're active. We suggest what to shoot and how often.
Reviews
A short link, a habit for asking after good jobs, and a calm way to answer every review, rough ones included.
The website button
Sent to the page that best fits your main category, which isn't always the home page.
After the checklist
Most owners wrap it up in one or two sittings. Businesses on monthly SEO get fresh tasks as their search results shift, and every site we build is planned so its pages match what the listing promises.
Listing questions
Will you log in and change my listing?
No. We never ask for or accept manager access to a client's Google listing. You make each change yourself, with Roger on the phone or a shared screen explaining what to click and why.
When will I see a difference?
Correcting a category or an outdated number can show up within weeks. Review and photo work pays off gradually, over months.
My crew works at customers' homes. Is a listing still worth it?
Yes. Google lets businesses that travel to customers keep the home address hidden and show a service area instead.
Want a second look at your listing?
Send your business name. Roger will study the public profile and suggest the three changes he'd make first.