When somebody nearby searches for what you sell, the map results sit above every website on the page. That listing is what they judge you on, and most of them in Lebanon are wrong, half empty, or still unclaimed by the person who owns the business.
A site takes a day. So does a profile, and it is the thing standing between you and the person searching right now. Hours, photos, services, the booking link and the reviews all live there, and Google shows it to people within a few streets of you without anybody clicking through to anything. If you only ever fix one thing online, fix this one first.
Everything below, in the order it happens:
Left alone, a profile goes stale. Hours are wrong after a holiday, a competitor posts every week and you have not posted since you opened, reviews go unanswered, and Google shows a neglected listing less and less. Keeping it current is worth more than setting it up, which is why it is part of the monthly plan.
$250 one-off, set up within one day of you sending your details, or you do not pay. If you want the site, the profile and the content run as one thing instead of three, that is The Whole Online Presence, quoted per project from $1,200 with the monthly care quoted alongside.
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$250 as a one-off, set up within one day of getting your details or you do not pay. It is also included in The Whole Online Presence, which sets up the site and the profile together, quoted per project from $1,200.
Probably, and it is worth two minutes to check. Search your own business on your phone. If the hours are wrong, the photos are other people's, the categories are vague, there are no posts, or the reviews have no replies, then the listing is working against you rather than for you.
No. If customers do not come to you, Google's own guidelines say to hide it and set service areas instead. My own profile is set up exactly that way. You get the reach without publishing where you live.
You do. It is claimed and verified in your name and I am added as a manager, which is the right way round. If we stop working together you keep the profile, the reviews and the photos.
The listing is set up within one day. Google then runs its own verification check, a video, a call or a postcard, which can take a few extra days on their side. Movement in the map results is usually a few weeks, and it depends on how many businesses near you are competing for the same search. Reviews are the fastest lever after setup, which is why you get the link and the message to ask with.
Yes, and they should not be duplicates of each other. Each location gets its own categories, photos and description, because two identical listings compete with each other instead of covering two areas.