How do I claim my Google Business Profile?

Search your business name on Google Maps, hit 'Own this business?' (or start at google.com/business), sign in with the Google account you want owning it — a business account you control, not an employee's personal login — and verify by the method offered (postcard, phone, video, or email varies).

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Search your business name on Google Maps, hit 'Own this business?' (or start at google.com/business), sign in with the Google account you want owning it — a business account you control, not an employee's personal login — and verify by the method offered (postcard, phone, video, or email varies).

Then complete everything: exact categories, hours, service area, photos, services. Completeness is a ranking input, and half-filled profiles quietly lose to finished ones.

If someone else already claimed it (an old marketer, a previous owner), Google has a request-ownership flow that emails the current holder and escalates after a waiting period. Start it immediately — that profile holds your reviews.

This is the work. Want it done?

Everything here is free to use yourself — that’s the point. If you’d rather a senior marketer just handle it, in your accounts and your name: 20-minute call, no pitch deck.

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