Welcome back.
We were in the course now when my information is ready, business is ready, address is ready, it is
time to add this to Google.
So what we can do.
The simple thing is that you open your map, go to the go to the location where you want to aid that
location to Google map or that business.
In my case, I know where my business is located.
So actually, this is the area.
I know it.
And I had to you can click this.
You are location icon.
So Google will show you the icon, the blue dot you can see here.
And then I'm going to simply zoom in to find the exact location.
Where is the business basically?
And I can see this is the location where I want to aid the business, because this is the exact building,
the exact office location here.
So what I will do here at the exact place, I will right.
Click you have to right.
Click from your laptop and then there are different options.
OK, what you can do is find a missing place or ID your business are missing places like someplace.
You know, that is not a business.
But there is some place when you can ID that like people can go to that place.
Maybe that is a picnic point or something else.
But here we need to click.
This is your business.
So this is one way to aid your business.
I will click that.
And this pop up will open now.
First thing is the business name we have to it is business name here.
So I will just copy this business name from here.
And edit pasted here.
OK, so this is this is the name, right?
And I would click next.
OK, so in the next step, we will is asking me what is the category of this business which is very
important here, OK?
So you need to choose the exact category.
I will say a real estate agency.
OK, this is a real estate agency right now.
Next, do you want to add a location customers can visit like a store or office?
Yes.
So it will show up in Google right now, next.
Now they're saying, like, OK, the location is Pakistan.
We need the street address, the city and postal code, which I have already.
So I will discuss.
Copy this address.
And I will add it here in the street address.
And I will simply add Karachi and postal code is already there so I can add one more line and display
this address into two lines that will be better.
OK, so this is the address I have at the city, the country is already picked.
And now I will click next.
And in the next step, Google is asking me, do you also serve customers out of this location?
I will say no, because this is a one in one location business.
Sometimes you have like different branches in different locations for the same business.
Then you can say yes, then you can add some other information to or other locations.
I will talk about that later on.
OK, for now, just focus on one location.
So, no, I don't.
Next.
Noticing that if you have a number, yes, we do have that number here.
And I believe that contact number.
So it is here now next.
OK, it is saying our website, it website, which is optional, as I already told you, you don't need
a website to aid your business to Google, but if you have, that is good.
So right now, we don't have.
So I will just say I don't have a website.
Right.
So everything is done now, it is finished, so let's get finish.
OK, now Google is saying.
Like choose a way to verify in order to fully manage and represent this business on Google, you will
need to confirm that it's yours.
So Google wants you to verify this location.
If this is your business or not.
So you can see the address is there.
The address should be correct.
And now you need a name.
OK, so here you need.
A name.
For the person to receive that court, Google will send a court basically to verify this location and
that court will be sent to this address and to this person.
By OK, so I was like, man.
And now it is saying a postcard is coming, you will get a postcard with your verification code and
next steps in about 14 days.
So to this guy, to this agency and to this address, I click continue so automatically Google Google
has taken me to Google my business page, OK?
And by default, if you want to aid your business directly to Google my business, then you simply write
Google my business.
Click this option and it will take you to Google my business page, which is, you know, showing you
all the information.
Engage with customers on Google for free.
Yes, this service is free, by the way, and they know everything, all the information you need.
And we just need to click here to manage.
Now, we can add our business from this page as well, but also when we are adding this year.
So it is saying the same thing.
Now, I can click here Menaged now and Google my business page as well, so it will give me the same
result.
You can see Rezwan rheostat, Apsara apartment, the same address, the same same thing you can see.
Now, this is a whole dashboard and a whole account for managing your local business, whether you have
one business to business or maybe 10 businesses, all you can manage within this dashboard.
I mean, this dashboard, if you see the most important thing is this complete your listing.
This is not 50 percent complete.
So we had to complete it 100 percent.
How we can do that will simply it hours.
You can see this is written hours, a description, a logo of the company.
These things we can do.
So it will be a hundred percent complete.
Just eight hours.
Eight hours.
And here.
Our businesses open on different days.
Except Friday on Friday disclosed and many businesses are closed on Sundays and Saturdays, so you can
keep their closed in the other open.
Now here what time it opens.
In my case, our business will open at 11 a.m. and closes at 8:00 p.m. So this is all timing.
Your timing might be different for different days.
So I'm eating one by one.
So, guys, I have added all the timings for all the days, but remember, if your business is 24 hours,
you can also make it 24 hours.
So after that, you will not need to hit the closing time.
OK, after you edit all the days and the timing, just click apply.
Operating the hours now you can see it is sixty five percent complete, so let's add the description
in the logo to make it 100 percent complete.
And after that, we can do the other things in this account.
So let's add the description.
The description is a very few words about your business and the operations of your business and what
services you are providing.
OK, guys, I have edited the description.
And now.
Let me see.
OK, it is 80 percent complete.
Now let me add a logo.
Well.
OK, guys, I'm eating a logo.
This is not the actual logo.
This is just a placeholder for the purpose of this video.
I made this one.
Now, here, I must tell you that you can read a cover photo, which you should aim to show your actual
business, your undercover and a video, a shot with you can eat in some other photos of the interior
of your business.
So I relate that to photos, but you should add more.
So this is very good for for Google listings, you know, and for local SEO.
This will make it much better.
OK, now I will click Google my business again and see how much person it is completed.
I think it is completed now.
One hundred percent.
OK, so this is your place for managing everything.
You can get your custom email from Google for your business.
That is, I think, a paid service.
And the rest of the thing.
You can get a manager to manage this business.
You can just aid a person.
Like if you are managing this business for someone or if you want someone to manage your business,
then send an invitation to them by adding their email, simply their email, and they will receive an
invitation and then they will be able to manage your account.
OK, you need to set a role for them and you can also get an Internet application to manage this business.
They have some information about covid-19 as well.
And our listing is pending verification because they have sent the mail and it will arrive in a few
days.
And then after that, this listing, this business will show up in Google, a local resource who came
in here.
The important thing is let customers message you like what I told you before, that you should receive
messages and reviews from customers and you should engage with them.
So this is a very good sign for ranking your business in Google turnaround messaging.
I will just on and on, but right now it is not verified, so I cannot do it because my business is
not verified.
But once your business is verified, then we can turn on the message option.
OK, and you know, surprisingly, Google is also giving you forty five US dollars free advertising
credit to advertise this business, this new business, which is a great thing.
Now, let's look at the flip side of this.
You know, the sidebar, this menu.
See, the first is our business named in our address, then the home and then the post.
When I click the post, we can post actually in real time to our business like we need some products
to that business.
If you have a product, like maybe we have a restaurant in our coffee is very, very famous so we can
eat that coffee here, or maybe we are selling something different.
We can eat our main product here or many products.
Okay.
And other than products we can add and offer, like sometimes we might run a special offer for the customers.
So we can add that here.
And Google will surprisingly show that on the page to the customers when someone searches for that location
or the business.
And if you have an update, like sometimes our service may be like interrupted or maybe like not available
or maybe like a holiday or something like that.
So we can do that by clicking this update and can edit our post button and also a portal about that,
about that, about adapted.
And also we can add an event and then a product so we can again and again add more and more Polish and
more and more products.
That's a great thing and a great feature by Google.
Now, the next thing is the info in the info tab.
We have like all the information that we already have added, the name of the the the business, the
the category, the address service area.
Like we can add some more options service areas like for example, which, which is the service area
for this one we have the service area is Karachi.
Like sometimes you have multiple locations like multiple cities or multiple countries, so you can ID
that too.
But we had just one place.
Okay, so once the listing is verified, then it will show up at special hours.
Maybe we have like special hours on Saturday or Sunday so we can add that here.
But right now we don't have that for this business.
A website, when we add a website here, then it will show up in Google results.
Like, for example, if I.
Search for Busia makes.
Which is bizarre shop.
You can see the website when there is the result for local, so you can see the website in the direction,
so when you click the website, it will take you directly to the website of that business.
This is when you add your website here.
And displays that will show up in Google and I will be later on telling you how you can optimize your
website for local SEO so you can add your website here and the products will be listed here.
We have not added any product.
Services will be here and attributes some attributes like, you know, when I show you that this example
for Black Blasberg.
When I showed you that the shops in Blacksburg and you saw nine in and take away and stuff like that,
you will see that in the attributes, health and safety in other.
You know, you should I think you should it this all things here, it's important opening up your business.
And once you get all this information, I will add this, too, to this business as well.
And you should add this, too, because it will make it much better and it is useful for research.
And then you can see the inside.
This is the option for seeing how many customers are visiting your business, who is clicking where,
how they're engaging with your business and stuff like that.
This is a kind of Google analytics of local associates.
Then we have the reviews option in the reviews option.
You will see all the reviews customers are leaving here and you get directly reply to them and like
them.
And I would recommend you should do that.
Engage with your customers through reviews, not the messaging options will show you when customers
are sending you a message.
You will see that here in and really, guys, customers can send you messages through Google.
Then you can ID like Porto's, which I already have added some, but you can add more products and services.
The website.
I will click the website here Google say if you don't have a website we can create one for you, but
you can just create this website for free or you can create a new one.
It's some other place, you know, this Google has created the simple website with the code called Now
Get Direxion in the name of the business and stuff like that, you know, so you can take some photos
here.
And I mean, this is a good thing.
Let's publish this website.
OK, so this you can edit this website with different themes and different.
Information, but right now you can see this is a simple website.
And Google will show it.
So Google has, by default, optimized it without any special effort from us.
You can see Google has displayed the map, the map and also the contact information to address the opening
hours.
In this information, we should distribute it all the places on the Internet.
Okay, so then it will be good.
So this is good.
You can create this free website.
There is no problem.
But if you can create a website separately on what race or any other platform, that is more better
than this one, because this is a free website, there is no you can see there is there is no domain.
There is no specific domain for your business.
This is a free website site.
That's it, guys.
These are all the options here are in the local business dashboard on Google.
And the website is also created once now.
We received this quote.
This result will.
Be displayed on Google, and I will now show you and tell you about how to edit your citations or your
local business to different directories other than Google and also will talk about how to optimize the
website.