Google My Business[]
Google My Business is a free and easy-to-use tool for businesses and organizations to manage their online presence across Google, including Search and Maps. By verifying and editing your business information, you can both help customers find you and tell them the story of your business.
- Manage how your business information appears across Google, including Search and Maps, using Google My Business—for free.
- Interact with customers new and old and tell them the story of your business.
- Get started at google.com/business.
- Follow our guide to getting started.
Benefits of Using Google My Business[]
Manage your information:- Google My Business is a free and easy-to-use tool for businesses and organizations to manage their online presence across Google, including Search and Maps. By verifying and editing your business information, you can both help customers find you and tell them the story of your business.
- Manage how your business information appears across Google, including Search and Maps, using Google My Business—for free.
- Interact with customers new and old and tell them the story of your business.
- Get started at google.com/business.
- Follow our guide to getting started.
Interact with Customers:- Read and respond to reviews from your customers, and post photos that show off what you do. Businesses that add photos to their listings receive 42% more requests for driving directions on Google Maps and 35% more clicks through to their websites than businesses that don’t.
Understand & Expand your Presence:- See insights on how customers searched for your
business, and where those customers are coming from. You can also see information like how many people called your business directly from the phone number displayed on local search results in Search and Maps. And when you’re ready, seamlessly create and track the performance of AdWords Express campaigns to spread the word about your work.It’s easy to start and free to use.
Scandal[]
In January of 2020, a trojan horse called "Nexxzy" was floating around and spam emailing many youtubers as a sponsor, the email told them to download it for the sponsor. What it was advertising as was a screen recorder for your games, but in reality it steals your google account, which includes your YouTube account, and adds it to the attackers Google My Business account as a YouTube channel.
Fix[]
Google has since patched this exploit and no longer can be done.