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If you want your business to show up #1 on Google Maps in 2025, this video is made just for you.
I’ll walk you through how to set up your Google Business Profile step-by-step — even if you’ve never done it before.
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✨ Get real customers who search near your location
✨ Use simple tricks that actually work in 2025
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Whether you’re a small business owner, freelancer, or local shopkeeper, this video will help you reach more people and stand out on Google.
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If you want your business to show up #1 on Google Maps in 2025, this video is made just for you.
I’ll walk you through how to set up your Google Business Profile step-by-step — even if you’ve never done it before.
You’ll learn how to:
✨ Create and verify your business on Google
✨ Rank higher so more people can find you
✨ Get real customers who search near your location
✨ Use simple tricks that actually work in 2025
No fancy tools, no marketing budget — just practical tips that help your business grow faster online.
Whether you’re a small business owner, freelancer, or local shopkeeper, this video will help you reach more people and stand out on Google.
🔥 Stay till the end — I’ll share one secret strategy that most people don’t know about (but it really boosts your ranking!).
If you find this helpful, please like, follow, and share — it motivates me to make more useful tutorials like this one 💙
#GoogleBusiness #GoogleMaps #OnlineBusiness #Marketing2025 #BusinessGrowth #LocalSEO #DigitalMarketing
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00:00In this video, we're going to take your business from here and we're going to put it right here
00:04at the top. Pretty cool, right? You can just bypass all the junk and spam and get seen directly by
00:10your customers. Now, how do we do this? It's actually quite simple. So this is called Google
00:15Business Profile, formerly known as Google My Business. Google Business Profile is your business
00:21online storefronts. It's what people see when they search for you on Google and Google Maps.
00:26When someone types in something like coffee shop near me, Google will rank local businesses based
00:31off their Google Business Profile, meaning your business will always show up first in the search
00:36results. So if you have a business and you're not using Google Business Profile, you're potentially
00:40losing out on a lot of money. Local businesses that are using Google Business Profile appear in the
00:46Google 3-pack. These are the three most relevant businesses in the search results. These local
00:51businesses get 700% more clicks than those who do not appear in the search results.
00:56And there's actually a lot more benefits than just being number one, right? You can also list your
01:01products, you can list your services, and visitors can actually purchase these directly through your
01:06Google Business Profile. I made a fictitious business called Next Gen Bangkok Designs. Now,
01:11when a user types this in, they're shown a really nice presentation of my business. They can visit my
01:16websites, book appointments, view my locations, and also purchase products. So let's be real,
01:22every business out there should be using Google Business Profile. It drives traffic to your websites,
01:27it can generate more revenue, and it puts you at the top of the search results. And the best part is,
01:32it's completely free to use. So in this video, I'll walk you through how to set up your Google
01:36Business Profile so you can rank higher versus your competitors, and you can be seen by the customers
01:41that are most interested in your business. So let's first go to step one. Let's claim and optimize
01:46your Google Business Profile. Now, there is a link in the description, and this will take you to the
01:50page in order to create your Google Business Profile. Okay, so this is Google Business Profile,
01:55and this is where we can actually create our Google Business Profile. Now, really quick, if you guys
02:00are old school like me, this was actually called Google My Business. So if you heard about this term
02:04before, it's the same exact thing. So if you type in Google My Business and click on the very first link,
02:10it'll take you to the same exact page. I just want to make sure that you guys are not confused.
02:14They are the same service, okay? So once you're here, let's click on Get Started, and let's create
02:19your Google Business Profile. Now, the very first thing you'll need to do is you'll need to have a
02:23Gmail account. So you can create one from scratch, or you can log into an existing Gmail account.
02:28However, this is required, so you must have a Gmail account in order to create a Google Business Profile.
02:34I'm going to go ahead and select one of my Gmail accounts. As you'll see, I have a ton of them.
02:40I'll select my French one. Okay, so once you create a Gmail account, or you log in with your
02:44Gmail account, it'll take you to this page right here. Now, quick side notes, I'm not French,
02:49and if anyone wants to guess which ethnicity I'm in, good luck. You can let me know in the
02:52comments below, but nobody gets it right. So anyways, now the first thing that you'll do is put
02:57in your business name, and then also put in a business category. So in my specific case,
03:01I am a web designer. So I'm going to enter in my web design company. This is Patty's design studio.
03:09Patty was my dog. She died a few years ago. We all love Patty Wack, and she'll be missed.
03:14For my old school subscribers, you guys probably remember Patty. You know, I have posters of her
03:18everywhere. And for business category, I'm going to put website designer, right? So websites,
03:25and there we go, website designer. So all you'll do is search for your business category,
03:29and then select it. Pretty simple, right? It's pretty dumb proof, right? So once you select the
03:34category, you'll then click on next. Okay. So the next step is, do you have a physical location
03:39where customers can visit like a store or office? Now, the difference here is if you have a store
03:45where people can walk in and pay you for your products directly, you'll select yes. If you are
03:51a company or a person that serves a general region, but people necessarily cannot walk into your office
03:58or store, then you'll select no. Okay. So for example, if you put no, it's just going to say,
04:05okay, what areas do you serve? Right? And if you select yes, it'll say, okay, what is your actual
04:12physical business address? Got it? Good. Okay. Either way, you're going to have to verify your
04:17address with both of these, you know, options. So that's just something to consider, but we'll verify
04:22later. So where do you serve? Well, I serve in Santa Clarita, California. It is the most beautiful
04:28state in California. If anyone has been there, it's beautiful, but I don't want to give too much
04:33out because then everyone's going to move there and make it bad, right? You know, that's what happens.
04:39Whenever things get popular, it like gets worse over time because it gets so crowded, right?
04:43So yeah, Santa Clarita, and then I'll click on next. Now, what contact details do you want to
04:49show customers? Do you want to give them your phone or website? You typically should give them
04:54both, right? And I think putting in the website is a really good idea because then they can go
04:59directly to your websites. The phone number, you'll go ahead and enter it right here. You probably have
05:04a business phone number, right? So you'll put in the business phone number here and then your website
05:09right here. So I'll go ahead and enter in my information. Once we enter the phone number and
05:14websites, we'll then click on next. Get updates about your business. Would you like alerts,
05:18notification, or tips to manage your business on Google? Sure. Why not? You know, this actually
05:24does help. Sometimes they'll notify you about how many views you get, or if you get a new review.
05:28So it actually is helpful. They're not just going to spam your inbox with a bunch of garbage.
05:32So yeah, just select yes, and then click on next. Okay. Now the next step is to verify your mailing
05:37address. Now, a long time ago, Google only used to recommend like phone calls and like video,
05:43but since there's been so many scammers about people making fake business profiles,
05:47Google now requires that you verify it through your address. I'm not sure if they still have
05:52the telephone method. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, but you will need to verify your mailing
05:56address. Now you can always verify this later, right? But if you verify it later, your listing
06:02will not show up. So they must verify your address before your listing shows up. So what you can do here
06:07is put in your country and region, put in your street address, go ahead and put mine in,
06:12right? And put in the city, the state and the zip. All right. So we have the street address.
06:19And once we enter this in, I'll click on next. So here is the way to get verified. We have business
06:25video. And then also we have, uh, I think that's it, right? So yeah, we just have business video.
06:30Uh, I do remember they used to have phone verification, but it looks like that option is no longer
06:35available. At least not for me. If it's available for you, you can try a phone verification,
06:39but you'll have to actually do a business video where you just record like your location and the
06:45address, and then just send it to Google and you're good. All right. Now, if you do not have
06:49this information on hand right now, no problem. Let's just verify it later. So right here, I'll
06:54click on verify later. Okay. Now the next thing is they're letting us know that if we want to make
06:58edits to our business, we must verify our location. All right. So that's just something to consider
07:03later, but we can always verify this later. So click on verify later. Okay. Next thing is adding your
07:08services. Now this is actually quite important. So this would be considered keywords, right?
07:13So for example, I'm going to select software developments. However, I'm also going to click on
07:18add a custom service, and this is where we can add in more custom services. So I'll put website
07:22creation, right? Here I'll put WordPress website creation. I'll just put WordPress websites and I'll
07:31put Elementor designer. Now make sure that you do enter this in because when users type in something
07:37like website builder, or I'm sorry, website creation near me or WordPress website builder near me,
07:44your business will show up depending on what the user types in. So these services are actually very
07:50relevant and Google actually says it right here. Select the services your business provides and get
07:54matched with the right customer. So you do want to make sure that you enter as much keywords here as
08:00possible because when people type this in on the search results, it gives a better chance for your
08:05business to rank at the top of this search. All right. So feel free to enter in like 10 to 20 to
08:1130 keywords if it pertains to you. And once you're done entering these keywords, you'll then click on
08:16next. Add business hours. Okay. So when are you open? Well, typically, you know, we're all wages,
08:22right? So we're going to put in Monday through Friday. So I'll put in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
08:26Thursday, and Friday. And what time should we open? You know, I think, I think 10 o'clock is good.
08:32You know, I'm not a morning person, right? So I think most people typically open around eight or
08:38nine. That's always been too early for me guys. I'll be, I'll be real. So, uh, I'm going to be
08:43open from 10 AM to 6 PM. Now, if you are open 24 hours, let's say for example, you are a seven 11
08:50or you're one of those, those donut shops, right? That are like open to like, like they never close,
08:56right? So you'll actually click on the open. And then under the opens at, you can select 24 hours.
09:03Okay. So I'm going to change mine here to 10 to six for all of these. Okay. So once you enter
09:08your business hours, you'll then click on next. Okay. Now the next step is adding in business
09:12description. Now there's a few ways on how to approach this, right? You can actually go on
09:17Google and just see what your competitors are doing already. Right? So for example, I typed in
09:21something like web designer near me. I want to see what other companies are doing as well, just so I can
09:27get a feel for the market. Right? So, uh, we have design addicts, right? I like how they spell
09:31addict, you know? So if I scroll down here, you'll see that they have services, right? And these are
09:37the keywords. And if we scroll down, this right here is the description. So they're saying we
09:42specialize in affordable, top-notch web design offering packages at just one 99, pretty cheap,
09:48right? Pretty cheap. Let's take a look at Santa Clarita website design. Let's take a look at these
09:52guys right here. So we are a Santa Clarita web design company serving the S of E and all of
09:57Los Angeles and Southern California. We're very proud of our work as every website is a piece of
10:03art. We are a genuine boutique. Okay. All right. You guys get the point, right? So yeah, feel free
10:08to check out your competitors and just, you know, just see what they're entering just to give you an
10:12idea of what you should put for your description as well. Now, if you're really lazy like me, you can
10:17always go to chat GBT and just ask them what to put in here. So I put in something like I am a web
10:22designer. My name is Patty and I have been in business for 10 years. Great description for my
10:27Google business profile. And here we go. We have this really, really short description. I don't
10:34want to add this in here because these are services I've already put in. So I'm just going to take this
10:38and go back and, you know, just paste it in, you know, I'm kind of a lazy guy. Can we actually keep
10:43the diamonds? Maybe let's see if that works. I have no idea. You know, maybe Google will let us do
10:47that. Looks pretty cool. All right. So once you enter in your business description, you'll then
10:52click on next, add photos of your business. Now, let me be very clear here. So Google has a very
10:58high rejection rate for new profiles and unverified profiles. So if you do upload images and they get
11:05rejected right away, it's not necessarily because of the images. It's because that your profile is
11:11brand new and also the fact that your business might be unverified. So when I first created my
11:17profile for my next gen Bangkok design profile, mostly all the images were rejected. So if your
11:24images get rejected right away, don't get frustrated. Just verify your business, maybe wait two days and
11:29then you'll be good. All right. Promise. So I'm going to upload some images here. Let's go ahead and see
11:34what we got. We'll throw in this one. Okay. See if this works. And then we'll put in this one as well.
11:41All right. So we have two photos of my business. All right. Sound good. Okay. Let's click on next.
11:47Oh, how about that? Claim your $500 advertising credits. Now I do want to talk about these ads.
11:53These ads are actually kind of cool. A lot of Google ads are a complete waste. However, I do like
11:59this specific ad. Now let me show you where this actually appears just in case you do want to claim
12:03your free credits. So when I typed in something like pizza near me and I use the actual, you know,
12:10Google maps and the search results, you're going to see that we have these at the top. We have Costco
12:15and then we have Persepolis pizza and subs. Now the reason why these are at the top is because
12:20these are sponsored. So when users are searching for something and you actually use those ads,
12:25your business will appear way at the top for the Google business profile. So you outrank your
12:30competitors if you want to use those ads. And to be quite honest, these ads are actually really cheap.
12:36It's probably like five to 10 cents a click. And that actually is really worth it, you know,
12:41for a first time impression to steal a customer, right? So I do recommend to claim the credits and
12:47maybe try it out. I'll probably make a whole nother video that talks about this, but I just want to
12:52say that the ad itself is not that bad, you know, and I, and I don't vouch for ads at all, but that
12:56one is actually kind of helpful because it does help users find something that they're already
13:01looking for, right? All right. But in the meantime, I'll just click on skip for now. So the last
13:05option is one of Google's upsells and they're saying get a custom email and premium features
13:10to elevate your business. Well, if you do need a custom free business email, I highly recommend
13:16to watch one of my videos. I have a tutorial in the video description and it actually shows you
13:21how to get a business email from Hostinger and you can also build your website at the same time.
13:26So you knock two birds with one stone. So you'll go ahead and get web hosting and then you
13:31can actually create a free business email using the web hosting servers instead of buying it
13:36from somewhere else. Right? So if you actually do want to get a free business email, I highly
13:41recommend to watch that video in the video description. All right. We good. All right.
13:45Cool. All right. But anyways, we'll go ahead and just skip these upsells. So I'll click on skip.
13:49Your edits will be visible once you're verified. So again, you just want to make sure that you do
13:55verify your accounts so that your Google business profile will be visible for your customers.
13:59So the last step is clicking on continue. Okay. And once you actually go through the process,
14:04it'll bring you back to Google business profile section, where you'll see right here that your
14:08business is not visible to customers yet, but all you got to do is just verify it and you'll be on
14:12your way. And just in case you want to know how to verify it here, you'll click on get verified
14:18and then you'll go to the process to verify your address. So you'll put in your mailing address and
14:24then you'll verify it through video. And if phone is available, you can also verify it through phone,
14:29not sure if Google is still doing that. So don't quote me on it, but you'll go ahead and verify
14:32it through video. Okay. Now, once you go through the verification process and you verify your Google
14:38business profile, it'll look something like this. Now I'll be very honest. Google is a little weird
14:43on how you access your Google business profile. Essentially you need to be logged in with your
14:47account and just type in the name of your business, or you'll just go to Google business profile and
14:52go to sign in and it'll bring you to the search results. But you actually edit everything here
14:57through the search results. So here we can edit profile, we can read the reviews, you can upload
15:02photos and just see the performance. You can also advertise your business, edit products and a lot
15:08more. So on the right side, you'll see that we have the photos right here. So if I click on the photos,
15:14you'll see it has a list of photos. So I just, you know, uploaded these random photos and here you can
15:19add your photos and you can also manage all your photos from right here, right? But I don't want to do
15:24that now. Okay. And then if you want to actually edit your business information here, click on edit
15:30your business info. And this is where you can update your keywords. You can update the contact
15:35information. Here we have the opening dates, contact information. You will go through here and you'll fill
15:41out all this information. You can also go ahead and update things or not update things, right? Now to be
15:48honest, Google does like a business that actually keeps their information up to date. And from my
15:53understanding, the more you engage with users and the more you update your profile, the more Google
15:58will recommend your profile when users search for that. That's a conspiracy. I don't know if that's
16:03a hundred percent true, but that's what ChatGPT says. All right. So however you want to, you know,
16:09however you want to interpret that, that's what I think. So once you go ahead and check out your
16:14business info, you can also scroll down here and you can actually add in products like I mentioned
16:21before. So if I click on add products, you could put the name of the products, the category right
16:26here, right? You can create new categories. You could put the price. Now I am currently in Thailand,
16:31so it's pricing everything in Thai bot. So you'll put the, you know, how much your product costs here,
16:36you'll put description, and then you'll put the URL for that specific products here. You'll put in a
16:42photo. And what's really cool is this will take them directly to your websites where they can buy
16:46something, right? It's awesome. All right. And also here, um, you can review your reviews. So you'll see
16:55that I made a review about a month ago. And if you want reviews, like if you want your family to review
17:00your business, which I'm sure you should offer them services so they can review your business, then you can
17:05get positive reviews because no one likes a business with no reviews. Let's be real, right? Here, I'll click on
17:10to get reviews. And I think they gave you a link. Yeah, here's the link. So you can take this link
17:15and then you can give it to family members or friends, and then you can, you know, get reviews
17:20from your friend, family and friends just so that your business is not so like naked and cold, right?
17:25Cause as soon as people see those little stars, they're like, Oh, okay. The business is safe. You
17:29know, uh, also here you can add updates for your business. So, uh, Google does love this.
17:35Apparently, uh, if you do this on a regular basis, they will actually recommend your business more.
17:40Now, this is like, if you have a sale or if there's something you want to announce for your
17:45members, you can put all of that right here. So you'll put an image description, and then you can
17:50put a button right here. And then that button can link directly to your websites or actually anywhere
17:56you want. Right. Really cool. I do love this. Maybe I should make a Google business profile and just,
18:01you know, link people to my website more. Why not? Right. Uh, but yeah, so you can enter all this
18:08information here. You can update it and you can also enter in your social profiles for your business.
18:14Well, anyways, part of people, I hope you all enjoyed this video. If you have any questions
18:17about Google business profile, let me know in the comments below and make sure to verify your
18:21account so you can get free traffic to your business. My name is Daryl Wilson, and I will see
18:26all of you party people in the next video. Take care.
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