Google Business Profile · Chicago area

Get your business on Google Maps, and keep the listing right

For Chicago-area owners whose Google listing is half filled in, out of date, or not claimed yet. We set up your Business Profile as part of a Growth website ($800) and keep it current under Care, from $49 a month.

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Why it matters

Where nearby customers find you

When someone searches for a barber, a dentist or dinner nearby, Google shows local results drawn from Business Profiles. Google says those results depend mainly on how well a profile matches the search, how far away the business is, and how well known it is. How well known a business is includes how many websites link to it and how many reviews it has.¹

You can’t change your distance from the customer. A complete, accurate profile, and real reviews from real customers, are what you can work on.

Google doesn’t charge for a Business Profile.² The work is in filling it in properly and keeping it current.

Setup

What we set up on your profile

Your main and secondary categories
Name, address and phone, written exactly as they appear on your website
Business description
Services
Hours
Website link
A contact or booking link, or a Book button
Your first Google post
A review-request kit: short text and email messages you can send customers to ask for a review

Setup is included in the Growth website ($800) when it fits your business. We confirm the scope before any work starts. If you only want help with your profile, say so in the brief and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can take it on.

Access

You stay the owner. We join as Manager.

From your own Google account, you invite Safina as a Manager on your existing profile. We send you the address to invite.
A Manager can edit your details, reply to reviews and post updates. A Manager can’t add or remove users or delete the profile.³ You can remove us whenever you like.
You never give us your Google password.
We never create a second listing. Google says there should be one profile per business, because duplicates cause problems with how your information shows on Maps and Search.⁴
If you don’t have a profile yet, you create or claim it in your own account so that you are the owner, and then add us. We’ll send you the steps.

Ongoing care

Keeping the profile current, under Care

Care can cover ongoing profile work: $49 a month for Launch and Growth sites, $89 for WordPress sites, or $299 for institution sites. We confirm the profile work in writing before it starts. It can include:

Weekly Google posts
Watching for new reviews, so you know when one needs a reply
A monthly reminder to send us fresh photos and ask a few customers for reviews
Submitting your sitemap in Google Search Console, and asking Google to index new pages a few at a time

Care can be cancelled anytime.

Site and profile

Your website and your profile should say the same thing

When we build your site, we write its page titles and its schema to match your profile exactly. Schema is the code search engines read for your name, address, hours and services. That way your name, address, phone and hours are the same everywhere Google looks.

The profile’s website button should point to your own site. Google turned off the websites it made for Business Profiles in March 2024, and their redirects ran only until June 10, 2024.⁵ If your button still points to one of those, it needs a new link.

Limits

What we can’t promise

Rankings. Google says there’s no way to request or pay for a better local ranking.¹ Nobody can promise you a top-three spot, and we don’t.
Suspended profiles. Google decides whether a suspended profile comes back, and it can suspend profiles that break its guidelines.⁴ We can’t promise reinstatement or a verification result.
Reviews. The kit helps you ask customers who actually came in. We don’t write or buy reviews.

Coming soon: Google Ads and social media management

We're building both now. If you want in when they open, email us and we'll write once, when there's something real to offer. No dates or prices until then.

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Questions

What owners ask about Google

How do I get my business on Google?

Create or claim a free Business Profile in your own Google account, verify it, and fill in your category, hours, phone number, website and photos. If you’d rather not do the filling in, add us as a Manager and we’ll do it.

How much does it cost to get my business on Google Maps?

Google doesn’t charge for the profile. With us, setup is part of the Growth website ($800), and ongoing care is covered by Care from $49 a month.

Can you get me into the top three on Google Maps?

No one can honestly promise that. Google says local results depend mainly on relevance, distance and how well known a business is, and that ranking can’t be bought. What we can do is make your profile complete and accurate, and make sure it matches your website.

My profile is suspended or won’t verify. Can you fix it?

We can’t promise reinstatement or a verification result, because Google makes that call. Tell us about it in the brief, and our reply will say honestly whether we can help before you pay anything.

Do I have to give you my Google password?

No. You add us as a Manager from your own account, and you can remove us anytime.

Can you make a new listing for my business?

We don’t create it for you. You create or claim it in your own Google account so you’re the owner, and we send you the steps. If you already have one, we never make a second: Google allows one profile per business.

Tell us about the business

Mention your Google profile in the brief. Our reply comes within one business day, with a fixed scope and price, all by email.

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