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Your Google Business Profile is the first thing a customer sees. Most of them are set up wrong.

A complete step-by-step guide to building a GBP that actually ranks, written for trades operators and realtors, not developers.

When someone searches "plumber near me" or "HVAC Houston," three businesses show up at the top. Those three are getting the calls. Everyone below them is invisible.

Your Google Business Profile is what determines whether you are in those three or not. Not your website. Not your reviews. Not how long you have been in business.

Most profiles are incomplete, miscategorized, or set up in ways that actively hurt your ranking. This guide fixes that.

What is in the guide

Six parts. Every field covered. No fluff.

The guide is current as of 2026. It covers how Google's AI now reads your profile and what that means for how you fill it out.

Part 1
Set up or claim your profile
How to start correctly from the beginning, including what to do if Google already created a listing for you.
Part 2
Fill out every field
Which category to pick: the single most important decision you will make. How to write a description Google's AI can actually use.
Part 3
Reviews and verification
How to get reviews and what to do with them. What to do every week to stay ranked.
Part 4
The ongoing routine
Weekly and monthly tasks that keep your profile ranking. The businesses that show up consistently are not the ones who set it and forgot it.
Part 5
Common mistakes
The errors that kill rankings. Keyword stuffing, wrong categories, inconsistent NAP, stale profiles, and exactly how to fix each one.
Part 6
SEO ranking factors
Relevance, distance, prominence, and the 2026 freshness factor. Where to put your effort and why.

Three ways to get it

Pick the level of support you need

Guide Only
$27
one-time
  • The complete PDF guide
  • 30 fields covered with step-by-step instructions
  • Examples for trades and service businesses
  • Full checklist: know when you are done
  • Work through it on your own schedule
Get the guide
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Guide + Email Support
$47
one-time
  • Everything in the guide
  • Email us questions while you work through it
  • Stuck on a specific field? Send a message
  • Answers within one business day
Buy guide + support
We Build It For You
$149
one-time, no monthly fee
  • Send us your business information
  • We set up your entire profile correctly
  • Every field, every category, description written
  • Service area configured, services listed
  • Fully optimized and ready to rank
Get it done for you

One recovered lead from local search pays for this guide many times over.

Who this is for

Built for local service businesses and realtors

  • Trades operators (plumbers, HVAC, electricians, landscapers, cleaners, contractors) who want to show up when someone in their area searches for what they do
  • Realtors who want their profile to surface when buyers and sellers search for agents in their market
  • Any local service business that has never set up a GBP, set one up years ago and never touched it, or is not showing up in local search and does not know why

Who this is not for

Looking for ongoing management?

  • This guide covers setup and optimization, not ongoing monthly management
If you want someone to manage your profile every month (post updates, respond to reviews, track performance), that is a different service. Ask us about it.

Not sure which option is right?

Book a free 15-minute call. We will look at your current profile and tell you exactly what needs to change.

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