Set Up Google Local Business Center in 5 Steps

Ok, so you may have read my quick intro post on LBC here and decided that Local Business Center is a good thing to do. Well here’s a quick step-by-step guide of how to get set up:

Step 1: go to http://www.google.com/lbc

Click on the “Add New Business” button (if you’re not logged in to your Google account, you’ll have to do this, or create one if you don’t have one yet).

Step 2: Fill In Your Details

As you fill in your details, the actual listing will populate itself to the right. Make sure you check through and get this right before you click “Next.”

Step 3: Add or Claim your Listing

Now, it may be that someone has already listed you, this may be someone in your company, or a third party. The next screen lets you claim existing listings if you want to:

We are going to carry on and add this listing, so we can get to the next step.

Step 4: Business Information.

The next screen is a long one so we’ll forego the screenshot, but this is the bit where you add opening hours, what kind of payment methods you accept, as well as any photos (up to 10)or videos (up to 5) you have of your business.

You can also add custom fields to the end of your listing to further describe what you offer.

Step 5:  Confirm that the listing is yours.

And that’s it. The whole process not including verification should take around five minutes, and for that, your customers will find it easier to locate you, and you could even get a whole raft of new business!

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