Before anyone visits your website, they see your Google listing. It's free, and most owners never finish setting it up.
Do this today
1. Go to google.com/business and claim your business.
2. Fill in every field: hours, phone, address, services, photos. Google ranks complete profiles higher.
3. Set your real hours, including holidays. A customer who shows up to a closed door because Google lied never comes back. That "back in 5 minutes" sign only works in person.
4. Add 10 real photos. Phone photos beat no photos.
5. Answer the questions in the Q&A section before strangers answer them for you.
Then keep it alive
Reply to every review, good or bad, within a week. Post once a month, even just a photo. Google notices profiles that move, and so do customers.
The website connection
Your profile links to your website. If that link goes to a broken or ugly page, the trust you built dies on the click. That's the moment we exist for.