Having a strong and reliable online presence is an essential condition for reaching new customers and retaining old ones, this is now established. To do this, the web giants make available more or less free tools , which are necessarily to be monitored.

Google Business Profiles ( formerly Google My Business), for example, fully meet this need, free of charge, for local businesses, shops, physical locations, retail chains, etc.

We are not going to repeat what Google Business Profiles are and how they work, we have already done so here and several times in these other articles . –> We have seen how to create a Google business profile for your company, how to make the first optimizations and make your business appear on Google Maps .

If you look deeper, these Google cards are a powerful tool that allows you to reach your target online, start a dialogue with them, increase the visibility of your business, and obtain useful numbers for business purposes.

However, to get the most out of it, it is important to know about some advanced features that you can use.

In this article, we will look at some best practices for your Google business profile and how to best use it to get the most out of your business.

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How to add multiple locations on Google?

One of the first points to talk about is definitely the possibility of adding multiple locations on Google for your business.

In fact, in keeping with the idea of ​​reaching customers in a simple way and providing them with a positive experience, reporting the different linkedin database points of sale of a business or the facilities of a hotel chain is an indispensable practice. 

There are several ways to add more locations than just the first one to a Google Account:

• Create multiple email accounts to associate with the various Google Business Profiles, one for each location. We do not recommend this method , you should keep track of every email used, every password and above all you should turn your Google accounts one by one to check updates, reviews, messages, etc …
• Adding multiple locations manually to a single email account is a very convenient solution if you have a small number of stores to keep track of many things from a single dashboard.
• Create a “Location Group” inside pros of disabling youtube comments your Google account and upload a file with all the data of the points of sale (business name, address, main phone, website, etc …). This mode is more complex and available only for companies that have more than 10 locations.

Enter locations manually into a single Google account

If you only have a few locations to enter, you can add them manually within the same Google account where you already created the first one quite quickly, and it only takes a few steps:

1. Log in with the email you used to create your business listing and go to your business profile, you can do it from this link – Google Business Login -, or by typing the name of your business in the search bar.
2. Once you have arrived in the management part of your company’s business profile,
   click on the 3 dots in the top right and from the drop-down menu select ” Add new business profile “.
   At this point the standard procedure for registering your company’s Google card will start, you will only need to fill in all the fields, verify the new business profile (SMS, call, email, etc …) and that’s it.
3. Now, always by opening the drop-down burkina faso leads menu from the 3 dots at the top right, you will be able to access “ Your activity profiles ” from which you will be able to see and manage all your activity cards and make some overall changes.

One of the advantages of having all the Google profiles of your business locations under a single email, as we said before, concerns the convenience.

You have several options for action: join locations by creating groups, select cards and check reviews, manage settings, go to view and directly edit each profile.

Additionally, once you have selected the tabs, an additional drop-down menu will appear with other available actions: download profile statistics, accept or reject updates, transfer ownership of the Google Business Profile, close, open or remove activities .