Google My Business, The Key to it All.
What exactly did you Google to get here?
“Marketing in Maryland”
“Marketing Near Me”
“Web Design Near Me”
“Web Design in Maryland”
Maybe “Graphic Designer in Carroll County”
No matter how you wound up here, the answer was probably that you typed in what you needed and we were at the top of the results, we hope number one, but we’ll take top three.
Our number one question from every small business we work with is “how do I get to the top of the search results?”
The answer is not an easy one, and it involves consistently producing your marketing content in all the right channels in the perfect way, forever. But there is one thing that you can do yourself, that can get you started, it is free, it is easy, and we’ll even help you do it, for FREE.
Create a Google My Business Account, this is step one in your SEO journey. It goes hand in hand with your website, although having a website is not necessary to having a GMB account and showing up in search results.
Let us explore quickly WHY Google is kind and should be your focus. Before opening HM&D we worked within many other organizations, some which put hyper focus on some alternate search engines like Bing and Yahoo, which while we understand and support creating an online profile that includes as many listing as possible (as longas they are good quality and consistent) those other search engines are not our primary focus and we don’t invest our time in those. We pulled at random one of our website and marketing clients web traffic from this week to illustrate:
The results are easy to understand and the message is clear, Google search results are the primary entryway into your website and your leads. If you had three hours a week to dedicate to your marketing, it would be important to focus on the avenues that produced the best ROI and the most results, and in our opinion that is Google, plain and simple.
We could include in this blog HOW to set up your GMB page and what to include, but there are already a ton of articles that show you how, we’ve done free classes on it, and we can recommend several step by steps for you, but why not just let us do it for you.
We will set up your Google my business Page for FREE and assist with your business getting verified on Google. Just reach out and ask, you don’t have to be in Maryland, you don’t have to be an existing client, you don’t have to pay or sign up for anything. Just email or call us for completely free, no obligation help with setting up your Google My Business Account at (410) 236-4105 or info@hampsteadmarketinganddesign.com.
We already manage over 50 businesses on Google and we are happy to add more, you’ll also receive complete control over your account, we’ll never hold you hostage for any reason and neither should any other Marketing Agency for that matter.
The snapshot above is of part of our GMB profile, it’s the key to the door of online search opportunities. Let us be your locksmith and give you the tools you need to succeed.