You rank third for your main search term in Marina. Search the identical phrase from Deira, fifteen minutes away, and you do not appear on the first page at all. Nothing broke. Nobody changed your profile. This is not a…
You need to give someone access to your Google Business Profile. An agency you have just hired, or a staff member who will answer reviews and post updates. The steps are below, in order, with a screenshot for each one.…
Somewhere inside your Google Business Profile dashboard sits a section built entirely from simple yes-or-no questions. Wheelchair accessible entrance. Outdoor seating. Women-led. Free Wi-Fi. Most business owners have genuinely never opened it, largely because nothing about the main dashboard points…
Open your own Google Business Profile dashboard and find the Services or Products section right now. If it is empty, or has one or two entries added once and never touched again, that puts you in the majority. This section…
Ramadan begins. Your actual hours shift, as they do every year. Your Google Business Profile still shows last month’s schedule. A customer checks Google before driving over, sees hours that no longer apply, and either arrives to a locked door…
None of the nine mistakes below will get a profile suspended. Nothing here triggers a warning email or a review flag. That is exactly why they survive so long. Each one, looked at alone, seems too small to matter. A…
A one-star review appears. “Terrible service, avoid this place.” You check your records. No booking under that name. No order. No record of any contact with this person, ever. Someone made it up. Maybe a competitor, maybe someone who confused…
Your food is better. Your service is faster. Your reviews, read honestly, sound more genuine than theirs. They still show up above you when someone searches nearby. This is one of the most common frustrations UAE business owners raise, and…
Two business owners both tell you Google suspended them. The first can still see her listing when she searches, she just cannot change anything on it. The second has vanished from Maps completely and his phone has stopped ringing. The…
You run a cleaning company. Nobody has ever visited your office, and nobody ever will, because the work happens in the customer’s villa. So when you set up your Google Business Profile and it asked for an address, you entered…