# Google Business Profile

> The free listing that puts a business on Google Maps and the local pack — categories, hours, photos and the reviews that decide local trust.

For a business serving an area, the profile often outranks the website: it is the card that shows hours, reviews, photos and directions before the organic results start. An incomplete profile — no category, old hours, three reviews — concedes the map pack to whoever bothered.

The leverage is in the boring completeness: primary category chosen precisely, real photos, hours kept honest through holidays, every review answered. Review velocity and review answers are the two signals owners control directly — and the profile is free, which makes ignoring it an unusually expensive choice.

## Related terms

- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/local-seo.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/nap-consistency.md
- https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/glossary/indexing.md

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