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Why Your Google Business Profile Isn’t Showing Up on Google

QUICK ANSWER Your Google Business Profile usually goes "missing" for reasons you control, not because of Google. Google ranks local businesses on 3 factors: relevance, distance, and prominence.

Why Your Google Business Profile Isn’t Showing Up on Google

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QUICK ANSWER Your Google Business Profile usually goes "missing" for reasons you control, not because of Google.

Google ranks local businesses on 3 factors: relevance, distance, and prominence.

An incomplete or unverified profile Google won't trust2.

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QUICK ANSWER Your Google Business Profile usually goes "missing" for reasons you control, not because of Google. Google ranks local businesses on 3 factors: relevance, distance, and prominence. Most invisibility comes down to 4 fixable problems: 1.

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Most invisibility comes down to 4 fixable problems: 1.

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An incomplete or unverified profile Google won't trust2. Wrong categories or inconsistent name, address, and phone (NAP)3.

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