In scope: the audit and the cleanup
Finding every associated listing, recovering ownership, and working Google's process to close or merge what should not be there.
Fort Worth, TX
Google Business Profile Optimization in Fort Worth
Google Business Profile work for Fort Worth companies. Most listings that underperform are not badly written. They are out of date, duplicated, or both.
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What a listing accumulates
A Business Profile that has existed for years is rarely a description of the business as it is now. It is a description of the business at registration, plus whatever has been changed since by whoever happened to have access.
Around it sit things nobody intended: an entry from an agency that ran the account in 2019, one created by a data aggregator, another set up by a member of staff to solve a problem on a particular afternoon.
None of that is visible from inside the business, because nobody searches for their own listing. It is entirely visible to the customer choosing between three of them.
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Remove, then improve. In that order
The order matters more than it sounds like it should.
What should not be there
Cleanup, and it comes first.
Duplicate listings splitting reviews and signals. Old addresses and phone numbers from before a move. Categories describing a service the business stopped offering. Hours that were accurate two changes ago.
Working on the listing before this is done means improving whichever entry you happen to hold, which may not be the one customers reach.
What should be there and is not
Improvement, once the ground is clear.
A services list that reflects what the business sells now. Photographs from this decade. Attributes that are true. A category argued rather than inherited.
This is the part that looks like optimization, and it is worth substantially more once it is being applied to the right listing.
How the cleanup runs
Find everything that exists
First
Every listing associated with the business, including the ones nobody remembers creating. The count is regularly higher than the business expects.
Recover ownership
Before any edit
Old agencies, former staff and aggregator-created entries all sit under accounts the business does not control. Recovering access is what makes the rest possible, and it is often the slowest step.
Close or merge what should not exist
Second
Establishing which listing is authoritative and working Google's process for the rest, so reviews and signals stop being split across entries.
Correct what is simply out of date
Third
Address, phone, hours, categories and services brought to what is true now rather than what was true at registration.
Then improve, and keep it current
Ongoing
Photography, service detail, attributes and review response, applied to a listing that is now the right one. Plus a habit that stops it going stale again.
What is in scope and what is not
In scope: bringing the listing current
Address, phone, hours, categories, services, attributes and photography, corrected to what is true now.
Not in scope: a closure outcome we cannot promise
Duplicate removal and merging run through Google's process on Google's timeline. We prepare and submit them properly; Google decides.
Not in scope: recovering access we cannot prove
Ownership recovery requires evidence the business is the business. Where that evidence does not exist we will say so rather than pursue it indefinitely.
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Further reading
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Questions Fort Worth businesses ask
We think an old agency still controls our listing. Can you get it back?
Usually, and it is the first thing worth doing. Google has a process for requesting ownership transfer, and it turns on being able to demonstrate the business is yours. It can take time and it is not guaranteed, so we would tell you early if the evidence looks thin.
Can you guarantee duplicate listings will be removed?
No. Closure and merging go through Google's process and Google decides. Identifying them, establishing which should be authoritative and submitting correctly is what makes it likely rather than certain.
How much does this cost?
Cleanup work scales with what is actually there, so it is scoped after the audit rather than before it. The ongoing part is priced monthly. A figure goes in writing once we know what we are dealing with.
Will we lose the reviews on a duplicate listing?
Not necessarily. Where Google merges rather than removes, reviews generally follow. Where it removes, they may not. That is one reason establishing the authoritative listing carefully matters before anything is submitted.
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