Is Google Listing Your Business As Temporarily Closed?
Google has deemed some of your businesses as non-essential and changed your status to “Temporarily Closed,” without telling you on your Google Business Profile. While it may be true that you are closed for events, you are certainly not closed to talk to potential clients and service your current clients.
The good news is that it is a very easy fix.
- Get into your Google Business Profile by logging on to https://www.google.com/business/
- In the control panel select info
- You will see where your business is marked temporarily closed and a place to change it to “open”. In this case, my business is open and I can close it but if your business is closed, you will be able to open it.
- Save the change.
- If you do not have access to your Google Business Profile you can also try to get the business marked open by suggesting an edit. Just search for your profile and google and click suggest an edit and tell Google you are open. Also, have a few other people do the same thing.
And while we are on the subject of Google, another question to ask is whether you are being found on Google. So many wedding businesses are missing out on free traffic because they don’t rank highly for any other search terms besides their own name. I take a collaborative approach where I do some one-time improvements that can help and then teach you to do things on your own. We also do a full analysis of your website and SEO. You can check out what I am talking about here. I would also be happy to take a look at your website and SEO and discuss it with you. To set up a time to meet click here.
