Why create a Google+ page?
As we covered in our article about how to maintain your online reputation, it’s important to claim anything associated with your business’ name. Reason being, you control the content and information on those sites. Google gives you the opportunity to add pictures, update information and post news for your business. All that on top of making it easy for your customers to find your business hours, location and contact information.
How to create a Google+ page
There are a few ways to go about this. Odds are that Google has already created a very basic page for your business with the information it could gather from across the internet. All you have to do is to claim your page from Google.
- Get signed up with a Google account. If you don’t already you’ll need to set up an account with Google. It’s as easy as setting up an e-mail for yourself.
- Finding your business. There is a really good chance that Google has set up a basic Google+ page. Either way you can find out here. You click get started and then search your business here. It will tell you if the business is claimed or not and will let you attach it to your account if it’s not.
- Adding or amending your basic information. From here you’ll be able to put in your hours, address, a brief description of your business etc.
If your business is brand new and Google has not started a page for you then you can still create a new page by accessing your Google+ page or the site in step two.
Once you have this complete you can go to your Google+ page and click the drop down menu that says home. Select the section that says places and you can access the Google+ Business Page. Like anything else you should make sure that your Google+ should be branded so it looks like your other social media sites, web site and marketing materials.