A quick update on Google My Business, in particular as it relates to COVID-19 and COVID-19 updates, quick three things. One, you want to on your Google My Business page make sure you review all of your information there and make sure that it's up to date. If you have anything specific to how you're operating now as it relates to COVID-19, there's certain restrictions you have, people need to wear a mask, whatever it is, you want to make sure that you update that on your Google My Business page. That's probably the first place that people are going to see that information, even before they get to your website. You can update that there.
And of course, always, always, always get more reviews. I'll show you this real quick on my Google My Business page. If you come to the main page, you can update your business hours and then post any updates that you have for COVID-19 specifically. Google is trying to help you get that information out there. You can do different posts, which is basically just information and can include a link back to your website. You can add the image there and do COVID-19 specific updates. You definitely want to do that.
Again, all your information, make sure your hours are correct, your business categories, website links, if you use appointment links, all your services description, all of that, you want to make sure that you've got up to date. You can also add services here.
Then of course reviews, a couple of reminders on reviews. One, keep asking, get more reviews. For a while there, Google was not posting the reviews. They were capturing them, but they weren't posting them live, but they're back to posting them live again.
One thing I noticed a lot of business owners forget to do is reply to the reviews. You always want to make sure that you respond to every single review that you get, in particular on Google. Google will actually improve your search rankings. One of the many ways it can help improve your search rankings is to add a reply to all your reviews.
And I will add a lot of information a lot of times when I respond in terms of who the client is, what's the work that we did for them, where are they located, just so that that provides some useful, helpful information for other prospects that are looking at us as well as helps Google in knowing what to have us show up for.
That is our quick update for the month, nice and short. If there's anything we can help you with, please reach out, visit us at dmdude.com. I have it set up on the homepage there are full marketing blueprints, which is about 15 plus hours of training around everything for marketing your business, from strategy to websites to social, et cetera. Check that out on the homepage of the website completely free. Just put your name and email in, and you can sign up and get access to all of that. Thank you, and have a great month.
