Google Business Profile Help for Landscapers
Google charges nothing for a Business Profile, and you can manage yours from your phone between yards. If you’d rather someone else kept it current, here’s how manager access works, what we’d handle through the seasons, and what it costs.
You’d be paying for time, not the profile.
Google describes Business Profile as a tool that can be used at no charge, and notes that third parties often charge a fee to manage one. If you want to handle it yourself, our landscaping post on the blog goes through the settings one by one.
Source: Google: tips for working with third parties.
Google Business Profile is free from Google. Anyone can create and manage a profile at no cost. Our fees pay for our setup and management work. Working with a third party → (opens in a new tab)
Owner keeps the keys; manager does the chores.
Owners have full control: users, info, even deleting the profile. Managers can edit info, respond to reviews, and manage posts, but they can’t add or remove users or remove the profile. Each person signs in with their own Google Account, so passwords never get passed around, and our terms say never to send us one.
Source: Google: manage owners & managers; 5W: Terms of Service.
How to add us as a manager.
- Go to your Business Profile and open More, then Business Profile settings, then People and access.
- Select Add at the top left and type our email address.
- Under Access, choose Manager, then select Invite.
- Pending invites show on the same page, and you can cancel one there.
Source: Google: manage owners & managers.
Seasons, services, and the LI number.
Seasonal hours
Google lets you use current seasonal hours as regular hours, set special hours for holidays, and mark the business temporarily closed in an off-season.
Two kinds of customer
Design and install for one buyer, weekly maintenance for another, both listed as services.
Irrigation in posts
30 TAC §344.70 says every form of advertisement for irrigation services shows the LI license number. If a post advertises irrigation, the number goes in it.
Photos are the pitch
Before-and-after shots of your own yards, added through the year.
Your real name
As it appears on your trailer and invoices, with no extra keywords.
Reviews without perks
Ask every client; Google removes reviews traded for discounts or gifts.
Source: Google: guidelines for representing your business; 30 Tex. Admin. Code §344.70; Google Maps: fake engagement and incentives.
Check Performance before you renew a month.
Owners and managers can see profile views, the searches that showed you, calls, website clicks, and direction requests. The searches figure updates at the start of each month and may take up to 5 days. Google’s advice when using a third party: look at those results every month and check that photos and hours are current.
Source: Google: performance & insights; Google: tips for working with third parties.
From Google’s page on third parties.
Placement promises
Google says third parties can’t promise or directly influence where a business shows on Search or Maps.
Fake Google staff
Ask for an email from an @google.com address.
Pressure and threats
Outsiders can’t remove your business or access the profile without your permission.
Fuzzy pricing
Get an official agreement that lists the services and the costs.
Secret numbers
You’re entitled to your profile’s performance data.
Several helpers at once
Google suggests working with one third party at a time.
Done in People and access.
Select the person and choose Remove person; only owners can. Google says posts and review replies they made stay on the profile. If you ask us to go, our access comes off within 7 business days.
Source: Google: manage owners & managers; 5W: Terms of Service.
How setup runs, start to finish.
Onboarding starts the same day as your purchase. GBP Setup goes live within 5 to 7 business days of receiving your content and access, including 1 round of revisions and 5 business days for your review. Google decides verification; any extra Google steps add time.
Tell us the mix
Design, install, maintenance, irrigation: what you do and what you want more of.
Hours by season
Set for the season you’re in, with holidays as special hours.
Services and area
Each service listed, and the towns you work in.
Photos
Before-and-after sets from your own yards.
Your edits
One round before it’s final.
Month to month
With management: weekly posts, review replies, photo refreshes through the year.
Source: 5W: Services & Pricing; 5W: Terms of Service.
What a client said about his website.
We don’t have a landscaping client review yet. Here’s Luis Madera, owner of Cam Collision, a New Braunfels body shop, on his website. Quoted exactly:
“I have owned a business for 6 years now and never made a website for two reasons, one I have been luck enough to stay busy and the other is because I'm extremely picky with work that I provide and received. Darren built me a website that was just perfect! Everything about it was exactly what I was looking for and more. I am glad it took me 6 years to get one. Any sooner and I would have missed out on his talent. Thanks again”
Landscaping profile help, priced.
Google Business Profile setup costs $349 one time, or $99 when combined with Monthly GBP Management at $199 a month for weekly posts, review monitoring and replies, and fresh photos. The Get Found Bundle, with a website, is $799 up front and $249 a month. Just a website: $599 and $59 a month for Site Care. Cancel when you like.
Google Business Profile is free from Google. Anyone can create and manage a profile at no cost. Our fees pay for our setup and management work. Working with a third party → (opens in a new tab)
All sales are final. Work starts when payment is received. Monthly plans renew automatically until you cancel; cancel anytime, effective at the end of your paid period. No refunds.
See what we’d change on your landscaping profile.
Tell us your company name as it shows on Google Maps. A narrated recording follows, typically within a business day, comparing your listing with the first landscapers on the map.
- About 3 minutes of video: your landscaping listing compared with the first 3 on the map.
- Three suggestions, in plain words.
- There’s no charge; keep the recording.
More for landscapers.
Landscaping pages
Landscaping sites by city
Profile help, other trades
See every town on Trades We Serve.
Landscapers ask about profile help.
Should I mark the business closed in winter?
Only if you really stop work. Google allows temporarily closed during an off-season.
Do I need the LI number on my profile?
If you advertise irrigation there, yes, under the TCEQ advertising rule.
Can you post my job photos?
Yes. Send them as you finish yards and we add them.
Will I lose control of the profile?
No. You stay owner; managers can’t remove you.
Is there a contract?
No. Monthly plans are month to month.
What does setup include?
Claim and verification, categories and services, photos and content, service area, and a review strategy.
Want help with your landscaping profile?
Landscapers: get the free recorded Map Check, or give us a call.