Video
Find your competitors' Google Business Profile categories with GMB Everywhere
Install GMB Everywhere, search your service and open the Basic view for each of the top three businesses. Their categories show you what yours should be. Your primary category is the most important ranking factor on your Google Business Profile.
Step by step
What the video shows
- Install the GMB Everywhere extension and open it.
- Find the three businesses ranking at the top for your service.
- For each one, click GMB Everywhere, then Basic, and scroll to Categories.
- Compare their categories with yours and add any you are missing.
Transcript
Full transcript
Here's a quick and easy SEO tip to start ranking higher on Google. First, you're going to want to install GMB Everywhere. Then, you're going to want to open it.
Then, find who's ranking the top three for your service. Click on GMB Everywhere again. And for the top three, hit Basic.
Scroll down to Categories. And you can see what they currently have their business category set as. Based off what the top three competitors have, we'll get a good idea of what our business category should be set as.
And now do this for the other two competitors. And you can see some have more than one category. And your primary category is the most important ranking factor on your Google Business Profile.
And there was a study done in 2023 where people that had four or more business categories ranked 5.6 times higher than the next person. And it helps you also rank for more services. So try it out and let me know if you're missing any business categories.
And follow for more SEO tips.
Free 15-minute call
See what we would do for you
We look at your Google Business Profile, your website and your top competitors on the call. You leave with the fixes either way.
More videos