---
name: verify-google-business-profile--personal-brand
description: "Help people find your local firm."
category: Personal Branding
stage: —
definitive_article: /personal-brand
status: needs-work
---

# Verify Google Business Profile

Help people find your local firm. Use this guide to check if your firm can have a profile on Google. Start with the way you serve your clients.

**The path:** Eligibility → Existing listing → Owner verification → Accurate public business facts

**Start when:** A qualifying business or eligible individual practitioner needs its Google Business Profile checked or verified.

## Inputs

- The actual business/practitioner, customer-contact model, location/service area and current business website.
- Business-owner authorization and Google account access, existing listing if any, and supporting business evidence.
- Current [Google’s business eligibility rules](https://support.google.com/business/answer/13763036?hl=en) and [representation rules](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en).

## Steps

1. Check eligibility before opening a listing. Google generally requires in-person customer contact during stated hours; online-only personal brands do not qualify simply by having a website. Assess any practitioner under the actual public-facing and contact rules, not just the owner’s title.
2. Search for the existing business and distinguish it from the person’s Knowledge Panel. Confirm the right location, business and current ownership. Use the supported ownership-request path if another account manages it; do not create a duplicate to bypass the actual owner.
3. Use the real-world business name and accurate customer-facing contact details. Point the listing to the authoritative website for that business, not automatically the owner’s personal home. Apply the current address/service-area rules and hide a non-customer-facing address when required.
4. Follow the verification method Google actually offers in [its business verification flow](https://support.google.com/business/answer/7107242?hl=en). The business owner supplies required evidence or completes human identity steps. A postcard, phone, email or video option is not guaranteed for every account.
5. Keep owner control with the real business owner and use the minimum permitted helper role. Record account role and verification state privately. Do not use a public-looking badge or a helper’s recollection as proof of completed verification; inspect the actual managed profile state.
6. Prepare accurate categories, hours, description, service information and real photos under the listing’s actual rules. Do not add keywords to the business name, fake locations or unverifiable claims to make the listing look complete.
7. After authorized save, verify both the managed verification state and the normal public listing’s identity and facts. Pending verification stays pending. A correctly reasoned not-applicable result is a legitimate output; it is not a failed personal-brand project or permission to create another kind of profile.

## Definition of done (QA checklist)

Quality assurance (QA) means checking the actual result against its agreed requirements. Follow the [Article Guidelines](https://localservicespotlight.com/article-guidelines/).

- [ ] Eligibility is supported, or a documented not-applicable decision names the reason.
- [ ] The profile represents the correct business/practitioner and uses its authoritative contact/site details.
- [ ] Actual owner role, verification state and checked public facts are retained separately.
- [ ] The exact output, source revision, reviewer evidence and remaining owner action are saved.
- [ ] For any reader-facing output, the short grade-five opening states the reader’s useful outcome and supporting method or proof. The body delivers that promise; a useful authentic visual appears in the first screen. Retain exact text and quoted reviewer evidence.

## Example(s)

**Fictional teaching example. This is not a client result or proof of a completed run.**

A fictional online-only coach has a personal website but never meets clients in person. The eligibility check records that this business does not qualify for a Business Profile. Her website and true social profiles can still be improved through their own tasks. The team does not invent a storefront or use her home address to force verification.

## Handoff and Content Factory context

[Set up the agreed public profiles](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/?task=set-up-professional-social-profiles#task-set-up-professional-social-profiles) receives the person’s actual profile needs; [Check the person’s identity](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/?task=establish-entity-identity#task-establish-entity-identity) receives the business/person distinction and verified business facts.

This task supports the [Content Factory: Produce, Process, Post and Promote](https://blitzmetrics.com/content-factory/). Identity, proof, access or coordination can support several stages. Use the real inputs and receiving owner above; this task does not create unrelated transcripts, clips or ads merely because the diagram has four stages.

## Start with an agent

Give the [AI worker](https://blitzmetrics.com/build-agents/) this recipe, the real inputs, desired result and actions already authorized. Ask for the saved output, sources, checks and next owner. A [skill is a written recipe](https://localservicespotlight.com/plugin/); loading one does not prove account access or perform the task. Use the [installation guide](https://localservicespotlight.com/install/) if reusable setup is needed. A ZIP is a source snapshot, not an access grant or automatic update.

Use the app’s actual supported tools and verified file/account access. Keep a missing human verification step with its real owner. Recurring work needs its own configured job, trigger, timezone and observed result; this guide creates no schedule. Before any media playback, mute the player and set its volume to zero. If silence cannot be verified first, use captions, frames, metadata or another silent check.

## Record the real execution

Open the run record when work begins. Keep one execution ID, starting recipe revision, real inputs and current state. Write the [meta article, the record of this execution](https://blitzmetrics.com/meta-article-prompt/) with actual steps, results, checks, failures and next owner. Writing is required; public release follows existing authority. Link it to this recipe and the [Task Library](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/).

Reuse the same execution ID for internal checks, revisions, retries and meta writing. A blocked run stays open with its dependency and owner, without an invented finish time. Dated public examples and distinct verified execution counts remain separate. Propose the smallest source-backed recipe improvement when the actual evidence reveals a defect.


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## Factory chain (do not treat this as isolated)

- **Phase:** —
- **Importance:** 3/5 `●●●○○` — frequency 3, revenue 3, gating 2 (supporting)
- **Suggested previous station:** —
- **Suggested next station:** —
These stations are generated neighbors, not verified prerequisites or handoffs. Follow the task’s actual Inputs and Handoff sections.
- **Handoff:** Save this task’s actual output, source, date and checks where the receiving owner can read them. Follow the Inputs and Handoff sections for its next step.

## Model routing (same factory, any engine)

- **This task's lane:** `any` — Any capable chat model (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini). SOP following, drafts, checklists.
- **Single-engine path:** Use the capable AI app you already have. Check its required tools and access before starting. Pass the actual result and proof to the next task.
- **Optional multi-engine:** A tested local model may draft; a stronger model may review facts and voice. Use supported tools for approved actions. Pick models from observed quality and cost; a model name does not prove it can run this task.
- **Never** store the working state in one vendor's memory. Files in the Content Library are the bridge.

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## Definitive article & links

- [Maintained source guide](https://blitzmetrics.com/personal-brand/)
- [This task in the Task Library](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/?task=verify-google-business-profile--personal-brand#task-verify-google-business-profile--personal-brand)
- [Article Guidelines](https://localservicespotlight.com/article-guidelines/)
- [Definitive article and task recipe standard](https://blitzmetrics.com/definitive-article-guide/)
- [How recipes and run records fit together](https://localservicespotlight.com/meta-articles/)

### Primary method references

- [Business eligibility](https://support.google.com/business/answer/13763036?hl=en)
- [Represent your business](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en)
- [Business verification](https://support.google.com/business/answer/7107242?hl=en)

## Review and evidence still needed

The inherited contributor status is `needs-work`. It is preserved, not promoted by this rewrite. That label alone does not prove document readiness, account access, an actual execution or a client result.

The fictional example teaches the method and does not fill a real-run evidence gap. A named semantic reviewer must check the actual opening, full method, sources and handoff. Check the useful opening visual in the normal rendered guide at the current required desktop and mobile sizes, including 1280 × 800 and 390 × 844. Source readability checks do not prove public presentation or task execution.