How to Create & Verify Your Google My Business Account

Your free Google business listing (known as your Business Profile) can do more than you think. When properly optimized, it showcases your best features and makes it easy for consumers to discover, learn about, and contact your business. But in order to properly optimize your Business Profile, you need access to it, and in order to access it, you need to verify with Google that you are the rightful owner. While it seems as though it should be as simple as "step one create, step two claim, and step three verify," the process is neither that simple nor that linear--which, if you're reading this post, you have already figured out. That's because it requires three different Google accounts and two different Google platforms, all of which have very similar names.