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I fix, optimize, and manage Google Business Profiles for Charleston-area businesses, from outdated hours and wrong categories to suspended profiles. Choose a one-time project or ongoing management, and work directly with me.
I help Charleston-area businesses get their Google Business Profiles accurate, complete, and working. I review your ownership and verification status, categories, services, description, hours, contact details, website link, photos, and service-area setup, check for duplicate or conflicting listings, and correct what’s wrong. You receive an updated profile, a written summary of every change I made and why, and a short list of what to watch next. You work directly with me from the first conversation to the final summary.
A Charleston mold-inspection business’s Google Business Profile had been suspended, and the business wasn’t appearing on the first page for relevant local searches.
I worked directly with the client and Google through the required reinstatement process. Once the profile was restored, I optimized it, rebuilt the business’s website, and aligned the profile’s information with the new site.
The profile was reinstated. After that, the business began appearing on the first page for multiple high-intent searches in both organic and Maps results.
I also rebuilt the business’s website during the same period, so the visibility change reflects both the profile and the website work. Google controls reinstatement decisions and timing, and results vary by business, competition, search, and location.
Google provides your Business Profile free of charge. You stay the owner. I’m added as a manager, and my fee covers my time and work, not the profile itself. If we stop working together, you can remove my access at any time, and the profile and everything on it stays with you.
One-time optimization projects are quoted in writing after the consultation. The fee depends on how many profiles are involved, the profile’s current condition, how much of the category, service, and description work needs rebuilding, and whether your website needs changes to match.
Your written quote covers the profiles included, the specific tasks, what’s excluded, the fee and payment terms, the timeline, the access I need, and, for ongoing management, the monthly tasks, reporting, and cancellation terms.
Ongoing profile management
From $350 /month
Google Business Profile management alone. Four-month minimum, then 30 days’ notice to cancel.
Example scope, not a client project
A Charleston service business has a verified profile, but its hours, phone number, and service list are out of date, and its website link points to an old page.
Quoted separately if they come up: reinstating a suspended profile, removing or merging duplicates, verifying a new location, and website rebuilds.
A one-time project would cover:
Your Google Business Profile and your website do different jobs, and each depends on the other. A strong profile that sends people to a weak or mismatched page loses them at the last step.
Google Business Profile
Found in Search and Maps
Your website
Where customers decide
A call, visit, or inquiry
When the two agree
Customers often discover you in Maps, then tap through to your website to decide. If the page they land on doesn’t match the services, hours, or areas on your profile, they leave.
Google’s local results weigh relevance, distance, and prominence. Google says prominence draws on what it knows about your business from across the web, and that your position in regular web results is also a factor. When your name, address, phone, and services don’t match between the two, both get weaker.
In a national sample of local searches collected in August 2026, about 71% of the sources cited in AI Overviews were business websites, while about 80% of the sources cited in AI Mode were Maps listings or Business Profiles.*
Reinstating the mold inspector’s profile was the first step. Page-one visibility came after the profile was optimized and the website was rebuilt to match.
*Brand U Media’s count from Steady Demand’s public citation dataset (“The Front Door Problem”), local-intent searches. The sample covers other U.S. markets, not Charleston, and the publisher notes some website citations may be misclassified.
Greg Hunter
Founder, Brand U Media, LLC
Tell me what’s going on with your profile, and I’ll tell you what I see, whether a one-time project or ongoing help makes sense, and what it would involve. If you’d like to go ahead, I’ll follow up with a written quote.
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Ongoing Google Business Profile management starts at $350 per month for the profile work alone. One-time optimization projects are quoted in writing after a free consultation, based on the number of profiles and their condition.
A one-time project suits a profile that needs correcting once. Monthly management suits businesses whose hours, services, photos, or reviews change often enough to need regular attention.
Yes. You stay the owner and add me as a manager. My fee covers the work, and you can remove my access at any time.
I have successfully helped a Charleston business navigate reinstatement. Support begins with reviewing the circumstances and applicable requirements. Google controls the decision and timing, so reinstatement cannot be guaranteed.
Possible reasons include verification or suspension issues, inaccurate information, categories that don’t fit the business, competition, and the searcher’s location. A review of your profile and circumstances helps identify the appropriate next steps.
Profile optimization focuses on the listing customers encounter in Search and Maps. Local SEO addresses your broader visibility for location-based searches, including your website, business listings, and your profile. I offer either a focused profile project or a broader engagement.
One focused strategy call is all it takes. We'll identify exactly what's holding your online presence back and build a clear plan around it.
Free 30-minute call, no pitch
We'll talk through your situation and figure out what actually makes sense.
Direct access to Greg
You work with me directly — not a junior account rep or offshore team.
No long-term contracts.
You stay because the results keep coming.
