How to appear on Google Maps

You would love to report your business on Google Maps but are you afraid that this costs a lot of time and money? Nothing more wrong. To put your shop, your hotel or your office on Google maps, all you have to do is fill out a form and have a little skill in promoting your presence on the service. How? Well, read this guide on how to appear on Google Maps and you will find out. I assure you, the procedure is much simpler and faster than you imagine.

How do you say? You don’t have a business but would like to understand how to appear on Google Maps in the sense that you would like to use the function attached to the service to report your position on the map to all your friends? No problem, I can also explain this to you. Even in this case, it is a procedure at everyone’s door and it only takes a few minutes to complete.

In short, whatever your needs and regardless of whether you want to act as a computer or mobile, with this article of mine today you will find bread for your teeth. Having said that, I can not help but suggest you take a few minutes of free time all for yourself, get comfortable and immediately start concentrating on reading the instructions below. I am sure that in the end you will be able to tell yourself very happy and satisfied with what you have learned and that, in case of need, you will be ready to provide all the necessary explanations to your friends eager to “follow in your footsteps”. Let it bet?

Note: Regardless of whether you want to appear on Google Maps to report your business or to indicate your location to friends, you need a Google account. If you don’t already have one, take a look at my article on how to create a Google account to find out what steps to take to be able to create it right away.

Mark your business on the map

From computer

If you are interested in understanding how to appear on Google Maps in the sense that you are interested in reporting the presence of your business on the map, the first step you must take is to connect to the main page of the service, click on the button with the three lines that is placed at the top left and choose to Add a missing place from the menu that is shown to you.

At this point, if you have already logged in to your Google account, go directly to reading the next paragraph, otherwise, click on the Enter button in the box displayed on the screen and log in by typing your e-mail address and password in the fields displayed.

Then fill out the form displayed at the top left providing all the information you are asked for. Enter symbol to name the place name and symbol to address the reference address. In correspondence with the Category item,  select the category to which your business belongs, while next to the Phone and Website items indicate, respectively, the address of the reference Internet site and the telephone number. Then click on Add times to indicate the times in which the commercial activity in question is active and finally presses the Send button.

Once this is done, the data you provide will be sent to Google and within a short time you should be able to appear on Google Maps. In any case, when your business is made visible on Maps you will receive a confirmation email from Google.

If you want to speed up the process and facilitate the indexing of your business by big G, I recommend that you report your contact details on as many external sites as possible. The higher the number of sites on which your shop/office data will appear (address, telephone and online contact details), the higher the probability that this will be highlighted on Google Maps. But please, always use the same data, otherwise the “trick” will not work!

Someone has reported your business on Google Maps without your permission and you want to claim it? In this case, locate the exact point on the map where your business is located and click on the relevant indicator and then choose the Claim this activity item from the tab that is shown to you on the left and follow the simple procedure that is shown on the screen. If, on the other hand, you want to make changes to the card relating to your business on the map, click on the item Suggest a change, fill out the form with the info you want to edit and then confirm that you want to send everything to Google.

From smartphones and tablets

You can also report your business on the map using your smartphone or tablet, by downloading the Google Maps app available for Android and iOS. Once you have downloaded the application and complete installation, start Google Maps by tapping on its icon that has been added on the device screen where all the apps are grouped, then log in with your account (if you have not yet done so to do so) and find the point on the map where you want to report the presence of your business.

Once this is done, press the button with the three lines located in the upper left part of the screen, choose the Add a missing place item from the menu that is shown to you and fill out the form on the screen with all the required information. Enter a symbol to name the place name and symbol to address the reference address. Using the Category item,  on the other hand, select the category to which your business belongs, while next to the Phone and Website items enter, respectively, the address of the reference Internet site and the telephone number. Then click on Add times to select the times in which the activity in question is “working” and to finish the stage on the item  Send located at the top right.

As for the timing of putting online, they are practically the same as I indicated in the previous lines, when I explained how to appear on Google Maps by acting as a computer. The same goes for the “trick” to speed up the publication procedure.

If, on the other hand, you want to claim your activity reported by someone else, locate it on the map, stop on the relevant indicator, make a stipe from the bottom up to view the relevant card and then stop on Claim this activity and then follow the procedure that it is shown to you in scremo. To make changes, instead, stop on Suggest change.

Report your location on the map to friends

From smartphones and tablets

If, on the other hand, you are interested in understanding how to appear on Google Maps in the sense that you want to find out how to report your position on the map to friends and how to know where they are, you can rely on the specific function of sharing the location attached to the service. Obviously, in order to take advantage of the aforementioned functionality it is essential that the users with whom you intend to share the position also have a Google account and have downloaded and installed the official app of the service on their smartphone or tablet.

If you want to take advantage of this function, start Google Maps on your smartphone, press the button with the three lines located at the top left and select the item Share location (on Android) or Friends (on iOS)  from the bar that appears on the side. Then press the Start button and choose whether to share your location for 1 hour or until deactivated (therefore forever). Finally, choose the item Select people and indicate the friends to be allowed to track your location.

Once this is done, the friends with whom you have chosen to share your location on the map will receive an alert on their mobile phone (as well as an informative e-mail message) that will notify them of the fact and invite them to enable sharing of the map. position. If they decline, you will see a warning appear indicating that those given people do not intend to share their location with you.

As for the friends who have agreed to be “located”, you can possibly know the path to take in order to reach them by tapping on their photo at the top of the Friends screen, pressing on the name of the place where they are and starting the reception directions by tapping the Departure item at the bottom.

Keep in mind that being able to appear on Google Maps as I have just indicated it is essential that the location is enabled and is kept constantly active on the smartphone or tablet you are using. How you do it? Very easy, just follow the directions you find right below.

• On Android: you can enable localization simply by calling up the notifications menu by swiping from top to bottom on the display and then tapping on the Position button so as to turn it ON. For more information see my guide on how to locate Android.
• On iOS: just tap on the Settings icon on the home screen, then on  Privacy and then on Localization after which you have to locate the Google Maps item from the displayed list, press on it and choose the Always option from the new screen that will go to open. For more details read my article on how to activate iPhone location (also valid for iPad).

From computer

From a computer, unfortunately, it is not yet possible to start the procedure for sharing the position on the map but, if you have enabled the function from your mobile or tablet, you can still manage and view your contacts on Google Maps also from a browser. To do this, go to the main page of Maps, click on the button with the three lines located at the top left and choose the item Location sharing from the menu that is shown to you.

At this point, if one or more friends have chosen to withdraw their position visible on the map you can view them at the top of the menu that has opened and by clicking on their photos you can see directly on Google Maps where they are. If, on the other hand, no friend has chosen to share their location with you, you will be shown a special notice.

By clicking instead on the words Manage your location always attached to the menu, you can consult the list of friends for whom you have chosen to appear on Google Maps and you can possibly disable the geolocation function by simply clicking on the x placed next to their names.