How listing works
If you clear cedar, burn pasture, build fence, or spray, you can be listed here. Listing and verifying your business is free. You do not need a website. A lot of the calls for this work start with just a name and a phone number.
Free listing
On the site now, a listing shows:
- Business name
- Town
- Phone, with a tap-to-call button. The number is on the page. It is not behind a form.
- Services
- County, and the area you cover when a public source stated it
- Website, when a public source listed one
- Your logo, after you claim the page. Until then the page shows your initials.
- One photo, after you claim the page.
- A Verified badge, after you claim the page.
Customer reviews, when a customer leaves one. There is no charge to show a review. HirePlains does not write or edit reviews.
You can claim, correct, or remove the listing at no charge. Until you claim it, the page does not show a verified badge. Names always stay in alphabetical order. Listing and verifying your business is free. Ranking is not paid.
See an example listing. It is a made-up business, so you can see a finished page without opening someone else's.
If you do not have a website
Someone who inherits a place, or who lives away from the property, often just needs a local number. The HirePlains page is that number, plus the town and the service. A Google Business Profile is the other place that number can show up, in Maps and in a search like "cedar clearing near me." The helper further down drafts the text but you still have to create the profile yourself.
Featured listing
Coming soon
A paid page is currently not for sale and no pricing is set yet. There are no promises about how many calls it would bring. The example listing shows the layout: a logo, a cover you choose, and a full photo gallery. A claimed page stops at the logo and one photo. The items below are not turned on for real businesses.
- Top placement, labeled, outside the A to Z list
- A photo gallery
- A cover photo and colors you choose
- A customer message form, and the leads it brings
- A monthly report of views, call taps, website clicks, and messages
- We'll help you set up your Google Business Profile
- A Featured badge
We will say what it costs before anyone is asked to pay.
Why a Google Business Profile matters
A Google Business Profile is the free listing Google shows in Google Maps and in local search. HirePlains is not Google, and this page does not sign you in.
- The profile itself is free. Ads are a separate product. You do not have to buy them.
- It is what shows up when someone searches a job and a place, such as "cedar clearing near me." HirePlains cannot put you first. Google decides the order.
- From that listing, a customer can call, get directions, and leave a review.
- It works if you have no store and no website. If you go to the customer, choose a service-area business and hide your home address. You list the towns you travel to instead. Google may still mail a postcard to the address to check that you are the owner. That address does not have to be shown to the public.
Google profile helper
Fill in the blanks. The page writes text you can paste into the profile.This draft is written in your browser from what you type. It does not send your answers anywhere, and it is not saved if you leave.
Description
Google cuts this box off at 750 characters. 0 of 750.
Services list
Add these one at a time in the Services section. Delete any line that is not work you do.
Category suggestions
Google's category list is fixed. A name here might not appear when you type it. Pick the closest one Google offers. Put the specific work, such as cedar or prescribed burn, in the description.
Create the profile yourself
- Open business.google.com in the Google account you control. Copy the text on this page first. It is not saved.
- Add the business. Use the real name. A name stuffed with cities and search words can get the profile suspended.
- Choose a category from the suggestions, or the closest match Google shows.
- If you go to the customer and you do not have a shop, choose a service-area business and hide the home address. Add the towns and counties you actually serve. Do not claim the whole state if you do not go there.
- Add the phone and the hours.
- Paste the description. Stay under 750 characters.
- Add services from the list. Skip any line you do not do.
- Verify. Google requires the owner to verify. They decide how. It is often a postcard, a phone check, or a video. HirePlains cannot verify it for you.
- After it is verified, the owner can add a manager. If you add HirePlains as a manager later, we can help with edits. You stay the owner.