Hook Your Page Into Google

HOOK YOUR PAGE UP TO GOOGLE — FOR GLASS SLINGERS MEMBERS

Hook your page up to Google — step by step, nothing skipped.

Your membership just gave you a page on WFR For My Car. Now you have to tell Google it exists.

Glass Slingers is where glass customers find you — and your membership there runs through WFR For My Car, which is where your own page lives. Google is where your customers come from. Until Google knows this page is yours, Google keeps sending people to the old place — or to no place at all.

Read this first, because it decides everything:

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A WEBSITE AT ALL, THIS PAGE IS YOUR WEBSITE.

That is not a figure of speech. You do not need to buy one, build one, or wait for one. The page we just made you is a real web page with your name, your phone number, and your work on it. From today, when anybody asks for your website address, this is the address you give them:

your WFR page address — the one from your membership

Now hook it into Google. One step at a time. This takes about five minutes.

STEP 1 — OPEN YOUR GOOGLE BUSINESS PROFILE.

Your Google Business Profile is your shop’s free listing on Google — the box that shows your name, address, phone number, and reviews when somebody searches for you or finds you on Google Maps. Open the Google Maps app on your phone and tap your shop. Or, on a computer, go to google.com/business and pick your shop. Either way works.

STEP 2 — OPEN THE EDIT SCREEN.

Tap “Edit profile.” On some phones it shows as a pencil symbol instead of words. Same button.

STEP 3 — FIND THE WEBSITE FIELD.

Scroll until you see the field labeled “Website.” A field is just a box with a label where you type something in. This is the box where Google keeps the web address it sends your customers to.

STEP 4 — PUT YOUR PAGE IN THE BOX.

Tap inside the Website box. Delete whatever is sitting in there, so the box is empty. Then type — or paste — this address, exactly as written:

your WFR page address — the one from your membership

STEP 5 — SAVE IT.

Tap “Save.” That is the whole hookup. Google can take a day or two to show the change. That is normal. You did your part.

ALREADY HAVE A WEBSITE OF YOUR OWN?

Then your Website box is not empty — it points at your site. When your new WFR page goes live, do the same five steps and switch the box to your new page address. Your new page is the one tied into the WFR network, your leads, and your listings. That is the address Google should be sending people to.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED (do this the next day).

Search your shop’s name on Google, the way a customer would. Tap the “Website” button on your listing. Your WFR page should open. If it does, you are hooked up. If it opens something else, run the five steps once more and check that the address in the box matches the one above, letter for letter.

One last thing, said plain:

NO HOOKUP, NO LEADS. Google is where the customers come from. If Google does not know this page is your website, the customers Google sends out never land on it. Five minutes, one time, and it is done.

Questions? Reply to this message and we will walk you through it, step by step, until it is done.

— WFR For My Car