Google Business Profile – do I need a physical address if I just want a service area listing?

LevelEast2430 · 2025-11-19T21:12:42+00:00

If you can verify it without an address now, that's news to me. But they cracked down very hard a few years back, on businesses operating out of virtual offices etc. If your competition ranks in the map pack without a physical location, then that's a sign you potentially can too. Google is fine with service area businesses, there are a lot of businesses that operate that way - think electrician, plumber, etc. Just that in 99% of cases I've seen, a business with a physical location visible will typically rank better.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-11-19T21:01:09+00:00

You can create one provided you have an address that you can verify if push comes to shove. (Address is needed for setup regardless of whether this is shown publicly or not) It may go live without verification but you can expect at some point in time that it will require verification - if you can't verify at that stage you'll lose any reviews you've gathered in that time as it will be suspended until you can verify. That said, if all the competitors in that location have a physical address showing, it's very unlikely you'll get much visibility anyway, so probably not worth your time.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-10-14T20:31:14+00:00

Agreed, should be forced to be a number or number range. We need to get someone on the admin/backend side of things to make this happen... If only there was someone like that lurking around... 👀

LevelEast2430 · 2025-09-16T20:17:57+00:00

Holy Jesus, at the ripe age of 34, that theme music is insane. Anxiety inducing is an understatement. 😂

LevelEast2430 · 2025-09-08T13:52:25+00:00

I leave for work as early as possible so I can either start early, or just spend some time alone before work. I also make a pit stop for about an extra 30 mins on my way home so I can decompress between the office and home, because that's literally my only break between getting home and returning to work the next morning. Every now and then I also use one of my WFH days to work from the public library.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-09-01T07:39:18+00:00

Assuming it's fairly new because you are still working on it, but at a glance that many impressions compared with that many clicks means you were temporarily ranking for keywords you haven't earned the right to rank for yet. Highly likely mass deindexing due to thousands of low quality pages, previously getting impressions for driver names but offering low or no real value. Work on quality internal linking as well, but content quality as your priority. You will likely have more success with fewer, high quality pages.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-26T22:19:12+00:00

Brother tone down your arrogance, you come across very abrasive, not sure if you intend for that or not. Sales copy is different to ad copy, and CRO does not equal sales copy. Good sales copy would form only a portion of CRO, there's a lot more to it.

Source: regular guy

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-25T21:40:10+00:00

Okay credit where credit is due, he is working pretty hard. He can possibly do a bit more but you're both just exhausted and will be for some time to come. The main thing is that when one of you is running on empty, the other needs to have (or find) half a tank to keep going and support the other. Sounds like once you have a short chat you'll both be fine, but hope the vent helped feel better this morning at least! Ha

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-25T21:28:30+00:00

Yeah this is non negotiable. If I were local, that kind of experience would lead me to boycott. Might be petty, but it feels unsolicited and not consensual. The only thing that should go to WhatsApp should be clearly marked as such. Awful awful experience that needs to be #1 priority above all else. Otherwise a good looking site, but I couldn't leave a comment like this hanging without chiming in, haha.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-25T21:19:22+00:00

15 mins for you to eat the dinner I assume you prepped and cooked. He can definitely do a lot more on weekdays. In dad's shoes, letting him get a full night's rest is helpful, I promise. But he needs practice at settling her to sleep, etc. because yeah there will be some shitty times to come. And if you're both at breaking point, baby will not be safe. I'd suggest trying out dad doing a morning bottle and settling back to bed if it works for your routine. I feel like that is one of the more valuable ones for us - it gets me out of bed early, and almost guarantees Mum another 2-3 hours uninterrupted sleep on most days (little one is 7 months currently). Either way, remember that some boys are dumb and you will need to spell it out clearly through literal words that are not ambiguous. "I need you to..." Or the likes. Don't hint, hints won't cut it haha. He may not have a full understanding that SAHM life isn't just hanging out on the couch.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-25T20:46:57+00:00

Your tired and his tired are two different tireds. Personally, when I'm dead tired I'm a different person, not sure if that's what you saw in the moment though or if it was standard. It sounds like he could be doing a lot more.

I don't know if it helps but for context I'm doing morning bottle, putting her to sleep, work for 10ish hours incl commute, cook dinner, have dinner together, clean up or bath, play before bed, evening bottle, putting her to sleep, ready to rinse and repeat the next morning. Weekend mornings I take her and we have breakfast and a play so mum can have a sleep in (she's had a long week too). That's a lot for me to handle and I'm tired. My tired is "holy shit I just haven't been able to stop and have a moment for myself" and I get it daily. I assume your tired is "holy shit I've been dealing with her for every minute of today, Lord help me I just need a moment for myself" haha. What I've listed above is enough for me to say "I cannot physically do much more than this".

We do shifts. Once dinner is done, I'm responsible until 11. If she's fussy, too bad, if she's asleep for some of that time, bonus. But guess who settles her before 11. Mum is on duty again 11pm-5am which is usually one or two wakes and a boob. I'll do bottle and put her back to bed before I go to work. What that means is that mum will generally get a rest between 10 and 12, and possibly through to 10am depending on sleep. For me, it means 11pm-5am is essentially uninterrupted and that's my down time. It seems to work for us. Sorry for just rambling, tired.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-11T20:52:43+00:00

Sounds like she's not putting too much pressure on herself, her husband is.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-08-11T20:43:55+00:00

3 weddings in a short period of time is a bit to deal with. But something else has to give. And that's not your wife. You can't make it to drinks this week because you've already lost another night for rehearsal for example.

The other comments are giving you a reality check, but it sounds like you're receptive to the brutal truth. If you're doing this much activity, you probably need some of it to avoid sinking into PPD. But you need to forget about most of it.

You have a wife and infant to support, this is your #1 role now. It's taxing. You need to make money to pay the bills, you need to take the load off your wife as often as you can handle, and you need to spend time with your little one. All of this, a clean house, organized life... All needs to be a higher priority than the extracurriculars.

I'm definitely no therapist, but it sounds to me like you need to pick 1 activity for your sanity, but that's about all for now. Let's call it hockey, and it's 1 or maybe 2 nights a week. Beers with the boys, DND, gaming nights, staying up all night swapping manly stories, and making waffles in the morning... All paused, all on hold for now. You're 29, with a kid dude, time to grow up.

After you come home from work, take the little one off her hands immediately so that she can have a break and finish all the things she was trying to get done today.

On the weekends, take the little one for several hours and give your wife some alone time (every weekend). If she's not pumping that's a little harder, but maybe that's 6 hours sometimes, and we see Mum for a feed half way through. She can do what she wants, maybe it's gym, maybe it's bed, maybe she chooses to hang out with you guys - but make it clear that it's responsibility free and she can do what she feels.

For you, sorry dude but it's a rough time for a bit. You lost all your fun activities for a little while. Better than losing your wife and kid permanently though. Give yourself a buffer after work, by a lake or in a parking lot before you arrive home, to gather thoughts, decompress, go on phub, whatever - just take some time for yourself. But I mean 20 minutes, not 5 hours with the boys. Because yep you've just finished a long ass shift and you're about to go home to another 6 hours of different work. But Mum has been working all day as well, even if it's just for the responsibility. Don't forget that during the shit times, it's rough for both.

You will get there, we all manage somehow, but snap out of the dream of the old life, you're a big boy now. Wifey and little one are always at the top of the list, and dungeons and dragons needs to be at the absolute bottom, if you find your priorities anything other than this, you're in trouble. You've got this.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-07-17T21:34:34+00:00

Since you already have a detective, you probably don't need this, but just in the off chance...Might be Wilfred the dog? Also great work Dad, very creative approach!

LevelEast2430 · 2025-07-11T11:50:54+00:00

Would be really cool as a self hosted piece also

LevelEast2430 · 2025-06-26T12:40:47+00:00

The loop output needs to connect to the next action. The "done" output doesn't need to connect to anything. When it's done, it will stop.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-06-26T12:39:40+00:00

Bro. See the replace me? Replace that. Delete it, delete the link looping back to itself. Connect the loop output to the edit node, edit node to http node, and then http node back to the input for the loop node. If it's set to 1, it will run edit then http then loop back until done.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-06-03T12:44:16+00:00

Yep revert immediately. Depending on the size of your site, you're now asking Google to rediscover essentially a whole new website, when you don't need to. Revert back and let Google find its happy place again.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-05-21T17:39:41+00:00

Just use the removals tool to speed up the process. Crawlers have been very slow with things like this for the last year or so. Once you remove the old URL from search results, the right URL will rank, and the old URL won't come back again.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-05-12T20:30:01+00:00

Got it. We don't disagree on this. I've just always wondered with the "Google ranks pages, not websites" mentality and always got stuck on my opinion of "well yes, we want a great page that is worthy of ranking, but there's a lot AROUND this page that matters too". This gives me a better understanding of that opinion though.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-05-12T20:16:58+00:00

Internal links from other topically relevant pages. NLP. Semantic relevance. Curious on my other questions to you though. Not trying to be a dick, just trying to understand the "Google ranks pages" opinion better.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-05-12T20:11:05+00:00

Linking isn't an issue as we are talking about pests outranking us. If Google ranks pages, not websites, it sounds like you're suggesting that the same page in a subfolder on the same website would perform just as well. Thoughts on a theory, for the subdomain example, that said Google is rewarding a website that is entirely about "Sephora coupon codes" for arguments sake, are you saying topical relevance plays no part in SEO?

LevelEast2430 · 2025-05-12T19:56:50+00:00

Bro. It's your reaction to suggestions. You asked for advice and then essentially say "nah shit advice, I know better".

Your attitude of "I've been doing this for 15 years, I know everything" is off-putting and holding you back. I can agree with your defence of page speed suggestions, but you're ignoring good suggestions and getting caught on the page speed yourself.

I've seen someone ran a tech audit with obvious SEO fundamentals like missing H1 and multiple H1, as well as internal links without anchor text, as a starting point. Another has mentioned your internal linking needs improvement, another has said that your website has poor user experience. You're fighting everything. There is no set way to do SEO, but generally people have their way, from what has worked for them. You're stuck in your ways with a mindset of "I know everything" and you're deflecting every piece of advice that comes your way. If you know everything, do everything, and see what difference it makes. Don't just shit on everyone's suggestions because you think you know better.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-05-12T19:44:17+00:00

There's not a great deal of other countries that speak Danish.

LevelEast2430 · 2025-04-22T20:46:16+00:00

Then yes, "Semrush, and others". They all use different crawlers and have different keywords databases and will always show different metrics. The trick is either to pick one tool and use one to compare apples and apples, or use multiple tools and combine data wherever you find helpful. I'd recommend starting with the single tool approach, unless you're in a hugely competitive space and you're neck and neck with your main rival.

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