How to add photos to your Google Business Profile

How to upload

• Open your profile in Google Maps or the Business Profile app
• Tap Add photo, then choose the type: logo, cover, interior, exterior, team or product
• Upload a few at a time rather than fifty at once
• Check them the next day — Google occasionally removes photos it cannot categorise

The photos worth taking

• Outside your premises, so customers recognise the place when they arrive
• Inside, showing it clean and ready for a customer
• Your team at work, faces visible
• Finished work: before and after pairs are powerful for trades and salons
• Products with prices written in the description, not on the photo
• Your logo, square and sharp

Shooting them well on a phone

• Clean the lens first — it makes more difference than any setting
• Shoot in daylight or near a window, never against a bright doorway
• Hold the phone level and take landscape shots
• Tidy the frame: no bins, no clutter, no unrelated people
• Take five of each shot and keep the best one

How often to add more

Aim for a few new photos every month. Fresh photos show the business is running, give returning customers a reason to look again, and give you material for posts and for your website.

Use the same photos on your website

The photos you take for Google are exactly what your website needs. Real photos of your own work always beat stock images, because customers are trying to judge whether you are genuine. Upload the same set when you build your site and the two will look like one business.