Connect Google Business Profile
Connecting your Google Business Profile lets SimplifyLocal post your finished jobs to your Google listing and show your Google reviews on your pages.
Where to connect
Section titled “Where to connect”Open Setup → Connect Google Business Profile, or go to Settings → Connections and find the Google Business Profile card. Only an admin can connect or disconnect it.
- Press Connect Google Business Profile. A short screen explains what the connection is for.
- Press Continue to Google. Google asks you to sign in and approve access. Pick the Google account that manages your Business Profile.
- If that account manages more than one location, SimplifyLocal asks you to Pick your location. Posts go to the one you pick. With a single location, it’s picked for you.
The card then shows Connected and the listing ID of the location, so you can quote it if you ever contact support.
What this lets us do
Section titled “What this lets us do”- Post your job pages to your Business Profile, where they show up on Google and Maps.
- Read your customer reviews, so we can show them on your published job pages and your dashboard. See Reviews on pages.
What we’ll never do
Section titled “What we’ll never do”- Post anything other than your own job pages.
- Reply to your reviews, or read or send messages.
- Change your business name, hours, photos, or anything else on your profile.
How posting works
Section titled “How posting works”Each morning we look at your newest pages and draft a Google post for the ones that fit. The drafts land on the Posts page, where you can edit, approve or archive them. See Review and approve posts.
With Publish automatically turned on (under Settings → General), the posts for new pages go out by themselves, up to 2 a day. The rest wait on the Posts page for you. Turn the setting off if you’d rather approve every post.
The daily limit
Section titled “The daily limit”We treat your Google profile as something to keep fresh, not flood. Two posts a day is the recommended ceiling: after the second post of the day the app tells you “You’re at the recommended ceiling for the day. More posts can crowd your profile.” You can still approve more by hand, up to a hard limit of 5 posts a day. Past that, approving a post shows “You’ve reached today’s hard limit of 5 posts. Contact us to lift this cap.”
If the card says Reconnect
Section titled “If the card says Reconnect”Google can withdraw access on its side, for example after you remove SimplifyLocal from your Google account. The card then shows Reconnect. Press it and approve access again; nothing else changes.
Disconnecting
Section titled “Disconnecting”Press Disconnect on the card. We stop posting and stop reading your reviews, and we ask Google to remove our access. What is removed and kept is listed in Disconnect and data deletion.