Google Business Profile in Grande Prairie.
It is still called Google My Business by most people who own one, and it is still the highest leverage free thing a local business has. For a lot of your customers it is the only page of yours they will ever see.
Your busiest page is not on your site.
Most people who find you never reach your website at all. They see the profile, read the reviews, look at the photos and tap call. That panel is your storefront now, and most of them are half empty.
The usual state of a profile is one category, no services listed, three photos from whenever it was claimed, a description written in a hurry and a pile of reviews nobody ever replied to. It still works, in the sense that a closed shop with the lights on still exists.
What Google rewards is a profile that looks run. Complete information, the right primary category, every service named, fresh photos, questions answered, reviews responded to and posts going out. Each one is small. Together they are the difference between appearing in the three and appearing on page two.
It is also the fastest thing on this whole page to move. Website work takes weeks to show. A properly rebuilt profile can change what you see in your own search results inside a fortnight.
What gets done to the profile.
A full rebuild first, then it gets run rather than left. Both halves matter and most agencies only sell the first.
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Categories chosen deliberately
The primary category is the single strongest signal on the profile and picking the obvious one is often the wrong call. What your competitors in the map pack use gets checked, not guessed at.
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Every service and product listed
Named individually, described properly, priced only if you want them priced. This is where a lot of long tail searches quietly get matched, and an empty services section throws all of it away.
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Photos that look like the business
Real work, real premises, real vehicles and real people. Geotagged and added on a schedule. Stock photography on a local profile is obvious to customers and useless to Google.
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Reviews asked for and answered
A simple link and a habit so reviews arrive steadily instead of in one suspicious burst, plus a reply to every one of them. Responding is a ranking signal and it is also how you handle the bad ones in public.
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Posts, offers and questions
Posts going out regularly, seasonal offers when they make sense, and the questions section seeded and monitored so the answers come from you rather than from a stranger guessing.
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Watched for damage
Profiles get edited by the public, merged, suspended and hit with fake reviews. Somebody needs to notice. Recovery is far easier in week one than in month three.
It is still Google My Business.
Google renamed it to Google Business Profile in 2021 and then removed the standalone app, so half the province still calls it GMB and searches for it that way. Both names mean the same listing, and it does not matter which one you use on the phone.
What did change is where you manage it. There is no separate dashboard any more, it is edited directly in Google Search and Maps while signed in as the owner, which trips up a lot of people who last touched theirs years ago.
Four steps, no mystery.
Marketing gets sold as a mystery.
Jargon, dashboards nobody opens, and a bill that never quite explains itself.
This runs the opposite way.
You always know what was done, why it was done and what it changed.
Same four steps, every month.
Nothing starts until you have seen the plan and said yes.
The profile work, in their words.
Real Google reviews from the businesses we work with. 5.0 stars across 22 of them, never edited.
Dealing with Darren has been a pleasure. He is prompt, professional, and created a beautiful website for our business. I would recommend him to anyone who needs a website!
Heather Thiessen
Google review
Highly recommend Darren for your website, after the other guys took months to get nowhere on our site, Darren did it in a matter of days. He's highly responsive and has troubleshot and resolved any issues encountered quickly and efficiently. Hire this man today!
Danielle Commandeur
Google review
Darren is amazing working with our band. The rateing should be 10 stars . He scores a 10 Out of 10
TJ Ruckus
Google review
Darren is so amazing to work with . His pictures are amazing. Helped us out so much Highly Recommended
TERRY DOLL
Google review
Darren has been helping us with our website and digital marketing for several years now. He has always delivered excellent service and new ideas. He takes the time to understand our business and his work consistently generates new leads.
Dave Hurta
Google review
Exceptional experience with Sixo Agency in Grande Prairie, AB! Their team transformed our vision into a stunning website. The creativity and attention to detail were impressive, resulting in a user-friendly site that exceeded our expectations. Communication was seamless, and they delivered ahead of schedule. Sixo Agency's passion for web design truly shines through in their work. We're thrilled with the outcome and highly recommend them for anyone seeking top-notch design services in Grande Prairie!
Jay Muir
Google review
Searched high and low for a web design company in Grande Prairie before settling on Darren and Sixo Agency. Very thankful we did, the quality of the design is far superior to our competitors and we started generating some phone calls from it within a week of launch. If you’re searching for someone to do web design…stop your search and hire them, you won’t regret it!
Christine Doherty
Google review
Darren did an amazing job of developing and updating my website. He made sure my site was fully functional on both a computer and mobile device, which was very important to me. He was professional and responded quickly to all of my questions and concerns. I enjoyed working with him and I highly recommend his services.
Dayle Sheehan
Google review
The usual questions.
Is Google Business Profile the same as Google My Business?
Yes. Google renamed Google My Business to Google Business Profile in 2021. Same listing, same map pack, different name and no separate app. Most business owners still say GMB and that is fine.
How long does it take to see more calls from the profile?
Profile work shows faster than almost anything else in search. A rebuilt profile often changes map views and calls within a few weeks. Holding a top three spot for competitive searches takes longer and usually needs the website working with it.
Can you fix a suspended Google Business Profile?
Often, yes. Suspensions usually come from an address issue, a category mismatch or an edit that tripped a filter. It gets diagnosed and appealed with the evidence Google actually asks for. Some cases do not come back, and you will be told honestly if yours looks like one.
Do I keep control of my own profile?
Always. It stays in your Google account and you stay the owner. Access is granted as a manager and can be removed by you at any time. Nobody should ever hold your profile hostage, and a lot of businesses discover too late that theirs is registered to a former agency.
Can you remove a bad review?
Only if it breaks Google policy, and that gets flagged properly when it does. A genuine bad review cannot be deleted and trying is a waste of your money. The better answer is a calm public reply and enough recent honest reviews that one bad one reads as an outlier.
Do I need a physical address to rank locally?
No. Service area businesses without a storefront can rank, and plenty of trades around Grande Prairie do. The setup is different, the address is hidden and the service area is defined deliberately, which is exactly where a lot of profiles are set up wrong.
Also under internet marketing.
Part of the full local marketing lineup.
Let’s get you found.
Sixo Agency is based at 8682 122 Ave in Grande Prairie and works across the Peace Country. Send over what you have and you get a straight answer back within one business day, from the person who would do the work.