Can You Verify Your Google Business Account Without A Postcard?

Sometimes the categories of the business or its authority can affect which ones show, so if you don't get these, you may find you need to look at the business type as the reason Google isn't offering it.

WHY VERIFY?
You need it verified so you can edit your business information across Google so it brings in a stack load of new business / great reviews / new clients
But Google has made verification quite tricky - postcards get lost, for one reason or another its hard to verify it

SKIP VERIFICATION?
If you skip verification, there’s very little point in actually claiming your Google My Business listing in the first place. You won’t be able to use your profile in any meaningful manner.

Today I'm going to show you 7 ways you can Verify your business without a postcard -
this then allows you to take charge of the way your business appears on Google Search and Maps.

What most business owners don't realise is postcard is only one method of verification,
several others you might not know about that are a lot quicker

Google Business Profile expert Zanet Design

//TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Why Verification without a postcard
0:50 7 methods to get instantly GMB verified
1:14 Where to verify your google business profile
2:13 1. Phone Call Verification
2:34 2. Text From Google
2:48 3. Email Your Domain
3:15 4. Google Search Console Authorisation
4:20 5. Google Video Verification
4:45 6. Take Video Recording
5:26 7 Instant Verification
5:45 Example of Instant Verification

VIDEO NOTES
Your Business Profile is a free

0 Verify with POSTCARD:
Wait for your postcard to arrive, then log back into Google My Business and enter the verification code. This code will expire after 30 days so it’s advisable to verify as soon as possible after you receive the postcard.

1 Call
Google Phones you

2 Text
Google text you

3 Email
This uses your domain based on the official website domain

4 Google Search Console
You can add your website to the search console
Then verify domain ownership on your server using the Googles TXT record

5 Video verification
Set an appointment with Google

6 Video Recording

7 Authority
Now it is possible to add a business and Google themselves immediately verifies it for you, no postcard, no video, no phone call or text
it happened during filming by fluke - I was filming how to register a brand new business - the video was called
How To List Your Business On Google Maps ( Step-By-Step Tutorial), it's well worth watching if you haven't seen it - its right here

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[etiennegp]

Google support is absolute garbage. Wasn't able to give them the code. Wasn't able to give them the verification video because it loading infintely and wasnt able to contact them because they dont care.

[marylandwebsitesllc]

What if googles only option is to verify with a business video and you don't have a storefront because you go to the customer.

[mario]

the only option is video verification, is there a reason for that?

[referralmasters]

How do we setup an appointment with Google? I have a new client that can't find his login to his GMB. When I search to add it to our account it only gives me 4 options in another country and wont let me scroll further to find him and request access. On his profile there is no "Own this Business" Link. How can we get access??

[digijulkisivu]

Hi, thanks for the video.
My experience has been that my brand-new company did only get postcard option, but when helping other well-established company which had already email and phone number on google maps probably many years and in use, those verification option then were available for them.

[healaxingsounds]

google is not allowing me to choose a verification method. It only gives me video verification and I'm a service business without a storefront or branded truck? Anybody have some advice?

[thesocial_blues]

How do you submit a business video if the business is home-based?

[emmanuelivwighre]

In case you didn't get a phone call and you tried text option. It did work. What is the alternative?

[karenmay]

How do you set up a video meeting? I don't see that option. My detailed video with all the information was rejected.

[malachi]

The only option I get is to record a video at the location, but the internet is really bad out there. How else can I verify if its not giving me any other options?

[OnyekachukwuChigbo]

Having exhausted the options given by google for my GMB, can they do the verification through the video?

[raymondmendez]

Great video !!! . in my case-problem it is as simple as it is frustrating.😡 I cant verify because the phone number used to verified does not exist any more, no matter what I do it does not show any other option, not even the postcard option. It simply shows " call " or " text " (which it wont work because there is not number ) but when I click options ..nothing happens . There is not email or postcard option to request !! this is affecting us because we moved and changed the phone number.

[guyD]

Seems like they are no longer doing post cards but want video verification, is this only happening to me?

[rocheleleroux]

Help, please. I have set up a new business in South Africa and have received no postcard, it's been over a month and I don't see the other options like you do.

[johnjames]

I followed your instructions and skipped putting in my address after putting a company background and many pictures and all information got lost (at least I cannot find it) . Google did not let me use my company email address and wanted to verify an old company and completely ignored all the new company information. This is a crazy system.I think you need to put your address in to get the postcard and then maybe try and find another way to verify it

[thabodigital]

Thank you! Can i verify business without postcard from different location if i have address ?

[EquityOneSolutions]

It seems as though you can only do it by video. Not any other option it seems.

[yuliatraidova]

Hello Zen from Ecuador, thanks for your videos. You are always on time!
A few days ago, I registered a new photography company, without a physical office in Ecuador, and received that verification would come by post card. How is this possible in Ecuador? Please let me know if I can fix this and how? As I understand that the post office is not working.
Best Regards
Yulia

[johne.meyerpressurewashing]

I cannot get past the postcards-they never arrive.

[yerboyharry]

The only option that I have to verify is a video