Create your website from a Google Maps business listing

A Google Maps business link can save you from retyping your business name, phone number, address and available opening hours. It gives Website Generator Hub a starting point for your roofing or HVAC website. You still supply a business email, and you should check the finished page before publishing it.

The important distinction is between importing information and connecting a live feed. This workflow brings available listing information into a website project. It does not promise every field shown in the Google Maps app, and editing your website does not update your Google Business Profile.

Start with the right listing

1. Open Google Maps and search for your business name and town.
2. Open the individual business listing. Check its address and phone number, especially if another company has a similar name.
3. Use the listing's Share option and copy its link. A link to search results, driving directions or an unlabelled map pin is not a reliable substitute.
4. Open your industry in Website Generator Hub and choose Use a Google Maps link, where available.
5. Paste the link and enter the business email that should receive website enquiries. Add your own logo if you have one.
6. Complete the security check and continue to the website preview.

For a business with multiple branches, use the listing for the branch this website represents. Do not combine one branch's address with another branch's reviews and phone number. If you need a multi-location website, describe that requirement in a custom website enquiry.

Know what can arrive automatically

The importer requests specific listing fields. The result depends on what the provider returns for that business, rather than how much information appears on your screen in Google Maps.

Google's Places resource documentation describes a maximum of five reviews, selected by relevance. Website Generator Hub also skips entries without an author or valid rating. A Google listing with hundreds of reviews will therefore not produce hundreds of review cards.

Get opening hours right without a long timetable

Check the existing contact or footer hours slot rather than expecting an extra timetable section. Matching consecutive days can be grouped, such as Mon–Fri, 8am–5pm. Up to two schedule groups fit the compact display; more variation produces Hours vary by day, with the listing link where available. This example is a format, not a suggested schedule.

A roofing office that answers routine enquiries during the day may also have an emergency phone service. Those are different promises. Do not change the whole business to “Open 24 hours” unless that accurately describes the service visitors can receive.

Check both a normal weekday and any upcoming holiday. Google distinguishes regular hours from temporary exceptions; its special-hours guide explains how to maintain exceptions without replacing the usual schedule. If the source listing is wrong, correct it there as well as checking the website copy.

Add the details a listing cannot explain

A short description is useful even when it is optional. Tell visitors what you actually do: pitched-roof repairs and slate replacement, for example, or heat-pump servicing and air-conditioning installation. Avoid broad claims such as “we do everything” when customers need to know whether you handle their particular problem.

Supply your own logo through the upload field. The current Maps importer does not retrieve a business logo or import a photo library. A category symbol or a reviewer's photograph is not your company logo. Use photographs you have permission to publish, and inspect their crops in both desktop and mobile previews.

A business email must also be entered separately. Choose the mailbox where someone will notice a new enquiry. Importing a phone number successfully does not verify email delivery; that check happens on the final hosted website.

If the link cannot identify your business

The message “This link matches more than one business” means the importer could not confidently choose one listing. It is better to stop than attach a different company's information to your website.

Return to Maps, open the exact business panel and copy its Share link again. Where the short link still fails, try the full business-listing URL from the address bar. Avoid a URL that only contains a search phrase, directions or coordinates. Do not repeatedly submit the same ambiguous link hoping the result will change.

If lookup is temporarily unavailable, choose manual details and continue. You can still create a complete website through the roofing collection or HVAC collection. The Maps route is a convenience, not a requirement for using either collection.

Review the imported page before sharing it

Read the contact block aloud: business name, phone, email, address and hours. Then follow View on Google Maps and confirm it opens the intended listing. Check that reviews still belong to this business and retain their source information. Where no usable reviews were returned, use a link to the real listing or add genuine feedback you have permission to publish.

Read every service description and remove unsupported credentials, guarantees, review claims or emergency promises. For a service business without a customer-facing office, do not add a home address merely to fill a design space.

Google's Business Profile editing guide covers changes to the source profile. Website changes remain separate. Once the preview is accurate, follow Edit and check your website and keep the same confirmed contact details across your website and public business profiles.