Your Google Business Profile is how most local customers find you, on Google Search and on Maps. Connecting it is the first thing Beside asks for, because it is where your reviews, your photos, and your public details live.
Connect your profile
Select Continue with Google and sign in with the account that manages your Business Profile. Beside confirms which business it is linking to, and you can select Change if it has the wrong one.
Once you are set up, you can also do it from Connectors under Workspace in the left menu, or from the Connect Google Business Profile card under Plans for Review on your Beside Agent page.
✅ Read-only to start with: Beside studies your profile, your reviews, and your local market to build your growth plan. Nothing is posted until you approve it. The connection is encrypted, and you can revoke it at any time.
If you would rather not sign in yet
Select Find my business on Google instead, then search by name and city. Beside reads your public reviews without connecting your profile, so you can see what it finds before deciding.
This is also the way through if someone else holds the Google account, for example a former agency or the person who built your website. You can connect properly later.
What happens in the first ten minutes
You do not have to go looking for the first result. About ten minutes after you connect, Beside writes to you in chat with what it has already prepared, for example Your Google profile is connected. I drafted replies to 4 reviews. One more reply is waiting for you in Reviews. I wrote your first Google post.
Underneath that message you get:
A card to approve the review replies together, with a link to read them first
Your first Google post, to approve or turn down
Keeping your profile complete
A thin profile costs you customers quietly, so Beside checks yours every week and proposes what is missing: your description, your services, your categories and your opening hours, written from your website and your audit.
The first time it finds gaps, it asks you once in chat: Can I keep your Google profile up to date from your website and audit? You answer Yes, keep it updated or Not now.
📌 What your answer changes:
Yes, keep it updated puts those details on automatic upkeep, so later fixes follow your autonomy setting instead of asking you every time.
Not now changes nothing. Beside keeps proposing the gaps it finds, and each one waits for you.
Your categories always wait for your approval either way, because changing them changes what you show up for.
What Beside does once connected
Keeps your hours, services, service area, and contact details accurate, and flags it when your sources disagree. 📖 Keep your business information accurate
Drafts and publishes replies to your reviews. 📖 Request and manage your reviews
Pulls your Google photos and reviews onto your website every day. 📖 Set up your Beside website
Beside asks separately before it starts working with Google Business on its own, and you can keep it on Ask first for as long as you want. 📖 Choose what Beside can do on its own
FAQ
Will Beside post something without me seeing it?
Will Beside post something without me seeing it?
Not at the start. The connection is read-only, and nothing is posted until you approve it. Later, if you choose Allow for Google Business, Beside can act on its own, and every task it starts that way is recorded as such.
I just connected and nothing has happened.
I just connected and nothing has happened.
Give it about ten minutes. Beside reads your profile and reviews first, then writes to you in chat with drafted replies and your first post ready to approve. If you reconnect a profile you had connected before, you will not get that message again.
Beside asked if it can keep my Google profile up to date. What am I agreeing to?
Beside asked if it can keep my Google profile up to date. What am I agreeing to?
That it can fill in the details that are missing or out of date on your profile, your description, services and opening hours, using what it already knows from your website and your audit. It is asked once. Saying Not now means it keeps proposing those fixes for you to approve one by one instead. Your categories always wait for your approval either way.
Can I disconnect my profile later?
Can I disconnect my profile later?
Yes, the connection can be revoked at any time, from Connectors.
Beside linked the wrong business. How do I fix it?
Beside linked the wrong business. How do I fix it?
Select Change next to the business name on the connection screen.