{"id":6876,"date":"2025-03-12T09:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:03:19","slug":"are-seasonal-businesses-eligible-for-a-google-business-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/blog\/are-seasonal-businesses-eligible-for-a-google-business-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Seasonal Businesses Eligible for a Google Business Profile?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Yes, seasonal businesses are eligible for a Google Business Profile as long as they have year-round signage and follow Google&#8217;s guidelines for setting seasonal hours and marking temporary closures in the off-season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1009\" src=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.25.34-1024x1009.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.25.34-1024x1009.png 1024w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.25.34-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.25.34-768x757.png 768w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.25.34.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.26.01-1024x97.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.26.01-1024x97.png 1024w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.26.01-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.26.01-768x72.png 768w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.26.01-1536x145.png 1536w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-12-at-13.26.01.png 1570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The above screenshot from Google\u2019s eligibility guidelines document nearly sums up the whole answer to this question. Seasonal businesses are definitely allowed if they feature year-round signage. The only other thing you need to know comes straight from the main guidelines about hours for seasonal businesses and features the necessary links for setting special hours and for marketing your business as temporarily closed in the off-season:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u200bIf your business has seasonal hours, use the following guidelines:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">During the season your business is open, set your regular hours of operation. You may <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/6303076\">set special hours<\/a> for holidays, temporary closures, or other events.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can also indicate that your business is open only for a specific seasonal period in your business description.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">During off-season, you can mark your business as <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/9790266\">temporarily closed<\/a>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set your regular business hours when your business reopens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, seasonal businesses are eligible for a Google Business Profile as long as they have year-round signage and follow Google&#8217;s guidelines for setting seasonal hours and marking temporary closures in the off-season. The above screenshot from Google\u2019s eligibility guidelines document nearly sums up the whole answer to this question. Seasonal businesses are definitely allowed if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"classification":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6908,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"classification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/classification?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}