Improve your business summary

Directory cards show your business summary when it contains usable business information. Some older imports stored a website-access error, such as “Access to the website is restricted; no business information can be retrieved.” Known error-only messages are omitted from public business cards and featured-business cards. Your business name, category, location and contact details remain available.

This display check preserves the original stored text so you can review and replace it. Your owner editor and the administrator editor still show that original text. Descriptions of real services, income-restricted housing and website-repair services continue to display normally.

Update your summary

1. Sign in with the account that has an approved claim for your business.
2. Open Dashboard, find your listing and click Edit listing.
3. Open the Basic Info tab. Short Description and Description start with the text currently stored for your listing.
4. In Short Description, write a factual sentence about what your business offers, up to 160 characters. Include a service or product customers can identify. Use your actual business information.
5. In Description, add useful detail about your services, customers and service area. Replace any imported website-error message with your own accurate description.
6. Click Save Changes. Look for Listing updated successfully! Your public profile shows the changes now.
7. Click View public profile to review the result, then find your business in Search to check its directory card.

An empty summary is also allowed. Saving an empty field removes that text rather than inventing a replacement. The display check has no owner setting to turn on or off.

The profile's Questions about your business section can use the first one or two complete sentences from your description to answer what you offer, within a 320-character limit. Domain names and decimal numbers stay part of those sentences. When a suitable excerpt is unavailable, the answer uses your listing's business type instead. This display step does not edit your saved description and has no separate setting.

If editing shows Claim Pending Approval, editing opens after approval. See Verify ownership. For other listing fields and photo instructions, see Edit your business listing.