Google My Business - Complete Listing Optimization Training (Udemy.com)
Watch over my shoulder and see step by step and see how I optimise a LIVE Google My Business listing.
Created by: Joshua George
Last updated September 2026
What you will learn
- Learn how to optimise your Google My Business listing
- Find out what the top GMB ranking factors are
- Find out what citations are and how to build them to correct way
- How to generate more reviews for your business
- How to deal with fake reviews on your GMB listing
- How to set up Google Ads for your local business within the GMB dashboard
- Learn about the Google algorithms that affect local search results
How it compares
Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in SEO on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 42% of them
- Reviews1,451#31 of 113 by number of reviews
- Length3.7 hoursshorter than 54% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 92% of them
Course Description
Are you looking for a Google My Business (GMB) course that shows you how to rank Google my business listings?
Great, you’re in the right place.
Maybe you own a local business and would like to optimise your GMB listing OR maybe you would like to learn the whole process so you can offer it as a service to local business owners.
Whichever one it is, you can be sure I’ve got you covered.
I don’t just talk the talk; I actually walk the walk and live it too.
In this course, you’ll be able to watch me in real-time as I optimise a LIVE Google My Business listing and get it ranked.
At the end of the course, you’ll find that this GMB listing ranking for some BIG keywords.
The process I follow throughout the course is the SAME process I use when ranking my client GMBs, so you can be confident what you’re learning is indeed used in the real world and does actually work.
What you’ll learn by taking this GMB Course
Learn how to optimise your Google My Business listing
Find out what the top GMB ranking factors are
Find out what citations are and how to build them to correct way
How to generate more reviews for your business
How to deal with fake reviews on your GMB listing
How to set up Google Ads for your local business within the GMB dashboard
Google algorithms that affect the map pack (Where GMBs rank)
A reliable company you can use to outsource local pack rankings (hint, they’re not who you think they are)
Literally everything you need to be able to implement a successful GMB campaign.
There are tons of resources for you to download throughout the course and lots of bonus tips and tricks you can use as well.
Fact: 97% of consumers searched online to find a local business in their area. (Hubspot)
There’s never been a better time to master GMB optimisation.
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Before we go any further, let us just say, I don’t want you to be disappointed.
If you don’t like this course for any reason, you can get a full refund in the first 30 days, which is backed by Udemy’s 30-day guarantee, with no questions asked!
This is not just a guarantee, it's my personal promise to you that I will go out of my way to help you succeed.
Invest in your business today and never look back.
Enrol now.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
1,451 Reviews
Joshua George
Joshua is the founder of the Award Winning SEO Agency in the UK called ClickSlice. Joshua originally got involved with SEO as an end result of selling on eBay. He loved selling on eBay but hated paying the eBay commission fees. Instead of paying eBay every time he sold an item he decided to make his own website where he could sell as many items as he wanted without paying any fees.
After building the website he noticed his site was nowhere to be found in Google and no one was buying his products.
As you do, he started to Google things like “how to get my website higher in Google” and stumbled across SEO in 2016.
Joshua remembers this day like it was yesterday and says whilst smiling “Sept 13th 2013, the day I stumbled across SEO. I knew from this point on my future would take a different direction”.
This was the date Joshua started learning exactly how SEO works. He mastered the skill within 3 years and now regularly helps business owners in the UK rank higher in Google and generate more revenue.
SEO is forever changing, to stay on top of your game you have to constantly be trying and testing new things. Joshua regularly attends SEO conferences across the world to ensure he’s always updated on the latest Google algorithm updates and trends. He spends most of his time as an SEO consultant For businesses in London.
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Reviews
By Srishti Tody on 2/12/2026
This course is very basic and feels very outdated - in the fast paced world of google updates and AI. GMB is now not even called as such and is now google business profile (GBP), that should have alone alerted me to the fact that the course is now quite as updated as I would have liked. I skipped through most of it..better courses out there.
By Rob Hughes on 1/25/2026
I recently completed the Google My Business (GMB) certification course by Joshua George, and I can confidently say it exceeded my expectations. I appreciated how clear, easy to follow, no waffle, straight to the point, practical, and up-to-date the content is. I'm confident now in GBP management and I'm glad that I chose this course, very helpful with some great nuggets of powerful ranking techniques.
By Rennel Luna on 8/1/2025
I recently completed the Google My Business (GMB) certification course by Joshua George, and I can confidently say it exceeded my expectations. As an SEO professional, I appreciated how clear, practical, and up-to-date the content was. Joshua’s experience as an award-winning SEO agency owner really shows—he delivers actionable strategies, not just theory.
By Iqasela on 2/6/2024
Very Easy to understand. I learned a lot about Google Business Profile, This was a great course for me to take ,The content of the videos, and the way of presentation was excellent, helping to understand the steps without any questions. Thank you .
By Icesis Cruz on 1/12/2023
This optimization training was just what I needed to take my business to the next level. This is a complete a-z course in which you will learn how to set up your Google My Business listing, understand the order the Google Gods place business on the search results page, and gives you the tools you can use to keep track of how your business is ranking. Also the teacher was not boring and kept a rapid pace so I actually finished the class! LOL Calm down if I missed something I paused and was able to rewind 10 seconds at a time. I highly recommend this course!
By Zaid Mohsen on 9/25/2022
I like that it covers all aspects and offers some useful tools There is also written content for those who cannot understand clearly. Like me, I am not fluent in English, but I can understand and what was written has helped me.
By Kristina Vignjević on 1/10/2022
Very interesting course, especially for beginners, the lecturer explains in detail and clearly lessons. This course helped me understand how to improve my Google ranking and the SEO. I will report the results of the acquired knowledge. Thank you very much.
By Anant Kumar Maurya on 10/8/2020
I found that this course is not cover all aspects of Google My Business Listing. For example- In this course you will not learn how to setup multiple locations for the same business?
By Sidney Johnson on 7/6/2020
Wow! This was an extremely well put together course, specialized for Google My Business. It is clear with "Real World" explanations utilizing a real business. The course itself is manageable to digest in bite-size learning chunks. The instructor is concise, no fluff, yet to the point so that you can go apply your newly claimed skills into action.
By Moeen Mustaq Fruitwala on 6/22/2020
Joshua George is a good online teacher .. I took the course and i got the advise i needed for the Google My Business . He is a hardworking tutor but he can do better ! Thanks Joshua ! . I have learned many things from you . Hoping to gets results as soon as possible !
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