Your Google Business Profile is seen more often than your website — every map search, every “open now”, every review check. And most Prague profiles sabotage themselves in the same seven ways.
1. Hours that lie
Czech public holidays are the classic trap: Google asks you to confirm holiday hours, nobody does, and a customer stands outside a closed door blaming you, correctly.
2. One language only
Prague customers search in Czech and English. A description written in both, and categories set precisely, tells Google to show you to both markets.
3. The website link goes nowhere useful
Linking a restaurant profile to a homepage instead of the menu, or a salon to a site with no booking button, wastes the click at its hottest moment.
4. Reviews without replies
An unanswered bad review reads as guilt; an unanswered good one reads as indifference. Reply to both — you’re writing for the readers, not the reviewer.
5. Stock photos, or none
Profiles with fresh, real photos get dramatically more direction requests and calls. Phone-quality is fine here; recency beats polish.
6. Ignoring the Q&A section
Anyone can answer questions on your profile — including guessing strangers. Seed it yourself with the five questions you hear weekly, answered properly.
7. Treating it as set-and-forget
Google rewards activity: posts, photo updates, refreshed services. Fifteen minutes a week compounds into rankings money can’t shortcut.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Weekly activity — a photo, a post or refreshed details — signals a living business and compounds into rankings.
Yes — Czech public holidays are the classic trap; a customer at a closed door blames you, correctly.
Both — Prague customers search in both, and Google shows your profile to the language it matches.
To the page that converts: the menu for restaurants, booking for salons — not a generic homepage.
Yes, including guessing strangers — seed it yourself with your five weekly questions answered properly.
Strongly — profiles with fresh, real photos get significantly more direction requests and calls.

