--- title: "Google categories for general contractors" description: "Choose Google categories that fit your contracting business. 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Choose Google Business Profile categories from the business you operate. Start with your core contracting work, compare the available options, and record why each proposed category fits. Keep that decision beside your website service list. Google directs businesses to use few categories, select specific categories that represent their main business, and avoid treating categories as keywords. [Google's representation guidelines, checked 2026.10.23](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en). This worksheet helps you brief the profile owner. It supplies no account edit or prediction of search visibility. ## Describe the company before choosing categories Write a plain sentence explaining what your business does. Have the owner approve it against current services and accepted projects. Distinguish your general contracting role from individual trades performed by other businesses. Separate current work from planned expansion. Leave a future service out of this decision until the owner confirms that the business offers it. Do the same for services left over from an old website. Ask the person receiving inquiries to read the sentence. Resolve disagreements about what the company accepts before asking someone to change the profile. ## Compare choices with evidence Have the authorized profile manager inspect the options available for your business. Record the exact labels seen in the editor. Do not assume an option exists because a competitor uses familiar wording. Use this proposed decision sheet: | Field | What to record | | --- | --- | | Main business | Owner-approved description of the company's core work | | Candidate category | Exact available label supplied by the profile manager | | Reason it fits | Actual contracting role and current service evidence | | Related service | Website page that explains the work accurately | | Decision | Keep, replace, remove, or investigate | | Reviewer | Person authorized to approve the proposed change | Google says categories should describe the business as a whole. Its guidance allows a broader category when a fitting specific category cannot be found. [Google's category selection guidance, checked 2026.10.23](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en). Use that distinction when considering a category for every trade mentioned in a project. Record the business reason for each choice. ## Reconcile the website with the decision Read your home page, service overview, about page, and contact page together. Require them to describe the same company. Flag copied trade lists and old specialties for owner review. If the website presents your firm as a general contractor, explain its project responsibility in ordinary language. Describe subcontracted or separately supplied work precisely. Avoid making a service page imply another business's credentials belong to yours. Use [documented project case studies](/articles/contractor-website-project-case-studies) to support the work description. Keep licensing and insurance statements in the separate [credential review](/articles/contractor-website-license-insurance-claims). ## Keep the business name accurate Review the proposed name independently from the categories. Google requires the name to reflect the real-world business name used consistently across business materials. It prohibits unnecessary information in that field. [Google's business-name rules, checked 2026.10.23](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en). For your review, remove a proposed addition made only to insert service or town keywords. Resolve a genuine business-name change through the appropriate account process. Save the starting profile details and proposed edits. Keep the manager's execution date separate from your preparation date. A worksheet marked approved records a decision, not proof that an edit is visible. ## Check the destination after an authorized edit Once the responsible manager reports an edit, compare the public details with the approved sheet. Open the website destination and read the service explanation on a phone. Record any remaining mismatch. Check that a visitor can request the work described. Arrange a marked inquiry test with your office when the contact path changes. Save the actual receipt with the website acceptance record. ## Bring the category decision into your website brief Use the [general contractor overview](/for/general-contractors-and-construction) to connect public descriptions with current office records. Prepare the category sheet and the website corrections together. Send Scale With Search your current pages, approved service description, and proposed corrections through [the written scope form](/work). Continue the website review: [AI-native general contractors: the first functions to build](/articles/ai-native-general-contractors-first-functions); [Should a contractor show a home address on Google?](/articles/contractor-google-profile-home-office-address); [Contractor website ownership: prepare the agency handoff](/articles/contractor-website-domain-ownership-handoff); [Contractor website inquiries missing from email: what to check](/articles/contractor-website-form-email-delivery); [How to reduce spam in a contractor website inquiry form](/articles/contractor-website-inquiry-spam-controls); [Contractor website license and insurance claims to check](/articles/contractor-website-license-insurance-claims); [How to write a contractor website permit FAQ](/articles/contractor-website-permit-faq); [How to show project availability on a contractor website](/articles/contractor-website-project-availability); [Should your contractor website publish project budgets?](/articles/contractor-website-project-budget-ranges); [Contractor website case studies: explain your actual scope](/articles/contractor-website-project-case-studies); [General contractor AI rules: data, approvals, and spend](/articles/general-contractor-ai-rules-data-approvals-spend); [General contractor service area pages: what earns a page](/articles/general-contractor-service-area-pages); [Home remodeling marketing: build a useful website plan](/articles/home-remodeling-marketing-website-plan). 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