Your Google Maps Link Shows Coordinates, Not Your Business? Here’s Why
If the link you copied from Google Maps has two numbers in it where your business name should be, you shared a spot on the map, not the business standing on it. The fix takes ten seconds — unless the business is not on Maps yet.
A pin is a point, a listing is a business
Google Maps keeps two very different things on the same screen. A listing is a business: a name, a category, opening hours, photos and reviews, with its own page. A dropped pin is just a position — two numbers, latitude and longitude, like 37.161319,-8.296542. You get a pin when you press and hold anywhere on the map, or when you share “your location”. The link that comes out of it looks like google.com/maps/search/37.161319,+-8.296542, and nothing in it says which business is there.
It is an easy mistake from inside your own shop: you open Maps, it centres on where you stand, you press on your building and tap Share. What you shared is the building’s position, not the listing.
Share the listing in three taps
Type your business name in the Maps search box and tap the result, so the listing opens: name at the top, rating underneath, then a row of buttons. Tap Share, then Copy link. A listing link has /maps/place/ and your business name in it, or it is a short share.google/ or maps.app.goo.gl/ link copied from that page. The full walkthrough covers phones, computers and the other things people paste by mistake.
When the search finds nothing
If no listing comes up, try the name the way customers spell it, followed by the town — “Café Noor, Faro” finds what “Noor” alone does not. If it is still missing, your business is not on Google Maps yet. Add it through Google Business Profile, or open the Maps app, press on your location and choose Add a missing place. Google checks new places before they appear, which can take a few days. Once it is listed, people can find your hours, call you and leave reviews — and you have a real link to share.
Why the listing link is the one that matters
Everything built on top of your Google presence needs to know which business it is about. A review link has to open your review box, not a field. A website built from your listing needs your name, hours and what customers say about you. blasa.shop reads that listing and its reviews and publishes a complete site from them — paste the listing link, or type your business name and city separated by a comma, and it finds the listing for you. A pin gives it nothing to read, so it asks for the listing instead.
Questions people actually ask
What does a link like maps/search/37.16,-8.29 mean?
It is a latitude and longitude: a dropped pin. Google Maps creates one when you press and hold on the map, or share your current location. It points at a place on the ground and carries no business name, hours, photos or reviews.
How do I share my business instead of a pin?
Search your business by name in Google Maps, tap the result so its own page opens — name, rating, photos, hours — then tap Share and Copy link. A business link contains /maps/place/ followed by the name, or is a short share.google or maps.app.goo.gl link copied from that page.
I search my business and nothing comes up. Why?
Then it is not listed on Google Maps yet, or it is listed under a different name. Try the name as customers would write it, with the town. If it really is missing, add it through Google Business Profile or with “Add a missing place” in the Maps app; it appears once Google has reviewed it.
Is a pin link useless?
For directions, no — it gets people to the spot. For anything that needs to know which business is there, yes: a website, a review link or a booking page all need the listing, and a pin does not carry it.