How to Copy Your Business’s Google Maps Link (and What Doesn’t Work)
One link identifies your business on Google Maps. Here is where it is, how to copy it on a phone and on a computer, and what the other things people paste by mistake actually contain.
On a phone: three taps
Open the Google Maps app and search for your business by name. Tap the result so the listing opens: you should see the name at the top, the rating under it, then a row of buttons — Directions, Call, Save, Share. Tap Share, then Copy link (on some phones the button just says Copy).
What lands on your clipboard is a short link, usually starting with share.google/ or maps.app.goo.gl/. Both are fine. Sometimes the app copies a whole sentence — “Check out Café Noor on Google Maps!” with the link inside it. That is fine too; the link is what counts, and it is found inside the sentence.
On a computer: the address bar
Go to google.com/maps, search your business, and click it so the panel with its photos and hours opens on the left. Now look at the address bar: the URL contains /maps/place/ followed by your business name. Copy the whole line. It is long, and the part after data= looks like noise — leave it, it is what tells Google exactly which listing this is.
If you prefer a short one, the Share button in that panel offers Copy link, the same as on the phone.
The six things people paste instead
Directions. Tapping Share from the directions screen copies a route between two points, not a place. The destination is only a name inside it. Go back to the listing and share from there.
A photo. Opening one of the listing’s photos and sharing from there gives a link to that picture. It usually still resolves to the listing, but the listing’s own link is the one that always works.
The page’s text. Selecting the name, the rating and the “Overview · Reviews · Photos” row and copying it produces words, not a link. Nothing in that text identifies the listing.
The business name or address. Typed in by hand, a name points at every branch and every namesake at once. The link points at one.
Your own website address. The point is to build a site from the listing; an existing site is not the source, the listing is.
A description of the site you want. “Create a modern website for my bakery in…” — there is nothing to describe. The reviews already say what customers come for, and that is what the site is written from. Why reviews, not a prompt explains the difference.
One link, the right branch
If your business is part of a chain, or shares its name with another shop in town, the search results will show several. Open the one whose address under the name is yours, and only then tap Share. The link carries the exact identifier of the listing you opened, so a wrong branch would build a site for the wrong shop — the address on screen is your check.
What happens after you paste
Paste the link on blasa.shop. It reads the listing — name, category, hours, address, photos — and the reviews, then writes and publishes a complete site at a free address, with no account to create first. If the reviews are in another language, the site is published in that language and in English. How a Maps listing becomes a website walks through what it builds.
Questions people actually ask
Where is the link to my business on Google Maps?
Open Google Maps, search your business by name, and tap the result so its own page opens — the one with the name, the rating, the photos and the hours. Tap Share, then Copy link. On a computer the address bar of that page is the link; it contains /maps/place/ followed by your business name.
My link starts with share.google or maps.app.goo.gl — is that right?
Yes. Those are the short links the Maps app produces, and both open the same listing. The only thing that matters is what you shared from: the business page itself, not the directions screen and not one of its photos.
Can I just type the business name instead?
Not here, on purpose. A name is not unique: a chain has many branches, and two shops in one city can share a name. The link carries Google’s exact identifier for your listing, which is what guarantees the site is built for your business and no other.
Does the link expose anything private?
No. It opens the same public listing anyone can see on Google Maps, and it carries no account information. The long tail of characters in a desktop link describes the map view, nothing about you.
I pasted the wrong thing. Now what?
Paste again. The message names what was received — a website address, the page’s text, a name, a description — and the fix is the same every time: open the listing on Google Maps, tap Share, Copy link.