For most garage door company profiles the best primary category is Garage door supplier — use it when: supplies and installs garage doors. Choose Overhead door contractor verify instead if commercial overhead doors. Most trades are service-area businesses: the category tells Google what you do, and your service areas (up to 20) tell it where. Neither needs keyword-stuffing.
Open the free tool for a garage door company → tick what you really offer and get a copy-ready setup sheet
Primary category
- Garage door supplier — Supplies and installs garage doors
- Overhead door contractor verify — Commercial overhead doors
Secondary (additional) categories
Most garage door company profiles need no additional categories. Describe extra work in the Services and Products sections instead.
1 category is marked verify: it may not appear in every account or country. If you can't find it in Google's dropdown, skip it rather than picking something close but wrong.
Categories to avoid
These are often added to garage door company profiles but usually describe a different or broader business:
- Door supplier (unless you sell entry doors)
- Locksmith
Address or service area?
Usually set up as a service-area business: hide the street address and list the cities, ZIP codes or postcodes you genuinely serve (up to 20). Don't create a separate listing for each town. Service-area vs storefront rules.
Starter services to add
Categories say what you are; services say what you do. Good first entries:
- Garage door repair
- Spring replacement
- Opener installation
Check before you change anything
Search “garage door repair” on Google Maps in your own area, open the top few profiles and note their primary category (shown under the business name). Use what's common as a sanity check, not a template — your categories must describe your business. Ready to switch? How to change your category safely.
Profile problems?
Suspended, stuck in verification, or not showing on Maps? See the free fix guides: suspended profile · verification failed · not on Maps · name rules.