Add Me To Search: 5 Easy Steps To Create Your Virtual Business Card

add me to search google's new feature: public card

Google unveiled a new feature for users where they can create virtual business cards for themselves as well as their businesses. If you want to showcase your profile on google, then now is your chance to do it with ease. The advantage of this feature is immense but at the base of all it is the simple feature of people finding you easily now.

Searching you or your business will become easy just by looking at your card. You can add a whole of details in this card. We have done this with our business details. You can try the same with your personal profile or refer the below steps for creating a business one. 

Steps to create your Public Card

Step 1

 

Firstly, you need to go to Chrome browser in your phone and type ‘ add me to search’ in the search bar.

Google Search will show you the result as shown in the image. You can then tap on ‘ Get started’. 

step 1: search 'add me to search'

Step 2

 

If you are not signed in to your account, you can sign in and proceed to the next steps.

step 2: sign in

Step 3

 

Verify your phone number by selecting the country code in the drop-down menu and type in the digits of your phone number.

Step 3 : Verify phone number

Step 4

 

You can start adding all the details as per your need to create the public profile.

step 4: add details

If you have social media handles for your business/profile, you can add that as well. 

We have added our social media URLs (links) and website link.

You can choose to show your email id and phone number as well.

Once it is done, tap preview.

Social media details

Step 5

 

Once you are satisfied with the preview, tap ‘Save’ and it is done.
Congratulations, you have created your own Public Card.

step 5: save the options

We created our own public card and you can create for yourself as well. We tried creating public card using desktop browser, but it didn’t happen. We managed to get this done using phone browser only. Enjoy your very own public card now 🙂

Cover page credits: Anastasia Gepp

Add me to search not working for you?

 

If your ‘ add me to search‘ OR ‘edit my people card‘ is not working then you should check this Content Guidelines : here

In addition to content guidelines, it states some of these points:

  1.  You should use/search this option using a phone, tablet, iPhone or iPad. This feature is not enabled for Desktop version.
  2.  The search should be done using a mobile browser or chrome browser. (We did it on smartphone’s chrome browser)
  3.  You also need a personal Google Account and ‘Web & App Activity’ should be turned ON.
  4.  This feature is available to Indian users ONLY who have set their language to English.(Last checked on 3rd November, 2020)