Google Business Profile Categories - Full List ( 2026 )

What is this

This tool generates a full list of Google Business Profile Categories (the categories used for businesses in Google Maps). You can generate the list in different combination between language and country. The default categories in GBP are in English with country USA. The list is not more than three days old! This categories are the same as the one you see in Google Maps.

• The best practice is to choose the most relevant category as your primary and to add 2-3 more additional categories that also describe your business but no more than 5-6 categories in total.
• The maximum number of categories you can have for you GBP listing is 10.
• It is also a good practice to add/remove additional categories and monitor how you ranking and leads are changing.
• Google is adding/removing categories every month so you should keep a close look for new categories that describe you business better. For example if you are an Italian restaurant, choose Italian restaurant as your primary category, not just restaurant.
• After the name of your business, the primary category is the most important factor for better ranking in Google Local Search.

There are two different views on how to see the results:

• Tab separated - for easy export to Excel/Google Spreadsheet ( just copy and paste )
• Table - you must check "Show results in table ( with option to search )" which gives the results in table with functionality to search.

In both variants the results are in two columns: the first column is the category ID ( GCID ) the second one is the name of the category.

Hint: You can use diffchecker.com/ to compare results in English-USA and results in English-UK. The tool is free to use!
Hint 2: When you click on related categories you can see the full analyze of the category: Related categories, Google trend for the category, GBP attributes associated with the category and many more. These analyzes are based on more than 8 million google listings!
UPDATE: Now the columns are two more - when we first found the category and when was the last time we saw it. Also there is a new row with information about the new categories from the last 30 days.

How to use

Very simple : Select the language and the country you are in ( or use United States for generic results ) and hit the button "Fetch Google Business Profile Categories", wait few seconds and voila

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