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A phone number you can tap
A visitor on a phone should be able to tap your number and be ringing you. That needs the number to be a proper link, not just digits on the page. It is also one of the details search engines use to place you on the map.
If you choose not to publish a number, that is a legitimate decision; the report simply records that it is not there.
Worth about 3 points of your 100 for a typical businessAbout 5 min, by your web person
See for yourself
Open your site on a phone and tap the number. It should open the dialler.
How to fix it
- Have your web person make the number a tap-to-call link wherever it appears.
- Keep it identical to the number on your Google Business Profile.
The technical version, for your web person
tel: link. An <a href="tel:..."> anywhere on the homepage.
What the check reads. An <a href=tel:...> exists anywhere on the homepage.
This is one of the checks in a YLB Score report. Every report is free, read by a person before it goes out, and written so that you can act on it without us. Ask for yours.