Take Advantage Of Google Places
May 7th, 2010 by brian@mannixmarketing.com
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Have you ever heard of Google Places? Some of you may have, some of you may not have. But most of you have probably hear of Google Local Business Center and Google Maps. Well, that’s what Google Places is – it’s the new Google Local Business Center that has all your business’ great information that feeds your listing on Google Maps.
But it’s not yesterday’s Google Local Business Center that you may be used to – Google has re-branded this service and included a heaping helping of great new features to go along with the beneficial ones they already had:
- You can manage your business listing (this includes your website, contact info, business hours, categories)
- Upload photos and videos (increasingly more important as the years pass)
- Create coupons (a quick way to test out specials and discounts)
- Request people post reviews on your listing
- Post live updates for your business (events, specials, happenings, etc.)
- See real-time analytics of listing activity
- Display your business’s QR code so that customers can use their phones to quickly get to your Place Page (this may be new to many of you, so we will be sure to post a blog on QR codes in the near future. If you want to see how this fits within your Google Places listing, click here.)
And the best part about all of this – It’s all free! All you need to do is invest a little bit of time and energy.
So what should you do now?
- Be sure to claim your listing if one exists, or build one if one does not.
- Refer to Google’s best practices for your listing to maximize your chances for higher rankings when people are searching
- Request that your customers post reviews about your business online, including right on your Google listing
- Test out different coupons
- Refer to the analytics Google provides for your listing to see if you can do anything better
Have you already had some success with your Google Places listing? Run into any issues? Let us know by commenting below.
Tags: Google Local Business Center, Google Maps, Google Places
May 8th, 2010 at 5:08 am
Great Article!! This is truly how businesses will be found!! It is absolutely imperative for people to get their business on the map.
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May 12th, 2010 at 7:11 am
hi ,
thanks for sharing.today I am knowing synonyms of Google local business. one more benefit of the Google-Places is your site is on top of the position Which Required for any Websites.If you know more benefits of Google-places than told me .
May 14th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
the Google places is really a good supportive idea for the smaller organization and enterprises. it is very good to see that now we can also have some more rise by the utilization of Google places.
May 17th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
If you want to make your own business cards with a QR code check out this site:http://www.b2vcard.com
it lets you upload your own art or you can use one of the templates. best of all it creates your QR code from your profile so if something changes you can update your profile for free and your QR code on your old cards scan your new info!
May 20th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
This looks good though, and it will be interesting to see if they actually using this. I know about this topic by this post. This is very nice post about on 8 seo techniques that google placesl! I will bookmark this blog.
May 31st, 2010 at 4:33 am
hey there! nice information.You can use this services in every business. It takes in the world.If our business is small than why we are not use this? it's free and very effective for all business.
July 13th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I use google places for all my local business clients. Of course i still use seo & adwords, but places is a quick easy way of getting them on the map fast. Thanks for sharing
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