Google Places is a great deal for local businesses and for customers. The fact that most businesses have not even claimed their Google Places page gives smart business owners a huge advantage. Claiming a Google Places page is super easy to do, and business owners that have claimed their page often find out that they end up on page 1 of Google with just their “Places” page.
Just claiming a Google Places page is not all you need to do. Optimizing your Places page will help you get to the top of the Google listings. You can optimize your places page by making sure that you put as much information as you can on your page and then by getting as many citations and reviews as you can. If you can get more reviews and citations than your competition, you have a good chance at ranking higher on the Google Places listings than they do.
It is still very important to have a great website for your business. Your website will be listed on Google Places and traffic will come to your website from Google Places. This means that you still want to have your primary website be very search engine friendly and optimized to show up in the organic (free) listings on a search engine results page. You also want to build your website so that it converts into customers. To many business owners create beautiful websites that are little more than fancy online brochures. Your website needs to engage with your customers and result in them taking action while they are on your site.
But this post is about Google Places, so below is a video on how you can set up Google Places for your business.
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Great and simple to follow presentation. All small or even large businesses need to be aware of Google Places and what Google has provided for them …. How easy it is to find them! localy,or in province.
Theres oportunity here for true entrepenuers and i will comment on that after the next of your videos.