Successful Web based Marketing – Getting Started With Google Places


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Want to have more clients? You see, people these days are depending on the web to find just about anything thus, optimizing your business listing and optimizing your online presence is of paramount. You can do this, by signing up a listing in Google Places to display your local business information on top of the leading search engine today known as Google.

Creating a business listing in Google Places is easy. All you need to do is to set up an account then, put all the necessary information about your business. You may add photos and videos promoting your business. When you're done, verifying your submission is the next step. This is to make sure that the listing goes to the rightful owner who will have the sole access to the data of their business.

Only when you verify your account that you start seeing some developments to your advertising efforts. Just be sure that the details you input there are detailed and correct. Also, make an effort to make your listing really stand out by adding not just photos and videos but as well as specific service info like the brands of your products, hours of operation, parking info among others. Moreoever, adding announcements and coupons to your Place page will attract more customers to your business.


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Google Places offers free advertising. Joining a free listing on Google Places takes you just a few minutes and it doesn’t even cost you a thing. With Google Places, you can maintain and check your presence online even if your business does not have a website. It enables you to edit your information any time and even check your stats to check out the amount of people who have visited your business listing in Google Places.

Yet another beneficial feature of Google Places is their Tag feature. The tag feature in Google Places allows you to emphasize information that you would like your customers to view. For example, your tag can point out a coupon for new customers, a new video clip about your shop, or perhaps a url to your food list. Highlight what you think is most vital about your business and make it captivating. Although these tags may not have an impact your search result rankings, they however, add more info to a Google Places listing as it shows up in search results. This results to a more detailed listing, that which most online users are searching for. Putting tags to your business place page just takes 5 minutes of your time. It will require you to have a verified business listing plus a valid credit card -- just go to your Google Places Dashboard and look for the “Create Tag” link to get started.