Claiming Your Google Places Listing
Your Google Places listing is perhaps one of the most important business, sales and customer relationship tools available to your business. These listings are provided free of charge by Google, and although they are mostly accurate some may well have a few mistakes, erroneous addresses and so forth. This is easily corrected though. The most [...]
Completing the basic Google Places listing
The Google Places listing details are pretty straight forward and you just have to complete all business details; this includes address, email, website, description and category. Bear in mind that you will want to complete the description in accordance with the services and products that you market and sell, and thereby provide any prospective visitor [...]
Finding Your Google Places Listing
If you come across your business listing, within the search results page on Google, simply select the option “Place Page”, as per image below: This will then take you to the listing itself where you can complete the claim process, which is not unlike starting from scratch. One of the easiest ways to get started [...]
What is Local Search?
We have some of our readers requesting a clearer definition, or at least explanation of the term ‘local search’. Well this can be made as complicated or as simple as possible, although it is perhaps best illustrated with an image and a simple explanation. There are plenty of resources available online for those wishing to [...]
Updated Statistics Driving Google’s “Get Your Business Online” Campaign
The following provides an insight into Google’s drive to engage small businesses and get them online, as well as what this process would actually cost the business owner. As Google launches its campaign in Kansas City, in targeting the so called Mom and Pop businesses, the statistics reveal that up to 66% of businesses do [...]
