April 07 2011 by
Himanshu Swaraj Email,
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Get your business listed high on Google maps and Google Places results!
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Google Local Places optimization has almost revolutionized the equations for the businesses eyeing to generate considerable revenues in the selected local places. Instead of targeting global audiences, small and big entrepreneurs often find it far better to limit their customer base to a selected location from where they are more likely to find buyers for their services or products. If you also crave to boost your business around your local surroundings, we are there for your assistance.
Lets quickly move to the Important things you need to care about your Google Local Business listings:
- Provide Details: Make sure that you provide as many as details possible in the Google Place page. Give special attention to Description, Categories and Additional Details.
- Business Title: Don’t forget to use keywords in the Company/Organization field along with your company/organization name but don’t spam.
- Business Categories: Make sure that you choose categories what Google suggests, do not manually put keywords in the categories.
Important notes before choosing categories:
1. Do proper keyword research before choosing categories.
2. Keep categories short.
3. Avoid repetition.
4. Again, do not spam it with keywords
5. You can choose a maximum of 5 categories
- Business Description: Use this field wisely, there is 200 characters limit so make sure that you description is good enough to turn a visitor into a buyer and at the same time you hit the right keywords as well.
- Phone and Address: Those days are gone when you rank without a validated listings. So make sure that you provide full and correct address. If the Google maps marker is not pointing to the correct location, fix it manually. Its necessary to have a correct address unless you would not receive the Google verification pin.
- Additional Details: Let me make sure one thing that Google trust the information provided by the business owners, so use the valuable field and provide additional information that you want your customer to know. These addition details helps in improving your conversion rate & local search rankings
Important notes before choosing categories:
1. Include your business information as much as you can.
2. Include the brands you are selling, services you have etc
- Photos & Videos: Pictures and Videos increases your Google places page CTR as well as conversion rate. So, Include your business/product pictures and videos. Remember “a picture is worth a thousand words”.
- Customer Ratings & Reviews: Reviews plays a big role in Google Places page rankings. Businesses with more review and ratings is considered more popular and hence Google ranks it higher, so encourage your customers to provide you ratings and feedbacks if they are happy with your product or services.
- Local Citation: A citation is a phrase that includes many things. A citation can be a phone number, can be a review, a business name, a link, other local listings, a online profile etc. Citation can be seen at the bottom of a Google Places page.
Google searches the web to find citation of a local places listing to confirm that this is a real and active business place. So, the algorithm is simple, the more citations a local listing has, the better it’s ranking may be.
Note that the Citations needs to have the exact same address. If there is a slight difference then Google won’t be able to match the two listings.
Some Citation List (mostly free):
- http://dmoz.org/
- http://dir.yahoo.com/
- http://www.lii.org/
- http://www.inc.com/resources/startup/recommended.html
- http://www.nature.com/nrg/info/info_links.html
- http://www.about.com/
- http://www.bbbonline.org/
- http://www.business.com/
- http://www.uncoverthenet.com/
- http://www.joeant.com/
- http://www.webdirectory.com/
- http://www.educationworld.com/
- http://www.Twitter.com
- http://www.YouTube.com
- http://www.facebook.com
- http://www.wikipedia.org
- http://www.openwifispots.com
- http://www.aboutus.org
- http://www.kayak.com/
- http://www.getfave.com
- http://www.yelp.com
- http://cityvoter.com
- http://www.tumblr.com/
- http://www.wordpress.com/
- http://www.associatedcontent.com
- http://groups.yahoo.com
- http://www.blogspot.com
- http://www.bizbash.com
- http://www.dmoz.org
- http://local.botw.org/secure/signup.aspx?type=basic
- https://www.getfave.com/session/new
- http://www.hotfrog.com/AddYourBusiness.aspx
- http://praized.com/merchants/new/search
- http://www.dinkypage.com/
- Create a few site using Google Sites
- http://www.weebly.com/
- http://pastehtml.com/
- http://www.ripoffreport.com/
- http://www.tumblr.com/
- http://www.nextstudent.com
- http://sharedreviews.com
- http://www.zvents.com/listings
- http://www.rateitall.com/promote/
- http://www.wikimapia.org
- http://www.urbanspoon.com/choose
- http://www.wikidomo.com
- http://www.flickr.com
- http://www.Squidoo.com
- http://www.Hubpages.com
- http://www.Quizilla.com
- http://www.Slideshare.com
- http://www.Scribd.com
- http://www.wepapers.com
- http://www.docstoc.com
- http://www.4shared.com
- http://www.Gather.com
- http://www.schmap.it/
- http://www.Clipmarks
- http://www.Work.com
- http://www.Wetpaint.com
- http://www.TipDrop.com
- http://www.WikiDot.com
- http://www.Naynz.com
- http://www.Answers.com
- Yahoo Answers
- http://www.Zimbo.com
- http://www.Swicki.com
- http://www.pbwiki.com
- http://www.webring.com
- http://www.topix.com
- http://www.kotaku.com
- http://www.zoomgroups.com
- http://www.zug.com
- http://www.mediapost.com
- http://www.shostyle.com
- http://www.kaboodle.com
- http://www.eventful.com
- http://www.realtown.com
- http://www.ourfaves.com
- http://www.moomeo.com/
- http://file2.ws/
- http://www.copytaste.com
- http://www.idealist.org
- http://identi.ca
- http://army.twit.tv
- http://mozillaca.com
- http://www.esnips.com
- http://www.zannel.com
- http://www.picli.com
- http://www.help.com
- http://www.stickam.com
- http://www.zoodak.com
- http://www.meetup.com
- http://biznik.com
- http://www.startupnation.com/
- http://online.wsj.com/community
- http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/forum
- http://incbiznet.com/
- http://sta.rtup.biz/
- http://www.partnerup.com/default.aspx
- http://cofoundr.com/user/login
- http://www.bizsugar.com/
- http://econnect.entrepreneur.com/
- http://bx.businessweek.com/
- http://www.naymz.com/
- http://www.socialvibe.com/
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