Friday, December 31, 2010

How to get Your Business on Google Maps

What do you understand by Google Maps?

With the global trend, over one million visitors are searching Google Maps for one service or particular information daily. Having your business listed for free now make things easy for them to locate your business address, pictures and videos of your store or office and other local information they might required without stress.

How do you get your business on Google Maps?

1. You simply login in www.google.com/local/add
2. After login, you start to enter all your business contact including location information like, name, address, city, State/Province, Country and your Zip Code.And just after this, simply click continue, then include your phone, fax and mobile phone number, your email and site information.
3. The next page is where you enter a brief description of all about your business, the type of payments you accept, and more importantly your business operating hours. Also, remember to select up to five categories that you know best describes your business.
4. Immediately you entered all the required information, you have an option to select your verification method for your business listing account to be activated.

What are the advantages of getting your business listed on Google Maps?

Because people are searching for products and services around a particular location, having your business listed makes it easier for them to locate your business on the maps which means more targeted leads will be visiting your store or office for business transaction, and that alone could sky rocket your sales. Again, Google allow you to add tag to your Google places listing and with that you can control information that you want your clients to see. By adding tags, you can show coupon for your new clients, a video or picture of your store or office. With the increasing number of people using smart phones to find local places, it's very crucial for businesses either small, medium or big to be listed on the maps.

Finally, once listed wisely make use of the local business dashboard which is a free tool provided by Google to monitor information provided on how visitors are finding and using your local listing in Google maps as well as in Search Engines.

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