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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

How to add your Business to Google Places, Local, Maps and Pages.




Confused Yet?
Add your business to Google Places, Local, Maps and Pages.

Start your Listing in Google Places.

Business listings are created in Google Places and once verified they are published to the Local database so they can be found on business searches on Maps and other Google products capable of querying the Local database.
This Local database was renamed Google+ Local when Google changed the display format of the Local listings to resemble the one in Google+ Pages.
Subsequently, Google allowed the creation of Google+ Pages under the category Local Business or Place.
via Treebles in response to Adam here in the Google Product forums.
Just make sure your profile is filled out 100% and you get Verified.

The Lasted Update in Places gives you the ability to manage and respond to


Google has seen more than 30 trillion URLs and crawls 20 billion pages a day. One hundred billion searches are conducted each month on Google (3 billion a day) according to +Matt Cutts, so don't be too disappointed if you are not getting much traffic to your place.



The key is to be consistent and concentrate on your LOCAL area and MOBILE phone search for your Google Places page. 

According to Pew Research - the adoption figures are stunning by every measurethe cell phone is the most quickly adopted consumer technology in the history of the world—.

Google Plus Your Business Resources from Google

Recommended Pages to follow on Google+
Google Maps
Gplus Expertise
Google+

Google Plus Pages for Business
Google Plus Business Page
G+ Business Page Directory
Search Engine Land

The Web is going Mobile and Local. There is no stopping the trend. In fact when I logged into Pinterest for the first time in a couple months today this is what greeted me. "Place Pins" article from #sew



And Facebook is overlaying Google Maps with a new Interface for checking in. Here is a screenshot from today..



Using Photo comments for Facebook Pages from Social Mouths.
See you on Mobile...

P.S.
The Future of #SEO: Searching Mobile Apps.





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