Have You Listed Your Business on Google Local Yet?

Posted by in All on Jan 14th, 2011 | 12 comments

The world is going mobile or should I say, it already has gone mobile. People are accessing the internet more and more with their mobile phones these days and soon a time will come, when the data accessed using mobile phones will almost equal the data consumed using the computers.

In these circumstances, when a large number of people always have access to the internet, local search becomes all the more relevant since people want to know what all is their within 5-10 kilometers from where they are. This is where Google Places comes in.

Google Places is a map based business directory containing data about all the businesses of a particular type. It is highly unlikely that you haven’t come across it already since whenever you do a local search, (an example search string could be: “Website Development California”). Google can automatically detect which search string is a local search and thereby shows a relevant list of companies on the map. These results generally are highly relevant to your search and as such these have the potential to produce massive traffic to your site if you provide any service or product which has some local relevance.

In face, I can say for sure that these search results will become even more relevance by the end of 2011 and the early birds who will claim their listing and gain knowledge of how to be at the top of the listing will be the biggest gainers.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab your listing today or let us do it for you for just 50 bucks. :P

Adios.

12 Responses to “ “Have You Listed Your Business on Google Local Yet?”

  1. Delena Silverfox@YouLoveCoupons says:
    January 21, 2011 at 4:07 am

    This is great! I hadn’t heard of Google Places just yet. I tend to be one of those smaller users that gets used to what they know, and is content with that. It’s time for me to expand my explorations, however.

    Thanks for the heads up!
    Delena
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  2. saurabhink says:
    February 18, 2011 at 11:51 am

    It’s really nice articles to improve a business on google. Can you tell me if we used our location with our site keyword then it is great for local search or not.
    Thanks reply me please.
    I have many questions for my business.
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  3. copywriters says:
    March 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    I have to say that after starting my own business that using Google Places was the best investment in time I ever made!

  4. Media Marketplace says:
    March 26, 2011 at 5:50 am

    This is nice article.Today marketing and advertising are done through mobile internet.So this Google places tool plays a lead role on this.

  5. Rabia says:
    April 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    In 2012 approximately half of the smartphones will be running on Android. Google also plan to change the monetization of YouTube and in particular to provide about 20 premium channels (you will have to pay) offer similar services to traditional channels of sports, series, movies etc.. Am I the only one to worry about the enormous growth of what was originally a search engine. Google is developing its tentacles everywhere. Soon the company will impose its law to states. ( My apologies for the english i’m French!)

  6. Francis says:
    June 20, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    Great article, this really help me since I had not listed my business in google yet. New ideas got here. Thank you for sharing

  7. Industrial Supply says:
    June 22, 2011 at 9:22 am

    Getting your business listed in google place will help a lot in accessing it by people through search results.

  8. Pavitos@Local Marketing says:
    August 10, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    Just listing in Google Places isn’t enough there needs to be a little more that happens so the listing is on at least the 1st page. Being on the first page will increase business!

  9. Rebecca says:
    October 20, 2011 at 1:59 am

    I haven’t tried it yet,but after reading your article. I think i need to ad my business in Google Places…thanks for sharing!
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  10. Cade@BigcommerceReview says:
    October 25, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    I recently listed my business in google places, and it was a relatively easy to do to.

    I agree that local search is quickly becoming more important.
    Something else thats worth considering if your business is try to attract local mobile search, is that your business website needs to be mobile friendly.

    As its not much point being found on mobile search if your site is hard to navigate or use on a mobile device.
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  11. devain richard says:
    January 3, 2012 at 12:17 am

    great info. about google place.

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