Google Places

Google places listings are Google’s attempt to map out every business on the planet to make its results more informative and relevant to its user base.

Google Places Listings are Essential For Your Business in Cumbria or Anywhere – Here are 5 Reasons Why

Posted by on Oct 29, 2011 in Google Places, local seo | Comments Off

Google Places Listings are Essential For Your Business in Cumbria or Anywhere – Here are 5 Reasons Why Google Places is an important component of Google Maps. Starting a couple of years ago, Google set about creating an internet business tool that tied locations and customer facing, local businesses together. For the business owner, this attempt by Google to map out the business landscape of...

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Google Places, Your Shortcut In Local Search

Posted by on Sep 25, 2011 in Consulting Cumbria, Google Places, local Google search | Comments Off

Depending on the competitiveness of your market, local search ranking for your website can be difficult to achieve.  If you have arrived at the altar of local search engine optimisation rather late and your competitors are already ahead of you, then you have really got an uphill battle.  What is extraordinary, is that many companies who have done very well in getting their web site ranked;...

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Citations – Their Effect on Google Local Rankings

Posted by on Apr 4, 2011 in Google local, Google Places | Comments Off

One of those little Americanisms that I couldn’t really distinguish from a backlink at first was this little Google favourite of Citations.   Matthew Hunt of Small biz Online Coaching gives a very fluent rundown on how the presence or absence of citations affects your rankings in Google local search results.  In other words, they directly affect whether you show up in front of people...

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Google Places Listings and Why the Chamber Shouldn’t Keep Secrets

Posted by on Mar 10, 2011 in Google Places | Comments Off

Google Places Listing… Why Bother? A Google Places listing is effectively a free website provided in the first place by Google. It is often built up from scraps of information scattered around the web; in business directories, review sites, news reports: and frequently includes a link to the company’s website, as well as listing the basic location and contact details of the...

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