How to Get Your Business Found with Google Maps

Local Search Marketing redmantlemedia.com Why is Google Maps so important? There are millions of searches for local products and services online every month (and it continues to grow), and Google Places basically gives you an opportunity to shortcut to the very top of the search results for keywords about your business. You can appear in a prime real estate position in Google for multiple keywords, and you can do it for free. – list the URL of your website, if you have one – Include a good business description that enagages the viewer… this is where you get to speak to your customer. Put in a call to action. – Fill out all the sections about your business in detail – provide as much helpful info as possible. Google likes content. – Keywords in your categories (important!) and description – Add photos and videos – after that, getting reviews and citations about your business from other places online are an important way to establish your credibility and authority in your market… Google pays attention to that.

Simple Google Maps Plugin for WordPress

SimpleMap is the most advanced, most customizable and the most actively updated Google Maps plugin for WordPress. SimpleMap’s primary goal is to simplify the Google Map experience within WordPress for site administrators, visitors, and developers alike. SimpleMap’s General Options page, shortcode API, and custom import / export feature gives the site administrator unrepresented control over the display and functionality of Google Maps on their WordPress powered web site. As a site administrator, you can modify an array of options and default setting including but not limited to the map location, search radius, map type, and map size. Our shortcode interface allows you to overide default setting for single maps, modify the search box properties, and control advanced features. The import / export system within SimpleMap allows administrators to quickly and intuitively add multiple locations to the database at once by updating a CSV file. Our CSV format is extremely flexible, allowing you to import almost any existing CSV while mapping only the data you need for your locations. We even allow you to create location categories and tags on the fly by simply including them in your CSV file. Exporting your data is as simple as clicking a single button. Your data will always be yours for the keeping. As an added bonus, SimpleMap’s location data and general options are included in all core WordPress exports. Of course, adding locations manually is easy as well. Using WordPress
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Google Maps for Estate Agents

Team Members can now watch as all their properties are uploaded onto Google Maps. Currently this feature is only available via Google.com and Resource Techniques is going to take all the nessessary steps to ensure that this feature is available to team Estate Agents once it is live.
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SEO for Local Places and Maps

www.provmedia.yolasite.com Put Your Business On Page One of ‘Google – Bing – Yahoo! and All of the Top 90% + of Major Search Engines’ Plus Local Places Even if You Don’t Have a Website by Using Local Google – Bing – Yahoo and the others as a Method to Out Rank ALL of Your Competition! Ready? It used to be if you wanted more customers, you just took out a yellow pages ad… (When’s the last time you used the yellow pages?) Get More Customers, Automatically Your customers are looking for you online Over 1 BILLION local searches every month (and growing 50% every year) 80% of buyers search online first, vs. using the yellow pages or other print method Can they find you? 2 out of 3 people use Google to find businesses online Can they find you even if they don’t know your business name? Facts are that 73% of all online activity is related to local content(Google) 82% of local searches follow up with a phone call or show up on your doorstep (TMP/Comscore 66% of Americans use local search to find local businesses (Comscore) 54% of Americans have replaced phone books (Yellow Pages & Business Directory) with internet and local search (TMP/Comscore) 43% of search engine users are seeking a local merchant with the intent of buying locally at their store! 41% of consumers say they use a location in their search – “Dentist in Chicago” or “plumber in Atlanta” or a similar keyword phrase depending on the type of business where they intend to make a purchase from or become a patient of

www.squidoo.com – Full written tutorial here. Watch a simple tutorial on how to convert your Blogger/Blogspot blog to a WordPress blog. Here are the 5 simple steps: 1. Change the title and name of blog 2. Change format of the permalinks to similar to Blogger 3. Import Blog posts from Blogger 4. Change the links to match the same as Blogger 5. Import images from blogger to WordPress