Google Maps is Going Indoors | What This Means for Small Biz

January 18, 2012 By

Don’t worry, people can’t see inside your house yet. But with Google Maps new indoor mapping facility you not only tell people the city, street number and house number, they’ll even be able to see bathrooms and individual offices within a given building.

Google’s indoor mapping service will provide clear, easy to understand directions for floor plans of complicated buildings like malls and office complexes. They’ll only do it if you let them, though. Now, should you?

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Google Maps is Going Indoors | What This Means for Small Biz – Small Biz Technology

 

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Google Places Reviews | Getting Offline Online

November 22, 2011 By

Google uses your customer reviews as a critical metric in determining how your listing ranks in the Google Maps. That means, the more reviews you have the more prominent your business is in your local area. Places Reviews are another crucial ranking factor.

Getting offline customers happy is one challenge, but getting them to your Google Places page is another trick altogether. Here’s one good way to get more of those customers talking, and more good reviews influencing your results.

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Introducing Descriptive Terms in Local Search Results

June 20, 2011 By

Google Maps search results in the U.S. and Great Britain now include some of the phrases most frequently used to describe those places. Now you can search Google Maps with “Great Latte.”

Evaluating options and making choices got easier for customers, but what does the list  of descriptive terms in local search results mean for the small business owner?

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Tips for creating a free business listing in Google Places | Adding useful descriptions and relevant categories

April 9, 2011 By

Google Places may be the most important thing to happen in the history of Local Search. Believe it or not your success on Google Places comes down to a few simple tips on how to optimize categories and business descriptions.

If you build it right, and they will come. But build it wrong by entering a standard description and irrelevant categories and you could end up in Google Places limbo. Master the art of Google Places and enjoy the flow of new found business.

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Tips for creating a free business listing in Google Places | Adding useful descriptions and relevant categories – Google Small Business Blog

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