5 Easy Steps to Keep Your Google Places Listing SEO Optimized
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Your Google Places listing can be one of the most powerful web marketing tools available – second only to your website. However, it is not enough just to have a listing. You also want your Places page to appear as high on search engine results lists as possible. For that to happen, you must be conscientious of your page’s search engine optimization (SEO). Fortunately, you don’t have to be an Internet marketing genius to optimize your Places page. Here are five easy steps to keep your Google Places listing SEO optimized:
Follow the rules. As you probably know by now, Google is well known for taking serious measures to weed out things like spam, irrelevant content, and erroneous websites when determining its rankings. Google Places is no exception. When you create your Google Places listing, make sure you read up on Google’s content guidelines before you publish anything. Breaking these rules means Google won’t take your page seriously when ranking it . . . and might not even let you play at all.
Third-party business directories. Make sure you also list your business in other free online business directories, including Bing, Yelp, and Yahoo. You can link your business directory listings to your Google Places listing to improve your page’s SEO.
Categories. Google Places allows you to choose multiple categories for your listing. However, it is advisable that you are picky about which categories you choose, for the sake of not appearing spammy to search engine spiders. Instead, choose a couple of strong, concise categories for your business and stick to those.
Keywords. You have the opportunity to dramatically boost your listing’s SEO by including strong, key-word rich content in your business description. Make sure you do plenty of keyword research to find good, relevant keywords that have a strong web presence and that speak to your target audience. Also, don’t make the mistake of stuffing your content with superfluous keywords. When it comes to search engine rankings, your content should flow naturally and smoothly, and should ALWAYS make sense.
Your Places page images and videos. You should upload as many images and videos to your Google Places listing as allowed. Also, remember that search engine spiders cannot read images; therefore, you must tag your images with appropriate keyword phrases if you want them to count toward your search engine ranking.
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Google Places Paid Advertising
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7 Requirements of a Google Places Listing
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Google Places Content Policies and Why It’s Important to Follow Them
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Google Places Reviews: How to Get Them and How to Respond to Them
Your business’ Google Places listing is an integral part of your online reputation, and is an invaluable tool when it comes to the Internet marketing of your business. One essential factor that contributes to the success (or lack thereof) of your Google Places listing is customer reviews. In order to make the most out of your Google Places listing, you should have plenty of relevant, high-quality customer reviews. How do you handle the reviews aspect of your Google Places listing? Here are some tips for how to get and respond to Google Places reviews.
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How to Leave a Review Using New Google + Pages
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