Google Places

How can Google Places help you?

Google Places are another avenue available to advertise your business, connect with local companies and customers. You can highlight special promotions and offers integrated with your digital marketing campaign. Google Places will also show up in the Google search and display the location of your business helping towards your overall SEO strategy.

It’s very important to be listed Google Place as the vast majority for people searching a location online of a business will use Google Maps and is fantastic for getting directions from one place to another.

Difference between Google Maps and Google Places

Google Places was created for local searches so that if a person was for instance searching for a bakery in there home town they won’t end up on a website of a bakers miles away! Google Places was created more for a directory for businesses where you can add photos, give details of services, opening times, address, prices, videos, email address, links to homepage and customers can also leave reviews.

Businesses should defiantly have a listing in Google Places, include all relevant information to attract customers and get your business marked on Google Maps. You should make sure your listing is optimised which will help drive traffic to your site and get higher listings in Google’s search.

Google Places lets customers leave reviews, feedback about your business and the more reviews you earn the more favorable your listing will be to Google.

If you don’t have your business listed on Google Places or you have not build your information around the correct keywords for a local search contact us today and we will help you optimise your listing for the best results.