Anyone Thinking About Using Google Places - Use It =]
I'm only saying this because for months and months I heard people talking about how important local search traffic is, and I could not understand why.
Last time I tried to rank a google places, I shouldn't have. The listing had already been created years ago, the citations/NAPS did not match up, different phone numbers, duplicate listings, and for 9 months I played around with the listing untill I deleted it one day and told myself "never again am I touching google places".
Well, that was a very stupid and naive decision to make.
About 3 months ago I made a second website, linked it to a new address, and this time built citations the right way (by outsourcing them to a guy who does them the right way
). I also outsourced map citations as well, and book marked all of them for good measure.
On top of that, I've been outsourcing my review posting to a company I won't mention right now. But so far they're doing a tremendous job.
All in all, its costed me $20 for 3 citation gigs on fiver, 1 map citation gig, then $50 to outsource the reviews which I started 2 months ago.
Long story short, over the last 2 weeks, after all this "work", our listing has started to get serious traffic. I honestly wasn't expecting that much traffic from a simple google listing.
We broke our record today getting 4 calls in 1 day, which is outstanding. Just incredible considering how easy it was to set up and rank.
I NEVER blasted reviews on my listing, always dipfed them, and the citation people I use do an excellent job. This has worked so well that not I'm considering setting up another website, registering it to a different address up north, and repeating the process.
Overall, my attitude of google places has changed dramatically. I've gone from despising it/hating it with a passion, to loving it. And if you have any beef with google places like I did, I suggest you drop it asap. :p
Good luck guys - Red
ps. I know its called google+ now but I'm not going back and editing everything lol.
Last time I tried to rank a google places, I shouldn't have. The listing had already been created years ago, the citations/NAPS did not match up, different phone numbers, duplicate listings, and for 9 months I played around with the listing untill I deleted it one day and told myself "never again am I touching google places".
Well, that was a very stupid and naive decision to make.
About 3 months ago I made a second website, linked it to a new address, and this time built citations the right way (by outsourcing them to a guy who does them the right way
). I also outsourced map citations as well, and book marked all of them for good measure.On top of that, I've been outsourcing my review posting to a company I won't mention right now. But so far they're doing a tremendous job.
All in all, its costed me $20 for 3 citation gigs on fiver, 1 map citation gig, then $50 to outsource the reviews which I started 2 months ago.
Long story short, over the last 2 weeks, after all this "work", our listing has started to get serious traffic. I honestly wasn't expecting that much traffic from a simple google listing.
We broke our record today getting 4 calls in 1 day, which is outstanding. Just incredible considering how easy it was to set up and rank.
I NEVER blasted reviews on my listing, always dipfed them, and the citation people I use do an excellent job. This has worked so well that not I'm considering setting up another website, registering it to a different address up north, and repeating the process.
Overall, my attitude of google places has changed dramatically. I've gone from despising it/hating it with a passion, to loving it. And if you have any beef with google places like I did, I suggest you drop it asap. :p
Good luck guys - Red
ps. I know its called google+ now but I'm not going back and editing everything lol.
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