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Creating a Google Place Listing For Your Consulting Business

by adriver38
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I havent heard anyone mention doing this before and was just wondering if anyone has and what the results have been? I do see other SEO type companies show up on the map in Google Places in my area. I work from home so I would have to hide the address in my listing but Ive heard that they arent penalizing for this anymore. Im sure it wouldnt be a huge lead source but it might help to add some credibility to be listed in the major business directories (Google, Yelp, Bing, Yahoo)

Any thoughts, comments ect. welcome
#business #consulting #creating #google #listing #place
  • Profile picture of the author redlegrich
    If it's your business then do it. Check out ubl.org, they can get your listing posted in a ton of places (including Google, Yahoo, Yelp, etc.).

    One note, I have tried to create a listing with SEO in the title (I do that as well as other things) and the listing does not get approved despite getting it verified. Not sure why, would love to hear if it works for you. All other listings I create work fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author jsherloc
    I'd be curious to know which marketing/seo/consulting/advertising phrases actually trigger a "Places/Places-merged" results page for you?

    A year or so ago several advertising and marketing related terms triggered the maps/places results in my area, and I actually was receiving traffic from them as well. When I get my performance reports back from Places now, my impressions all come from obscure terms for the most part now, it is weird.

    If we could compile a list of sorts in this thread of phrases that are actually triggering Places/Places-merged listings, it would be interesting to see the results. I assumed they applied these changes across the board to all local seo/web design/marketing keywords, but maybe they didn't it?

    Great thread!

    - Jim
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    • Profile picture of the author adriver38
      Ugh, I hadnt tried searching since the new Google Places update and now I see that when I search "city SEO" its no longer triggering the map results. I have to actually click the "Places" tab on the left hand side to get the results pulled up. Im still going to make a listing for my business but unless someone specifically searches in Places I guess my listing wont show.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jackm
        Google publicly acknowledged about a year ago that they were intentionally showing less (translation almost 0) local listings for SEO and Web Design companies.

        Here's the trick and may give a very telling sign as to how Google interprets user intent when searching locally, so keep this in mind for your other clients.

        If you type in - dallas web design - you will generally get nothing in the form of Places listings.

        However if you type in - web design in dallas - you will get plenty of local listings.

        Try it with any city and replace web design with the term SEO.

        I think it provides strong evidence that google feels that "keyphrase in city" has a very high probability of being a local consumer search. duh.

        May be a good tip for you local adwords guys.

        The irony of all this is that the majority of my clients, if not all, would never have looked up the terms seo, or web design online.
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        • Profile picture of the author adriver38
          Its funny how one little word "in", triggers the local listings! I mean is "web design dallas" really THAT different from "web design in dallas"? This worked to trigger SEO local listings as well.

          How many regular people are actually searching with that phrasing? Wonder why SEO and web design are the only businesses getting punished by one word?
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