Image by earthhopper via FlickrThis service from Google is free and anyone can enjoy its benefits with or without a website. Today, most people are already using their mobile phones, or the Internet in searching the products and services that they are looking for and Google Maps Business Listing will help them finding you. If your business is not listed yet, today is the time to do so. Get your business listed and watch how your business popularity improves after being listed on Google Maps Business Listing.
Creating a local business listing is fast and easy. Google Maps business listing will allow you to share information about your business like, its business hours, its mode of payment, its exact location, you can also put some videos and photos related to your business, you can also offer coupons to your customers and more.
Here are the few steps that you have to do in order to get listed now.
o Go to Google Places homepage and sign in using your Google Account. If you don't have a Google account yet, you must create one first and it will just take few minutes in doing so. You can use an existing Google account but it is advisable to create a new one for your business. After that you can now sign in to Google Places using the email that you created and the password.
o After signing in, you can now click on the "add new business" button. Just follow what it is asking you and click next. It will now prompt you to the next page where you can write the information about your business. It is where you can share your business hours, its payment methods, its exact physical location, photos, videos and more. Make sure that the information that you will provide are accurate and you can now click on the "submit" button.
o After submission, you will be brought to a page where you can choose on how you want your listing be verified with Google. You can choose either through telephone or through mail. Choosing the telephone verification would be better since it's a lot faster than mail. Then click "finish".
o Once you received the verification PIN that Google will send you, you can now type it on the verification code box and you are now done. Your business is already included in the listing and you can now go and add more information if you wanted, offer some coupons for your customers and so on. One more thing, you must know how to categorize your business properly in order to get the most out of it and give your business a chance of better exposure.
Google being the number one search engine now is attracting a lot of people looking for products and services that they wanted. Because of this fact, many businesses are already taking advantage on the free service that Google offers and put their business on the Google Maps Business Listing. If your business is not listed yet, today is the time to get started and don't let your business to be left behind. It's easy, its free and it will create a huge improvement on your business.
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