Promote Your Business

Google Places

Simply put, Google has become the new “yellow pages.” When you compare their market-dominating 72.11% of all Internet searches to their nearest competitor, Yahoo, with an unremarkable 14.57% of Internet searches, the case is made thatevery local business should concentrate all their Internet marketing efforts on Google and Yahoo.

Let‟s face it. If your business does not show up on Google, you are basically invisible to the world. And, if your business can‟t be found on the first two pages of Google, you (almost) don‟t exist because 83% of Google searches do not make it past the bottom of Google‟s second page.

This ebook about Promote Your Business Google Places will walk you through the steps needed to optimize your Google Places listing through several simple techniques that work together to create an overall, competition-crushing strategy. The combination of these techniques is greater as a whole

If you own a business and that business relies on a customer base in your local area, then it‟s time to ditch traditional thinking and join the Local Search revolution.

More Australians use the Internet to find local businesses
More Australians have replaced their phone books (yellow pages) with Internet searches
More Australians do local searchers follow up with their search by phone call and/or walk-in view product
More Australians search engine users are seeking a local merchant

This book is the ultimate secret weapon for local businesses to climb to the top of Google Places search results in their area. Forget about traditional SEO and expensive pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. Local Search is king…and getting your business listed on top of Google‟s local search features is absolutely free,

Because Google Places is relatively new, many businesses do not know about it and because of that, your competition probably doesn‟t know about it either! Right now, you have in your hands the ultimate “secret weapon” to gaining a strong hold in your local market—a weapon to not only getting a free, Google Places listing for your business, but inside tips, tricks and secrets to securing a front page listing for your business so that your potential customers are finding you—not your

The purpose of this ebook Promote Your Business Google Places is to show you how to claim your Google Places listing and then how to optimize that listing so that you—not your competition—is found first when your customers look for your products and services on Google.

As mentioned before, your business will benefit by being relevant in Google‟s eyes. The more relevant your business appears—the better rankings your business will get on Google Places. The key to this Google Places ebook is to show you what makes your business more relevant to Google.