Google Maps / Places gives users street maps with local business locations this service is free and is accessed by the internet. Google Maps in many cases replaces the telephone directory at substantial advertising savings.

Yellow Pages – Phone Book

For over 100 years local business listings were found in the telephone directory in the Yellow Pages of the phone book published by an increasing number of publishers. Your business could purchase an enhanced listing in the Yellow Pages for several hundred dollars a month. This purchasing of an enhanced listing was attached to your monthly phone bill. The purchase of an enhanced local business listing only guaranteed your business listing would be seen in one publishers telephone directory and the prospective client would need to be using the telephone directory your enhanced business listing appeared in to make the add work for your business. For good coverage your business might need to purchase enhanced listings in several different telephone directory’s which would then increase overall monthly costs in advertising. These enhanced telephone business listings are only available on a yearly contract, locking your business into what may not be the best advertising solution. The Yellow Pages are no longer the best option or most cost effective for local business listings!

Future of Telephone Directories

As technology shifts from physical to digital, many believe telephone directories for local business search are quickly becoming insignificant. More and more people rely on the internet for finding local businesses; some believe the telephone directory is looking less like a local business resource and more like a relic. Coupled with the fact that 25% of local business search is now done by cell phone or hand held devices and in the next 2 years (2013) the local business search percentage is forecasted to increase to over 50% for cell phones alone.

"If your business is not found on Google Maps / Places listings you are loosing local business traffic!

The number of people accessing the mobile Internet is growing fast and is expected to overtake the PC as the most popular way to get on the Web within four years

Mobile or handheld searches have grown by 4 fold in the last year.
Over 70% of Smartphone users that see TV, press or online ad, do a mobile search - make sure your local business is found and not your competitors’?
30 percent of mobile search is local. After looking up a local business, 61% of mobile users called the local business and 59 percent visited the business.
79% of mobile or handheld users use their smart phones to help in shopping.
In 2011 - 85% of new mobile and handsets will have mobile Web capabilities.
Increasing numbers of people are turning to cell phones and handheld devices for phone service.
In 2010 - 94 percent of Americans owned a cell phone or hand held device only 24% owned a traditional land line phone.
Google Maps / Places is available to all internet users not just hand held devices.
3G Handsets as of February 2010 were 38 percent of hand held devices by 2014 that number will rise to 74 percent!
Predictions are for mobile or handheld ad revenue will be US$3.3 billion in 2011. This will sky rocket to $20.6 billion in 2015, more than doubling each year.

More than half of U.S. mobile or handheld ad spending is local.

“It is true across the board. Roughly one in seven searches, even in the smaller categories, are happening on a mobile phone, but how many of you are putting one seventh of your resources into mobile – anyone who hasn’t got mobile only business? Your customer is trying to engage you… it would be like not doing business with your customers on Thursdays.”
Jason Spero, Google (Feb 2011).

What we offer in Google Maps Listing Service

We would like to help interested businesses become a player in Google local business search. We do not limit our SEO services to just hand held search but all search for local internet business.

It may not be enough to just get a Google Maps / Places listing – you want your listing to be predominating and show up high in Google Places ranking. This is where our expertise in Google Maps / Places SEO comes in. We can, not only get your listing up on Google Maps / Places but we can get you all important citations which help to secure top local placement. This is not an alphabetical listing it is what Google sees as a quality listing – citations are evidence of quality.

Google Places Optimization Services only $199.00 per month!

Google Local SEO Services include:

· Getting your Business listed in Google Maps / Google Local Places

· Editing your Google Maps & Local Places Entry (optimization of keyword)

· 10 Google Places Citations per month
Google Local Places Citations are a listing for your local business on another website (including the business name, phone number and address). Yes, it’s very much like link building, except that instead going around looking for websites where you can drop your local business link, you need to only look for websites that allow you to list your local business with the address and phone number.

· Our Mobile - Google Maps Listing Service Guarantee's Page 1 listing in Google Local Places / Maps

· All locations (cities) and Business types have different competition so actual location on Google Local business pages the first page results will vary with competition. #1 Google Maps listing result is a factor of website quality – website age and ranking as well as Google Places citations. Your business may need more in depth Google Maps optimization work at additional cost to become #1 in Google Maps page 1, but we will get any business on page 1 of Google maps / Google local Places with this program Guaranteed!

· To qualify for a Google Local / Maps your business must have a physical address for that city .

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