What is Google Maps?
Google Maps was originally a service that provided driving directions - no longer. Google Maps has evolved into one of the most sophisticated and beneficial Local Business directories in the world. Google launched Google Places for businesses that provides a business with a profile page and the opportunity to display; company information including website, telephone number, pictures and videos. Google Maps/Google Places is an essential part to every successful online marketing campaign for local businesses.
In a way, Google Maps was the original local search engine. To elaborate, while the term "dentist" would at one time get you tons of non-relevant national results in Google search, Google Maps would shows you the "dentist" in your specific locality.
Why You Need Google Maps SEO
Today, Google Maps results may show up on a regular search when you look for a term that Google determines might have local results (like "dentist"). You may see the map at the top right of the page or local business listings at the top of all results. The positioning of local business listings in Google Maps is critical. It is the most visible section of a search page.
If you want your business to be seen first, above all your competition, you need an optimized Google Maps local business listing. Any person or SEO company can build a Google Places profile, but only a small percentage of businesses can actually rank on the first page of Google.
At one time, just making sure your business was listed in Google Maps was enough. Today, you need Google Places SEO to make your Google Maps listing really stand out.
There are a lot of moving parts to Google Places SEO. This is an advantage for those local businesses hiring a specialized local business expert like SEO Company Dallas. We have helped many local businesses gain exposure using Google Maps and will do the same for your business.
SEO Company Dallas Google Maps Package
If your business utilizes Google Maps local SEO, your business listing may show up on a map at the top of the page along with 4-10 other listings, OR it may show up as part of the "Google Local 7-pack," a listing of the top seven SEOed business websites. Dallas is a competitive market for local businesses with tons of web savvy individuals. You can build a good website and hope Google sees fit to list your website at the top or you can pay thousands of dollars for a SEO company to optimize your website. We do this for local companies now. However, if you don't have a large budget, Google Maps SEO is the package for you.
Pricing for Google Maps Local SEO
When comparing our Google Maps SEO package, consider the extensive services we offer under this low cost package:
- Create a fully optimized Google Maps listing and verify your business's ownership of this listing.
- Add images, text, and video with SEO tags and titles
- Create a custom picture video
- Create 5 additional local listings each month on local directories such as Yelp and Citysearch.
- Distribute video to 5 online video search engines to drive traffic from video SEO.
- Work with you to solicit and collect customer reviews, posting up to 2 reviews each month on your local profiles (excluding Google Places)
- Provide timely customer support via email. Responses in 24 hours, guaranteed (Monday-Friday).
- Provide a local telephone number that forwards to your business and tracks all calls
You will receive all this for less than the cost of a Yellow Pages ad--just $199 each month.
Get Your Google Maps Package Started Today
Google (and other search engines like Yahoo and Bing) are now the Yellow Pages directory of the 21st century. Approximately 85% of people use Google and other search engines (Yahoo and Bing) when searching for a local service.
$199/month for Google Maps SEO will bring your business new customers and increase your monthly revenue. SEO Company Dallas will work with you along the way to build and protect your reputation online. Just fill out the form below and we can start driving new customers to your business.
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