Secrets of Google Places Exposed by Google Places Business Directory Experts

June 10, 2010 - PRLog -- "Google Places is the most important inch of ad space for most small businesses today.  For many, it is free.  Many business owners don't even know they are already listed by Google at Places and show up on the MAP.  Many others might have a bit of awareness, but don't realize that they should "claim their listing.  Literally millions of small business owners are not visible on the MAP that shows up under searches for local businesses, and are either not listed with Google Places at all or are only seen if you click the "more results near" at the bottom of the list of those who have scored the outside location."

The above quotation comes from the owner of the largest and most comprehensive blog and video tutorial compilation regarding Google Places on the internet, Randy Kirk of Page1Listings.com.  "Google Places is so critical to small business owners that I have made it my personal mission to help as many as possible with free help to get highly ranked."

Kirk explains:  Google Places is acknowledged by many internet marketing pro's to be the most complicated tool available to small business owners.  It makes simple website seo look uncomplicated by comparison.  This is because at least 69 variables can effect your ranking on Google Places.  Almost all of these variables are covered in great detail on our blog at http://www.FreeSeoOptimization.blogspot.com."

Once each year for the past three years, a group of pundits who watch the Google Places Directory (previously known as Google Maps Local Business Center) rate what turned out to be 69 components dealing with everything from title tags on the company website to citations from directories, all of which may have some effect on ranking.  Anyone holding themselves out as an expert who hasn't fully read and digested the material at
http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml is not up to date on the technical side of Google Places.  

Kirk continues:  I spent a couple of hours checking out the findings and there were some real eye-openers that for SEO geeks will be water cooler or seo forum chatter for weeks.  For the average business owner, it will seem more like Greek.  Owners who are spending precious time trying to figure out places on their own can be compared to lawyers who handle their own personal legal issues.  They have a fool for a client."

At the top of the list of important elements are issues around the question of company name.  On the one one hand you want to have key words in the company name.  But Google has promised to penalize those who key word stuff the name of the company when those key words are not really in the name of the company.  

There's much much more in the report.  In fact, there are 67 more things to check out.  If you are a small business owner whho wants to get the potential traffic that comes from a listing on Google Maps, yoiu may want to check out this report.  You definitely will want to review almost 50 pages of free tips and secrets found at http://www.FreeSEOOptimization.blogspot.com.

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