February 5, 2008 Comments (3)
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Matt McGee offers up a post over at Small Business SEM that makes it pretty clear Google Maps is on the way up in terms of usage. Despite my love of Yelp for local reviews, I find myself turning to Google Maps more and more often for brick and mortar business info. It's the integrated option on my iPhone and the simple navigation on the web version of the site let's me find specific types of stores near certain locations.
I use it when traveling, but I also use it when I'm out and about and need to find the nearest "store X" to where I currently am. In fact, I used it just this morning to find a cheaper hotel around the corner from a conference I'm attending this spring.
If you have a brick and mortar store and you haven't taken advantage of the ability to update your Google Maps listing with complete information about your business, you need to get cracking. It's free, it only takes about five minutes and I've even written a step-by-step guide telling you how to do it. No more excuses. Time to make sure people can find you.
Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.
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