Google Places Strategies List
List of Strategies for Google Places
That Improve Your Business Listings
What Free Traffic System Offers/Recommends
And – Also – What Do YOU Want Us to Do…
After Google places webinar we have gathered a solid circle of users who are using Google places as their regular SEO – for their own web businesses and for the sites of their clients.
One of the typical questions was “what strategies can FTS offer us to use for improving business ranks in Google places?”
Below we give a shortlist of the things that we can do, we deliver and that help sites with taming Google places.
IMPORTANT: the links will go to the sales pages of these services, but don’t care about the prices on the salespages right now, because the purpose of this post is to BUILD UP SUPER EFFECTIVE BULK of strategies to use for your Google places. We’ll bundle special packages with special prices after hear your feedback.
Strategies that Help to Boost
Ranks in Google Places
(1) Content Submission to Niche Sites and Blogs.
You can create content yourself, or we do it for you – doesn’t matter – the most important is that you get your texts published on lots of sites and blogs inside and outside Free Traffic System.
Obviously, you use citations of business listings in the text. This is very important – read about citations for Google places SEO in this post.
As a platform for content blasts and building citations and backlinks we most often use Double Push, because it gives the WIDEST submission coverage on the blogs.
If you want to be more niche specific and quality specific with your content submissions, then I recommend niche blogs inside Free Traffic System that have good traffic statistics. With this approach you do not try to “cover as many blogs as possible,” and you don’t get overnight results, but you invest into the long-term value of such publications. Because 5 articles with citations of your Google business listing on 5 good reputable blogs can do more value than 500 articles published on blogs that harvest the content from all possible sources.
(2) Social bookmarks.
Free Traffic System has a good bridge to reputable social bookmarks done by people via their real accounts.
It’s not quick, because accounts are real and we do not control how quickly they will submit. But they submit for sure. And in average you can count on 10-30 links per day.
And it works 100% on autopilot for you. With detailed reports in the end.
We can use your business address (citations) in the descriptions of these bookmarks and this will give you backlinks + citations of your Google places listing get published, Google sees them, indexes, and it pushes your ranks in Google places.
Moreover, social bookmarks the way we deliver them have a very good SEO+social marketing “side effect” – you accumulate Google+ and Twitter mentionings. Also on real accounts of real people. On autopilot. This “side effect” goes very slowly, you don’t get bunches of Google+ and Tweets, but this is even better – because it looks more natural.
You can see social bookmarks offered here, we want to add it to the package of Google places as well. Your opinion needed.
(3) Video Marketing.
We create videos and submit them. In the videos and their titles, descriptions, tags we do the magic with Google places optimization and submit the videos.
We don’t recommend blasting videos to many accounts at once, this is spammy. Instead have them on your own account and push your videos with social bookmarks, to make them more reputable.
The current prices for video marketing are here. But for Google places we will shortly reshape the price packages to make them more available.
So, right now we need your feedback on video marketing inside the Google places toolkit.
(4) Forum Marketing.
Real people will run real accounts on the forums in your niche. Posts will come with signatures that will have links and citations.
Currently we run forum marketing like this. A real person is sitting on 5 niche forums and doing forum posts with your backlink in forum sig. This is about 5 posts per day, 150 posts on 5 forums per month.
We do not think that you need that much posts for Google places SEO, that is why need your feedback on the numbers in the comments. And the price will get smaller proportionally.
Gerald Weber said on January 30th, 2012 1:31 pm
How about adding straight up citations on authoritative local directories.
Such as:
City Search
Yelp
City Search
ect.
CT Web Design said on January 30th, 2012 1:50 pm
I’d like a pakage that is “niche-specific” for citations, I don’t particularly care about social bookmarks, so quality over quantity. I love the aspect of video marketing, but I am nervous about the quality. The forum marketing is fine, I’d say that the sig should include the backlink and a citation.
That;s what I’d like to see.
Michael said on January 30th, 2012 2:22 pm
Dim, I would like a complete basic package for the listing to be done the right way for my clients. Then backlinks to boost the places/maps page. Stage three will be videos added to dominate the listing. So three stage pricing for each step would be great.
Steve said on January 30th, 2012 5:07 pm
Looking for an easy way to obtain useable
addresses in the top 100 US Cities ?
Weight Loss Success said on January 30th, 2012 7:42 pm
Although I am not in the US, maybe I can make use of certain features. I watched the webinar and was amazed but the problem is where I live.
Very few business here make proper use of the internet which may be a good thing for me. I live in a city of about 300, 000 but people here would rather drive 50km rather than search the internet for a local business. I need to do something in order for the businesses to believe what I say. I am making researches now to find a profitable market.
JMwebdev.com said on January 31st, 2012 12:36 am
Press releases > all. Seriously, PR moves mountains in search AND drives traffic. Win-win.
Targeted Traffic said on January 31st, 2012 1:09 am
Uuummm…
I think about videos. They are the best way to collect potential readers and potential customers. How much for them?
Nyagoslav said on January 31st, 2012 9:36 am
Some good examples of rather unorthodox strategies when talking about Google Places. However, these help when the search results are from the so called “blended” type. But when the SERP is “pure” Google Places listings nothing works better than a decent list of citations
Admin said on January 31st, 2012 1:58 pm
I think about $10 per video in bulk, but please don’t use it as final price decision
Admin said on January 31st, 2012 2:07 pm
I am doing this locally for a few businesses in Ukraine, works!
Cricket Games said on January 31st, 2012 2:26 pm
I think social bookmark can improve listing in G-places.
Ambit Energy said on January 31st, 2012 2:34 pm
How about a segment including reviews. Their value, how to foster legitimate reviews, not buying phony ones, etc.
Urban Scurry said on January 31st, 2012 5:52 pm
Google Places is about citations and reviews not backlinks. Good luck trying to social bookmark your way to the top.
admin: and if are citations used when submitting social bookmarks?
even if you don’t care about them as backlinks, you still have citations in the bookmark decriptions
Alfred Campbell said on January 31st, 2012 6:05 pm
I just want something to work for us
Paralegal Certification said on January 31st, 2012 7:55 pm
I am thankful for your email today and all the information you’re sending everyone about strategies to use for improving business ranks in Google places.
I am trying to build and market a waverunnerutah.com site for my son’s LOCAL BUSINESS and you’ve given me the idea get a video done by HIM and place it up on Google Places…I haven’t figure it all out ab out “citations” and everything right now because I’ve been looking for a job.
However, I’m going to keep your Website bookmarked and your email on hand so I can come back and get him listed on Places soon…It’s exciting and I think it will really help him increase his business…I want him to succeed.
Thanks again…
John Rapp said on February 1st, 2012 12:16 am
Dude nobody’s going to come off of any secret formulas for increasing Google Places rankings just out in the open like that. And if they do they aren’t really telling you anything that you didn’t already know.
Isn’t it supposed to be You, the content provider, who tells us, the Audience, how to do things like…. How to Increase Google Places Rankings… you should write a blog post with that title, and include information about how to do that. Would be good idea.
baby said on February 3rd, 2012 2:17 pm
I would like a complete basic package improve listing in G-places.