Local search is poised for a huge increase in revenues, services such as Google Maps, Yahoo maps, Bing maps have suddenly seen a high volume of traffic due to the growth of smart phones like Apple iPhones, BlackBerry and Android.
A user with a smart phone has different usage patterns to search the web, they may not go to Google.com to search for a nearby restaurant but may use Google maps, most of the smart phone’s today have built-in GPS feature that works very well to show the users search location via Google maps.
If you are hungry and want to eat a pizza in Toronto, Canada all you need to do is type “Pizza” into Google Maps, which automatically shows you the nearest pizza restaurants or show you all Pizza restaurants located in a particular area in Toronto. You don’t need to know the address or any other details of the restaurant, the search shows up on the bases of the location – a very powerful feature.
You can use the below steps to claim and promote your local business or service on Google Maps
1 ) Go to Google Maps and type in your business (ie. Pizza Toronto ), check the listings featured on Google Maps. If you already have your listing on Google Maps, then click on the more info link to check the details about the listing. It will take you to a page in Google’s Local Center about your business.
2 ) Google is looking for owners of these pages so that the listing and other particulars about your business are accurate.
3 ) You need to click on business owner link and login with your Gmail account to claim the page, once you have claimed your page, you can add / edit the details on the page (ie. address, phone number, email ids, photos, upload video and more ). Click on submit once you have validated the information.
4 ) If you don’t find your listing then go to Google Local and click the link on the left hand side that says ‘Put your business on Google Maps’, enter the necessary information about your business in terms of appropriate tags, (ie. Pizza Toronto, Pizza Restaurant Toronto ) the search tags are what prospective customers would look when searching for information about your product or service. Fill in the appropriate business details (ie. address, email, phone number etc. ) and click submit
5 ) Once you click on submit, Google will want to validate that you are the actual owner of the listing. They will send you the PIN code activation details to the address in the listing. Once you get the PIN code, follow the instructions to claim your listing. You can either do this via postcard or telephone.
6 ) Once you have claimed your listing you can update or edit your listing on Google Maps as often as you want. You may also want to check back on Google (local search) for your listing based on the tags that you selected. You results should show up in a few hours. If you have any other business you can use the same process to verify and claim additional listings.
A well optimized website may take anywhere between 6 – 8 months to get featured on Google, by using the above steps your business or service can get featured very quickly under local searches on Google maps. Google maps is going to be a big revenue generator for Google in the coming years. You may just have to pay a premium to be listed on Google maps in a few years.
Do you have a local business ? Have you listed yourself on Google maps ?
I just had an interesting chat with Shoemoney for about 20 minutes and he told me that he was mighty kicked about the launch and success of the Shoemoney System
Shoe mentioned that :
- Shoemoney System has the lowest refund or cancel rate of any item on Clickbank over $100 ( Clickbank has thousands of products listed in their marketplace ).
- Shoemoney System has been voted the best branded product on All Of Clickbank
That’s a dream for every internet entrepreneur.
Shoemoney – The Magician
Right now there is a huge buzz around the internet about the Shoemoney System, this morning Shoe pumped in $100,000 on a nation wide radio campaign to get the branded awareness up for the system. I haven’t heard of any Internet Marketer spending that kind of money offline.
This shows the commitment level and faith that Shoemoney has on the product, he know that he has built a top notch system to help you make money online.
Shoe is running a contest where he is giving away $1,000. All you need to do is make a theme song related to the Shoemoney System and upload it to the Shoemoney System – an innovative and unique approach to promoting a product. The winner will be selected by the number of votes.
If you’ve missed the earlier Shoemoney Series on this blog, here’s a recap :
What is Shoemoney System ? Shoemoney System is a step by step video training system, teaching you how to make money on the internet.
Shoemoney has been working to build this system for the last one year, with a new video every 3 days, he has left no stone unturned from learning the basics about internet marketing to affiliate products to doing your own PPC ads, ads to using social media effectively.
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Shoemoney has managed to pull very exclusive bonuses of over $2500 that you’ll get in the Shoemoney System, these include ad coupons from Google,Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Azoogle, Sponsored Tweets and other sponsors.
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You can try the Shoemoney System for a full 60 days and if you think its not for you, you will get it all your money back. It’s a no brainer, you can’t lose money in this deal, you can only loose the opportunity.
My Aussie Mentor and good friend Yaro re-released a FREE copy of his ebook The Membership Site Masterplan . It’s a step by step guide to creating income with membership sites. If you missed downloading it before, this is a great chance to grab it.
Membership sites are the best way to make a passive income online, almost all Internet Millionaires made their first million with membership sites. In the The Membership Site Masterplan Yaro reveals all aspects about kick starting and building a high income membership site, he also covers all aspects of generating traffic and marketing the site to make income.
The information is brilliant and highly recommended for those that missed downloading it the last time.
The 72 page eBook is a step -by-step plan on how you make a $100,000+ a year income by launching your own membership site.
Yaro’s a great teacher and writer, and whenever he releases a report people always eagerly await what he has to say.
His gift is the ability to take complex subjects and make them very easy to understand. As you will see in this report, Yaro makes the process of setting up and profiting from a membership site so easy, anyone can do it, including you.
In the Masterplan Yaro explains how he was able to make $250,000 from just one membership site and then goes on to lay out a plan so you can launch your own membership site and earn at least $100,000 within the next 12 months.
In the Masterplan report Yaro takes you through the following process:
- How to find topics for a membership site
- How to develop preeminence, which means people choose to join your membership site over all the other options
- What sources of traffic Yaro uses to bring members to his site and build his list
- What technology Yaro uses to deliver content (this is so simple, anyone can do it)
- How to make money from a membership site BEFORE you create the content for it
- How to fill your membership site with hundreds of new members in a matter of days by conducting a powerful, yet simple, launch campaign
- and much more…
Yaro himself has a few membership sites, each making more than $250,000 a year. He is the best coach to teach you how to get there.
I’ve been a recent student to the membership site mastermind program and I can tell you that its not very difficult to make that kind of money using techniques that he teaches in The Membership Site Masterplan
Yaro has many successful students who went on to start their own membership sites, Daniel Scocco from DailyBlogTips.com is just one of the success stories of his membership site teaching program.
Using Yaro’s techniques Daniel attracted more than 200 members at $48 per month in the first five days. Now, that’s a steady passive income of $10,000 a month.
Membership sites are brilliant business models that can generate a steady flow of income each month, a perfect example of building a passive income each month.
The Membership Site Masterplan is FREE and won’t cost you anything to download. You can also download an audio MP3 version of the Masterplan too, again at no cost. If you prefer to listen in the car or on your ipod as you run about, you will appreciate this audio file.
In December 2009 Twitter recorded its 1 billionth tweet. Twitters were tweeting 5000 times a day in 2007, 300,000 in 2008 and in 2009 it has grown to 2.5 million tweets a day.
Tweets grew by more than 1400% last year to 35 million a day, Today we are seeing 50 million tweets a day. That’s an average of 600 tweets per second.
According to the above estimate the 20th billion tweet will only take about 4-5 months.
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