Google Places is one of the best service when you are looking to convert the Online visitors reach your offline business and the scope of this opportunity is just increasing every single day. Most of the Business locations in known cities and towns are listed on the Google Maps and Places service with Street View sending them huge number of business leads and customers who directly use the Phone Number listed or the contact information to reach.
Google Tags is a service from Google Places which allows you to show something additionally to your customers who are searching for business listings in Google. Apart from what is shown by default for all the business listing, you can make your own business listing look special by displaying either a video, some discount coupon, an informative website link or a page with full of legit testimonials related to your service. While other businesses have some default information listed on the Google Result pages, Tags would allow you to add more information to a Google Places listing when someone searches for the same.
You will have to login to your Google Places Dashboard and then click on the ‘Create Tag’ link once you have confirmed your ‘Business Listing’ and are ready with a Credit Card.
Tags Cost : The service costs you 25$ per month per listing. This is a flat listing cost for each tag you add and this comes with unlimited editing which means that you can update the same any time you need. Also this service is based on a fixed price which means that you wont have to worry about the per click charges which is normally levied when you use the Google AdWords service. You also need to make sure that you have a valid U.S. credit card to get started with the 25$ monthly fees for this service.
Features :
- Easily and inexpensively highlight your listing on Google from Google Places.
- Potential customers in your local area will see what you think is most important or unique about your business.
- Track the effectiveness of your tag with your Google Places dashboard.
- You will be charged a low $25 flat monthly fee, with no bids and no keywords required.
- There is no additional work or ongoing management is needed.
The statistics and performance of your tags listing is provided in the Google Places Account Dashboard.
Check out the below video for more detailed information on this service and how you can sign up for the Tags service and how you can display the same.
Free Offer : To get started with a 25$ free one month trial listing of the Google Tags service, check out http://www.google.com/lbc and hit the Activate Google Tags service option which will give you the first 30 days free.
Thanks for the useful information. Its great to know that google offers a lot of ways to help people in boosting the potential of their business…but then again, we should always be cautious in everything, do research and think before availing any service so that we can get the best out of our effort and money spent.