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You can inform people about your local business with the help of these Google places. It simply means that you can drive more and more traffic directly and indirectly to your website and business.

Benefits of Google places

1. Online advertising like Google Places is the way of the future, and it will soon replace paper phone directory listings that cost thousands of dollars per year.

2. Google Places is free.

3. When your Google Places listing is optimized properly, your business listing appears on the first page of Google.

4. You can offer discounts and coupons for one day, one week, or one month.

5. Your website, physical mailing address, and your phone number are displayed in your listing, which allows customers to find you more quickly and to get the information they need.

6. Mobile phone users can find your business listing immediately, and they don’t need a computer to do it.

7. You will receive more traffic and new customers.

8. You don’t need a physical retail or warehouse location to get accepted into Google Places.

9. By using citations and reviews, your Google Places will move up in ranking. With high ranking, within eight weeks, rather than eight months or eight years, your free advertising with Google Places will bring you more targeted customers faster than traditional organic methods.

10. Finally, and the most important to your financial goals, is that because it is so easy for customers to find your business listing, you will make more money than you did before your business was listed in Google Places.

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bhushan wrote:Benefits of Google places

1. Online advertising like Google Places is the way of the future, and it will soon replace paper phone directory listings that cost thousands of dollars per year.

2. Google Places is free.

3. When your Google Places listing is optimized properly, your business listing appears on the first page of Google.

4. You can offer discounts and coupons for one day, one week, or one month.

5. Your website, physical mailing address, and your phone number are displayed in your listing, which allows customers to find you more quickly and to get the information they need.

6. Mobile phone users can find your business listing immediately, and they don’t need a computer to do it.

7. You will receive more traffic and new customers.

8. You don’t need a physical retail or warehouse location to get accepted into Google Places.

9. By using citations and reviews, your Google Places will move up in ranking. With high ranking, within eight weeks, rather than eight months or eight years, your free advertising with Google Places will bring you more targeted customers faster than traditional organic methods.

10. Finally, and the most important to your financial goals, is that because it is so easy for customers to find your business listing, you will make more money than you did before your business was listed in Google Places.

I agree with you on most of the topics except "When your Google Places listing is optimized properly, your business listing appears on the first page of Google" cause optimization can be done in a proper way.

I have read an article on Google places, it was mentioned that 97% of buyers or consumers search local business with the help of Google places. According to studies made on this Google place leave a great impact on your business and helps any one to find your firm, hotel, restaurant.

Google is just getting started. It will be the future of reviews and online optimization. Needless to say the people running google are brilliant. Make sure to get plenty of reviews. After sites like Yelp have ceased to exist, google will still be around.

Thanks for sharing the information I think the point number 6 is really great. As it is highlighting the use of mobile to search online info.

I don't agree that adding your business in Google places leads you on 1st page of Google SERP's. It's all depend on your business. Although listing you business helps you to grow online.

This is also an important factor in ranking too.

Friends I have read all the post above and I found that Google places is really beneficial, but I don't know how to get this place, please suggest. Thanks in advance.

The biggest advantage of Google places is to increase sales of business product ultimately popularity also.

Using Google places is one of the best things you can do for the promotion and progress of your small business on large scale. Add photos and videos to your Google Places page to help tell your story and highlight your business. Use relevant keywords properly to create an impressive product or services description that appeals to the customers.

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