With recent Google Search algorithm changes, it’s become mandatory for all local business to list there business on Google Place and ensure higher ranking. Now if you search for a local service or products on Google, Google search results brings you the local listings on the 75% of the first page of the search result. For example, here is an image of Google Search of “Pizza in Delhi”:

Google Local Search Result Sample

As you know, most important part of any business is to get local customers first, especially if they do business only locally. So now its time to optimize your Google Places listing that is an important source to get more local customers towards website/business.

At the time of submission on Local business please ensure that there is no keywords spamming and your listing is 100% accurate compare to Google Local business Quality Guidelines. Here are step by step guidelines for Local business submission on Google Places:

• Open “Google Places“




• Sign In with your Google (Gmail) Account, if you don’t have a Google account you can “Create a new Google Account” and sign in.




• Click on “List Your Business” button.




• Select Correct Country.




• Insert your phone number.




• Insert your phone number then click on “Find Business Information”.  If there is any business listed on the same phone number you have entered, Google will ask you to edit the business listings available on the same number. If you have found your business name on the list of business appear then you can click on “Edit” otherwise click on “Add a new listing”. Now you can find a list of blank form start with country, then company/organization etc.




• Add correct company/organization name, don’t stuff keywords in business name.




• Insert Company Physical Address including State, City/Town and PIN Code Correctly




• Insert Main Phone, Fax & Alternative Numbers [Number Format: “(650) 555-4000”]




• Insert correct Email Address




• Insert Website address correctly (If you don’t have any website you can also do local submission)




• Add a short description that describes your business exactly. Please don’t try to write description with keywords stuffing.




• Then insert categories that match your services. You can add up to 5 categories. Make sure at least first category should be from “Google’s suggestion”.  Here is compressive list of Google Local Categories (You can view the category list by Clicking the “View all categories” option at “http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=28247&topic=28291&answer=178024″ ).




• Please add “Service Areas and Location Settings” on the given place. If offer service product only from your location, please select option “No”, otherwise you can choose area searved by your with name of location or service area by MI or KM.




• Select your correct working hours. (This will help customers know when you’re open!)




• Select the Payment options your company accept. (how customers can pay at your business)




• Choose photos of your business services, logos, portfolio images (you can upload up to 10 photos). Your photos should not contain the followings: Illegal content, violations of copyright, trademark infringement, pornography, incitement of violence, promotions of hate & invasion of privacy. Also note that its advisable to upload as much photo of your business as you can.




• You can enhance your listing by associating videos about your business. You can add upto 5 video of your business. Please upload your business video on YouTube first, then just add the link of your video on Google Local listing centre.  It’s recommended to add at least one video.




• Please share additional details for your business on “Additional Details” section. You can add other details like brands, service details, and menu; parking details, Facebook, Twitter etc your business at addition details section. You can also add URL of special pages of your website this section. Read more about additional details here.




• Finally now it’s the step of verification. Select verification method as you like. The easier and quicker way is phone verification.  You can also choose SMS or Post card verification. On all verification process Google will provide you unique 5 digits PIN, you need to add that PIN on Google Places listing Canter.

Now Your Listing is Live!!

• After activation you can create coupons for your visitors. If your business provides any coupon then add it to your listing on Google Local. This will motivate visitors to use product/services offer by your company/organization.




• You can also use Google Tags to promote your listing. These days Google offer a free trail of 30 days. It will change you $25 per month.

Please also read Google “Create a Great listing” on Google Places Help Canter for more information.

A very beautiful holiday season is going to start again at the end of 2010 because Christmas and A New Year of Peace and Happiness are going to arrive. SAI Internet Marketing Family wishes a very happy and warmest Christmas Season & a New Year of Peace and Happiness ahead, to our customers, business partners and their acquaintances.

During this beautiful holiday season Santa waves a Magic Wand all over the world, which will make everything more beautiful. The New Year 2011 with peace and happiness inspire us to start new activities. Let’s forget what we have lost or win last year and let’s think something prolific which help us to achieve the success.

It’s the time to plan for the entire year with new and creative ideas. Let’s manage everything in a wise way for this New Year 2011. It’s the time to say bye bye to the previous year and past things and welcome to the future with a lot of dreams and hopes. Let’s welcome the New Year with open arms and hope it will bring you and your loved ones a lot of success and happiness.

SAI Internet Marketing Family also wants to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you the best in the New Year and let’s share the loveliness of Hope, blessings of Peace, strength of Love, and soothe of Faith. We express our thanks and support and warm wishes for Happy New Year – 2011.

Google Maps is very helpful tool which allow us to locate any places worldwide, get direction to any place, find local information on any place and many more. Google map is free service provided by Google. You can easily add it to your website if your website is free to access. So let’s know how to add it to your own website easily and quickly, following are the step by step process of adding Google map to own website:

How to Plot One Location:

Open maps.google.com and search for a location you want to publish on your website.

Google Map

Click on the map type you want to publish on your website. You may choose maps, satellite, earth etc.

Google Map Type

If you want to highlight a specific place or your business then you need to click on the specific location. Like if you want to highlight Janakpuri East Metro Station then you need to click on the Janakpuri East Metro Station place.

Highlight a Place

You may use street view to see the street level images available on the map for the address. You need to drag the Pegman to the specific location/address to see the street level images.

Pegman View

After your place/address/location selection completed,  find the “Link” option at the top right corner of Google Maps. Click on the “Link”, there you will find two HTML code options:

1. Paste link in email or IM
2. Paste HTML to embed in website

You need to choose the 2^nd option “Paste HTML to embed in website”.

Choose the Link Option

If you like then you can customize the “Paste HTML to embed in website” code by editing the width and height and preview them too by clicking the “Customize and Preview Embedded Map” Link as per your requirement.

Customize the Code

Now Copy and paste the code to your website HTML code where you want to publish. Now you can view the map at the exact location where you paste the html code.

You can visit http://maps.google.com/help/maps/getmaps/quick.html for more information.

There are two other options also available to add a map on website:

• Plot Multiple Locations for Your Website
• Additional Options for Your Website

We will discuss these two options on next post.

Most of the people who are otherwise aware about SEO and various concepts of online marketing have a little idea on what is SEO Reseller program. What a comprehensive SEO reseller program includes? How an effective SEO reseller program can be initiated? SEO reseller program in simple terms mean reselling the services and packages of search engine Optimization Company. Anybody can become the part of the reseller program; and just like a sales agent earn good commissions on every sale of SEO package. When you become an SEO reseller of a SEO company your income will begin to increase and you get the lucrative way of generating profits for yourself as well as the parent SEO Company.

And if you are running your own business, then SEO reselling can turn out to be an additional source of generating the revenue apart from your main revenue. There are quite a handsome number of reseller companies available on internet that provide complete details of the SEO services that one can avail for promoting your business online. Here, it is very important to note that when hiring SEO services from SEO reseller, one need to check on what type of SEO services are good for their business and prospects. At times there might be the scene where all the services under a given package turn out to be useful for the business.

Going in a little creative way, you can also re-brand the SEO services for the purpose of purpose of reselling SEO solutions and packages offered by SEO companies. You can sell the SEO services at your own price tag and under your own name. You have choices to make, and you should not waste your time on thinking which way to go. The more comprehensive reseller program you choose, more lucrative it will become for you to cull profits.