Welcome to this weeks SEO video tutorial, we are going to produce a 3 part series on Google Places. This will include the setup, optimisation and analysis.

Google places as it’s now known has evolved over the years, previous being called local business center and Google maps.

The tutorial this week will show how to add your company to Google Places.

Go to Google.com/lbc

Add new business

Login with your Google account or register with a new account.

Fill in the information about your business and click next.

Select either claim listing or add new listing.

Add the service information about your company including videos, photos, area’s of business etc.

The last step is to verify your listing, You can do this a number of ways including, Phone, SMS and Postcard.

Once validated, you will see listing in the Google places dashboard

Thanks for watching, next week we will show you how to optimise your new Google places listing to improve the possibility of impressions.

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