Google Local

[Jon Aston]

Hey.

This is great stuff from Google for local search. Check it out.

 

[iSign]

When my marketing partner speaks, I listen!

Thanks Jon!

 

[Replicator]

Thank You Jon . . . Very COOL !

 

[cgsigns_jamie]

I created a listing a few years ago and have had very good results with it. Most of our newer customers found us by searching for "Signs" on Google.

I just noticed the Coupon feature though... that seems very useful. I just created one for 25% off printed banners, I'm interested to see if anyone will take advantage of it.

Oh.. the best part is that it's FREE!! So there's no excuse not to create a listing for your business.

 

[JR's]

thanks

JR

 

[Techman]

Ive had a coupon on it for months and never saw one yet..

 

[iSign]

Google let me add youtube videos, so I had 5 youtube videos already set up as slide show galleries of 5 different areas of my business, because that is what I used to have embedded in my blog, before Joe Diaz turned me on to the slideshow pro plugin for wordpress...

So, basically, those 5 slideshow videos were easy pickin's to get a stronger presence in the Google listing, but the links do open up in my youtube channel, instead of remaining embedded in my Google listing...

My question is about youtube... I know everything out there on the net is pretty much "out there", and you can't always un-ring a bell, or put a genie back in a bottle...

...so if I ever wanted to clean up my presence in a place like signs101... fergetaboudit!

...but how about youtube? I only have my one famous big squeegee video with me cussing with joy at getting a lamination done... it's not really all that bad, but it is the one thing on my youtube channel that is not quite in keeping with the professional image I would want associated with my brand.

Does anyone know if I could make a second channel & move videos from one channel to the other, to separate biz from personal for example? (or to "hide" that one video)

 

[Techman]

cannot you click the remove button?
and then reup it to another account?

 

[iSign]

cannot you click the remove button?
and then reup it to another account?

hmm, I swear I looked for that before asking here, but I was in the single video viewing screen... this time, from the channel view of all 27 video thumbnails & descriptions, I was surprised to see a download button (that's good too, because resubmitting would have been impossible otherwise since I never kept that original).. and a "delete" button... so, I wiped out my 6800 views tally, but it was a small concern for my business image, so it's done!

Then I set up a new google account, with a new gmail addy & a new youtube channel. Since my main website is islandsign.com & my blog is islandsignmaui.com I figured my main youtube channel can remain islandsign & the new one is islandsignmaui

So, thanks! ...that was easy

 

[702 graphics]

Thanks!

 

[J Hill Designs]

thanks for the tip!

 

[sgns4u]

Ok maybe I need Google for Dummies, IDK. I acted as though I was a customer looking for signs. I thought if I went to googlelocal.com I would type in the zip code and What I am searching for.

But when I search SIGNS all I get is some suggestions for other search engines to search for signs.

Am I wrong on how google local works???

Do I have to know a name of a company to search for? I can do that on yellow book.

Thanks!

 

[binki]

we have been using it for a few months now and we have a lot of our business now coming from internet searches, this one included.

 

[CES020]

Ok maybe I need Google for Dummies, IDK. I acted as though I was a customer looking for signs. I thought if I went to googlelocal.com I would type in the zip code and What I am searching for.

But when I search SIGNS all I get is some suggestions for other search engines to search for signs.

Googlelocal.com is not google. It's a ripoff of their name. Google local is a feature of normal google. It brings you up in things like the map when people are using search along with the map and some other things like that.

 

[rm25x]

Right, just go to www.google.com and type in signs. You will see a little map in the results and it will show local sign shops.

I have been set up with google local for a few months now, and have had a few people contact me from it.

 

[Jon Aston]

Here's a big part of why you need to pay attention to this thread.

 

[wes70]

Thanks Jon.

 

[Jon Aston]

Always looking out for you, Wes, and the rest of the good people of :signs101: .