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I just got another phone call this past week wanting to purchase our “guaranteed Google Maps placement services”.  This is the third client in two weeks or so that I have had to tell we don’t offer this service and to please be careful what they buy.
First no one and no firm can guarantee top [...]

Just recently one of our clients asked our opinion on a cold call she received with an offer to optimize her Google Maps account for big money. What the business said they would provide was intriguing to me so we agreed that my client would be my “guinea pig”. What I found out is highly [...]

In this month’s issue we have two great articles on Google Maps you will want to check out.
The Secret to Getting Google Maps Placement
I am starting to see a few trends in Google Maps that can be leveraged for placement and wanted to share them with you. It is important to note that I am [...]

I am starting to see a few trends in Google Maps that can be leveraged for placement and wanted to share them with you.
I have particularly studied several pest control firms up in the New York City and New Jersey areas. Here’s what I see in regards to who owns the top spot and on [...]

I have just this week had a prospect tell me that she had paid a firm $1,200 to move up organically in the Google Local Business listings. Wow, that’s a lot of money to spend on moving up in results when there is really very little information available on the Web on how to garner [...]

Google AdWords has done away with the local business ad that allowed you to specifically target Google Maps with your ads. For some AdWords programs we had set up separate campaigns just to feed results to the sponsored ad section on Google Maps with great results for some clients. With this important change for Google [...]

Well, Google Maps have outdone themselves this time. First, their maps were so accurate and useful and now they even have on-site pictures of any turn’s you think you might miss. 
The images are perfect and allow you to get a clear picture of the turns that are key in your route with interactive arrows. Also [...]