What Is Google My Business (and How You Can Leverage It)? | Ep. #321

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In Episode #321, Eric and Neil discuss what Google My Business is. Tune in to learn how you can leverage Google local listings and how it can BOOST your sales and search ranking. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Is Google My Business (and How You Can Leverage It)? 00:34 – Google My Business allows to create a free business listing on Google 00:41 – You can claim your business and verify it 00:57 – Neil claimed his address and verified himself through Google My Business 01:30 – The thing with Google My Business is that you can have multiple spots if you have multiple locations 01:55 – You need to get the reviews going, too 02:09 – You need to be descriptive and explain what you do 02:30 – There are annual guides and you’ll turn up better on Google searches 02:43 – Your SEO and links still matter 02:56 – Locksmith just claimed a bunch of listings and their sales went up 03:32 – Eric has claimed a few listings for himself 04:00 – Just don’t abuse it 04:09 – You can also check your listings at Google Analytics 04:25 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Claiming your listing on Google gets you better chances for turning up on searches. At the end of the day, good reviews, SEO and links still matter to the customers. Don’t abuse the system, because Google can get you suspended. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your page speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
0:34.4	Google's core vital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
0:38.5	site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream
0:44.5	host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a great way
0:49.7	to improve your low time.
0:52.3	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we are going to talk about what Google My Business is exactly.
1:01.0	So basically Google My Business allows you to get your free
1:05.2	business listing on Google so think about you know this is going to help you
1:09.1	organize kind of your local listings if you have different brick and mortar locations you can
1:13.8	claim your business you can verify it but it's basically a start of getting you
1:17.6	know things going for visibility in Google Maps and Google search basically
1:21.5	local right so you know Neil have you done anything around and Google search, basically local, right?
1:22.5	So, you know, Neil, have you done anything
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