Google Places

Google Places is a service offered by Google which allow businesses to promote their local premises in Google Maps and in the main search engine result listings. Google Places is used by Google to identify your products and services for your local catchment area.

Google and other search engines realise that they need to be more local, this will be especially important to the ever increasing mobile device search market. Google know by pushing their local service they will become a resource for people looking for local information, which may well see their overall traffic levels increasing.

To ensure that you don’t miss out on some of this local traffic, the best advice is for you to obtain a Google Places listing for your business.  You may already have a Google Places listing that has automatically been generated for you; in this instance it is simply a case of verifying this listing with your Google account.