How to Rank In Google Maps

My NAP On my website https://superstarseo.com

The next step to optimizing your website is to have a Google Map embedded somewhere on your site.

To do this you go to http://google.com/maps search for the address of your business, click Share, then click Embed the copy the embed code and place in a page on your website.

(if you don't know how to do an embed just google it or ask in the Facebook Group)

You can check out an example of what this looks like you can check out my Contact Page

The last step to optimizing your website for Google business ranking is Schema. Schema is a complex topic and could be a course unto itself so I am not going to dig to deeply into here.

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Essentially you want to use the local business schema type that identifies to Google that your site is a local business.

Here is a template you can use just plug in the appropriate information for your business and paste this in your site above the tag.

That's about it for your site! Its really not that much and should only take a few minutes.

Google My Business Setup

This is the most important thing to get right. Nothing else will work if this isn't done properly. Don't let that scare you though there isn't a ton to it.

To sign up for Google my business is a fairly simple process. Go to http://google.com/business

Sign up with the Google Account you want to use with it. Follow the steps and add your business (it is very straight forward but if you need help Google can walk you through it). Once you enter your business information (remember to make sure you use the exact NAP you will be using throughout your campaign) Google will send you a verification postcard in the mail with a code on it. Come back, input the code and your business will be verified with Google.

Now on to the important stuff to rank in Google Maps.

Once you get signed up and verified your dashboard will look something like this:

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You'll notice a few key things here.

At the top notice how I have the exact NAP I mentioned earlier. I can't stress this point enough that those have to be consistent.

You will also notice that I have my category listed as Internet Marketing Service you want to get as close as possible to your type of business when you are picking this during setup.

The last thing we want to do here is to upload as many images as GMB will allow you (I phrase it that way because the amount changes pretty regularly).

Before uploading the pictures however you want to geo-tag them. Essentially this means that you are going to alter the properties of the image so that Google knows what business it belongs.

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It is worth mentioning that you should use this service for the next step in our How To Rank In Google Maps Road Map.

Step #3 Competitor Citations Analysis & Replication

The trick to leveraging the power of citations is to first make sure you have the foundational citations, then find out what other citations the top 3 sites have and get as many of them for your site as possible.

The easiest way to do this is to use a tool called http://whitespark.ca

What this will do is allow you to enter in the keyword you are wanting to rank for:

Click Search and wait for it to finish and it will pull up the top Google map listing results.

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You can see if found my results along with top competitors. If it didn't pull your sites result it will let you audit your specific business as well. From here click on view sources on your competitors

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