Today, in order for your small business to succeed and keep up with the competition, maintaining an active online presence and pursuing online marketing efforts is critical. Your online marketing assets, such as your website, social media channels, and online business listings can help you attract new customers, retain existing customers, and increase your sales.
Platforms like Google My Business (GMB) and features like Google Posts help make it easy for your small business to stay active online and boost your search engine rankings, allowing consumers to easily find your company.
To enhance the usability of search results, Google creates profile pages for businesses from publicly available information. Google My Business (GMB) is a free toolset which allows you to access and manage your listing or create your own if one does not already exist. These listings appear prominently in Google Search results, as well as Google Maps, allowing consumers looking for your products and/or services to find your small business easily.
On your GMB profile, you can share a brief description of your offerings and a link to your website, as well as your location, hours of operation, photos of your business, contact information, and various other attributes. Google also allows you to further enhance your GMB profile with regular content via Google Posts.
Google Posts is another free GMB feature that allows you to post text (up to 1,500 words), photos, or video content on your GMB profile. Up to ten of these posts can appear in a carousel under a GMB listing displayed alongside Google or Google Maps search results.
With Google Posts, you can showcase events, display promotional offers, add product photos and descriptions, share COVID-19 policy changes, and more. Consider using Google Posts to:
Posts can showcase the personality and vibrancy of your business. Additionally, because Posts can help you generate more organic interactions with your website, they can help build up your page rankings, strengthening your website's search engine optimization (SEO).
Google My Business is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools in a small business owner's online marketing arsenal. By taking advantage of Google Posts, you can grow traffic to your online storefront or brick-and-mortar store, strengthen your SEO, and significantly increase your sales. For help getting started with Google Posts, or to learn more about our ongoing SEO services, contact us today!
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