If you do affiliate marketing, sell your own products or do any kind of internet marketing you are depending on two factors: traffic and conversion. If you are anything like us, you love free traffic and here we will share some tricks for you to get more free traffic from google.

There are a lot of ways to get free traffic from google and they all involve a lot of work and requires some skills.  How ever to get traffic from google maps do not requires the same skills as normal SEO would.  It is also a geart way to show your selves or the product you are promoting to list it properly with google maps.  Google have three kind of maps on the first page.  They have a ten box, ten listings on the map, a three box and even a one box.  If you have a business in a bigger city in the US you can literally have hundreds and even thousand’s of visitor’s every day.  There are also ways to do this without having a physical business present but we will go deeper in to this subject in our upcoming e-book to our subscribers.

So here is the drill:

* The first you thing you do is to create a google account or a gmail account.

* Add a new listing in your “maps” tab once you are logged in to “Google local business center”.  Here you need to fill in as much as you can. Upload pictures, add videos if you have.

* As category’s choose keywords relevant to your business.  So if you for instance are promoting “water cleanser”, use “water cleanse” and “cleanse water” in the categories.

* You need an actual phone number to verify your listing and if you don’t have a physical business in your city don’t worry. You can get a phone number from a many different sources but we prefer skype and Vumber.  With skype you can receive calls directly on your computer.  You also wanna fill in relevant information under “additional information”.

* When you press “continue” you will be asked how to verify and if you use phone google will call you right away to give you a verify code.  Once this is done you are all set – so far.

* Google will cross check your listing with a number of other additional listings, so you do wanna list your business with a number of other sites.  Here are a list of where we list our business (this is if you have a business in the US, if you don’t use similar sites where you are located):

https://superpages.com
http://listings.yellowpages.com
http://infousa.com
http://localeze.com
https://mapreporter-test.navteq.com
https://biz.yelp.com
http://citysearch.com
http://www.insiderpages.com
http://local.yahoo.com

It will take from 30-60 days before your listing are accepted at some of these sites so it won’t make you a millionaire tomorrow, but this small effort can give you some extra free organic traffic from google maps.

To your success
André & Tom

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