Tired of endless competition in your business and feel the need to stand apart from your rivals? Google Places offers you just the required option to be different, and that too for free! Spend a few constructive hours understanding this tool to get listed in the organic search based results. Google offers you Tags service for a small fee to outsmart your rivals in the business.

Browse for apt keywords through the essential Google keyword tool. What a surfer looks up in the search section to get your company information is crucial. Your users can come across your business on result page more frequently. Concentrating on imperative clientele in your vicinity is more easy and attractive when compared to fighting for all business prospects at global levels.

It is seen that maximum individuals use search engines online to find the local services and businesses rather than going through newspapers or paper based directories. Targeting your clientele in the geographic vicinity of your origin site through the Google Places tool is optimum. All that you need to do, once you decide to create a profile is mentioned below:

• Complete all details required for your profile for high listing in the search engine pages. Enhance your presence with contact information, videos, images, payment means and business timings for professional approach.
• Zip code of the city and area based listings suit best for the services not confined to one locality or spot.
• Show your QR code for business on page to provide phone based browsers to locate you on Google Places.
• Regular listing to prevent your profile from getting expired is a vital step. At least once or twice updates are necessary to keep your web presence on Google.
• Give attractive freebies, discount rates, coupons and advertisements on your profile. Encourage users to provide their contact details for follow ups and future campaigning offers.
• Be a professional as you follow the rules and regulations of the website and use proper keywords on your Google Places profile.

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Let’s take the example of an online perfume store. The owner just started his business and the first thing he will do is set up a website. Then he starts wondering how can he get natural traffic from search engines? (Natural here means traffic for which you are not paying a dime). The answer is obvious – by getting his website to rank higher on search engines for the relevant terms that are most searched or most popular. But the catch here is – the more popular the term is, the more competition he will have! Finding the popularity of the search terms is very simple. I always use the Google Keyword  Tool to find out an estimated search volume of terms over last month.

For e.g., the keyword “perfume” was searched for a whopping 16.5 million times in the last month. And at the same time there are ~ 50 million search results for the same. So if our website owner targets the keyword “perfume”, he will be competing with as many websites for that coveted ranking. Now that doesn’t sound like a great choice for your target keyword. Its very likely that your SEO campaign will outlive your website if you follow targeting a keyword with such immense competition.

Its advisable to go for keywords that are long tailed and not highly competitive

Let’s assume that our website owner sells perfumes by Giorgio Armani as one of his products. After doing a quick lookup, we can find that “Giorgio armani men’s perfumes” was searched ~ 15,000 times which relatively less as compared to the term “perfume” but it has considerably lesser competition, just ~ 500,000 as compared to 51 million. Now this looks like a good keyword to target. We call it a ‘long tail keyword’ where instead of using 1-2 word phrases, you try to go for longer, 4-5 word keywords as the competition grows.

Oh, and yes, while we are talking about perfumes today, I would like to share a very nice & low priced perfume store I recently purchased my armani from – Spritzworld.com. Do check it out.

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