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I'm a Leading Google My Business and Local Marketing
Expert, Speaker & Trainer.
You will find here everything you need to know about Google My Business, the best training, all updates, news, issues.
Google My Business Training
Learn how to optimize and improve your GMB profile with my Google My Business Course and Google My Business Training Guide, both part of my GMB Empower Training.
Local Google Search Optimization Training
Google My Business Tutorials
Free tutorials, mini-courses solving well-know issues and difficulties.
Free Learning Resources
Articles, Videos, How to Guides, many more
Best Learning for Business Owners, Web Designers and Local SEO Beginners
Learning content to get you from beginner to advanced user;
News, Issues Alerts and Updates
All relevant News, Issues Alert & Updates for Google My Business and other Google Local tools
Nowadays is fundamental that you learn:
How to Market Your Local Business on Google
How to Get and Optimise Your Local Business on Google Search and Maps
How to Get Your Website to the Top of Google's Local Search 1st Page through
The Big Truth:
Google is almost omnipresent when comes to online searches
Also, nowadays no one looks at yellow pages, they "google" it. Even when someone recommends a place or business, most of the time you probably check it online before a visit or a contact. True?
A few important stats:
up to 96%
Googleholds 88%, 92%, 93% and 96% of the search engine market share in US, Canada, UK and Ireland, respectively (StatCounter)
50%
Nearly 50% of ALL online searches on Google are for businesses / services located nearby ("near me searches") (Uberall.com)
85%
85% of people look online for products and services in their local area every month on Google Search and Google Maps (globalwebindex.com)
76%
76% of consumers who did a local Google search visited a local business. (HubSpot Marketing Statistics)
Market research studies show that:
• 96% of customers are more likely to visit a local business that has business hours on the Google Search or Maps page (IPSOS)
• 90% of customers are more likely to visit a company with a phone number in their Google My Business profile (IPSOS)
• Google My Business profiles had morecomments and ratings than Facebook and Yelp combined. Google My Business had2x the number of comments on Facebook and more than 10xthe number of comments on Yelp (searchengineland.com)
• Companies were found through unbranded searches 70% of the time versus 30% through branded research. In other words, most of the traffic comes from consumers who are still not sure which company to choose (Google Insights)
