If a client wants to update their own Google Places citations, what should we tell them to do?
Stuart Fensterheim wants to do his own citations for his Google Places listing. What is the best thing to tell him?
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Meagan Vitek
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Becky DeGrossa
Google Places Listings
For some clients, we create and/or optimize their Google Places listings. JI in the Philippines is our go to guy for that. This post is meant to give you some general knowledge about Google Places listings and what we do.
Google Places is also called Google Local (and used to be called Google Maps). Search on couples counselor denver and you’ll see something like this:
http://screencast.com/t/AglW5fg1
Optimizing the listing involves creating a title, description, selecting the correct categories, uploading optimized photos (we usually start with what the client has on their website), making some quick videos via Animoto and optimizing them, and building citations.
Here is a post on our blog for those of you who want to know more:
http://www.counselingwise.com/whats-wrong-with-your-google-places-listing/
We charge a 1-time set up fee (now set at $500) and then a monthly citation service to create a footprint online for that business.
Ranking success depends on many factors, including the organic strength of the site, the optimization of the listing, itself, and most importantly, the number of reviews the client gets.
Meagan Vitek is discussing. 
Meagan Vitek 8:41 pm on February 17, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
From Becky:
“To update ones we’ve already done, we can send him the logins and he can do.
To add more, he needs to find local and thematic directories and list his business there. We have a special paid tool that we use to find good ones. He’ll have to hunt. He should only submit to 10/month.
Anymore advice on that and he needs to pay for consulting. We’ve invested a lot in learning how to do it effectively and we can’t train him for free.”