Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Indoor Street View | Street View Indoors | Google Business Photos | Google Virtual Tour

Indoor Street View  

That's right, its an Indoor Street View.   The only way to say it that completely gives one the sense of what we do is to say it is Google Maps "Street View" brought inside businesses.  But wait, it's not just in Google Maps.  That's right, it also tags to the businesses' Google Search listing and their Google +Local page.  So then it's more than just "Street View" brought inside.  Ok, it is a Google Virtual Tour.  More important than what it should be called is what it can do for a business.

Google's new search algorithm, named "Hummingbird" is built upon Semantic Search.  I'm not going to attempt to write about what that means because +David Amerland has written all about it and I highly recommend you purchase his book "Semantic Search" and read up on this.  But what I will do is briefly tell you that Google Search is not what it used to be.  If you want your business discovered on Google, then you need to utilize all of Google tools; G+, YouTube, Blogger, Gmail, and Google Virtual Tours, (and others) under a single user account and bring them all together into a linked Google presence. Indeed I just made it sound so simple, but if you are like most business owners you just don't understand this, don't want to, and don't have time to.  I get that.  But you are in luck because that is what we do at PlacesMobile.

SEO, Social Media Managers, and Marketing Agencies are not Google Presence experts.  Being a Google Presence Expert means that Google is all you do.  Google is a constantly and rapidly growing and evolving set of programs and the only way one can keep up with it is to be a part of it day in and day out.  If one is building websites or marketing business on Facebook, and Twitter, they are too busy to keep up with Google and quickly fall behind; and when you fall behind in Google today, well that is not a good thing for businesses.

Above I purposefully said "your business discovered on Google".  Most would say "show up" or "found", but businesses need to be discovered.  That means that they need viewers to learn and engage with them because they discovered what they are about right on the Google Search page - not just a listing and a link - but real discovery.  Visual, geo location, interactive, current and relevant social messages, rating and review.  The Google Knowledge Graph is that discovery element.  I'll go into that in detail in my next post.  

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