{"id":179,"date":"2011-09-09T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/google-places-pages\/"},"modified":"2011-09-09T00:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:59:40","slug":"google-places-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/google-places-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Pages &#038; The DailyDeals Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SearchForecast is managing an increasing number of local pages on Google for clients. These &#8220;Place Pages&#8221; present fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/images.jpg\" title=\"images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/images.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"images.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"69\" width=\"69\" \/><\/a>opportunities for retailers to create &#8216;free&#8217; pages on Google and appear highly in targeted search listings. One of our real estate clients has over 3M impressions and 250,000 clicks in the past 9 months. That&#8217;s $500,000+ in free clicks!<\/p>\n<p>Google are increasing going Local with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zagat.com\">acquisition of Zagat.com<\/a> and as Wall Street demands more ads as a percentage of their webpages to increase revenue, they&#8217;ll continue to focus on taking market share away from Yellow Pages, Yelp and other business directories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-09-at-104820-am.png\" title=\"screen-shot-2011-09-09-at-104820-am.png\">\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-09-at-104820-am.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2011-09-09-at-104820-am.png\" \/><\/a> On Friday, 23rd September, I&#8217;ll be moderating a panel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydealsummit.com\/agenda\">DailyDealsSummit<\/a> in San Francisco on the &#8220;Impact of Deals on Yellow Pages&#8221;. We&#8217;ll be discussing the deal space and even though companies like GroupOn focus primarily on local, they aren\u2019t a natural competitor to the beleaguered Yellow Pages whose advertiser base is 3\/4 service oriented businesses. Deals though seem to be an avenue for growth for the local sales force strong yellow page companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SearchForecast is managing an increasing number of local pages on Google for clients. These &#8220;Place Pages&#8221; present fantastic opportunities for retailers to create &#8216;free&#8217; pages on Google and appear highly in targeted search listings. One of our real estate clients &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/google-places-pages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}