Google Maps Cash
Google Maps Cash is a course by Chad Kimball to show you how to use Google Maps (now called Google Places) effectively. Google Places can be a source of free traffic to your site, especially if you have a local business.
Don’t think that it’s just for local though. As Chad mentions in the training, you can also use Google Places to promote affiliate products. In his example, he uses “dog training” to get listed under a dog trainer and sell a Clickbank book. What’s the deal with everyone using “dog training” as their example. Need a new example people!
If you don’t want to promote Clickbank products, build a local blog around locally oriented keyphrases and then optimize it for Google Places. Then, either sell the leads locally (more work but more money) or sign up as an affiliate for someone like ServiceMagic (no selling but less payout). This is exactly what I’m doing with my Dayton Contractors Network website.
Chad’s course is video based and it works. If you think that you can just submit a listing and wait, you are totally mistaken. It’s a bit more work than that and Chad shows you step by step what to do.
Less than a month after doing the training, I designed a site for a local business coach. It’s now #1 in Google Places for “business coach Dayton Ohio.” The other listings were totally knocked off the map!
Just think about how many business owners don’t have an optimized Google Places listing and how you can make money by showing them how to get listed there. Offline guru Tim Castleman is suggesting charging local business owners $700 for an optimized Google Places listing. Even if you only charge them $200, it’s quite a profit margin for something that’s quite easy to do (especially if you outsource it).
My only complaint about Google Maps Cash is that it doesn’t have a pdf to follow along. That would have been handy. All in all it’s a quality program and it actually works.
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Tags: chad kimball, google maps, google maps cash, make money online
Filed under: Internet Marketing Training | Jul 9th, 2010.
4 Comments: Google Maps Cash
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I been doing a lot of research the last couple of weeks concerning placement in google maps. I’ve watched all of Chad’s “free” videos of how the basics work to get placed in the 10-box and it looks intriguing. Before I invest money into his Google Maps Cash course, I plan on trying out the free steps he explains first to see if I can get listed for my wife’s website and business. If I have the success that he discusses, I plan on buying the course to learn the advanced tips.
The problem I’m having is the numbers for getting local search terms.
In your example your keyword “business coach Dayton Ohio” gets no searches according to googles search tool.
And the contractor site you mentioned doesn’t even show up on the google ten box for the term dayton contractors.
And this term only gets 12 searches a month according to google.
I understand it’s easy to get listed for these terms but have you seen any traffic from these listings and even more important are you seeing any conversions (money)?
Thanks.
Tony,
Thanks for the feedback. It’s well documented out there that the Google keyword tool doesn’t work very well with local terms. Yes, the traffic isn’t huge, but it converts better.
As for your comments about Dayton Contractor Network, it’s currently #3 for the phrase “Dayton Ohio home improvement contractor” and the place listing is merged with the organic result.