{"id":101,"date":"2011-03-24T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-04-27T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T04:07:13","slug":"tip-does-your-business-have-a-google-places-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/2011\/03\/24\/tip-does-your-business-have-a-google-places-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Does Your Business Have a Google Places Page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen them in search results.\u00a0 You search for a business and Google presents the normal search results, plus a map with a bunch of pin icons.\u00a0 These are links to pages on Google Places, a Geo-location feature on Google.<\/p>\n<p>Check our <a title=\"Proper Technology at Google Places\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/yKb4g\" target=\"_blank\">Google Places page<\/a> (Link will open a new window)<\/p>\n<p>If your business has been established a long time, you may already have a Places page, but you&#8217;ll need to claim it, so you can add custom information to suit your own needs.\u00a0 You can upload a logo, photos, videos and a description of your business.\u00a0 This is Information Technology that you can use.<\/p>\n<p>I will talk about QR codes in another update.\u00a0 You may not have heard of them, but they look like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_102\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102\" title=\"QR Code for Proper Tech Google Places Page\" src=\"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/qr1.png\" alt=\"QR Code for Proper Tech Google Places Page\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QR Code for Proper Tech Google Places Page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you have a smart phone, check to see if you have a barcode scanner installed.\u00a0 If not, install one.\u00a0 You can scan the barcode above with your phone and it will take you directly to our Google Places page.\u00a0 The reason I bring this up is that most people will be using QR codes like the one above from a smart phone.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t have a web page that looks good on a mobile device, linking to your Google Places page is the next best thing.\u00a0 It looks great on a phone, displays your address and phone number and links to your site.\u00a0 You can even include coupons.<\/p>\n<p>Try to find your Google Places page and claim it.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s not out there, create a new one at <a title=\"Google Places\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/places\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Places<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you need assistance with your Internet marketing or have any Information Technology needs, call a computer repair expert in Wichita.\u00a0 Proper Technology Solutions offers trained and certified networking consultants at affordable rates starting as low as $70\/hour.\u00a0 Call today at (316) 337-5628 and let us help you lower your IT support costs.\u00a0 After hours? Call us at (316) 210-7112.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen them in search results.\u00a0 You search for a business and Google presents the normal search results, plus a map with a bunch of pin icons.\u00a0 These are links to pages on Google Places, a Geo-location feature on Google. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/2011\/03\/24\/tip-does-your-business-have-a-google-places-page\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,5,134],"tags":[18,10,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.properwichita.com\/consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}