The other day a client told me the person who designed his site said that SEO isn’t necessary anymore!
My client doesn’t know much about a computer let alone the Internet, so I put it to him this way:
Can you imagine if the “view as thumbnail” feature didn’t exist on your PC and all your photos were named something like “1564.jpg” or “302894.jpg.
Or what if your documents were called something like “Dear5023.docx” or 524455.pdf, or if the icons on your desktop where just images, or your videos were named “856.wav”, etc?
How long would it take YOU to find what you were looking for – just on YOUR desktop, let alone the entire Internet!
He understood…..
Finally, Google has launched the ultimate application in South Africa which allows you to not only navigate your way to a “final destination” but to get an idea of what the destination looks like.
Just in time for the Soccer World Cup as promised!
Do yourself a favour – if you’re not listed with “Google Places”, do it today.
It’s targeted, free traffic. Nowhere else can you say that when it comes to marketing on the Internet.
People are looking for your business online and with Google Places you can make it easier for them to find you. Website or not – it simply doesn’t matter – but getting people in the door does, and Google is there to help!
Google has sent fleets of cars around the world for several years to take panoramic pictures of streets. People using Google’s online atlas for locations and directions in many cases can look at photographs collected by the Street View project and classified by address.
Google uses a combination of data from Wi-Fi, GPS and cellphone towers to determine where smartphone users are so they can be given information based on a specific location.
