3. Finding and Placing Businesses on Google Maps

Learn how to use Google Maps to find businesses near a given location—and place your own business on Google Maps.

One of the most useful features of Google Maps is the ability to search for businesses near a specific location. It’s great to enter an address and find nearby restaurants, stores, gas stations, and the like. It’s one of the things that Google Maps does well.

That’s great if you’re a consumer. If you’re a business, you’re more interested in making sure that your business shows up when someone queries Google Maps in this fashion. To that end, Google offers Google Places—a service that helps you put your business on the map, so to speak.

Searching for Businesses

As part of its Google ...

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