{"id":16136,"date":"2014-02-10T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16136"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:59:49","slug":"at-local-u-how-should-you-market-your-google-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/10\/at-local-u-how-should-you-market-your-google-page\/","title":{"rendered":"At Local U: How Should You Market Your Google + Page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0Anikait Chavan\u00a0commented on an <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/should-you-do-linkbuilding-to-your-g-page-for-local\/\">old post<\/a>\u00a0where I\u00a0minimized the idea of link building to an SMB Google+ Page for local. With the many changes that has taken place with Google Local, his comment motivated me to <a href=\"http:\/\/localu.org\/?p=2676\">revisit<\/a> the idea of exactly how your Google+ Page for Local should fit into an overall marketing plan for your business at the Local U blog.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially the new Google+ Page for local can perform a number functions that can potentially benefit your business.\u00a0\u00a0Some of these are significantly more cost effective for a business than others.\u00a0Which of these should be prioritized for your business?<\/p>\n<p>Read my thoughts:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localu.org\/?p=2676\">How Should You Market Your Google + Page? You Shouldn&#8217;t. You Should Market Your Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently\u00a0Anikait Chavan\u00a0commented on an old post\u00a0where I\u00a0minimized the idea of link building to an SMB Google+ Page for local. With the many changes that has taken place with Google Local, his comment motivated me to revisit the idea of exactly how your Google+ Page for Local should fit into an overall marketing plan for your &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16155,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions\/16155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}