{"id":16207,"date":"2014-02-19T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16207"},"modified":"2014-02-19T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T01:21:34","slug":"why-a-business-should-always-add-photos-to-their-google-plus-page-for-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/19\/why-a-business-should-always-add-photos-to-their-google-plus-page-for-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Business Should Always Add Photos to their Google Plus Page for Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toughloveseo.com\">Todd Mintz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109202477360312997249\/posts\/Sx68wqbVqry\">highlighted<\/a> this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=mutt+industries+near+portland&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">search result<\/a> a few days ago on Google Plus. It so clearly illustrates why a business should take the time to fill out every aspect of their Google Plus Local profile, <a href=\"http:\/\/localu.org\/blog\/g-pages-local-smb-survival-guide\/\">add at least one post<\/a> AND add some photos of their\u00a0choosing.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t the borg&#8217;s machine will vacuum up whatever it finds and will show what it thinks is relevant; like this photo from one of the business&#8217;s wordpress content\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muttindustries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/\">sub directories<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16208\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.42.24-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16208\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-19 at 10.42.24 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.42.24-AM-520x363.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.42.24-AM-520x363.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.42.24-AM-286x200.png 286w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.42.24-AM-1024x715.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.42.24-AM.png 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Click to view larger and you will see what appears to be someone smoking a humungous doobie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108386068945575338173\/photos?hl=en\">Google+ Local Page<\/a>, while claimed, is devoid of any content or photos. If they had added at least one photo and noted it as a profile photos it is likely that Google would have shown it instead:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16209\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-02-19 at 10.43.06 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.43.06-AM-520x359.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.43.06-AM-520x359.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.43.06-AM-288x200.png 288w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-19-at-10.43.06-AM.png 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously they also should add a cover photo and a few posts to the post page as well. \u00a0See:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localu.org\/blog\/g-pages-local-smb-survival-guide\/\">Google+ Pages for Local: An SMB Survival Guide<\/a>\u00a0for some tips on doing just enough to get by on your Google + Local Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Mintz highlighted this search result a few days ago on Google Plus. It so clearly illustrates why a business should take the time to fill out every aspect of their Google Plus Local profile, add at least one post AND add some photos of their\u00a0choosing. If you don&#8217;t the borg&#8217;s machine will vacuum up &#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-16207","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\/16207","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=16207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}