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Google Local Business Center Adds Analytics and Reporting

Posted Tue, Jun 9, 2009

Google’s Local Business Center has been a great tool for many SEO companies and businesses hoping to increase their search rankings, but did you know Google just added reporting and analytics that show how many views your profile has seen and what people did once they found you?  I’m not going to talk about how you should create, manage or SEO these listings today but instead break down the key features of this report and what each areas mean in respect to the Google local Center.  Google just made my life a whole lot easier and gave me reliable stats on how effective claiming and developing a “LBC” profile really is.

So here are a few of the business I’ve claimed and verified in Google’s Local Business Center, well take a look at the center business shown below:

 


Four Areas of the Local Business Center in "View Report"

 

 



Here we have two graphs showing trends for both Impressions in Blue and Actions in Green, showing you how many of each happened on specific dates. This listing was claimed on March 12th 2009 and stats are from this date till June 3rd 2009.


Obviously this adds together all Impressions and Actions your listing has received, and with the latter how many of each type of Action was taken.

  1. 224 clicks for more info on Maps, this means a searcher clicks the profile when it shows in a search.
  2. 35 Clicks for driving directions, these are people who wanted to know exactly how to get to this Tavern (Hopefully believers in DD’s or the good ol’ public transit system) how can you deny the benefit of being listed when people are clicking on and print directions to you door step.
  3. 232 Clicks to your website, kind of self explanatory if you still need help it means they clicked in the listed website for 1902 Tavern for even more information.





Displays the top ten key words or key phrases that your business profile is getting viewed by searchers, this allows you to see what words your profile ranks for best and maybe you’ll want to boost some low performers.

 

Shows City and Zip codes of were people are clicking for driving directions, this member got 35 actions were the searcher entered a request for driving directions.

All in all this is a gift to any local search professional.

 

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