How to add your business location on Google maps (for free) and show it on your website

This is the third part of the tutorial on how to get Online Marketing of your Photography business

There are two ways in which you can add your business on Google Maps. One is to register your business on Google Maps (The hard and lengthy process) or just add your favorite to Google maps and then share it with the world and attach that web location to your website (The easy and faster way shown here)

• Go to www.maps.google.com.au
• Click on My Maps on the Top Left hand corner (A bit lower than top left to be precise)
• Click on the Create new map button
• Sign in with your Google id that you created in step 1
• Click on Create new map button (If you would have already logged into Google maps, you don't need to perform this step)
• Enter the address that you want to show on Google maps in the box adjacent to Search Maps button in Centre Top of the screen
• Once Google maps shows the location, click on the placement marker adjacent to the hand button and place it where you want the world to see your location
• On the left hand side in the Title box enter the name of the place. Like I have "Dharmits Photography" and enter the description if you want to
• In the Privacy and Sharing section, click on Public, so that it can be shared with the world
• Click on Done and it will be saved.

This was just to add a placement marker on Google. Now to place it on your site so that people can click on a photo of the map and it will take them to Google maps at this location.

• Go to Google maps and click on Link on the Top Right hand corner of the Maps section.
• Copy the link that is displayed on the top box and keep it in the location which can be readily accessed later (Keep it in a text file)
• Take a snap shot of the location you added earlier in *.jpg format
• Open another explorer/firefox window and go to your website in editing mode and insert this snap shot of the map
• While keeping this snap highlighted, Click on add link button. A window will pop up asking for the web address
• Now copy the web address that is saved in the text file in this box.
• Save the page and test it. It should work fine

Go to http://sites.google.com/site/dharmitsphotography and on the Homepage, is the photo of the location where I am. Click on the map which will take you to the Google maps page which is interactive.

This is helpful for the customers who want to come to your business location for getting their photos taken.