Google just announced that you can now embed YouTube videos in merchant profiles in Google Maps. Videos are displayed in the “Photos & Videos” tab in the extended listing bubble that appears when you click on a listing.
“Local business owners can easily add YouTube videos along with other content such as business details, photos, and descriptions to their listings. To do so, simply upload your videos to YouTube and ensure that the ’embed’ option is turned on. Then, associate your video to your business listing through the Local Business Center.” A bit difficult for the average small merchant but fairly easy if you run a local SEO program.
The Google blog points to this example, I Dream of Cake in San Francisco.
What it means: most major North American directory publishers have launched their local video offer in the last 12 months (often powered by TurnHere or Weblistic). I think this will drastically increase the value proposition for those local videos, if publishers agree to distribute their videos in YouTube and Google Maps. I think they should do it and leverage the enormous amount of traffic found in those two sites.
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C’est drôle, mais ma perception de cette nouvelle fonctionnalité m’a fait un peu peur et j’ai même fait une capture d’écran le 19 mars dernier.
C’est drôle, mais ma perception de cette nouvelle fonctionnalité m’a fait un peu peur et j’ai même fait une capture d’écran le 19 mars dernier.