Setup Bing Places (Maps) for Business

Steps to setting up Bing Places (a.k.a. Bing Maps) for a Local Business. This is part of a larger local marketing strategy to position your business as the number one business in your geographic area for digital search by your new and existing customers, the strategy is about capture their eyes, irrelevant of how they try to find you by targeting all the major local marketing search engines.

In this example I will be working with www.PlusMedicalClinic.com.au

This is part of the Setup Social Local Marketing Accounts for Business” professional series and includes best practices that we follow for building out the IdeasMen – Content Constellation system which allow niche markets such as Broker Networks, Accounting Groups and Medical Practices to dominate SERP’s (Search Engine Ranking Positions) within their local & geographic regions.

Watch the Video How To

Visit Bing Places

Fill in User Profile

To Add you Need To Search

There is no obvious add business menu or button, so you first need to do a search for your business, I have used Plus Medical Clinic in Parramatta

Create New Business

Scroll to the bottom of the list of businesses and you can then click the Create new business button

Enter Basic Business Details

Enter Business Ours & Photos

Enter in Hours of Operation
Upload some images, set one of those images to be the primary image for the listing

Additional Business Details

Enter the followoing:

Description of business
Tag Line for the business
Parking Options
Pament Options
Year Established

Verify Account

Verify By Email

If your email address matches your domain name, then you can verify via an email address by selecting one of the domain options in the dropdown list and then selecting then filling in the other parts of your email.
If your email does not match the domain name, then you will need to verify via postcard.