Today I want to give you instructions on how to add a coupon to your local listing in Google. The following are the steps to accomplish this.

Creating Your Coupon in Six Easy Steps

1. To get your Google local listing you had to set up a Google account. To create your coupon, you need to login to that account.
2. Here is the screen that will appear


First step to adding a coupon.

3. Click on the “local business center” and the following screen will appear.


The coupons tab in the Local Business Center

4. Now, you see the coupon information


An explanation of the coupon feature

5. As you fill in the form on the left you’ll see your coupon appear on the right. You can also allow for a mobile phone coupon, give your coupon a number for ease of tracking and add an image.


Your coupon takes shape





Adding an image.

6. When people click “More information” on your map bubble they will see more details of your business and your coupons. When they click on one of your coupons, this is what they’ll see.


Here's my coupon. Click on it to see the actual coupon live.

Publicize Your Coupon

You can link to your coupon from your website, your blog or your Facebook account. In fact, I’ll go over there and do it right now.

Please feel free to ask questions or make comments via the “No comments/comments” link below.

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