Promoting a Point on Google Maps via YouTube: Step-by-Step Guide

Today we want to share a small life hack on promoting your company profile on the Google map. Today we will need a YouTube channel, which is very easy to create and set up, and therefore this life hack is within everyone’s power)

First, a little theory.

The fact is that the ranking algorithm on the Google map is the youngest son of the Google search algorithm. Yes, it is very different from Google Search, but still, like its father, it loves citations and links. It loves a beautiful structure of Google services that are interconnected. So if you want to advance in any of the Google searches, the presence of other Google services will naturally benefit you. Since they have one core,

For example, to promote your site, you need links. This is the main SEO promotion tool. Businesses often order such work for promotion on the Internet from relevant specialists. And if in order for the promotion algorithm to find out about your site you need to use a special tool “Search Console”, then other Google services will automatically find out about the presence of a brother from Google maps, or about the company’s YouTube channel. We do not need additional work or specialists.

So a point on a Google map also needs such connections, they are also called citations, in English. Citations

So while we have a war and Google maps services and a company profile are blocked, we do not have many promotion options, then we can do such a small amount of work. And this will be a small but advantage.

If you can not create a business on a Google map or unblock your company, well, or you just want to receive reviews again and have the opportunity to promote a company on a Google map as before)

  1. Create a YouTube channel on the same account that manages your company profile on the Google map, I will not write how to do this, the Internet is full of instructions
  2. Go to the YouTube creative studio
  3. Give the channel a short name, preferably the same as your social networks, I always recommend giving the same names everywhere, Facebook, Instagram, website domain, and so on

Personalization→Basic information→Nickname

  1. Write a description of the channel
  2. Add a description in an alternative language if you need it, my audience speaks 2 languages, so I write in 2
  3. Add links to the site and your social networks, and most importantly, add a link in the form of a CID to your point on the map. If you have more than 1 point, and you can only add 5 links to the channel, then I recommend making a YouTube channel for each store.
  1. Publish a video on your channel, it can be a simple video with a greeting and an overview of your store or service station, ask someone to film you, say a few words about yourself and your work. 30 seconds or 1 minute is enough.
  2. In the description of your video, add all the same links to the site, social networks, Viber, Telegram and, of course, to the maps.

Where can I get a link to the CID company?

This is a link to your company with your company ID, these are the kind of links that are best used in citations. To do this:

  1. Go to Google Maps and find your company
  2. Make sure that your company is displayed in the search field along with the address where it is located:
  1. Copy your company URL in the format:
  2. Paste this link into the link converter service:

Google CID converter and link generator