{"id":12708,"date":"2021-07-06T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advicelocal.com\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2021-07-06T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T14:30:26","slug":"why-need-apple-maps-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advicelocal.com\/blog\/why-need-apple-maps-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Every Local Business Needs An Apple Maps Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our team just attended the Rocks Digital Marketing Conference, as they do every year. For our agency partners that attended, it was great to see you online. Today we\u2019re going to share the highlights from Eric Shanfelt of Local Marketing Institute\u2019s<\/a> presentation, Why and How to Claim an Apple Maps Listing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Why You Need to Claim the Apple Maps Listing<\/h2>\n

Andrew Shotland of Local SEO Guide estimates there are 100 million U.S. adults that use Apple Maps<\/a>. Have you considered that Siri always returns Apple Maps results? And typed searches on iPhones and tablets return Apple Maps results. Apple CarPlay is powered by Apple Maps. So everything in the Apple-verse uses Apple Maps by default \u2013 period.<\/p>\n

If your customers are not on Apple Maps, you definitely want to get them listed there! For those of you who are Advice Local partners, we submit your clients\u2019 businesses to Apple Maps within our solution. If you are on our legacy platform, Apple Maps is not included.<\/p>\n

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How to Claim an Apple Maps Listing<\/h2>\n

The good news is this \u2013 you can go directly to Apple Maps to submit your client\u2019s business. It\u2019s not as simple as getting the listing created through a listing management solution such as ours, but it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

To create\/claim an Apple Maps listing, start by going to Maps Connect<\/a>. Eric shared these observations about the Maps Connect solution:<\/p>\n