One of the questions I get asked is, " How do you add the Google maps to your blog posts?"
Here is the tutorial on how to add the Google maps to your articles, website pages, blogs, etc. In just a few steps; you are ready to go.
First set up your own Free Google account. Go to Google.com and set up your Free Google Gmail account. This way you can save all your maps on your igoogle page.
I wrote this post about a small oceanfront community in Manalapan Florida in this post in which I used a map. You can see what the end result looks like.
Click on Google maps from your Google browser.
Next, add the address or town and zip code or place of interest that you want to map in the search box and click search maps to the right of the search box.
You will get a map back in your search. There will be a flag pin on your location. You can also zoom in or out to get more of what you want on your map.
Click on the red A flag on your map. You will get a box that looks like this. Click on, 'Save To My Maps'.
There you will get a drop down menu of your saved maps. So if you don't have any yet, just click on 'Create New Map' and click save.
Then you will get a screen that looks like this:
In this box you will add your title and your description. This is going to be a searchable map so you want to make sure you did your keyword research and use your best keywords here in both the title an the description.
On the left side of your screen you will see a box that looks like the one below. Click on the public button. You can add more than one flag with more than one title and description. When you make your map public it becomes a searchable map to Google and if someone does a search with your keywords, your may will show up in the SERPS for maps and many times in regular searches where the maps show up.
Click done! See how simple that is!
Now all you need to do to get it on your post is to click on the link tab up in the right top of the map page. Then copy and paste the html code from the embed field into your html editor on your blog or website.
You can also click on Customize and preview embedded map if you want to customize the size that you want to embed. There are choices of small, medium, large but also you can choose your own dimensions.
Disclaimer: Many people use Google maps on their blogs and websites. This post is in no way permission to post Google maps whether customized or not. Please read the Google Maps terms of use yourself. You assume all risk. This post is for informational purposes only.
How To Add Google Maps To Your Blog and Posts by Katerina Gasset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Nestor Gasset and Katerina Gasset- Realtors®, CIPS, ABR, SFR, GRI, REOS
I was wondering you everyone did that! Thanks for the informational tool!
Thank you so much for this post. Great info!
Kat - it's so much easier to make sense of a topic when you see the steps illustrated and what the finished product looks like. There should be lots more google maps on blog posts and web sites after your thorough instructions. Thanks.
Thank you so much. I tried for at least two hours to post a blog with maps and had error after error. I will try this and be in touch if I have any problems. I have used your tutorials before and have not been disappointed. -Thank you
Great information I flagged it for further use. Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding. This is a huge benefit! I bookmarked this baby for future reference.
I'm dropping in to thank you for the "twitterbutton" link, not actually what you wrote, but thanks for sharing the widget none the less!!
Katerina, great post, as always! I'm going to bookmark for future reference. You are on TOP of the TECH happenings, aren't you! I also sent a TWEET about this great blog.
Thanks for the information I never knew how to do all of that. have a great day
Well, if you follow the directions this actually works. Easy to understand and it has loads of practical application. Thanks for the great instructions Nestor and Katerina. I can USE this!
Katerina - This is awesome and definitely something worth implementing in future posts or anwhere else I need to insert a map. Thank you!!!!
thanks Katerina! I will have to give this one a shot.
Thanks Nestor and Katerina! You answered our questions right out of our head! You guys are on the cutting edge!
Happy Easter
Al and Peggy
Katerina,
I am working on a similar post to this but I had a few other ideas for these maps that I dont think you covered. I have had an extremely busy last few weeks but I just love these maps and have been working with them a lot lately. You can do an awful lot with them!
Thank you very much. Easy to follow, great tool, great explanation.
Katerina nice work showing how you can use Google maps to their fullest for business purposes.
Shane- I did not want to make this post too long. There is tons of great SEO stuff you can do with google maps too. You can add your listings with your phone numbers, parks, beaches, neighborhoods, restaurants, etc. You can also build your descriptions and subdiscriptions and use subtitles. You can set up a biz profile and fill it w your keywords, and then google will pick you up, you can add photos and tag and metatag each photo! You can link and link some more. There is a ton of stuff, untouched, very few see the power or are applying the power of google for google maps. Google is making a huge push to get their google maps to come up first on the SERPS. They seem to getting there. I would love to see what all you have discovered since I think we are just touching the tip of the iceberg as far as google maps is concerned.
Very nice!
Thank you for taking the time to share this.
Katerina - Nice tutorial. This was a reminder to me to use the maps more often since I have done so in the past.
I really like the look of these maps that I've seen and appreciate the tutorial.
This is so helpful I think I need to come back and read it more thoroughly....thanks!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your post is just wonderful. Thanks for taking your time to put this in an understandable format. Thanks again.
Thanks, I have been wanting to do tis but not taken the time.
Naoma- Thanks for the Tweet that you made the first comment on this post:)
Katerina, I'm bookmarking this one. You make it so simple I even think I can do this :) ~ Sharon
Hi Katerina -- Beyond cool. Also, I just googled "Manalapan Point Florida" and your AR post was #2 on page 1 -- how cool is that? Thank you very much for this incredible tip!!!
Wow, great post.
THIS is exactly the reason why I love Active Rain, it is these types of completely selfless blog posts.
Thank you :)
Thank you, I have been asking my website marketing rep about this.
Thanks,
Sandra
Cool post, I know that I see alot of great posts and wondered how did they do that. Once you have the steps to do it, it is not tat hard to do.
Thanks again for the great info!
That was great! Thanks for sharing.
A good ah ha for the evening. Many thanks for the extra effort...........
Chris- Thanks! I moved down one slot. I was #1 on those keywords but that is fine! This is such a long tail keyword that there are no searches for that name. But all we need is that one seller! It would all be worthwhile,
Great tutorial Katerina. Maps are a great addition to our blog posts!
Thank you for sharing, I can really use this!
Mike
Wow..great tutorial..thanks for taking the time to create this post!
This is one of those things I just never took the time to walk-thru. Thasnk you so much!
Tina in Virginia
Katerina, thanks for the incredibly thorough step-by-step approach. I should have incorporated this into my posts a long time ago.
I love your tutorials.....they are so easy to follow and this is another one I have bookmarked.
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this information. I will start this project this week.
Katerina...
Fantastic tutorial, and how nice it was of you to share!
Katerina - that was great. I have gotten through the first few steps that you discribed but didn't know how to go further with it. I'm posting a market report this afternoon and can play with it for that post!. Yipee!
Happy Easter if I don't "read & comment" with you before then.
Super information! I know I'll be using google maps in the near future!
HEy tanks so much for getting this out for us at AR
I'll check it out.
Patricia Aulson/Portsmouth NH Real Estate
Great tip!! Thank you for sharing!
Katherina - As always, great tutorial! I was always wondering how that was done and now I know. Thanks!
Katerina - thanks for posting this tutorial. Consider it bookmarked and I will return later to implement it. Very Cool! Got to go out and list a house now. yay!
Thank you so much for sharing this. You made it easy to do.
Sincerely,
Allaire Cramer
Good morning! Thanks for all your comments thanking me for this tutorial. I won't have time to comment back to each of you. These tutorials take a long time to write and then I check the steps to make sure they are correct. Now I have to do some real estate:)
Keep commenting! I thoroughly enjoy reading each of your comments and whenever I have a bad day, I just come and read all of your comments:) Thank you and make it a great day!
Thanks for the info, i learn more everyday!
Wow! Thanks, even I was able to do it. I think I need to do this for about two weeks straight before I feel really comfortable. Again thank you for your generoisity. You are great.
Thanks so much for the great post. I was wondering how to do this too and now I wll know next time I post!
Thank you so much. I love all of your posts. I really need the training!
More good Active Rain hints. This is a Book Marked article.
Thanks I was wondering how to do that.
Katerina,
That was OUTSTANDING and so so helpful. Being on ActiveRain reading informative and thorough posts like yours is like returning to college! Thanks again!
Cool! Thanks!!
Brien- I had to do these steps every day for about a week before 'I got it'! Now I have to remember to use them and add them to our posts and listings:) That is the next habit to incorporate.
Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for the rest of your comments. Stay tuned for more tutorials. I try to write one each week.
Some of us are so gifted... and than there are the teaches with way more talent! Thank you for this post!
Katerina, Very good tutorial. Google sure does have some awesome tools for us to use. Hard to believe everything they have is still free. i LOVE Google!@!!
Thank you, Katerina, for helping us out!
Katerina - Yes Lisa is here as well. No, I [Bob],wasn't doing all the blogs but I do help on some here and there. I have just started my own blog up also for fun. I love it too. It's so much fun I had to do a personal blog myself.
I still love this tutorial and will be coming back to add the google maps later. Have to take a listing right now. Thanks
Good stuff. Very handy on websites too.
Great Instructions.. I will be implimenting this shortly.
Katerina! Thank you for the tutorial - a great one worth bookmarking! There is just so much to learn and thank you for your willingess to share!
Just stopping by to thank the rest of you who are commenting on this post. I hope you all can use these maps. I will be posting some more great uses for all of Google's free stuff out there:)
That's great info, thank you!
Thanks for taking the time for the tutorial.
Katerina - I appreciate you hard work! Google is really great if you know how to use it! LOL...
Happy Easter.
With smiles,
Bo
Another great article that I bookmarked of yours
Pretty cool! Thanks for the info!
As always you are awesome at providing tutorial posts! I am going to try this right now and hope that it works as easily as your posts reads. Thank you!
Hi, I am an AR newbie and have been spending the last 3 or 4 days searching, reading and stumbling my way around Active Rain. As I come across something good - I bookmark it - but something that is really useful - I email it to myself and save it in a HOW To Blog folder.
I'd like to thank you very much - this is the 4th blog of yours that I have emailed to my HOW TO folder. Keep them coming - I need all the help I can get. Thanks, K.
Google Maps... I suppose this will help us in the SERPs! ANOTHER THING TO DO!!! I better start multiplying myself and have my body double to blog and do all the links correctly! :)
Katerina - It seems that Google maps keeps adding more features. Thanks for sharing how to utilize them better.
Katerina - It seems that Google maps keeps adding more features. Thanks for sharing how to utilize them better.
Katerina, stellar job in explaining this. Now to take the time to actually do it! ;-) Bookmarked!!!!
Thank you everyone for reading this tutorial and hopefully it works well for you. I am doing another tutorial this week so stay tuned. IT will help you even more.
you're always so helpful. Thanks for all your hardwork to make this a better community!
Thanks for sharing how to add a Google Map to your blog. It saved me lots of time in trying to figure it out :-)