Google Maps Workshop

Optimize Google Search with Google Maps to discover Humboldt businesses and support tourism.

Join us for a workshop to see simple methods to get your website on the first page results of Google searches. Maximize discovering your business with photos, reviews, and more can be easy, and learning what reviewers are saying about your business is crucial information.

Participants of this 50-minute workshop will learn tips to help customers and tourist find their businesses, and to learn benefits of evaluating Google Map information. If you bring a photo in your smartphone or computer, you can follow along and start the process during the workshop.

Cyril Oberlander, Cal Poly Humboldt Library Dean, added over 5,000 photos and reviews since July 2020, and to date, has seen over 25 million views. Hear about the origin of the Discovering Humboldt Project… from discovering student favorite places, to connecting and supporting students, tourism, and local businesses.

By enhancing regional information, we are making Humboldt more visible in a world where search engine bias for big data often directs traffic to urban areas. Presentation shares Discovering Humboldt Project’s methods that are applicable to other campuses.