by Dr. William Sen CEO and founder of blue media Yes and no: Yes, if you utilize it on your "contact" or "about us" page or comparable. No, if you're creating a huge number of pages that have various Google Map areas on them. It wasn't constantly like that. Until 2018, with your address on a Landing Page with an ingrained Google Map on it provided more credence to your Local SEO efforts.
Google however made it clear, that they don't desire you to do this any longer, since SEOs appear to have abused that function. And in June 2018, Google put an end to it. Here is some background: What happened with Google Maps for SEO? SEO-savvy sites began producing thousands of GEO landing pages on their websites using the Google Maps API in the past couple of years.
It appears like this company has a branch in nearly every place of the U.S. Simply type "Over the Leading SEO New York City", "Over the Leading SEO Los Angeles", or any place on Google + "Over the Top SEO", and you'll find among their GEO Landing Pages somewhere on top of the Search Engine Result Pages.
And on each of these landing pages is a Google Map with a marker on that place. Travel business such as Expedia, Kayak, and Travelocity, and numerous more, are likewise depending on SEO. Almost all these companies have actually been producing huge geolocated landing pages. And they don't simply create pages for the U.S., however they produce millions of pages for all locations worldwide.
Therefore, Google quickly realized that their API has been accessed excessively given that local search has ended up being an essential part of SEO. Is the Google Maps API Free To Use? Source has caused the fact that Google no longer wants to offer their Google Map API service free of charge.
50 per 1000 page loads. Nevertheless, anyone utilizing their API has a free credit of $200 every month. By doing this, they keep a door available to decrease that number any time. The Real Purpose of Google Maps This is also a clear message from Google that the usage of the Google API is not something that was implied to be used for producing enormous number of GEO Landing Pages.