This page can't load Google Maps correctly.

The website looks great, but the Google Map can't load correctly.  What in the world is going on with the Google Maps API Console?

This page can't load Google Maps correctly (L: before and R: after)

If you get this message: This page can't load Google Maps correctly.  Don't worry, there's only a little fine-tuning necessary to get your website map to work.  Here are a few things you can do to fix your Google Maps API before you lose your mind.  

Note: You'll need to log in to your Google Account and access your API console (APIs & Services or Billing) to get started.

1.  Has your domain been verified with Domain verification?

Make sure you've used added and verified the domain.  This might be adding a TXT record to the domain DNS or possibly adding a CNAME to verify the domain.

Google Search Console Domain Verification

2.  Check your Credentials

If you've not added your domain, your Google Maps API key will display your map with a gray overlay that says "This page can't load Google Maps correctly."  Also, make sure you press "Save" after adding your domain.

3. Is the Google Maps API Key included in your website's code?

This essentially links everything together so the map will display on your website. "The API key is a unique identifier that authenticates requests associated with your project for usage and billing purposes. You must have at least one API key associated with your project." And, "You must include an API key with every Maps JavaScript API request."

4. Did you add a billing method?

Although your credit card won't be billed (price starting at 0.017 USD per session) Basic Data (billed at 0.00 USD) unless you exceed 1,000 requests/uses of the API on your website.  Be sure to check the Google Maps Platform Pricing for the latest costs – otherwise, if you currently don't anticipate a heavy amount of traffic or even if you do, you can Create a Budget that enables you to track your actual spend against your planned spend.  Payment Overview is where you can add and manage your Google Maps API payment methods.

If you've done all that, your Google map should look like the right side of this image without the gray overlay and "Do you own this website?" statement.  If not, you'll want to get in touch with a website developer experienced in navigating the Google Cloud Console and Google Maps Platform.

Google Maps helps you give users the context they need with static or interactive maps embedded into your site.  At Oevae Marketing Consultants, we make it easier to find your business.  Our Google Local Guides can add or edit missing places on Google Maps, where millions of people rely on to decide where to go and what to do – Accurate information builds customer trust and reliability toward a business.

If you need help, contact us at 972.850.8823

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Using Google Audience Analytics and Tag Manager

This post is about an offer by Google:
How to boost your business, with Google Tag Manager


Question: 
If you could collect reliable data from your entire website and all your domains, do you think you would be able to make more knowledgeable decisions and better marketing campaign execution?


Answer:
Me too.  So, I've found a way to do this using Google Audience Analytics and Tag Manager to squeeze some visitor data from your websites.  

You could ask your IT department or web guy to install the code on every page of your website and add a few lines of copy to your website privacy policy - keeping your compliance and legal.  Whoever you choose, they should know more than a little bit about Google Analytics, internet marketing, and website development, Which is only fair to you - why waste time?

Here's why you should use Google Tag Manager:

1. Google Tag Manager is easy, leaving more time and money to spend on your marketing campaigns. 

2. You get dependable data and demographics - Overview (overview of traffic by age and gender), Age (traffic by age ranges), and Gender (traffic by gender)

In the areas of Interest, take your pick:

• Overview (overview of traffic by affinity and other categories)
• Affinity Categories (behavior by affinity categories)
• In-Market Categories (behavior by in-market categories)
• Other Categories (behavior by other interest categories)

Get Google Analytic reports so you see who those users are, and how their behavior varies by attribute (e.g., male vs. female), and their interests in various areas.

Chances are, you don't have time to add this to your website, we get it.  You know website guru.  We've obviously had a mutual benefit here, so I've decided to offer our service for adding Google Tag Manager to your Website, so you can learn more about your website visitors.  If you need help, contact us on our website.  Ask about other requirements and how you can keep your business connected with visitors.

"You'll know it works because you'll receive weekly report graphics with details from Google Analytics.  The choice is yours, add Google Tag Manager to your website, or guess who visited your website." – Head Honcho

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Consultant Shares Mojo Behind Website Facelift

The popularity of creating a dot com for your business has evolved to many websites in need of a facelift. The website facelift, like the human facelift (rhytidectomy) is a procedure used to make your website look more appealing by removing old programming and design wrinkles and enhance graphics with or without losing your brand recognition.

The website facelift is the role of your marketing consultant and brand manager or creative director. It's also a good idea to run your plans by the business owner before you start tinkering around with the brands image.

"If you are the business owner, you know how important it is that your businesses image reek with honesty, credibility, value, and intrigue. When you first had your website built, much like the date you were born - everything was beautiful. But as the years have past, much has changed on the outside and the inside - the same can be true for older websites"

The website that brought you new customers just 3 years ago, may be running out of steam as new points of distribution are created and innovative technologies (Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Digg, orkut, befo, Netlog, Flash, iPhone apps, Android, etc.) become more mainstream - many innovations may not integrate well with your website graphics, programming language, and marketing of your current website. So, how do you get your website's mojo back?

Fig. 1 (Dustcollectorco.com - Before Website Facelift)

Fig. 2 (Blastequipmentco.com - Before Website Facelift)

You might need a website facelift if your website looks like Dustcollectorco.com or Blastequuipmentco.com (Fig. 1 or Fig. 2). These websites were built more than 4 years ago. Though they both have great content, they both are very heavy in the text department. This text is valuable, however the way it is delivered needs to be updated and bring take advantage of some new innovations.

The steps you take can very like the wind, but there is a course of action that leads to a new website you can again be proud to own. There are 3 basic steps that business owner's can take:

1. Look at your competition; visits websites that "you" would feel confident if they represented your companies brand, mood, and appeal.
2. Ask the professionals to examine your website; locate a website designer and Internet marketing consultant.
3. Make a decision; let go of what has stopped working and promote your brand.

Like the human facelife, the website facelift may have a bit of discomfort in the first few weeks as you get use to the new look of your business. Sometimes there are new technologies related to how you manage your email or how your website content is updated, but many new advancements and innovations make owning and operations of your small business more manageable than just 3 years ago.

Fig. 3 (Dustcollectorco.com and Blastequipmentco.com combined into 1 Flash website with updated brand)

In Fig. 3, Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, you see the first screenshots from the recent re-launch of Dustcollectorco.com and Blastequipmentco.com websites after the webiste facelift. In this case, our client took our suggestion to combine 2 older websites into 1 micro website. The website facelift brought a new logo design, new programming language and a rich user experience. Like a new baby, there will be growth and enhancements in the months and years to come, but now the client has a website (business storefront) that "reeks with honesty, credibility, value, and intrigue..." – now the website is more marketable and stands out among the competition. So when the opportunity exists, the first impression appeals to visitors.

Fig. 4 (After Website Facelift with Flash animation and enhanced layout to increase visitor experience)

Fig. 5 (After Website Facelift with advanced navigation and Flash animation to free user ability browse website)

Small business owners can benefit buy using advance experience software like Adobe Flash for websites. Although Flash has not made it to the tiny screen (mobile) just yet, Google has made it clear that significant strides in the ability of Google's search engines to index Flash content. This makes Flash an even brighter solution for your website design than anytime in dot com history because Google and Adobe have a growing relationship.

Get your website mojo back with a website facelift by Oevae Marketing Consultants, "the best marketing consultants in the world" – ask Google.


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Reference
Envirosystems Group
Oevae Marketing Consultants
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Google developed an algorithm that explores Flash files long ago!

There's been much conversation –clients, New York Times Technology, Bloomberg, Charlie Rose– about Apple's ipad, HTML5, and Flash Websites. If your knowledge of what's been going on behind the monitor and on the Internet... Let me help you read between the lines in a good way. Here it is. A bit of truth showing-off how quickly Google can index websites designed with Adobe Flash... if and when designed and programed by the creative marketing firm Oevae Marketing Consultants, Texas

"This article will show you 2 very simple examples of how keywords are used to index your website with search engines like Google."

-Head Honcho, Oevae Marketing Consultants

Screen Shot #1 (click images to increase aspect ratio)
Here we have a Google search for the works "ka yeung crow collection"
Note the green highlight is the website we are searching for and there it is on the first page of Google.


Screen Shot #2 (click images to increase aspect ratio)
Here we have page that is indexed by Google and the page with the information the client published.
Note the News contains the keywords "ka yeung crow collection"


The destination page or Screen Shot #2 is a page that contains 80% Flash programming and is 100% SEO
friendly. Oevae Marketing Consultants offers you a way to express your products, services, and brand in very special and your way. This proves Flash can be used in artistic ways and still get noticed the Google algorithm that explores Flash websites.

Here are a few questions better answered by the G's at Google at the Official Google Webmasters Central Blog

Oevae.com – The best marketing consultants in the world offer you more imagination at the core of creative. Sometimes you just need a little help or let me know your experiences with Flash and Search Engine Optimization.

Gibron T. Williams, Head Honcho at Oevae Marketing Consultants, the best marketing consultants in the world - Ask Google.


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Website design by Oevae Marketing Consultants Screen Shot #1 and Screen Shot #2 - tinkerboxstudio - ka yeung studio, Dallas Texas