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Adding Your Search Api Key Tutorial

To set up your Google API key for the leads program, you need to: 1. Create a Google account and connect a payment profile 2. Enable the Places API and create an API key 3. Copy the API key and paste it into the leads program to complete setup You will receive a $200 monthly credit from Google to cover API usage by the leads program.

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Adding Your Search Api Key Tutorial

To set up your Google API key for the leads program, you need to: 1. Create a Google account and connect a payment profile 2. Enable the Places API and create an API key 3. Copy the API key and paste it into the leads program to complete setup You will receive a $200 monthly credit from Google to cover API usage by the leads program.

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To enter your google API key in the leads program you will need 2 things.

1. A Google account with a payment profile connected (don’t worry, you won’t be
charged anything – more on that at the ‘$200 Credit from Google Each Month’
secJon, shown in the base of this document)
2. A Google Places API Key.

SUB NOTE - Although it’s not by us, this is an excellent video showing the steps:
hVps://youtu.be/Tva5HvZLN7g

Let’s get your payment account sorted first.


Head to hVps://console.cloud.google.com
and login. (If you don’t have a google account, you will need one to conJnue, click create an
account – it’s free)

Login

Next go to Billing.
(click here once logged in) hVps://console.cloud.google.com/billing
and click ‘Create account’

Give the billing account a name, and make sure your country and currency matches what
you’d like it to be.
the company name will be brought across from when you created your cloud console
account.

Once you’ve added your details, click on ConJnue.

The next screen is where you will be able to set up your billing informaJon (Again, don’t
worry – with normal usage, the leads program will not incur costs – more on that below)
Enter your business name and your card informaJon.

Once completed click on “Submit and Enable Billing”

You will be taken to a billing overview page. (shown below)


At this stage, you are all set and can move onto step 2. For your API.
Step 2. Crea+ng your Google Search API key.
Either go directly to: hVps://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/api-list
Or
From the leads program dashboard, go to your top right corner (showing your name)

Click
And choose ‘IntegraJons’ from the menu.

On the integraJons screen


Go to the Google API tab

On the tab, click on the small (i) in the window to open the following pop up screen.

Clicking on the link


Will take you to hVps://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/api-list

Click on the places opJon in the center of the screen (or search places api from the top
search)
If you screen does not look like this – Head to:
hVps://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/places-backend.googleapis.com?

And click on Enable.


Click on the ENABLE opJon next to the ‘Places API’

ENABLE this (so then it will show as it does in the above window)

Next Go to keys and credenJals from the menu on the lec


(It may just say “CredenJals” depending on your locaJon)

Click on “create credenJals”


You will see the drop down list, and select API Key

Google will create your API key.

Once you create your API key – you will be shown this screen. You will need to copy your API
key from here (note the menJon of the monthly $200 credit from google)

Copy Your API key and paste it into the leads program and click UPDATE
(integraJons/Google API key)

Your leads account is now setup and ready to search.


$200 Credit from Google Each Month

Notes on the monthly credits provided by Google for use of this API key
Each month, Google provides $200 of credit to use their places API key.
You can confirm this here: hVps://mapsplaform.google.com/pricing/

(The image is from this site)

Also on this page you can see a sliding scale of the system and pricing – Make sure to check
the PLACES component, as that is what we use in the leads program.

From this sliding scale you will see that the places API use costs are shown as follows
(at Jme of publishing)

1000 searches will cost $17 – leaving $183 in credit.

5000 searches will cost $85 – leaving $115 in credit.

10,000 searches will cost $170 – leaving in $30 in credit.

Based on these numbers, only searching more than 11000 per month will incur a cost

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