Online business people and marketers know the importance of Search Engine especially Google in their life. I hope everyone have noticed the changes Google bring in his organic search results couple of weeks back and if you don’t let me give you a quick one line overview of that, Google now started to show places results in search engine that means if your business is not registered in Google places you might be losing some serious leads for your business!
As Google is focusing more and more on local listings it is highly advisable to register yourself to Google places and other yellow pages and local directories.
How to Register on Google Locals/Places?
It’s easy but you have to...
Google Places - Keeping Your Contact Information Current
Google Places has ignited a bit of discussion amongst SEO's with the significant shift in the priority that Google has on local businesses. The shift has caused many SEO's in the industry to explain the impact it has on their clients strategy and placement. Some have seen reduced traffic while others may not have been shaken up much.
Those who make a living providing SEO services probably...
For a long time now, SEO has been a “wide net” strategy of marketing. With so many different local markets, local SEO proved to be difficult and, more often than not, just not worth the time. However, a little more than a week ago Google unveiled the new and improved Google Places, combining organic and local search into a whole new animal and making local SEO an exciting new prospect.
Many...
You've got your company listed on all the Local Directories (Google Places, Yahoo! Local, Bing Local, Yellow Pages, Yelp, etc.) but you are 15th on the lists!
Here's how to move up those lists:
1. Add your location and the keywords you want to rank for in the title tags of your website pages. They should look something like "Bakery in Tampa, FL".
2. When you link to your contact page, make sure the anchor text of the...
Local business listings give your business the opportunity, for free, to make coupons, offers, discounts, photos, videos and more available to local customers. You can be as big as a Target and as small as a florist to take advantage of local business listings. As long as your business is dependent upon the local economy for your revenue, local business listings is an important local business marketing tool.
Local business listings...
Here are some critical, but simple strategies to use when optimizing your or your client’s site in local search results. I (surprisingly) don’t see this discussed very often, which is why I feel it would make a great tip for everyone here at Daily SEO Tip.
While there are great tips for listing your address in Google Places, including what not to do, this focuses more on the organic results side...
Imagine the old days with the traditional yellow pages. Now imagine that you could add a photo, video or coupon to your traditional yellow pages ad. Now let’s take that one step further and imagine you could change your photos, videos or coupons in the traditional yellow pages…anytime you wanted! I think the traditional yellow page gods are turning over in their graves. Such preposterous imagination was unheard...
We tend to spend much of our time focused on Google, yet Yahoo has local listings for businesses as well. Just like Google the basic service is free to businesses. Yahoo! Local Listings gives businesses the ability to provide detailed business information like products and service local consumers on Yahoo! Local.
Yahoo! does have some requirements that businesses need to adhere to in order to take advantage of this local business...
Google Places is a free marketing tool for local businesses. The benefits of these listings include showing up in web search results and mobile search results. Updating these listings is free and available to the business 24x7x365. Not something you can easily do with the traditional yellow pages. Definitely something you need to consider beyond Google and tap into multiple local listing websites and search engines.
Here are a few...
Using multiple websites (satellite sites) to market products in similar areas is something that many small business owners consider and usually practice. Using these websites to retail separate products can be effective, but what are the advantages of consolidating all of these together?
If your firm for example sells St Lucia holidays from one website and Barbados holidays from another site. These two websites clearly target two different audiences and both have their own...
