Your local business listing at Google and certainly with other geo-listing websites allows you to promote your events, new products, specials and more. You can take advantage of this very easily, once you have claimed your listing, by following the following five steps. We will use Google as our example. 1. Log into your Google account and go to Google Places through your account or by going directly to http://www.google.com/lbc 2. If you have multiple local business listings, choose the listing you want to update and click View Report. 3. Once you are in your Dashboard you will notice a box in the top right that looks like the following: 4. Click in the box and write a 160 character description...
If you have looked up your business address or company name on Google maps you may want to check if the map marker is in the right location. There are errors on maps occasionally based on oddities that may show your physical address on a map in the wrong location. Aside from claiming your business listing at Google and other geo-listing websites, Google does allow for community edits to modify...
Reputation management is becoming a much bigger concern through local business listing (or geo-listings) than in the past. While consumers were open to use blogs, forums and other social community tools to post their experiences with a business, product or service, now consumers have the ability to post these reviews directly into a geo-listing. Not only does this allow other consumers to read the reviews in a web search or...
Local listing coupons help to promote your special discounts to local consumers that reach your local business listing through web searches and mobile searches. These local listing coupons can be used by printing them out or presenting them on a mobile device when a local consumer visits your store. Here are the steps to create your coupon in your local listing at Google. The steps below assume you have...
If you are a business dependent upon the local consumer for your revenue, then local business listings at multiple local listing websites is an important local business marketing tool for you. A few important tips.
1. Claim Your Local Listing
By claiming your listing you are effectively protecting your listing from hijackings and also allow you to use your local business listing as a marketing tool. Don't wait to do this....run!
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*The following is the guest post by Emily Thompson* The Google Local Listing has grown in importance more and more in recent time. In many instances, the local 7-pack, consisting on local listings, is appearing at the top of a search results page, above even organic listings. This placement creates huge opportunities for small businesses to gain visibility and traffic on the web. There are many components that work together to create...
Today's tip was submitted by Umair Asif
Google has already started integrating local search results into the main page of regional search engines. Few US users may have noticed it, but it has huge implications for webmasters and SEO experts outside the United States. Here is how it may look for someone searching in Ireland…
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*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa pay per click advertising* Google made a recent revision on AdWords, and some changes are more visible than others. One of the major changes was adding the ability to post ads that can have a full address, phone number, and a visible "pin" on Google Maps, just like Google Local. (Note: yes, the customization for addresses in AdWords Campaign settings has been available for...
Today's Daily SEO Tip was contributed in part by Gerald Weber. This is a very simple yet effective SEO tip for local businesses & regional brick and mortar stores, especially if you're looking to rebrand or start a business from the ground up. Make sure to make and brand your business name with your main keywords in it if possible. This is important for communicating what your business does along with achieving organic search results...
