Tag: google maps
How a BBB (Better Business Bureau) Accreditation Can Help Organic Search Listings and Increase Business
The Better Business Bureau offers an accreditation process that can help increase business and may help improve your organic search results.
Will Recent Changes In Google Places Listings (Google Maps) Affect Your Local Marketing Results?
There have been some significant changes with Google Places listings (Google Maps) the past couple of weeks that you should be aware of if local search results are important to you including: Google No Longer Shows Some Descriptive Info Owners Input in Listings, Review Snippets From Other Web Sources Have Been Removed, Citation Sites No Longer Displayed.
Where do local business websites get their traffic?
The results of survey of SEO’s regarding the sources of web site visitors to their local clients’ web sites. Google Places tops the list
Optimizing for Local Search Even More Important With Google’s New Blended Local Search Results
Google’s new blended local search results may push your traditional organic listings much further down within the search results making it more important than ever to get a local result listed within the “blended” search results on google.com.
49 Local Search Ranking Factors Rated by Importance
Local Search Ranking Factors – The results of a survey of 27 folks who work on local search. In it you’ll find 41 positive ranking factors ranked by relative importance along with 8 negative factors that can hurt your rankings in Google and Yahoo local search results
Google Maps SEO, How to get top rankings and improved search results in Google’s local search listings
In this article I’ll cover the important factors for getting the best results in Google Maps, Google’s Local Search (Not just rankings but overall results including enticing people to take action). Local Search has become much more important with the evolution of Blended or Universal Search results.
Ask for customer reviews. Good reviews = more business (And will likely help your local search rankings)
There are a growing number of reviews on the web for all types of products and services on sites such as Yelp, Google Maps, Bing, shopping search sites, etc.
Good reviews can help increase business. However, it’s human nature: Most people will not take the time to write a review unless they are upset. So reviews can tend to be mostly negative UNLESS YOU ASK for REVIEWS.
Google Maps Video: How to find, claim, update and add listings in Google’s local search: Part 2
In this Part-2 video (a little over 8 minutes) I’ll demonstrate how to find and claim your Google Maps listings, how to update those listings, as well as how to add new listings.
Video: Check your local search listings (like Google Maps) if local search results are important: Part 1
In this Part -1 video (a little over 6 minutes) I’ll demonstrate why you should check for your local search listings in the major search engines if local search results are important to your business or organization.
I’ll also talk about how to improve your rankings in Google’s local search results (Google Maps).