Google Local Business Directory
The Google Local Business Directory, also known as Google Places has changed the rules for online searches!
Because Google realizes that just about everybody online today who is searching for services or products wants a local solution, Google has responded with Google Places! Shoppers want local companies to pop up in the search results more than ever before!
With an emphasis on local business your time has arrived for marketing smarter with a much smaller advertising budget. The facts are obvious! If you are a small business your success depends on being found online. This is the trend today.
With Google Places you don’t even need a website to be found! Boy, how things have changed in the online marketing world!
To be found by your local marketplace it’s not websites that rank high any longer. No matter how much your local or national competition spends on developing their website they can’t out-rank you on “Google Places!” That is if you follow some really simple steps and get your page ranking in the first page of local business listings.
This is a marketing advantage that is yours for the taking! I can guarantee you that other local companies that offer the same services or products are not savvy to Google Places, as of yet!
It’s going to take a little understanding of what Google expects from you as a local small business owner and you will need to know just how to build the perfect Google Place Page to get highly ranked but that won’t take as much sweet and equity that the useless website did.
The size of your city and degree of competition will have a lot to do with how much work will be required to get your business on the first page of Google for your prime keywords. The first page of the local search results is a box we call the 7-pack. High on the page you’ll see a map and seven listings that match your keywords.
Check it out for yourself…go to Google and do a search for a local service. For example: Type the word “dentist” into Google and you’ll get a local listing directory with a map in a box with either three or seven listings. Notice that you no longer have to type the name of the city in your keyword phrase to get local results! Cool!
The revolutionary local Internet is focusing on you and you need to take advantage of it today…
