A simple and quick thing you can do to help your business is to get your name out there.  Be where you can easily be found, where people are looking.

That is a part of what search engine optimization and search engine marketing helps you to do.  Another thing that can help these efforts as well as help you in other ways is to submit your business information to Google Business Center and other Google “trusted” sources such as InfoUSA, Localeze, and Acxiom.

If you go to:  http://www.infousa.com/  and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click where it says Update My Listing.

Here, you can enter in your business information, locations (s) information, contact information, etc.

It is also important to be consistant with entering in your business information.  Make sure you use the same main address and same phone numbers across different sources.  So for example, if you have an address listed on your web page, use this one when you enter in your information at InfoUSA.

It can take up to 60 days for your information to appear at InfoUSA, and it helps in a number of ways.  InfoUSA is a “trusted” source, and by having your contact information, business information, and website here, it can help you to rank better in local search.  Google uses information from their Business Center, as well as other “trusted” providers such as InfoUSA, Acxiom, Localeze, and others, as well as their normal crawling of the web to rank for local search.

Do yourself and your business (and your local rankings) a favor and visit the following sites and enter in your business information: