Local Search Revolution – If you are a brick and mortar business, or a traditionally local, offline business, think again… It’s not going to be long before, in many niches, that the success of local brick and mortar businesses will be driven by who ranks in the Google Maps section, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, etc. – AND – even who appears when you hit up OnStar to find a local restaurant, tire change, dentist, grocery store, lowest gas price in the area, etc.

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Before you begin your quest for local search domination, and begin working to list your company in the major search engines local searchs and maps results, you will want to identify what data set and what format you will want your company to be listed, and make sure that your information is identical in all [...]

Kill local search rankings – If you have and are submitting multiple business locations for your business, insure that they all have their own phone numbers.  If you list the same phone number for different business addresses, you are sure to kill your local search rankings.    There are a few things that you will want [...]

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“While they may not tell you HOW they accomplish their stellar rankings, they will not hesitate to tell you HOW to pay them for their services. What I can tell, as more and more brick and mortar websites go Online, and the websites that already online are experiencing search results getting more and more competitive, [...]

If you aren’t tracking your search engine marketing and local search optimization marketing efforts, you should be. Here are three quick and easy tips that you could begin using today to begin tracking your results.

Have your Google Local Search Listings been Google Jacked? Did you know that it’s possible for you to have a Google Local Search entry even if you haven’t created it, and that you need to claim it to protect yourself, your reputation, and your business before someone else does?

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 [...]