Google Local Map Listing For Small Business
If you want more customers here is
What you need to know about local listings!
Don’t let someone else claims your Free Listing
How are your customers finding people these days? Searching the streets, hunting for you particular business? Are they using telephone books and newspapers? The correct answer is no to all of the above. In fact, your customers are typing in what they want to Google.
How have you been searching lately?
Try it for yourself! Look up Florists in Google and check out what appears first.
To break it down for you, let’s pretend you own a Florist in Sydney. There are over 2,000 results for the local listings. So are your thinking, wow what if my business type has that many results? What’s the chance of actually being able to get my business listed? Well you can easily look up your own business by using Google maps and zooming in on your business.
Well that’s easy enough, but wait, how are actual customers going to find you? You’re perfectly capable of finding yourself.
Yet where do people actually look? They see all the regular search listings, then they see this pretty map that makes it so much easier to find where they want to actually go.
Why does Google maps exist? Because people are lazy, lets face it we don’t really want to go through a ton of search results to find what they want. Google wants to give your customers what they want right in the search results:
So with Maps you are actually getting more competition since Google is now listing EVERY single one of those other businesses. Your competition is so much broader than you’d actually want to think. You are now competing against the entire city to get any traffic.
Facebook Marketing – A New revolution in SEO
Why you need to Add Facebook Thumb to Your Site
There is a new search engine coming that could spell the end to Google having the monopoly on search. Recently released news that Facebook is going to take Google head on in open source search is fantastic news for Internet Marketing with “likes” and “tags” playing a big role in their search engine results.
Globally one in 13 people are registered with facebook and if they can search from their facebook site you need to rank in their search engine as well as google.
Facebook Like Button
That is why you need to add the Facebook “thumb” to all of your business marketing sites.
Remember this is not just the Facebook icon you need to have it is the “thumbs up symbol so readers can give you the thumbs up with the goal of having the most thumbs up possible to attract Facebook Search Engine .
Preparing your sites to rank well in the new Facebook search engine needs to be actioned now. There are Stores that have added the Facebook thumb as they were looking at a way to generate sales and not even thinking about the long term future of ranking well in what many are saying will be the second most powerful search engine in the world when it goes online.
Watching this 2 minute video from “The Internet Time Machine” will tell you how the story is starting to get media attention and is already confusing retailers.
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