Is Your Business on Yahoo, Bing and Google Maps?
Posted By Janet on August 18, 2010
Google Maps - The New "Sweet Spot" for Local Businesses
How is Your Business Ranked on the Maps?
Map search, or local search, is a growing trend online and the major search engines do a good job of displaying local businesses inside their Map products. Yahoo, Bing and Google Maps are all extremely important for a local business’s online exposure, with Google being the forefront. Google uses a different process for choosing who gets listed here and how local businesses are ranked in maps listings.
How do you get your business at to the top of the maps?
There are a couple tricks you can do yourself to help get on the first page or at least higher up on the Google Map results. First, be sure to list your business in the proper category, then make sure you use that category in your description. Second, the more reviews written about your company make your business stand out, which in turn brings you up higher.
There are numerous techniques for getting your business on the front page of the maps. You can try it yourself, but if you want guaranteed results for specific terms, then you will need an SEO expert. We found one service that actually guarantees 3 terms front page of the Google maps or your money back. If this is where you want to be, then you might want to look into hiring MapTraffic.
Whether you hire or try it yourself be sure to claim your map listings. This is one of the biggest mistake a small business owner makes is they set it up, but forget the final step of actually claiming the listing, then it never goes live.
First, get your business listed on the maps, then get on the front page and spots “A” or “B” of Google Maps. By doing these steps your business will see a substantial growth in customers and that’s the goal of any business!
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