Google Maps Marketing: How to Get More Business
Google Maps is the most popular navigation app, with six times more people trusting it to guide them to where they need to go and [...]
How to Make the Most of Google’s Local Listings
Optimizing your business on local search engines is essential to online marketing and customer engagement. More and more people are using their smartphones to quickly [...]
Ranking for ‘Near Me’ Phrases
In this era of smart phones and handheld voice searches, more and more people searching for local businesses and services on their phones. In a post [...]
The new look for Google+ is not looking good for local search
In the past Google+, Googles social media platform, was a great place for local businesses. The business page would display the name, address, phone number, [...]
Getting reviews for your business
Local reviews are an important part of any business. According to a study done by brightlocal.com, “88% of consumers read reviews to determine the quality [...]
Importance of Google Reviews Continues to Grow
The need for local businesses to focus on getting great customer reviews, especially on Google+, is growing in importance. I'm no Nostrodamis, Google always shows [...]
Recognizing Personalized Results
In my last post I talked a lot about personalized search results. It occurred to me that it would be nice to show you what [...]
Local reviews and Google Maps
Google is extending the site they consider for reviews. The impact on local maps search seems obvious, as citation building may now include less traditional [...]
