If your business hasn’t taken advantage of local search, like Google Places, now is the time to get with it friend. Search dynamics have changed so much in the past year that SEOs are having to keep late hours to keep track of it all. For local business, this stuff is great. You can now rank fairly high for specific search queries* when otherwise you may have been one of thousand competing for position.
Here’s the low-down, and, the best part is it’s free. Claim your business in say Google Places. Add the required data, pictures, video, phone #s, etc.. Then point your places page to your current website. The fact remains that you must have a descent website with good content, but, otherwise that’s about it.
Now here’s the catch(not really, but it worth mentioning). Your places account should have great content just like your website and the two should compliment one another. It’ll take a few days to see results, but you should be grabbing clicks, provided your business has good products and a good website to keep folks coming back.
As always, Lakeside Technologies can help you grab that places account in just a couple of hours(money well spent). Contact us anytime and we’ll be glad to walk you through it or do everything for you.