If your customers and prospects are locally based the importance of concentrating on local optimization of your web site and local directory listings gets more important with each passing day. Goggle Maps is an import first step and it is free.
Did you know, Google quietly upped the local search game by inserting the Google Maps local 10 (listing of 10 local businesses) into search results for local products and services regardless of whether the searcher used a geographic term in the search. It used to be that if you wanted to get local results for a good tailor in Sayville NY, you typed in “Sayville tailor.” Now, by detecting the location of your IP address Google will add the local result to the search results for the much more generic phrase “tailor.”
This makes it more important than ever that your local business is showing up in those Google Maps results. So get to work on getting listed in Google Maps.
Make sure you’ve claimed your listing – Google Local Business Center
It is easy (it is also part of the services I can offer if interested)!
