5 Tips to Top on Google Local Listings

Arafath Hashmi | February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

Google Local listings is the best way to get targeted visitors and leads to your website, according a survey in 2008, it shows 82% of the Google local listing are converted in to sales, an inquiry, site view, in store visit or immediate purchase. Getting the top place in your local listing will obviously increase your website leads, every business definitely need leads, this below 5 tips will increase your Google local listings rank better, this will increase your ranking to the top..

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5 Tips for Google Local Listings:

Complete your local listing profiles fully by adding business information, website, photos, YouTube videos, etc. This will help Google to better index all your stuff, the more you clear, the more your rank increase.
Use your targeted keyword several time in the listings, but be always descriptive, don’t make your listings looks odd to the human visitors. It must give a sense, because keyword stuffing result in decreasing in rankings.
The Google Local Business Center has so many category options to choose that it isn’t shouldn’t be too hard to find the one that best suit your products and services.
Use a physical address instead of PO boxes if possible. This is especially important now that Google is currently blocking listings with PO Box addresses. And don’t submit your listing more than once, this will result in duplicating issue. And let your customers write reviews about your performance, the more reviews you get, the better place you will get.
Twitter and Facebook, can be picked up as citations for your listing if they include your business name, address, and phone number. This is also one of the best idea to improve your listings.

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