7 Ways To Raise Your Local Business Listing Rank on Google is a good article about an annoying reality. Just as changes in Google algorithm’s drive webmasters in general nuts, now it can also drive local business owners and webmasters nuts too?
This is especially crucial when you’re competing in a metropolitan area with lots of competition for a particular keyword or phrase that designates your service.
This article describes the author’s views as to how to beat this new algorithm and the certainly seem soundly reasoned to me because they are things you’ll want to do ANYWAY to have a great listing for Google. Hopefully Google will agree… at least for a while.
The wild card in these instructions is how to get REAL reviews.
This will take some imagination to get real customers to write real reviews. Businesses should think through how to accomplish that.
Can you set up a special station in your business that rewards customers for leaving a good review? Sort of a play on “If you’re happy with our business, TELL THE WORLD here! (If you’re not happy, please tel US now so we can rectify the problem immediately!)”
Other than that, the “usual” is still in order… Keywords, content (including photos and video) and links still apply here as well.
Jayesh on March 14th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Great article. I think this will help alot to me and many others as well.
Nayan on March 14th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Thanks for providing such useful information for people like me.
Thanks alot