It’s becoming increasingly important to be found in the local search engines. People prefer to find information about local businesses through search engines rather than in the yellow pages. In this Spotlight on Marketing Video, we look at how the local search engine results work, and how you can increase your chances of making it into Google’s local 7-Pack of results.
Spotlight on Marketing: Getting listed in local search results
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As you can see in the video, if you want to make it into the local search results, you either need a website or a listing in Google’s Local Business Center. It’s probably better to have both. Claiming your local listing in Google is free and easy to do. While you’re at it you should probably claim your listings in Yahoo, Bing, and Yelp too. Just click on these links for each search engine’s local business center.
Google Local Business Center
Yahoo Local Business
Bing Local Business
Yelp Business Listing
For more on how to improve your visibility in local search results and the Google Local 7 Pack, see this related article: Local Search: The Game is Changing
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