It is when your site ranks for keywords related to your product or service in your geographic area.
If your business does not show up on Google, you are basically invisible to the world. And, if your business can’t be found on the first two pages of Google, you (almost) don’t exist because 83% of Google searches do not make it past the bottom of Google’s second page.
You need to know how to dominate your local competition with a high ranked, fully optimized listing in the prominent Google Places/Google Maps search engine results.
There are steps needed to optimize your Google Places listing through several simple techniques that work together to create an overall, competition-crushing strategy. The combination of these techniques is greater as a whole than is the sum of its parts…and while you can surely skip some of the seemingly small techniques that make up part of this strategy, it will subtract from the dominance you gain by employing all of the steps together.
Local Search Marketing consistently ranks among the highest return on the investment of your marketing dollars. The statistics speak for themselves:
* 1 billion local searches are performed each month.
* 63% of people look online for local small businesses.
* Yellow Page Usage is down 30% since 1999. (when is the last time you opened the yellow pages?
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