Local Business Map Listings

included in all plans

Put your business on the map

• 73% of all online activity is related to local content
• 82% of local searchers follow up with a phone call or go to your location
• 66% of Americans use local search to find local businesses online
• 54% of Americans have replaced phone books with internet and local search
• 43% of search engine users are seeking a local merchant with the intention of buying offline
• 41% of consumers say that they use a location in their search - " Dentist in Boise"

What is a Map Listing? and why it is the biggest thing for local business since the yellow pages

 

		My office is located in Weiser Idaho, population just over 5000. The screenshot to the left is for the search "flowers" taken from my computer. If you click on the image you can see that Weiser is listed as the computer location. Because Google knows where my computer connects to the internet it decided to show me blended results of map listings and organic listings. What this means for local businesses is that for results delivered to potential customers searching near your location you can show up above national companies that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to get to the top of search results for "flowers". In a small rural community like ours, getting into the top 7 map listings is not hard at all. With just our smallest package you could be sitting at the top of the map listings and getting the lion's share of customer's visits. In a larger city there will be a lot more competition for those top 7 listings. That's where Google places optimization and aggressive citation and review programs are needed.

Promoting your listing

The main way to get your listing trusted by the search engines is to get citations. Citations consist of your address (exactly how it appears on your Google Places Page) and phone number combination being placed on other websites across the internet. Citation marketing is an ongoing part of our monthly service. Reviews are also very important. I will work with you to build a strategy to increase your listing reviews. Each page of the promotional  micro website that is built will include your Phone/City/State and will be optimized to support your local map listings.

Yellow page usage has plunged 55% since 1999 and continues to drop 4% every year.

Ranking high in the Local Map Listings has become a consistent and extremely cost effective way to attract a steady stream of customers.