Recently there has been a movement in the web community to SEO their clients sites for Google Maps local business center. The local business center is a list of 10 business names, sorted by search criteria, at the top of a Google search result. Getting to the top of this list is a long and hard road. This list represents the top ten businesses in a geographical area based on a viewer’s search criteria.

Ways to Improve Local SEO

Begin Your Listing ~ Its very easy. Just log into the Google Local Business Center with your own personal ID and password and fill out the form.

Relevant Title ~ Try to get a relevant title in your Google Local Business Center listing. For instance, when listing my business I entered it as ‘Unleashed – Portland Web Design and Development’.

Geo Meta Tags ~ Add Some Geo Tags to your site. This allows Google Maps to further pinpoint your business geographically.
You can read up on Geo Tags so you can understand where to put them and what information to put in them.

Complete the Listing ~ When you’re filling out the information in the Google Local Business Center, make sure you mention some of the benefits of dealing with your business. These fields are meant for customers to learn a little something about your business. For instance, I mentioned my hourly rate, whether or not there was parking available, and a little something about web design.

There are similar local business solutions on Bing! and Yahoo! Following these steps should help increase your online visibility and drive more local searchers to your business, shop, or office.

Tags: Portland Marketing, Portland Web Design, Portland Web Development